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Posted by: thepinetree on 08/09/2022 05:39 PM Updated by: thepinetree on 08/09/2022 05:39 PM
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Whistleblowers’ Reports Reveal Double Standard In Pursuit Of Politically Charged Investigations By Senior FBI, DOJ Officials

Washington, DC...Tampering spanned multiple election cycles, infected investigative activity involving Hunter Biden.  Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions, are raising the alarm about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically sensitive investigations ranging from election and campaign finance probes across multiple election cycles to investigative activity involving derogatory information on Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities. The legally protected disclosures to Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) suggest a political double standard has influenced and infected decisions in matters of paramount public interest.




Election & Campaign Finance Investigations

Whistleblowers allege that Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault disregarded agency guidelines requiring substantial factual predication to trigger investigations, while declining to move forward with other investigations despite proper predication. Thibault and Richard Pilger, director of the election crimes branch within the FBI’s public integrity section, reportedly were instrumental in the opening of an investigation into the Trump campaign and its associates based in substantial part on information from left-aligned organization. Thibault allegedly scrubbed and diluted details of the sources’ political bias from a memo seeking the full investigation, which was ultimately approved by FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Whistleblowers claim that Thibault, Pilger and others didn’t always adhere to agency policies in their supervision of various election-related matters, including campaign finance investigations across multiple presidential election cycles. These claims comport with testimony from former acting Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, who previously told the committee that leadership within the public integrity section and election crimes branch frequently asserted authority they did not have, which frustrated and discouraged investigations.

“Simply put, if a politically charged investigation is to be opened, the Justice Department and FBI have an obligation to ensure that it’s done the right way. Based on the allegations, that does not appear to have happened. Such improper conduct demands further explanation from the Justice Department and FBI,” Grassley wrote in a letter last week to Wray and Garland, which is being made public today.

Grassley previously raised concerns about left-wing social media posts by Thibault, which likely violated federal laws department policies. Following Grassley’s letter, the Inspector General referred Thibault to the Office of Special Counsel for potential Hatch Act violations.

Hunter Biden Investigation
Whistleblowers further allege that Thibault and other FBI officials sought to falsely portray as disinformation evidence acquired from multiple sources that provided the FBI derogatory information related to Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities, even though some of that information had already been or could be verified. In August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.

That same month, FBI agents provided an unsolicited and unnecessary briefing to Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who were also investigating Biden’s foreign business deals. Details about that briefing were later leaked to the news media in an apparent effort to falsely cast the senators’ investigation, which was based on U.S. government records and testimony from Obama administration officials, as tainted with foreign disinformation.

The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny. Thibault also reportedly ordered the closure of a stream of information related to Hunter Biden and sought to improperly mark the matter within FBI systems in a way that would prevent it from being re-opened in the future. The FBI headquarters team allegedly claimed that reporting from the stream was at risk of disinformation. However, whistleblowers claim that all of the information obtained through that stream was already verified or verifiable.

“The aforementioned allegations put a finer point on concerns that I have raised for many years about political considerations infecting the decision-making process at the Justice Department and FBI. If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law,” Grassley wrote in a letter today to Wray and Garland.

Grassley is seeking records related to Auten’s assessment, derogatory information received by the FBI related to Hunter Biden and an accounting of all leads that were either closed out or denied further review by or at the direction of Thibault. Grassley is also seeking records related to the August 2020 briefing, including 302s, predicating materials and individuals involved.

Whistleblowers
Grassley frequently hears from current and former government employees who come forward to shine a light on fraud, waste, abuse and gross mismanagement in government agencies or by government contractors. He protects the identities of these sources and frequently promotes policies that shield whistleblowers from retaliation. Individuals wishing to call attention to mismanagement or misconduct within the Justice Department and its component agencies, such as the FBI, about the aforementioned allegations or other misconduct should contact Sen. Grassley’s investigations unit at (202) 224-3738 or email wb_reports@judiciary-rep.senate.gov.

Director Wray has personally committed to Senator Grassley that whistleblowers who have come forward will not face retaliation.

Read Grassley’s letters on the election matters and Biden investigation.


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Re: Biden rocks
Posted on: 2022-08-09 17:43:38   By: Anonymous
 
pure bull*bleep*, 100%.

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    Re: Biden rocks
    Posted on: 2022-08-09 17:45:21   By: Anonymous
     
    Looks reasonable to me! If they will come for him they could come for you!

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      Re: Biden rocks
      Posted on: 2022-08-10 09:40:07   By: Anonymous
       
      Sure, if you don't pay your taxes, commit fraudulent acts, inflate property values or lie to government agencies. My conscience is clear there - how about yours?

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    Re: Biden rocks
    Posted on: 2022-08-09 17:50:47   By: Anonymous
     
    ^BRAINWASHED DOTARD


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      Re: Biden rocks
      Posted on: 2022-08-09 17:53:41   By: Anonymous
       
      January 2023, let the impeachment’s begin!
      First up Biden crime family!

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        Re: Biden rocks
        Posted on: 2022-08-10 09:36:00   By: Anonymous
         
        No, we have to finish indicting the Trump dynasty first.

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        Re: Biden rocks
        Posted on: 2022-08-10 09:46:55   By: Anonymous
         
        Did you not understand the part where the FBI and \DOJ, were hiding the truth about Hunter Biden so as to make him look guilty?


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      Re: Biden rocks
      Posted on: 2022-08-09 18:03:02   By: Anonymous
       
      I think the "deep state" has brainwashed you :)

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        Re: Biden rocks
        Posted on: 2022-08-09 19:09:38   By: Anonymous
         
        Total bs. pT is just wanting traffic. I hate this site like I hate faux news.

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          Thank you President Biden
          Posted on: 2022-08-09 19:27:24   By: Anonymous
           
          Get teal . Trump lost . That means he lost . Get it , that means he fu—ing lost . All the kings horses and all the kings men will never make the insurrectionist trump president again .

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            Re: Thank you President Biden
            Posted on: 2022-08-09 19:29:21   By: Anonymous
             
            Trump can show the world the warrant used to go on his property . We thought not . Lying criminal insurrectionist .

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              Re: Thank you President Biden
              Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:24:04   By: Anonymous
               
              They showed them the warrent but didn't or wouldn't give them a copy

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                Re: Thank you President Biden
                Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:53:31   By: Anonymous
                 
                ^^Learn how the justice system works moron^^

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                  Re: Thank you President Biden
                  Posted on: 2022-08-09 22:31:55   By: Anonymous
                   
                  I guess they gave them a copy when they left 9 hours later

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              Re: Thank you President Biden
              Posted on: 2022-08-09 21:40:24   By: Anonymous
               
              Anyone who doesn't think Trump is sweating bullets at this time doesn't know the facts. Garland isn't playing fukaround. He is dotting his i's and crossing his t's. Taking his time, and doing a good job. No speculating on his part. Just the facts. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Just a matter of time before that big hammer of law and justice comes down on Trump. Bubba will be making his huge combover into pigtails and ride captain ride, everynight in cell block #9. Lube up Donny Boy, i'm comin' in you fat bich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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            Re: Thank you President Biden ...make Trump President again
            Posted on: 2022-08-10 19:00:48   By: Anonymous
             
            No, but 80 million dotard votes might.

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          Re: Biden rocks
          Posted on: 2022-08-09 19:27:35   By: Anonymous
           
          ^I think Hamilton just threw this on here out of pity for his Dotard audience. They've taken a horrible beating this week with Pelosi standing up to China, successful legislation by the Democrats, and Trump being appropriately searched by the FBI for additional government secrets he stole from the White House.
          It's just a mercy posting on Hamilton's part.

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            Re: Biden rocks
            Posted on: 2022-08-09 19:31:00   By: Anonymous
             
            Fifteen boxes. . Good name for the trump film .

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            Re: Biden rocks
            Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:11:31   By: Anonymous
             
            Agree 100%. A sympathy f*** for the maga-ttes.

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              Re: Biden rocks
              Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:18:13   By: Anonymous
               
              Now you have made Trump a maryter. Whatever you charge him with it will be jury nulification and he will be 45 and 47!


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                Re: Biden rocks
                Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:55:42   By: Anonymous
                 
                ^^^^Hey Doofus!! What the helll is a "maryter".? Get educated you forking moron.^^^^

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                  Re: Biden rocks
                  Posted on: 2022-08-09 22:34:20   By: Anonymous
                   
                  martyr, my bad. He will still be Potus 47

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                    Re: Biden rocks
                    Posted on: 2022-08-10 04:09:18   By: Anonymous
                     
                    The only number Trump will be wearing will be his convict number, on an orange jumpsuit, in federal prison.

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                      Re: Biden rocks...convict number
                      Posted on: 2022-08-10 19:04:12   By: Anonymous
                       
                      Pink, if they send Trump to Arizona.

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                        Re: Biden rocks...convict number
                        Posted on: 2022-08-10 19:40:26   By: Anonymous
                         
                        After seeing Nancy Pelosi face down China in her pink pantsuit, Trump ordered one for himself. He plans on wearing it when he enters prison, to put all the other prisoners on notice that he's top bitch.

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          Re: Biden rocks
          Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:21:25   By: Anonymous
           
          Dude and Dudettes wake up this isn't about left or right!! It is about Govt overreach, unlawful search and seisure. This could be you!!!

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            Re: Biden rocks
            Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:56:47   By: Anonymous
             
            Not me. I'm not a real big law breaker. Trump is. That's the difference.

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            Re: Biden rocks
            Posted on: 2022-08-09 20:58:04   By: Anonymous
             
            Dude or Dudette. Use a dictionary before posting. You won't look so stupid that way.

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    Re: Biden rocks
    Posted on: 2022-08-10 03:47:10   By: Anonymous
     
    No... this couldn't be you or me, and it isn't government over reach.
    Trump stole classified files from the government. The FBI obtained a warrant from a federal judge to execute a legal search of Trump's residence.
    Unless you have stolen classified files from the government you will not be placed in this position.
    Your comment is nothing but unfounded, dotard fear mongering.

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      Re: Biden rocks
      Posted on: 2022-08-10 07:40:02   By: Anonymous
       
      The President has the unilateral power to declassify so even from an actual legal basis this has no merit.

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        Re: Biden rocks
        Posted on: 2022-08-10 09:46:44   By: Anonymous
         
        ^Trump isn't president, so what he thinks is or isn't classified, is immaterial.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2022-08-10 09:38:31   By: Anonymous
 
Investigations are open and they move forward or are closed depending on evidence presented. Purely a political move on the part of Grassley to shine the light away from what is now going down with Trump. And, of course, those of you so far down the Trump rat hole are easily distracted. In fact, the GOP is counting on it.

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    Re: Brandon & Company
    Posted on: 2022-08-10 18:07:07   By: Anonymous
     
    You democrats should enjoy your pre-ejaculations while you can. All your joy will be gone after the elections in November when the Republicans take over and we start to see investigations begin with some prominent democrats.

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      Re: Brandon & Company
      Posted on: 2022-08-10 19:31:52   By: Anonymous
       
      ^You dotards are going to investigate Santa?

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