Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says FBI ‘afraid’ Biden informant ‘will be killed if unmasked’
A member of the House Oversight Committee on Monday claimed the FBI is fearful that the informant who provided information alleging a $5 million bribery scheme involving President Biden “will be killed” if their identity is revealed.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) made the allegations in a tweet Monday after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) were allowed by the bureau to review the bombshell accusations in the informant file at the Capitol.
“Just left meeting for House Oversight. The [FBI] is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info he has brought forward about the Biden family,” Luna wrote on Twitter.
In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday, Comer described the informant as one of the bureau’s “most highly credible human sources,” and one that was paid a “substantial amount of money” by the FBI.
Luna, a member of the House Oversight Committee, said the FBI is worried their informant may be “killed” if their identity is revealed. ZUMAPRESS.com
“He had been a part of the bureau for 13 years, dating back to the Obama administration,” Comer told Hannity.
Comer revealed Monday that while the FBI’s FD-1023 form containing the allegations was dated in 2020, information in the document suggests the FBI may have been aware of the accusations as far back as 2017.
“This particular document was dated in 2020. But there are notes in the document that date back to 2017. We believe that this human source initially informed the FBI of the bribery scheme back in 2017. So my question to the FBI was, ‘What exactly have you done with this accusation?’” Comer said during his interview with Hannity.
Comer says the informant has been “a part of the bureau for 13 years, dating back to the Obama administration.” ZUMAPRESS.com
The House Oversight Committee will attempt to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress on Thursday.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has thus far refused to hand over a physical copy of the document to the Oversight Committee and as a result, the panel will move to hold Wray in contempt on Thursday.
“We’re setting an example,” Comer said of the upcoming contempt hearing. “When we subpoena information, there’s a reason why and we expect to get that information. The House Oversight Committee was created to have oversight over the federal government.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) noted Monday that the FD-1023 form “just isn’t a document that’s in the possession of the FBI … this is a document they created.”
“They had a credible source, one of their good sources, who they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, bring this information to them, and then they create this document,” Jordan said. “We want to see it.”
The Ohio Republican argued that the informant alleging the Biden bribery scheme is likely far more credible that British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who authored the infamous dossier against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 which the FBI used as the basis to launch an investigation into former president’s 2016 campaign.
“How much you want to bet this source is a lot more credible than Christopher Steele, the guy who created the dossier that they used to go after President Trump? I bet you this source has a lot more credibility. But they will not let us see this document. I hope they do. I hope they let the American people see it,” Jordan said.
Comer said Monday that the claims in the informant file are “consistent” with information uncovered by the Oversight Committee through subpoenaed bank records that show more than $1 million flowed from a Romanian businessman to the Biden family weeks after the then-vice president visited the Eastern European nation and lectured government officials about the importance of anti-corruption policies.
The FBI informant file accusing Biden of being involved in a bribery scheme was authored in 2020 but has notes dating back to 2017, according to Comer. Getty Images
“The vice president at the time, Joe Biden, was in the country, he was talking about foreign policy and then soon, soon afterward, according to this highly credible, well-respected human source, then there was a bribe made, and it’s specifically detailed [in the] allegations that the bribe would be made In a way that would be very difficult to find that they would use various bank accounts and various shell companies,” Comer told Hannity.
Comer said earlier on Monday that “FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI-generated record has not been disproven and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation.”
Source: New York Post
