The FBI shut down an investigation into an alleged Chinese Communist Party plot to interfere with the 2020 election because the scheme would have contradicted then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony, newly released documents show.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) released internal FBI documents Tuesday showing how the FBI suppressed intelligence about a suspected CCP attempt to create fake drivers licenses and manufacture mail-in votes for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
The FBI suppressed an intelligence report from the Albany, N.Y., field office produced in summer 2020 based on information from a confidential human source alleging the Chinese government was producing “tens of thousands” of drivers licenses for the scheme. But the document was buried and its allegations were never investigated because of Wray’s September 2020 congressional testimony claiming there were no historical evidence of nationwide mail-in voter fraud campaigns.
“Now, we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it is by mail or otherwise,” Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
When pressed, Wray told the committee the FBI would “investigate seriously” any evidence of widespread voter fraud by mail.
After the intelligence document was recalled, an FBI Albany intelligence analyst voiced displeasure to colleagues in an October 2020 email because of the politics involved with suppressing the report.
“Most concerning to me, is stating the reporting would contradict with Director Wray’s testimony. I found this troubling because it implied to me that one of the reasons we aren’t putting this out is for a political reason, which goes directly against our organization’s mission to remain apolitical and simply state what we know,” the FBI analyst wrote to Albany colleagues.
“Likewise, at the field operational level, I do not feel it is our job to assess whether or not our intelligence aligns with the Director,” the analyst added.
The FBI Albany office re-interviewed the confidential informant and it generated additional context to support the allegations. The documents show an FBI Albany official believed the source was “competent” and “authentic” in their statements. The source was “very confident” in the subsourcing that brought about the allegations.
Officials from FBI headquarters, including deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division Nikki Floris, ordered the Albany field office to recall the intelligence document, Grassley’s records show. Separately, Floris played a role in undermining Grassley and Ron Johnson’s effort to investigate the Biden family’s foreign business dealings.
“These records smack of political decision-making and prove the Wray-led FBI to be a deeply broken institution. Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission,” Grassley said.
“One way or the other, intelligence must be fully investigated to determine whether it’s true, or if it’s just smoke and mirrors. Chris Wray’s FBI wasn’t looking out for the American people — it was looking to save its own image.”
Grassley previously requested more information and records from FBI Director Kash Patel on why the intelligence document was destroyed and the extent to which the bureau investigated its allegations. Grassley originally requested the documents based on whistleblower disclosures his office received.
“In 2020, facts about CCP election interference were buried by FBI leadership for political convenience. Thanks to relentless oversight from @ChuckGrassley and the hard work of our FBI team, the truth is finally coming to light. We’re restoring trust—through transparency, not politics,” Patel said on X last month.
The China division of the FBI’s foreign influence task force never took steps to meaningfully investigate the allegations of attempted Chinese election interference, the bureau confirmed to Grassley in late June.
“However, other than a request for information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, we have found no information to indicate that FITF-China aggressively investigated the reported information, despite corroborating intergovernmental reporting and logical investigative leads,” the FBI wrote to Grassley on June 27.
The Trump administration shuttered the foreign influence task force earlier this year because of its role in pressuring social-media platforms to censor speech online, especially the Hunter Biden laptop story.
James Lynch is a news writer for National Review. He previously was a reporter for the Daily Caller. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and based in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Such corruption as that of the last administration is unprecedented in America. Let’s hope heads roll.
Anything the CCP may have done pales in numbers compared to the millions of fraudulent ballots submitted by the DNC and the millions of ballots double-counted by Democrat operatives working in polling stations. In addition, there are the millions of illegals who voted after being issued driver’s licenses by Communist-controlled states like California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and so forth.
When someone is actually charged, I’ll celebrate. Until then, its more politics as usual. He lied to Congress!!! This has got to be a crime and he should be prosecuted. Hopefully his security clearance has already been taken away so he isn’t off making millions more via treasonous acts against America. Until someone is charged they will not stop. Right after the election calls to DC attorneys spiked to record levels, yet I’m not hearing Newsmax reporting on any actual charges against anyone. Hopefully soon.
We kept hearing Russia, Russia, Russia when we should have been hearing China, China< China. It should also be pointed out that in 2020, when those former intelligent officials were lying to the public about Hunter’s laptop, the FBI had the laptop, knew it was Hunter’s and was silent. Wray belongs behind bars.
When idiots such as “dr kapitul” make stupid comments, it shows just how brainwashed the left is. So sad that they can’t see the nose on their faces and only listen to Soros influenced “news”.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s 34 or 3034 times an innocent person is persecuted and convicted if it’s done through the hands of evil Satanic operatives of which the democratic leadership in the US are masters of. One a person sells the honor, dignity and Soul to the Devil there is little chance of redemption. So goes today’s Democratic Party in America. We were at war with evil elites when we first got our freedom in America and the battle goes on today.
But will anyone be prosecuted???
And this is why the FBI shouldn’t exist. It’s an instrument of government tyranny, an enemy of liberty. By design, the government has no general police power. The FBI has proven that the framers of our Constitution were indeed prescient to keep these powers out of the hands of people without honor or integrity.
Jack Wray must have been selected to head FBI because of his long experience. Years in cannot be the only way promotions are decided. That is lazy. I am glad Suzie Wiles is behind President Trump now doing the research.
Get the TRUTH out!! The American people are not stupid we knew it was corrupted. Now waiting for the consequences to all involved.
Leslie hit the nail on the head. This doesn’t need to be another long drawn out congressional investigation that the legacy media takes and twists to make it look like the mean Republicans are at it again, going after good federal workers who just happen to be Democrats. This needs to be handed over to the most awesome Female Pitbull ever in DC, Pam Bondi and she will arrest some people and just send them to Alligator Alcatraz for good measure. Maybe some of the deep state members will sit up, pay attention and start acting like Americans again.
God bless America and the greatest all-star Administration lead by the Greatest president, Donald J. Trump.
Trump was winning until the powers that were shut everything down and “fixed” the numbers.
The only person killed in the “violent” J6 insurrection was a veteran on the side of the America First and one of you leftists Killed her! But there was vast amounts of violence during all the “mostly peaceful” protests your side supported. Give it up! People are wise to the crap the Democrats pulled and they know how the MSM lied to them. If they no longer believe the Media they will certainly not listen to the likes of you. Your party is over!
Even here our beloved President is maligned by the trash. So sorry I had to see this.
Expose it all! The rampant Democrat controlled lying, fraud, and corruption MUST be exposed and stopped. WHOEVER is involved, no matter what party, should be investigated by a real, non-partisan group or agency.
The well beyond corrupt, lying, and deceptive Christopher Wray, along with the equally corrupt and habitual liar Alejandro Nicolas Mayorkas should both be, at a minimum, sentenced to life in prison for treason and their endless crimes against America.
Obviously, we and our rights are all still within reach of malfeasant forces who have not yet been dealt with appropriately. This has gone on for much too long.
This CANNOT happen in the USA! and it did, This is DISGUSTING.
a long lengthy Prison Term should happen if this kind of Shenanigans happens again and they should go after those involved in the 2020 Election Interference and put them in Prison. The sickest part of all of this is that it has to do with the MONEY they paid those involved who are still roaming free and unscathed. All they think about is Money the Root of all evil, they can think about it when they are sitting in Prision for a decade or more!
We don’t deny the 2020 election happened. You Election Fraud Deniers are still denying what really happened then. Which is ironic since you probably realize Trump was cheated out of winning the 2020 election but you say otherwise because you were okay with that result!
Why are you considering yourself a conservative when you’re trashing a president who was almost assasinated?
Careful here. This isn’t new stuff. The information was provided by an unvetted source who gave information to an FBI agent in Albany, NY. The FBI report was withdrawn because of concerns about the reliability of the informant. Sounds a lot like FBI source Alexander Smirnov who provided false information on the Bidens and was prosecuted. .
who exactly were the victims of those felonies? turns out that Letitia James committed the same type of “crimes” trying to get better rates on her real estate holdings that she prosecuted Trump for.
Pelosi admitted that it was a mistake for her to turn down Trump’s offer to send in the national guard for crowd control. Why wasn’t Ray Epps charged for instigating and bragging about protestors going inside the buildings? Why was unarmed Ashly Babbit shot and killed?
like Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Stacey Abrams, and other democrats who openly claimed election fraud because they lost! wah wah!
you are trying to project your Chicom party tactics on those you disagree with. lame. no one on this site believes any of your rants.
how about a probe into how much your Chicom handlers are paying you and your ilk to troll sites like this
sounds like you are describing what you and most democrats would do
One of the signs of pure ballot fraud associated with Sleepy’s “win” was how contrary the fake turnout was to the pre-existing, non-tampered demographic info of the “cheat states”. That’s NOT a characteristic of a “win” by a long shot. BTW, Trump sure didn’t have a hard time winning back the Presidency after the balloting was secured. Just how long do you dems think it will take for the public to forget about the ballot fraud? Longer than to forget about the dysfunctional weirdo who opened our borders, supported child sexual mutilation, and whose family members’ personal bank accounts all received huge deposits that dwarfed their actual incomes? Wake up, genius.
We’re still whining about the fake, incoherent “President” you all “non-elected”, but, now, we’re thrilled by the negative national sentiment towards those “democrats” who committed all of that ballot fraud… and we’re glad to have taken the country in a better direction since then.
That’s because miscreants like yourself committed ballot fraud and have lied about it ever since. Not to worry, as these crimes have long-since been proven, accounted for and responded to with stricter balloting processes… which made a big difference in outcomes… no?
Who cares about Trump being convicted when we saw laws ignored, changed and perverted to do it? We all saw the Lawfare designed to ignore the wishes of legal American citizens to vote for the candidate of their choice. The felons we are worried about are the unconvicted felons who were responsible for such a travesty of justice in the first place!
There is entirely too much gossip about the FBI. If they are currently unable to manage their public image without assistance, they need someone in their ranks who knows how.