Grassley: "We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not. We are responsible for making sure the FBI does it's job."
Hemmer: "You just said you read the documents. Is that right?"
'Multiple Justice Department whistleblowers have come forward to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley as part of his ongoing investigation into the Biden family business practices...
allegations including "irregular handling" of evidence and a claim that "standard investigatory… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"Timothy Thibault, a top-level FBI agent who had been under fire for his role in investigations regarding President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, resigned late last week..."
'"[T]he allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation," Grassley claimed.
'A statement from Thibault's counsel said he was "not fired, not forced to retire and not asked to retire," and he walked out of the FBI building "by himself."
"Claims to the contrary are false," the statement said...
'The statement noted Thibault was not involved in an Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago... and did not supervise the investigation into Hunter Biden, which the FBI's Baltimore Field Office is handling.
Grassley: "Mr. Thibault's blatant partisanship undermined the work and reputation of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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"FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday offered to let House Oversight Chair James Comer view an internal law enforcement document at FBI headquarters that Republicans believe will shed light on an allegation that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a..."
"...criminal scheme with a foreign national, the chairman said in a statement.
The document has origins in a tranche of documents that Rudy Giuliani provided to the Justice Department in 2020, people briefed on the matter said."
I find myself wondering if I became so focused on the MAL "Raid," classified docs case, and the precedents that it did and could potentially set, that I missed the potential significance of the Manhattan DA's grand jury.
I've been revisiting this article of mine.
I thought precedents were needed and still do, both for future investigations/indictments and also for the narrative value.
Now, if indeed this indictment of Trump is real and is as alleged in media then a Rubicon truly has been crossed.