James Lynch writes for National Review Online about damaging new information about the FBI.
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.
