By Dan McCaleb (The Center Square)
The chairman of the US House Oversight Committee said Tuesday that he is starting proceedings to defame FBI Director Christopher Wray before Congress over his failure to prepare a memo related to the agency’s investigation of President Joe Biden.
US Representative James Comer said the FBI’s decision to withhold the document is “unacceptable”.
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“Today, the FBI informed the committee that it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed by the committee,” Comer said. “The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructive and unacceptable.”
As The Center Square previously reported, the House Oversight Committee has been investigating President Biden and his son’s business dealings in China and whether President Biden illegally or unethically profited from those dealings and was put at risk as a result.
“While I have scheduled a call with FBI Director Wray tomorrow to further discuss his response, the committee has been clear in its intent to protect Congressional oversight authorities and will now take steps to keep the FBI director in contempt. before Congress for refusing to obey. with a legal summons,” he added. “Americans deserve the truth, and the Oversight Committee will continue to demand transparency from this nation’s premier law enforcement agency.”
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Last month, Comer said the commission was investigating nine of Biden’s relatives after receiving more financial documents from the Treasury Department.
Comer says large funds have been transferred from at least one Chinese company to bank accounts controlled by the Biden nexus.
“Thousands of pages of financial records pertaining to the Biden family, their businesses and associates’ business arrangements have been made available to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, attesting to the importance of this investigation,” Comer said at the time.
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