FBI director 'troubled' by internal corruption?

 Washington Examiner:

FBI director Christopher Wray testified he found it “deeply troubling” when he read recent whistleblower allegations that bureau agents had falsely labeled accurate information about Hunter Biden as disinformation during the FBI’s investigation in 2020.

Whistleblower allegations emerged last month that FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened an assessment in August 2020, which was used by FBI headquarters to label accurate information about President Joe Biden’s son as false, according to disclosures made public by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), while a whistleblower said Timothy Thibault, the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite some of the details being known to be true at the time.

2020 FBI BRIEFING BACK IN SPOTLIGHT FOLLOWING HUNTER BIDEN WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGATIONS

“I want to be very careful not to interfere with ongoing personnel matters,” Wray said when asked about whether this was true by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. “I should say that when I read the letter that describes the kinds of things that you’re talking about, I found it deeply troubling.”

Auten “opened an assessment, which was used by a FBI Headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation,” according to Grassley. "In at least one instance, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.” A whistleblower also said Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting," according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.”

Thibault, who investigated public corruption in the nation’s capital, may have violated the Hatch Act over his social media posts criticizing then-President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General Bill Barr in 2020, according to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz last month.

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It should have been obvious early on that something was amiss.  The suggestion that Hunter's laptop was "Russian disinformation" did not pass the giggle test.  It was laughable from the beginning.  That top FBI official thought they could get away with that narrative is beyond "troubling."  The politicizing of investigations appears to be an outgrowth of the deep state opposition to Trump. 

See, also:

Ted Cruz Drops the Boot on FBI Director Christopher Wray During Hearing

And:

 FBI Director Sets New Record For Lies, Dodges, And Obfuscations To Avoid Slight Attempts At Congressional Oversight

 ‘Director Wray, you will have to explain to the committee – and to the country – how you’ll manage this mess and how you’ll clean house,’ Sen. Grassley said.

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