CNN previously reported the allegations in the 1023 surfaced years ago as Rudy Giuliani was sharing information with the Justice Department during the Trump administration while Bill Barr was attorney general. Barr tapped former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to oversee an FBI investigation into a variety of claims Rudy Giuliani was providing to the Justice Department.
As part of that investigation, Raskin said Brady’s team did an initial assessment of the allegations in the 1023 document and concluded there was not enough evidence to take the next step of opening a preliminary investigation.
“The FBI and Department of Justice under Attorney General Barr and Scott Brady terminated the investigation. They said there were no grounds for further investigative steps,” Raskin told reporters. “My understanding is there is an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden relating to gun charges and one or two other things taking place in Delaware. But I don’t know of any connection between that criminal investigation and the document that we saw today.”
Both Comer and Raskin said the 1023 document is based on information the FBI gleaned from a credible, confidential source. But Raskin said the confidential source was recounting a conversation with someone else.
“Remember what we’re talking about here is a confidential human source recording a conversation with someone else,” Raskin said. “So, what we’re talking about is secondhand hearsay.”
http://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/politics/christopher-wray-contempt-james-comer-house-republicans/index.html
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