After a confidential human source claimed then-Vice President Joe Biden agreed to accept money from a foreign national to affect policy decisions, FBI agents used what's called an FD-1023 form to record the allegation.
In response to Wray's failure to comply with the subpoena, Grassley, who had previously noted the FD-1023 form was five or six pages long, indicated that the confidential human source was "An apparent trusted FBI source." This is huge because Grassley wouldn't make that claim unless the whistleblower had. That means the source is not some random guy walking in off the street, but rather an existing "Trusted" CHS, which is why the FBI used the FD-1023 form.
In a letter to Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, Grassley had previously revealed a promise by a Chinese communist government-connected enterprise to funnel $5 million to "Hunter and James Biden to compensate them for work done while Joe Biden was vice president." Records released by Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., also confirmed a $5 million payment to James and Hunter Biden from another Chinese-connected business.
In that letter, Grassley said the whistleblower had claimed that "The FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden's criminal financial and related activity," but "That in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease."
The basis for how the FBI HQ team selected the specific information for inclusion in Auten's assessment is unknown, but in more than one instance the focus of the FBI HQ team's attention involved derogatory information about Hunter Biden.
Given the timing of the assessment and the date of the CHS report, it seems likely the FBI used the CHS report as part of the "Assessment" and that the "Assessment" was of the CHS. This leads to the next significant point: According to the whistleblower, Auten's assessment led to the "Improper discrediting" of the verified and verifiable derogatory information about Hunter Biden.
Specifically, in one letter to the bureau, Grassley said other FBI records "Shed light on Hunter Biden's business and financial relationship with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky," and those "Documents include specific details about conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden." Grassley had previously requested interview summary forms that referenced Zlochevsky, and in seeking FBI records, the senator's letter made clear that "Records" included "Recorded or graphic material," including "Recordings of verbal communications."
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