POLITICS: FBI BURIED China Intel — Senator Demands Answers – USSA News

FBI leadership deliberately suppressed evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election to shield former director Christopher Wray from contradicting his own testimony, according to bombshell documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.

Key Takeaways

• The FBI recalled and ordered the destruction of a critical Intelligence Information Report (IIR) from its Albany Field Office detailing alleged Chinese Communist Party election interference.
• Nearly 20,000 fraudulent driver’s licenses from China and Hong Kong were intercepted by Customs and Border Protection, potentially linked to mail-in ballot fraud.
• FBI headquarters officials allegedly suppressed the investigation to prevent contradicting Director Wray’s congressional testimony claiming no evidence of widespread mail-in voting fraud.
• An FBI Albany intelligence analyst expressed concerns that political motivations were driving the decision to suppress critical national security intelligence.
• Current FBI Director Kash Patel declassified the documents as part of efforts to rebuild trust in the agency.

Whistleblower Documents Reveal FBI Cover-Up

Recently declassified documents paint a disturbing picture of how FBI leadership deliberately sabotaged an investigation into Chinese election interference during the 2020 presidential election. According to records released by Senator Chuck Grassley, FBI headquarters recalled and ordered the destruction of a September 2020 intelligence report that detailed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to influence the election through fraudulent identification documents. This suppression allegedly occurred to protect then-FBI Director Christopher Wray from political blowback after he had testified that the bureau had not seen evidence of widespread mail-in ballot fraud.

The intelligence report, produced by the FBI’s Albany Field Office, contained evidence that the Chinese government was shipping fake driver’s licenses into the United States to enable fraudulent mail-in voting that would benefit Joe Biden. When FBI headquarters learned of this report, they not only recalled it but also instructed all recipients to destroy their copies and purge it from their computer systems. This extraordinary step was taken despite the Albany office having deemed their source “credible and competent.”

Evidence Suppressed Despite Corroboration

The suppressed intelligence aligned with findings from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which had intercepted 1,513 shipments containing 19,888 fraudulent driver’s licenses, primarily originating from China and Hong Kong. Despite this corroborating evidence, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force-China division failed to aggressively pursue the investigation after headquarters intervened. Following the recall of the Albany report, FBI headquarters implemented new requirements that all election-related intelligence be coordinated through central command, effectively creating a bottleneck that could filter politically inconvenient information.

“These records smack of political decision-making and prove the Wray-led FBI to be a deeply broken institution. Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission. One way or the other, intelligence must be fully investigated to determine whether it’s true, or if it’s just smoke and mirrors. Chris Wray’s FBI wasn’t looking out for the American people – it was looking to save its own image,” said Chuck Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman

The documents reveal that Nikki Floris, then-Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, was among the headquarters officials who ordered the recall of the intelligence report. This intervention came shortly after Wray had testified to Congress on September 17, 2020, stating: “We have not historically seen any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it is by mail or otherwise.” The timing strongly suggests that protecting this narrative took precedence over fully investigating a potential national security threat.

Internal Dissent from FBI Personnel

Perhaps most damning in the released documents are the objections raised by FBI personnel in Albany who pushed back against headquarters’ decision. One intelligence analyst expressed serious concerns about the political motivations behind suppressing the report, writing in an email that was later released: “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.”

“I think what I would say is this: We take all election-related threats seriously, whether it is voter fraud, voter suppression, whether it is in person, whether it is by mail. And our role is to investigate the threat actors. Now, we have not historically seen any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it is by mail or otherwise… [B]ut people should make no mistake, we are vigilant as to the threat and watching it carefully, because we are in uncharted new territory,” said Christopher Wray, former FBI Director.

The same analyst warned that by preventing the distribution of the intelligence, the FBI was cutting off the possibility for other intelligence community elements to either corroborate or debunk the information. This directly contradicted proper intelligence procedures, which require that credible information be fully vetted rather than simply buried. The Albany field office staff argued that the report should have been disseminated to allow for proper investigation, regardless of whether it might create political complications for leadership.

Rebuilding Trust in the FBI

The release of these documents comes as President Trump’s appointed FBI Director, Kash Patel, has undertaken efforts to restore public confidence in the bureau. Grassley praised Patel’s commitment to transparency, noting, “Now’s the time to rebuild the FBI’s trust. Director Patel’s willingness to work with me to establish renewed transparency and accountability is a critical part of that process, and I applaud him for his efforts.” The declassification of these records represents a significant step toward exposing and remedying past politically motivated misconduct within the FBI.

The implications of these revelations are profound, suggesting that under previous leadership, the FBI may have deliberately turned a blind eye to foreign interference in our elections when acknowledging such interference would have been politically inconvenient. This case adds to mounting evidence that agencies entrusted with national security were compromised by political considerations during the previous administration, prioritizing narrative protection over their fundamental duty to safeguard American democracy from foreign threats.