National security expert debunks Sen. Chuck Grassley's 'spin' in Biden report

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) continued his investigation into President Joe Biden and his family with a letter sent this week to the Justice Department recounting what he says he has "discovered."

National security expert Marcy Wheeler has followed the GOP's attempts to find dirt on Biden through his family from the start – and found Grassley's latest report shocking in its brazenness.

"As part of Grassley's proof that the FBI has gone easy on Hunter Biden and his family is that they sicced 40 informants on the Biden family. 40!" she posted on the social media site X.

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Grassley, 90, who is now the oldest Senator in Congress after Dianne Feinstein passed away, has been working alongside House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, (R-KY) on the probe of Biden and his son, Hunter,

In his letter, he complained that the FBI didn't violate its own rules regarding its investigations. This comes after, earlier this month, Grassley was triggered by the idea that IRS "whistleblower" Gary Shapley might garner further scrutiny.

"Since August, 2019, the Justice Department and FBI have refused to answer our questions, cooperate with our investigation, and have made every effort to obstruct and frustrate legitimate and constitutional congressional oversight," the letter says.

As Wheeler points out, the FBI doesn't reveal its evidence during an investigation because it could compromise the case as well as any possible prosecutions.

She then pointed to a section in Grassley's letter that she said is an attempt to spin information that had already been debunked.

"That Tim Thibault shut down Peter Schweizer, someone even less credible than Christopher Steele, in PART because it'd make prosecution more difficult," said Wheeler, with a screen capture of the Grassley excerpt. She was referring to former FBI agent Thibault who was reportedly told to shut down an informant – who turned out to be Breitbart News editor Schweizer.

"Two of the disgruntled FBI agents (the GOP relied on) include a now Heritage employee whose daughter was covering related stuff at Daily Caller, and someone else who treated ItalyGate as if it was credible. This is the quality of disgruntled FBI agent that fuels Grassley's complaints."

Wheeler then recalled Grassley's anger that an FBI investigation into Trump's links with Russia, known as Crossfire Hurricane, was opened – yet now he's seeking information from it.

Wheeler closed by summarizing, "The news to take away from this is that Grassley is REALLY invested in sustaining Shapley's claims long after Shapley's OWN documents showed he was unreliable. The questions that need to be answered are, when did Shapley start feeding him this stuff?"

Grassley has said publicly the GOP doesn't care if any of the allegations against Biden are true.

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