The agency is refusing to provide sensitive materials on potential quid pro quo involving the US president and a foreign national
The FBI has declined to provide US lawmakers with law-enforcement documents that some Republicans believe could shed light on alleged criminal business dealings involving US President Joe Biden, according to a letter by a senior agency official released on Wednesday.
Last week, citing information received from a whistleblower, US House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) requested that the FBI produce unclassified records detailing a potential “criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”
The pair had in particular subpoenaed all so-called FD-1023 forms –used by the agency to record unverified reporting from confidential human sources– created or modified in June 2020 that…