The FBI and "Intelligence" Agencies Had Intel From 14 Different Sources About the Biden Family's Corruption. Wray Covered It Up and Claimed It Was All "Disinformation"

Christopher Wray was recommended to Trump by Super-Republican Chris Christie.

So you know he's a straight shooter.

The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation "conduits," according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House.

A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans or foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrats like the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros listed as victimized "targets" of Russian disinformation and conservatives like Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as "conduits" for disinformation.

The FBI also labeled two of President Donald Trump's first-term Cabinet secretaries, Pompeo and Barr, as well as Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham and House GOP committee chairmen Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan as "conduits" even while they all investigated whether the allegations of corruption against the Biden family were true.

The designations were part of a secret counterintelligence operation codenamed "Round River" that was launched during the 2020 election by a task force of FBI analysts claiming to be fighting "malign foreign influence" in the 2020 election, according to an administration official.

The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), based in FBI headquarters, concurred with each of the assessments in the spreadsheet with a "no objection" designation, the documents state.

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In some ways, the Round River operation is a mirror opposite of the Russia collusion probe known as Crossfire Hurricane in which the FBI pursued unsubstantiated allegations spread by Democrats that Trump and his allies conspired with Vladimir Putin to hijack the 2016 election. In Round River, FBI analysts sought to dismiss significant evidence in the bureau's possession, including Hunter Biden's own laptop, pointing to possible corruption by the Bidens.

Documents released by the White House earlier this month exposed an investigation in 2017 codenamed "Oxferd Comma" alleging the newly elected president Trump may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau's own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin.

By the way: 0xferd Comma was spelled that way -- with an "e" instead of an "o" and a zero instead of a capital "O" so that investigators could not find references to it in emails and government servers. It was deliberately misspelled so that no evidence of the crime could be discovered through normal investigatory means.

Remarkably, the effort to portray the Biden scandal as Russian disinformation came even though confidential human sources working for the FBI and other agencies began reporting a steady stream of concerns starting in 2015 that Ukraine was possibly targeting the future first family for influence, the memos show. The FBI has identified at least 14 informants who were providing derogatory information on the Bidens, according to an FBI letter made public Wednesday.

In that letter to the White House Government Transparency Task Force, FBI Director Kash Patel said the Foreign Influence Task Force was terminated on his watch and its activities are now under investigation.

That Task Force was run by the leftwing woman who admitted she was running a "shadow government" inside the one that the American people think is the real government.

He said he shared concerns cited in a 2025 Director of National Intelligence memo declassified on Wednesday that Round River was used as a political tool to neutralize an alleged corruption narrative about Biden, the Democrats' 2020 presidential nominee, rather than to address true national security threats.

"While our internal review of the FITF is not yet complete, we are investigating whether the FITF used information learned from the Round River assessment to undermine or influence ongoing investigations by only focusing on the subset of CHS's (Confidential Human Sources) involving the Bidens," Patel wrote, according to the letter reviewed by Just the News.

"We remain concerned that defensive briefings to Congress may have been overly focused on just Biden and Ukraine rather than the balanced picture of all foreign threats," he added.

Patel said the bureau is "firmly committed to identifying, investigating and holding accountable all abuses" that occurred during the Round River operation and to ensure "that future counterintelligence operations remain focused exclusively on legitimate foreign threats and are never used to advance political narratives."

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Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, and Johnson, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, have been investigating the Round River operation for years and have raised concerns the FBI may have used a 2020 defensive briefing to them as a way of thwarting their probe into Burisma and Biden family corruption allegations.

In essence, the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force operation treated Barr's investigation into the Biden controversy as a potential disinformation threat, closely aligning with the Biden presidential campaign's and legacy media's efforts to portray the Burisma allegations as "conspiracy theories."

That conspiracy theory storyline -- referred to in the documents as the "Ukraine narrative" -- persisted well beyond the 2020 election that put Biden into the White House until two IRS whistleblowers and some former Biden business partners came forward to Congress beginning in 2023 and shared evidence that Hunter Biden had committed crimes, including failing to pay taxes on monies he earned from Burisma, and sought to use his father's influence to help the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
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The intelligence review pinpointed the start of Round River to December 2019, just as Trump's Ukraine impeachment proceedings were raging, and gave a succinct description of its mission.

"Around December 2019, the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force -- Russia (FITF-R) unofficially formed a group of analysts who utilized internal systems to gather any/all derogatory information previously reported by confidential human sources (CHSs) on Joseph Biden corruption and other Ukraine-related topics (known as the Ukraine narrative) including Burisma, Hunter Biden, Mykola Zlochevsky, Ukraine interference in 2016 US presidential election to red flag the reporting as Russian disinformation," the DNI report said.

Remarkably, the DNI report alleges, the Round River team amended each of three informant files to portray their long-term reporting as false.

"The team of analysts had administrative accesses to all reporting and drafted intelligence products that were later added to each CHS file to show the reporting was deemed Russian disinformation," the DNI memo stated. "The FITF-R team also provided defensive briefings to any Congressional member who obtained reporting related to any aspect of the Ukraine narrative."

Paul Sperry says that the criminal Chris Wray was behind this corrupt effort:

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_

BREAKING: Just-declassified FBI docs reveal Dir. Wray during the 2020 election classified Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Victoria Nuland and Amos Hochstein, along w/ George Soros, as "targets" of Russian "disinformation" in the Burisma scandal, while journalist John Solomon was branded a "conduit" of "disinformation"

Former Trump advisor and Deep State target Peter Navarro says we have to put all the conspirators under oath and compel them to admit the conspiracy or go to prison for perjury and obstruction.

On May 16, 2017, the FBI took one of the most extraordinary steps in its history: It opened a full investigation of the sitting American president.

Newly declassified documents released by the White House say the bureau asked whether the president "is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with" Vladimir Putin's Russia -- and whether he "obstructed and/or conspired to obstruct" the FBI's own investigation.

That the FBI had targeted President Trump was reported in 2019. What was missing was the paperwork -- the opening document, the names on it, the chain of command.

The May 16 "opening communication" lists FBI General Counsel James Baker and Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director E.W. "Bill" Priestap as the approving officials.

The investigation was opened at Priestap's direction, in consultation with Baker's Office of General Counsel; and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe personally notified Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

The next day -- May 17 -- Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller special counsel, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax took flight.

James Comey figures in the hoax, too. He went from fired FBI director to a central witness.

The FBI used Comey's account of his talks with Trump -- and Trump's firing of Comey -- to support the obstruction theory.

Another critical layer has now been exposed. The FBI says its predicate for the probe rested on "predetermined criteria established by the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team" based on an assessment of supposedly "reliable lead information."

Who built that predicate?

Peter Strzok, a central figure in Crossfire Hurricane, and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were close to the investigation.

When Page asked whether Trump would become president, Strzok replied: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz later said that message was not merely indicative of a biased state of mind but implied a willingness to take official action to affect a candidate's electoral prospects.

Yet the actual drafter of the opening communication remains redacted. That name should be released.

So should the names of everyone who formulated, reviewed or supplied the "reliable lead information" used to put a sitting president under investigation -- along with the communications among Priestap, Baker, McCabe and the investigative team, McCabe's record of what he told Rosenstein, what Rosenstein knew before he appointed Mueller and what Mueller did, if anything, to independently validate the extraordinary allegation he was tasked to investigate.

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It's past time to put those who built and ran this Russia hoax under the microscope.

Sen. Chuck Grassley's Senate Judiciary Committee and Chairman Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee hold the tools; Grassley has been a bulldog, Jordan far less so.

Subpoena Priestap, Baker, McCabe, Rosenstein and Comey for sworn, public testimony.

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The officials who set the Russia hoax in motion and carried it forward have names.

Now put them under oath. And do it before the November election.

Meanwhile, "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, a stenographer and PR manager for the leftwing conspiracy at the heart of the CIA, says that Trump is running the DOJ like "Russia and China" for investigating the people he works for.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:25 PM

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