Republicans launch probe of spy ‘script’ casting Biden allegations as disinfo in 2020
By Steven Nelson
Published Nov. 1, 2023, 12:56 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee launched an inquiry Wednesday into the US intelligence community’s interactions with Congress in 2020 about corruption claims involving President Biden and his family — saying the nation’s spies may have obstructed the work of Congress by portraying the allegations as Russian disinformation.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines demanding details about an Aug. 6, 2020, “defensive briefing” given to two Republican senators who were finishing a report on alleged Biden family influence peddling in countries such as China and Ukraine.
Jordan, one of the leaders of the House GOP impeachment inquiry into Biden’s role in his family’s dealings, is also demanding details about interactions that summer with Democrats, including then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who cast doubt on the reliability of evidence about the Biden family’s dealings.
“The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are investigating allegations that the U.S. Intelligence Community obstructed a congressional inquiry in 2020 by falsely alleging that the work of two U.S. Senators was advancing Russian ‘disinformation,'” Jordan wrote to Haines.
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