FBI blocked probe into alleged Chinese 2020 election meddling to protect Wray from fallout, documents show

Exclusive: The FBI prevented an investigation into allegations that the Chinese Communist Party has manufactured fake driver’s licenses and shipped them to the United States in a plan to influence the 2020 presidential elections in favor of Joe Biden because it will “contradict” the director of the FBI Christopher Ray in congress, which has been extinguished recently.

The records, which include communications between the FBI officials before the 2020 elections, were raised by the FBI director Cash Patel and transferred to the Chairman of the Senate Committee Chuck Grassley.

The alleged Chinese plan to influence the election of 2020 by Biden is being investigated by the FBI, the Judicial Committee of the Senate

Fox News Digital stated in June that Patel has specified the location of the original reports document that allegedly that the Chinese Communist Party sought to submit a fake driver’s licenses to sympathizers of Chinese in the United States who would vote on Biden in the 2020 elections.

The FBI recalled these reports, though, on September 25, 2020 – just one day after WRAY witnessed to Congress that the FBI did not see any coordinated fraud before the 2020 elections.

The FBI, at the time, recalled this report “to re -display the source.” The “beneficiaries” also directed the original report to “destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings.”

But Patel, this week, classified additional documents, including records related to the re -view of the source, and communications between FBI officials at that time discussing decisions behind the summons and its decision not to republish intelligence reporting.

Records were sent to Grassley and Fox News Digital who reviewed the records.

“Although the source has been re -paved and provided an additional context for the first support of IIR, the FBI headquarters maintained its site not to republish the report,” wrote Marshall Yets, Assistant Director of the FBI, in a letter to Grasley, obtained by Fox News Digital. “One of the reasons for the lack of launch of IIR was because” the reports will contradict the director of the director. “

Fox News Digital was unable to reach WRAY for comment.

senator Chuck Grassley (R-LI) will reach a judicial committee in the Senate on Judicial Nominations at Capitol Hill September 6, 2023 in Washington. (Drew Angeler/Getty Images)

During a hearing of the Senate on September 24, 2020, Wri said that he had not seen any widespread festival by mail, and said that if he had, that would be something we would have seriously verified …

“We have not historically seen any kind of national fraud in voters in major elections, whether by mail or otherwise,” Ray witnessed. But “people should not make mistakes in a state of vigilance regarding the threat and watch it carefully, because we are in a new unknown area.”

But Ray also witnessed that the Chinese “expanded the effects of influence,” saying that they were “looking for different ways to take a page of the malicious foreign influence book they saw elsewhere.”

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But, in his letter to Grasli, Yets made it clear that calling the original reports document was “abnormal”.

“The logical basis submitted to Albani employees for the summons was that the headquarters is considered the report” unreliable “, but this description was met unlikely by those in Albani’s office,” Yates explained.

“These records hunt political decisions and demonstrate that the WRY FBI is deeply broken. Before holding high -risk elections, it occurs amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned his back on the national security mission.”

“In one way or another, intelligence must be completely investigated to determine whether it is true or, or if it is just smoke and mirrors.” Grassley said.

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The report was called in the direction of the Deputy Assistant Director of Nikki Floris and Tonya Ugaretz from the Internet Division.

Fox News Digital reported that Floris was the FBI official to present a “defensive conference” to Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis. , In August 2020, claiming that their investigation in Hunter Biden had submitted to mislead Russian information.

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The FBI classified internal emails between Albani employees, which were obtained by Fox News Digital, reflecting fears that the suppression of the document will be “dangerous if we cite the potential political effects as reasons for not extinguishing our information.”

Yates explained that “the role of analysts was not in harmony with the general certificate.”

“Albani employees also warned of the FBI, assuming the role of the only gatekeeper for the intelligence community (IC), with a focus on the fact that reputation that was created in the field could deprive other IC elements of the opportunity to confirm or discredit intelligence information,” Yets said.

In an email on September 30, 2020, it was reviewed by Fox News Digital, the agents asked why the report was unable to issue, as another replied: “Once again, reports will contradict the director of the director.”

Christopher Ray, Director of the FBI, arrives during a judicial committee in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, the United States, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (Al Drao/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On October 1, 2020, an agent at Albani Field Office answered:

“I am not trying to be pain on this, but after spending some time thinking about it, I just want to express my opinion and anxiety about this issue and explain that I do not agree with thinking not to put this.”

“I am not satisfied with the reason for the need to review 1023 and HQ new because these things are operational and administrative requirements every day,” the agent continued. “What matters most to me, it is mentioned that the reports will contradict the testimony of director Ray. I found this worrying because it involves that one of the reasons why we put this is for a political reason, which contradicts directly with the mission of our organizations to stay non -politicians and mention what we simply know.”

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The agent added: “Likewise, at the field operational level, I do not feel that it is our duty to evaluate whether our intelligence is in line with or not with the director, but rather we provide intelligence for people above our salaries (like the director) to make an appeal what the FBI sees as a whole.”

The agent agreed that the FBI “has a commitment not to extinguish reckless information as we know that something false or will cause unjustified harm.”

“However, we are not in a single position to determine the validity of the reports, as we only form a single user agency, an incredibly small part of all FBI sources, and other FBI sources that can report this,” the customer wrote. “What worries me is that I think it becomes dangerous if we cite with possible political effects as reasons for not putting out information.”

The agent also stressed that with the decision to retain the report, the FBI “began to be drifted away from being the only decision for use regarding the date of collecting the information that we collect, or is not valid, or is important to the intelligence community because it takes the decisive opportunity from the rest of the USic to secure or distort our potential intelligence.”

“The FBI was not looking for the American people – he was looking to save his own image,” Grassley told Fox News Digital. “It is now time to rebuild the confidence of the FBI.”

He added: “The director’s willingness to work with me to establish transparency and renewed accountability is an important part of this process, and I salute him for his efforts.”

Meanwhile, Yets explained that although the intelligence analyst “asked for more research and re -participating with the source, the headquarters in the end decided not to release a new IIR, noting that there is no additional information, even after the source is re -viewed.”

Yates said that the FBI believed that the source “seemed reliable”, and said that the FBI “did not close the source of the cause or lack of reliable information.”

According to the documents that were raised, the source was a member of his headquarters, not a member of the Communist Party of China. In the re -view, according to the documents, an Albanian officer managed to confirm some of his partial information. “

“The case agent believes that the source is qualified and original in his/to her.”

When he was asked how he was “confident” in the information, one of the agents wrote: “Very confident.”

“Additional emails show that the foreign influence team (FITF) did not agree to release IIR, noting concerns about qualification and the possibility of misinformation by foreign actors,” Yates explained. “However, unlike a request to obtain information to the customs and protection of the American border, we have not found any information to indicate that Fitf-China has been strongly investigated in the reported information, despite the confirmation of international government reports and logical investigation.”

The original reporting document of the Federal Investigation Office came just one month after customs staff and border protection were seized at the International Postal Facility at Chicago Ohair International Airport on nearly 20,000 fraudulent drivers licenses.

From January 2020 to June 30, 2020, CBP officers reported on that site the acquisition of 1513 charges of fraudulent documents that included a total of 19888 an American driver’s license.

“The majority of these shipments arrived from China and Hong Kong,” CBP was published in a July press statement.

It was not immediately clear whether the Nubia had any relationship with the document’s allegations.

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“Finally, due to this episode, the FBI headquarters put a new condition in this field for the 2020 elections;” All raw reports related to elections will now require the coordination of the main headquarters, which was not required “before”, explained Yates Grassley.

The FBI said that the records reflect the “broader feelings within Albani’s field office, that the decision to summon and suppress iir raised serious questions about the integrity of the process of reporting intelligence and their ability to conceived political pressure.

The FBI continues to investigate the matter, and noticed that the records have been preserved within the office systems.