Overview

• Newly declassified emails show that FBI headquarters ordered the recall and deletion of a September 2020 Albany field report alleging Chinese-manufactured fake driver’s licenses were used to facilitate mail-in votes for Joe Biden.
• The recall was justified by headquarters on the grounds that the report would contradict then-director Christopher Wray’s September 2020 testimony denying any coordinated national voter fraud.
• An FBI confidential human source was reinterviewed and reaffirmed the allegations, yet the bureau still blocked other intelligence agencies from accessing the report.
• Following the incident, the FBI adopted a policy requiring headquarters coordination for all raw election-related reporting.
• Senator Chuck Grassley has released the messages and is demanding additional records and potential hearings as Director Kash Patel drives greater transparency and accountability.