GOP Threatens FBI Director With Contempt for Withholding Biden Document
- House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer plans to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for refusing to share an informant file accusing President Biden of a $5 million bribery scheme.
- Comer subpoenaed the FBI for an FD-1023 form allegedly describing Biden's criminal scheme with a foreign national involving money for policy decisions.
- When Wray refused to provide the document, citing confidentiality concerns, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy warned he would move contempt charges.
- Comer says the FBI's refusal to release the key Biden document is "obstructionist and unacceptable."
- The contempt vote would be largely symbolic but serves to publicly admonish Wray for defying the committee's oversight authority.