For the last month, Grassley has teamed up with House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer to obtain documents from the bureau related to whistleblower claims that FBI Headquarters opened an assessment in August 2020 to discredit derogatory information about Biden. Specifically, Grassley and Comer sought the FD-1023 form used to memorialize an interview with a confidential human source (CHS) and related documents, with Comer issuing Wray a subpoena for the material in early May.

The subpoena and related correspondence indicate the whistleblower has intimate knowledge of the CHS’s claims, with Grassley and Comer revealing that the FD-1023 form was dated June 30, 2020, and alleged a bribe of $5 million. But now we know not only that the FD-1023 form implicating Biden exists — something Grassley said Wray confirmed on Thursday — but also that Grassley has already seen the form.

[We could have easily deduced as much. Comer and Grassley wouldn’t have invested as much effort into this fight unless they knew what the value of the document is, and the only way to know that is to see it. As I have speculated before, it’s almost certain that Comer and Grassley have a copy of the document already, but need the FBI to establish a separate chain of custody that will prevent them from having to expose their whistleblower in order to publicly validate it. — Ed]