A protracted (and completely unnecessary) battle in Washington that has dragged on for months finally came to an end last night. FBI director Christopher Wray has relented and will allow the full House Oversight Committee to view the FD-1023 document in which a highly credible FBI informant accuses Joe Biden of taking a $5 million bribe from a foreign adversary while he was the Vice President. As a result, Wray will not be hit with a Contempt of Congress charge today as had been expected. While the potentially explosive document is obviously of interest, perhaps the biggest takeaway from this protracted debacle is the question of why it required such an extraordinary threat to get him to submit to cooperate with the constitutionally mandated oversight duties of the legislative branch. (NY Post)

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Wednesday night that the FBI has “caved” and will allow each member of the panel the opportunity to review an informant file held by the bureau that accuses President Biden of a $5 million bribery scheme while he was vice president.

As a result of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s change of heart – after weeks of refusing to hand over a physical copy of the FD-1023 form to the committee – he will no longer be subjected to a contempt of Congress hearing that was slated for Thursday.

The FBI is also making two additional documents referenced in the informant file available for Comer (R-Ky.) and House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to review, the panel announced.

This entire affair hasn’t just been embarrassing for the FBI. It should be worthy of criminal charges and impeachment hearings. What’s been happening here should be obvious to any impartial observer. If there were some questions of national security involved with the document, it might be understandable if Wray wanted to insist that the document only be shared in a secure facility. But the FD-1023 is an unclassified document. If the FBI understandably wanted to protect the identity of their source, the name could be redacted along with any information regarding where and how they obtained the information.

None of that was the central issue, of course. What Wray has been doing is what he always does. He was attempting to conceal information that might prove embarrassing to Joe Biden’s family, if not provide evidence of potential criminal charges against the President. The head of the country’s supposedly premier law enforcement agency has been actively thwarting the enforcement of the law for political purposes.

It’s true that the document in question may not be a “smoking gun” in terms of the corruption of Biden Inc. But from what we know thus far, it comes from a highly credible source and should merit an investigation. Did Wray’s FBI ever even begin such an investigation? And if so, what were the results? Comer’s committee needs to be asking those questions in addition to simply reviewing the document.

We also know (thanks to some excellent investigative reporting) that the document fits in with a pattern that the committee has already revealed. Hunter Biden and his “business” partners went to great lengths to set up a spiderweb of LLCs serving no purpose other than to launder money from foreign entities and deposit it into the bank accounts of various Biden family members. The allegations reportedly contained in this FD-1023 document would fit into that pattern perfectly.

If Wray or anyone in the top levels at the FBI actually had a nonpartisan interest in enforcing the law and delivering justice, they probably should have already had warrants issued for Joe Biden and most of his clan. But that obviously won’t happen under the Bureau’s leadership today. The FBI is currently little more than a DNC protection racket and a tool for banishing or imprisoning anyone who is a perceived opponent of Joe Biden and the liberal agenda. The country deserves far, far better than this.