House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he will lead an effort to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if he refuses to share an informant file accusing President Biden of being par…
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer gave Wray until Tuesday to comply with a subpoena for the tipoff — warning that his continued refusal would begin the contempt process.
“We have jurisdiction over this. He can send us that document. We have the right to look at that —Republicans and Democrats alike in that committee. And if he does not follow through with the law, we will move contempt charges against Christopher Wray and the FBI. They are not above the law.” “There’s enough problems in the FBI and I will not sit back and allow him to ignore this. We will get this document…. He knows that there’s a document and we have a responsibility to see it.”
“Releasing confidential source information could potentially jeopardize investigations and put lives at risk,” the bureau told The Post in a statement last week. “The FBI remains committed to cooperating with Congress’s oversight requests on this matter and others as we always have.” A source has told The Post it’s not believed to deal with China, where the Biden family had two major ventures.
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