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Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) on Wednesday criticized his Republican colleagues for using a former FBI informant’s claims in their impeachment inquiry even though the statements hadn’t been verified.
“We were warned at the time that we received the document outlining this witness’s testimony. … We were warned that the credibility of this statement was not known,” Buck said on CNN’s “The Source.”
“And yet, people, my colleagues went out and talk to the public about how this was credible and how it was damning and how it proved President Biden’s — at the time Vice President Biden’s — complicity in receiving bribes,” he added.
The informant, Alexander Smirnov, was arrested and charged last week with making false statements to the FBI. He had previously told the FBI that President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, received $5 million bribes from the head of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
House Republicans have previously put that claim at the front and center of their investigations into the Bidens. Buck said it is evident now that the information Smirnov relayed was false.
“It appears to absolutely be false, and to really undercut the nature of the charges. We’ve always been looking for a link between what Hunter Biden received in terms of money and Joe Biden’s activities or Joe Biden receiving money,” Buck explained. “This clearly is not a credible link at this point.”
On Wednesday, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins then asked the Colorado Republican if House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) used the information “to fuel these investigations, regardless” of them knowing the information was not corroborated.
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“That’s what it appears,” Buck responded. “I certainly didn’t have any evidence outside the statement itself that it was credible. And as a prosecutor for 25 years, Kaitlan, I never went to the public until I could prove the reliability of a statement.” But Jordan and Comer, who are leading the impeachment inquiry, have pushed back on the idea that Smirnov’s arrest dealt a blow to the investigation. Jordan on Wednesday said it “doesn’t change the fundamental facts” of the Republican case against the president. They have also said that while 1023 form that contained the informant’s tip is only used to memorialize — not verify — information, they had been told the source was credible, and U.S. Attorney Scott Brady also told the panel in a transcribed interview that the document warranted further investigation. “Chris Wray told us this confidential human source was so important he couldn’t even let us see the 1023, if you remember that fight we had a year ago,” Jordan told reporters Wednesday, referring to the FBI director. A spokesman for the House Oversight Committee made the same point on Thursday and slammed Buck’s comments. “Representative Buck’s insight would be valuable if he actually attended the FBI briefing on the FD-1023 form, but he didn’t. Representative Buck would have known the FBI informed Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Raskin that the confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden was deemed credible and paid over six figures since 2010.”
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When asked Wednesday if it was time to shut down the impeachment inquiry, Buck said he did not know. “When all the evidence is given — and I don’t want to judge the evidence one way or the other until I have a chance to sit down with the investigators and go through the evidence. But this certainly undermines a lot if the — if the impeachment inquiry was based on this witness, it undermines the credibility of this impeachment,” he said. “I will say that it’s suspicious that anybody would pay Hunter Biden as much money as they paid him without any expertise in the oil and gas industry without any expertise in international banking,” he continued. “So those things are suspicious, but again, there’s no link directly to Vice President Biden’s activities.”
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The modern Republican party has literally never let facts or morals get in the way of anything. Why start now?
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>>1269692 Huh. It sounds like the FBI shouldn't have described him as highly credible
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/politics/chuck-grassley-fbi-document/index.html >The informant, whom the FBI has described as highly credible was “not able to provide any further opinion as the veracity” of the claims, according to the FBI document. Funny how this guy was described as extremely credible by literally everyone including Raskin and then suddenly he's a Russian spy.
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>>1269702 >Raskin's ancestors immigrated to the U.S. from Russia Anonymous
>>1269702 This is the same Trump controlled FBI that tried to claim Trump's failed coup wasn't organized and we later found out they intentionally ignored red flags saying the coup was imminent and several officials were convicted of sedition conspiracy.
Obviously the FBI needs to be cleaned out from the top down.
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>>1269709 >the same Trump controlled FBI Oh right, it's another one of those conspiracies where trump fired everyone who would have prevented this and replaced them all with cronies.
Gotcha
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>>1269727 Someone already already forget that Trump fired the head of the FBI who helped hand him the election and replaced him with a yes man?
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>>1269727 When Trump actually does this you people won't believe it
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>>1269753 Was that the same guy that was spying on his campaign?
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>>1269727 The issue is that Trump and his followers want to have it both ways. They want it to be the case that every Democrat or Democrat appointed person who holds office is apart of this vast conspiracy to invent crimes against Trump yet, on the other hand, we're also supposed to believe that there's absolutely zero chance that any of the people he hired, many who have been convicted of crimes committed while covering for him, are not partisan at all and there's no chance they would at all break any laws or cross any ethical guidelines to serve his personal interests. To support Trump is to believe in this Pavlov's conspiracy where partisanship only works one direction and any evidence to the contrary is fake. It makes no sense.
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>>1269766 Nobody was spying on his campaign. They were spying on individuals who were members of his campaign. If I have a warrant to spy on someone who works for Apple I'm not spying on Apple. Those two things are not the same.
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>>1269768 >They want it to be the case that every Democrat or Democrat appointed person who holds office is apart of this vast conspiracy to invent crimes against Trump This is exactly what you people believe but the opposite.
Look in the mirror, retard
just earlier in this thread it was stated that the FBI called the informant extremely credible in a form 10 years ago and the excuse is that "every person trump appointed is corrupt and there is a conspiracy to protect him"
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>>1269766 You mean the one who lied about Clinton's e-mails?
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>>1269805 >This is exactly what you people believe but the opposite Republicans are the conspiracy obsessed loons, anon. I know that's a difficult thing to accept but no amount of cope will change that. 80%+ of them still think the election was stolen. Their front runner for president is currently under 91 felony indictments. Republicans have an absolute monopoly on mental illness. Deal with that reality whatever way you have to.
>just earlier in this thread it was stated that the FBI called the informant extremely credible in a form 10 years ago and the excuse is that "every person trump appointed is corrupt and there is a conspiracy to protect him" Ah, I see the confusion. You think random leftyposters on 4chan are somehow representative of your average Democrat voter in America. Yeah that's retarded.
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>>1269894 >You think random leftyposters on 4chan are somehow representative of your average Democrat voter in America. They surely are representative of you, faggot.
And you described the exact thing you were doing.
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>>1269900 >No argument I accept your concession
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>>1269900 Sounds like you're a Russian stooge, first say on /news/ from your home board of /pol/?
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Russia invaded Ukraine to destroy the evidence against Hunter Biden.
why do my frig magnets fall off everytime I spill water on them?
why do my frig magnets fall off everytime I spill water on them? Fri 23 Feb 2024 05:38:31 No. 1269932 Report >>1269753 >Someone already already forget that Trump fired the head of the FBI who helped hand him the election and replaced him with a yes man? tRump turns on anyone when they show the littlest amount of disloyalty.
He's so despicable, it's fascinating.
I'm gonna vote for him, but like alfred said, I'm one of those people who just want to watch the world burn.
>>1269894 >Republicans are the conspiracy obsessed loons They think Tay tay arranged for KC to win and then didn't follow through with her support of Biden.
Then there's pizzagate, adeonchrome, Q, etc.
WOOOOO WOOOOO
CURLY FER POTUS, HE'LL MURDERIZE DEM DEMOCRAPS!1
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>>1269702 Oh look, Chuck 'Was going to be the point man for Trump's coup by taking over the VP's role for certifying the election' Grassley is full of shit
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexander-smirnov-fbi-source-warning_n_65d79cd3e4b0189a6a7d447d >DOJ Warned Republicans About Publicizing Unverified Report From FBI Informant >An official told lawmakers "the FBI regularly receives information from sources with significant potential biases." Anonymous
>>1269932 >tRump turns on anyone when they show the littlest amount of disloyalty. Like a Democrat when someone suggests LGBTs shouldn't be allowed to molest children?
Interesting.
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>>1269950 We get it, Republicans are the groomers.
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I still have not seen A SINGLE apology yet
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>>1269935 I think the informant will be exonerated from the accusations. Which are cartoonish on their face so I would expect trannybunker-posters to take it seriously. However, keep in mind this is an ((Israeli-passport enjoyer)) hobnobbing with the Russian mafia as an informant. The DOJ probably wants him to give up some info unrelated to the case. Whilst throwing the Biden NBC viewers a bone to keep the hopium flowing for a few more weeks.
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>>1269964 How did you get this indoctrinated?
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>>1269971 Sorry troonboy you need to accept that federal law enforcement agencies are not going to make sweeping statements against longstanding informants, knowing that the charges won't stick, unless there is an ulterior motive for doing so. I can validate your stupidity, but that's much harder to do with high level intelligence officials. Something to ponder in between your dilation rituals.
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>>1269964 Why are you okay with the informant giving false information? Would you really hold Trump to this same scandal?
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>>1269975 No really who filled your head with these lies and why did you believe them?
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>>1269770 This is straight up Saul Alinsky shit. A bullet in your head is the only possible way to solve your issues.
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>>1270050 >he actually believed Trump's damage control narrative I feel sorry for you
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>>1269770 >They were spying on individuals who were members of his campaign. No. They weren't. They were spying on the Russian spies the members of his campaign were talking to. The campaign members just got caught up in the surveillance.
The only campaign member to be directly spied on had long since left the campaign before any spying took place.
If you have a warrant to spy on someone who once worked for Apple, you definitely aren't spying on Apple.
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>republitards are the commies >meanwhile democrats are pushing more towards communism Accuse your enemy of what you're doing
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>>1269981 Obviously he didn't give false information. His statements corroborate with evidence. The point is that the FBI might risk their safety guarantee for informants to expose the guy only if there was a real reason behind it. I highly doubt it's to protect crackhead.
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>>1270013 It's Friday don't go out drinking and stab a Lyft driver like that last troon. He got 22 years in the boys locker room. Control your manly urges.
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>>1269964 That'll only happen if Trump stages another coup.
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>>1270150 >Obviously he didn't give false information. His statements corroborate with evidence. Trust him guys, he's an amateur /pol/ investigator! He knows the REAL truth!
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>>1270150 >His statements corroborate with evidence. Given the evidence comes from Republicans aka the Russians, it's clearly fake
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>>1269689 >Republicans were warned that their Biden informant was a Russian Spy, they cited him anyway >for using a former FBI informant’s claims Good enough for the FBI though right?
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>>1270257 How would you know?
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>>1270257 >Good enough for the FBI though right? No. The FBI said the information was uncorroborated and didn't act on it.