Comer and Wray Settle, Ending Contempt Showdown

But big Biden-corruption questions remain.

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Left: House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), at a hearing about Twitter’s handling of a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop, February 8, 2023. Right: Right: FBI director Christopher Wray at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2022.

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The FBI has provided the entire House Oversight Committee with access to a reliable informant’s report implicating now-president Joe Biden in a bribery scheme. Director Christopher Wray had been resisting full-committee disclosure, citing concerns about informant confidentiality and the imperilment of an ongoing investigation. (See here, here, here, and here.)

The bureau’s eleventh-hour concession staves off a likely contempt-of-Congress citation of Wray. Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) had scheduled the presentation of a contempt citation for the committee’s consideration to begin at nine o’clock this morning. That was canceled last night when Wray relented.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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