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For weeks now, Rep. James Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley have been attempting to force the FBI to hand them a document known as a FD-1023 form. Officials at the FBI have been very clear in explaining to Comer and Grassley that the form is “used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting from a confidential human source.” They are not made public because the claims are unverified, and it would be unfair to either the person being accused, or the accuser, to make the information public.
Anyone can make a complaint that ends up on an FD-1023. Anyone. They aren’t classified documents, but then, neither is testimony before a grand jury. Such information is rarely released to the public explicitly because it contains unverified claims. They can even contain false claims made to hurt someone with absolutely no basis in fact. As Aldous Pennyfarthing reported on Thursday, we know that’s the case here. We know that the FD-1023 form being sought by Grassley and Comer is a product of Rudy Giuliani’s extended effort to smear President Joe Biden by soliciting false statements from a collection of scam artists, Russian agents, and sycophants who have admitted making false claims to curry favor with Guiliani and Donald Trump.
Everything Guiliani has claimed about Biden’s actions in Ukraine is a documented lie. Two of the men he worked with have been convicted on charges of fraud and violations of campaign finance law. Guiliani’s “star witness” recanted after he was confronted with his lies. And Guiliani has been reduced to telling fairy tales of how George Soros is trying to murder him.
The only purpose in publically revealing the contents of this form is to continue Guiliani’s effort to smear Biden with false accusations. And that’s exactly what Grassley admitted on Fox News.
