Chuck Grassley says the quiet part out loud

[icymist]

For weeks now, Rep. James Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley have been attempting to force the FBI to hand them a document known as an 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 Giuliani 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. Giuliani’s “star witness” recanted after he was confronted with his lies. And Giuliani has been reduced to telling fairy tales about how George Soros is trying to murder him.

The only purpose in publicly revealing the contents of this form is to continue Giuliani’s effort to smear Biden with false accusations. And that’s exactly what Grassley admitted on Fox News.

Here’s Grassley making it astoundingly clear. "We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not," he said.

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[rsdsharp]

1. It's like LBJ.

“I know it’s not true. I just want to hear him deny it.”

[unblock]

6. May well be apocryphal, but hilarious and on-brand nevertheless

DID HE OR DIDN’T HE?….This story may or may not be true, but legend has it that during one of Lyndon Johnson’s congressional campaigns he decided to spread a rumor that his opponent was a pig-fucker. LBJ’s campaign manager said, “Lyndon, you know he doesn’t do that!” Johnson replied, “I know. I just want to make him deny it.”

[SCantiGOP]

11. Have you quit beating your wife?

Well, have you quit screwing your pig?

[elleng]

2. "We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not."

[Rebl2]

7. Vice President

Biden? Does Grassley realize Biden is the President. Is Grassley confused? Maybe it’s time for you to leave Grassley.

[orleans]

12. that jumped out at me too. "vice" president? is he being a douche? was this recorded during the obam

admin?

or is he just FUCKING CRAZY???

i'm guessing it's 1 & 3

[Joinfortmill]

3. Grassley's is almost as astoundingly a fall from grace as Giuliani's.

[CentralMass]

4. I think he was always lowlife.

[Marcus IM]

5. They both are scum, and always have been. n/t

[ArizonaLib]

19. Grassley promised Obamacare will kill grandma

He was never good for anything.

[CTyankee]

8. Esp. Giuliani...he was "America's Mayor" on Sept. 11...

[BOSSHOG]

9. Goodness Gracious

I’m a grumpy old veteran, deep into my retirement years and Grassley was married the year I was born. Dark Brandon is a pup compared to the senior senator from Iowa whose governor recently signed a very evil cover up the corruption bill. What’s going on in the sacred flyover country?

[Rebl2]

13. Flyover

country not so sacred anymore. Many corrupt republicans.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Was it ever sacred?

Or just a prompt for a drug addicted hateful radio hosts offering to titillate those who were easily urged to hate.

[Rebl2]

17. No not really

Not in my urban city or even the rural areas of the state.

[Blue Owl]

10. K&R for viz

[usonian]

15. "We only want allegations, not truth"

Sums up the entire GOP cult right there.

[mercuryblues]

16. I never knew complaints like this existed

Someone really needs to report Guiliani, in a hotel room with an underage female, fondling himself. It is even on video.

[niyad]

18. grassley has never acknowledged President Biden as President.

Does anybody besides me remember a little news piece about grassley owning part of diebold voting machines in the 2000 election, and the questionable results in TX and GA?