Laura Barron-Lopez:
That's exactly right, Geoff.
Oversight Chairman James Comer, in addition to Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican, as well as Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, repeatedly were trying to get a hold of this information that the FBI had from Smirnov, the allegations that he was making.
Just last summer. Comer was calling this informant, Alexander Smirnov, a trusted and highly credible informant who had been used by the FBI for decades. So, this was a key, central basis of the Republicans', the House Republicans' entire impeachment inquiry into President Biden, what they said was the justification for launching that impeachment inquiry.
And their response to this indictment is that they said that they were essentially misled by the FBI, that the FBI had had this source for years, and that they were simply just getting their information from this document that the FBI had.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sa7SZ6arn1%2Bjsri%2Fx6isq2ejnby4e8innaiqnZa7tXnCoZirn5WZeri106FkpbGZo7RurcGorK1lmqSybq3NnWShrZ6psrN5waKbnqajYsGqsdJmq6hlkqq%2Fqr%2FMmg%3D%3D