The other Burisma bombshells?

When Sen. Chuck Grassley took to the Senate floor Monday, few people thought that he'd deliver the type of bombshell that he eventually delivered. As I wrote in this article, Sen. Grassley said "the FD-1023 has a redacted reference that the Burisma executive possesses fifteen audio recordings of phone calls between himself and Hunter Biden. According to Grassley, the FD-1023 also states that the executive possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between himself and then-Vice President Joe Biden."

While this is definitely jaw-dropping stuff, it's missing yet another jaw-dropping piece of information. Hidden in plain sight in Sen. Grassley's speech is a little gem that states "The 1023 produced to that House Committee redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them," Grassley continued. "17 total recordings."

Why would the FBI redact the fact that this Burisma executive kept recordings of his conversations with Joe and Hunter Biden? Further, why didn't the FBI start an investigation into this alleged nefarious activity when they had the opportunity? Shouldn't the FBI have availed themselves of the whistleblower program to protect themselves from Christopher Wray or others in FBI leadership?

If the Bidens didn't have a standing order for cases of Maalox for all of their heartburn before this, they should now. They'll need it. This is the partial transcript of Sen. Grassley's speech:

Attorney General Garland signed off on prosecuting Trump for conduct similar to what Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton engaged in. Two standards of justice in this country will turn our constitutional Republic upside down. Thanks to the political infection within the Biden Justice Department and FBI, we’re well along the road for that to happen. This senator will do all that he can to fight that political infection. And you fight it by bringing transparency to what the government does. The public’s business ought to be public. Transparency brings accountability.

With respect to the 1023 shown to that House Committee, from what I’ve been told by folks who’ve reviewed it, it’s filled with redactions. So, Director Wray placed redactions on a document that’s already unclassified.

More than that, the FBI made Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility. That goes to show you the disrespect the FBI has for Congress. On a previous time on the Senate Floor, I asked my fellow senators what’s so unusual about an unclassified document being given to the public, when on May 18 of this year, there was leaked to the New York Times a classified document and even the name of a confidential human source. So, we’re kind of in a strange situation here. A classified document can be leaked to the New York Times, but an unclassified document can’t be made public to 300 million Americans.

Larry O'Connor dissected Sen. Grassley's speech nicely in this video:

Finally, there's this to think about:

The 1023 produced to that House Committee redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. Seventeen total recordings.

According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses fifteen audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden. According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden. These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden.

So, as I’ve repeatedly asked since going public with the existence of the 1023, what, if anything, has the Justice Department and FBI done to investigate?

Who are these FBI agents protecting? The Big Guy? Hunter? Both?

What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.