The FBI in 2020 blocked a probe into suspected Chinese interference into U.S. elections for fear of contradicting then-director Christopher Wray’s public testimony, newly released records show.
The FBI internal emails, which Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made public on July 1, showed the agency initially releasing an intelligence report raising concerns about possible fraudulent mail-in ballot voting efforts from China, then recalling the alert on the same day as it attracted high attention.
The FBI headquarters in the emails cited reliability questions as the rationale for the recall and instructed the Albany office, which had put out the file, to reinterview the source for further information....
