"The FBI confidential source charged last week for allegedly providing false information about President Biden and his son Hunter Biden implicated Russian intervention,”Axios reports.
“Alexander Smirnov admitted that ‘officials associated with Russian intelligence’ were involved in passing a story about Hunter Biden.”
“Prosecutors alleged in the filing that Smirnov told an FBI handler that the Russian Intelligence Service intercepted several cellphone calls placed at a hotel ‘by prominent U.S. persons the Russian government may use as ‘kompromat’ in the 2024 election.'”
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Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old who had been working as a confidential human source for the FBI since 2010, said that “officials associated with Russian intelligence” were involved in passing along a story about Hunter Biden, prosecutors said in a filing Tuesday, alleging that Smirnov “is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November."
Smirnov was arrested last week in Las Vegas after returning on an international flight and is facing two counts in connection with lies he allegedly told his FBI handler.
Comer had threatened to hold the FBI director in contempt over the summer, ultimately convincing the bureau to show members of the Oversight Committee an “FD-1023 form” that documented the false statements Smirnov allegedly made to his FBI handler in 2020, though the bureau emphasized at the time that the existence of the form did not mean the claims were vetted.
In a court filing on Tuesday that grew out of Hunter Biden’s criminal case in Delaware, Hunter Biden’s attorneys wrote that it “should have been obvious to everyone” that Smirnov was lying, noting that the investigation based on the lies was closed in August 2020, when then-President Donald Trump’s appointees headed the Justice Department.
In a court filing Tuesday, Hunter Biden’s attorneys questioned why Weiss’s office spent months last year reinvestigating Smirnov’s claims.
“It is more remarkable that beginning in July 2023, the Special Counsel’s team would follow Mr. Smirnov down his rabbit hole of lies as long as it did.”
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