Newly released records show the FBI had three separate confidential human sources who reported allegations of Biden family corruption tied to Ukraine, yet there is no clear record the bureau ever fully investigated those leads. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley made the disclosures public in early October 2025 and demanded answers about why these potentially explosive tips were not chased down.
Grassley first unveiled one of the FD-1023 reports in July 2023 and has continued pressing for transparency ever since, arguing the public deserves to know whether the FBI treated these reports as raw gossip or as leads worthy of forensic follow-up. The documents Grassley released describe allegations involving Burisma and payments allegedly tied to Hunter Biden and, by implication, influence at the highest levels.
One of the sources who fed the FBI a sensational story was Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to fabricating elements of his claims and was sentenced in January 2025, a development the left seized on to dismiss the broader trail of evidence. Smirnov’s fraud is real and reprehensible, but his lies do not erase the fact that multiple sources independently reported similar allegations over several years.
At a Senate hearing in September 2025, FBI leadership was asked point-blank whether investigators sought to corroborate the texts, audio files, and financial records referenced in these FD-1023s; the answer from the bureau amounted to little more than shrugging and silence. If the FBI truly treated those leads as unexamined raw intelligence rather than potential criminal referrals, Americans have every right to be outraged at the appearance of selective law enforcement.
Meanwhile, whistleblowers inside the IRS and Justice Department have testified publicly about obstruction and about being blocked when they pursued leads related to Hunter Biden’s finances — testimony that undercuts the media’s convenient narrative that all allegations were thoroughly vetted. Those whistleblowers were given formal roles to review internal handling of the matters in March 2025, a detail that should have prompted serious accountability months ago.
Conservatives are right to demand accountability: Smirnov’s conviction proves fraudsters can exist, but it does not justify an FBI that appears to have stood down while multiple sources pointed to the same pattern. Congress must subpoena documents, compel witnesses under oath, and ensure that no investigator or official is immune from scrutiny simply because they inhabit the Deep State.
This is the stuff of Third World countries, as viewers heard on Newsmax’s Right Squad, where ordinary Americans sense the rot when institutions protect the powerful instead of exposing the truth. Patriotic voters should use this moment to insist on reforms, pursue real oversight, and elect leaders who will rebuild an accountability system worthy of a free republic rather than the secrecy and excuses we’ve been fed.