FBI officials in the bureau’s headquarters shut down a 2020 investigation into allegations that China attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential election by shipping fake driver’s licenses to the United States after concluding that the intelligence would contradict then-director Christopher Wray’s sworn testimony to Congress, according to a newly declassified FBI letter obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
A June 27 letter to Grassley, sent by Assistant FBI Director Marshall Yates, outlines how officials at the FBI’s headquarters ordered the recall of an Intelligence Information Report just one day after Wray told Congress on Sept. 24, 2020, that the bureau had not identified any coordinated voter fraud. The Albany Field Office had submitted the IIR based on a source’s claim that the Chinese Communist Party sent fake U.S. driver’s licenses to sympathizers in the U.S. who would vote for then-candidate Joe Biden.
