Republicans Scrub Informant From Impeachment Letter

The New Republic reports:

House Republicans quietly deleted a reference to their epic fail of an FBI informant in a letter to a potential witness in the somehow-still-ongoing impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

The original letter, which was obtained by The New Republic, included a section explaining the reason for the Biden investigation, with a paragraph that described a credible, confidential source’s accusation that a Ukrainian gas company executive had bribed the president.

This background information has been standard for Republicans’ interview request letters during the impeachment inquiry thus far. But an hour later, Republicans sent out a second version of the letter, also obtained by TNR. This time, the entire paragraph about the informant had been deleted.

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Republicans have hinged their Biden investigation on former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov. Now that he’s been accused of peddling Russian disinformation, Republicans are scrambling.https://t.co/ETxtn4X3KP

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