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2023-06-07 JDJ To Bradley Benavides Re TI

The Committee on the Judiciary is investigating allegations of misconduct at the FBI and requests an interview with Bradley Benavides, a former senior FBI official. The Committee believes Benavides has information about an FBI briefing to Senators Grassley and Johnson in 2020 that hindered their investigation into Hunter Biden and was allegedly arranged to spread a false narrative. Senators Grassley and Johnson have publicly criticized the briefing as unnecessary and intended to obstruct congressional oversight. The Committee requests Benavides schedule an interview by June 21st to discuss these allegations that the FBI impeded a Senate investigation for political purposes.

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2023-06-07 JDJ To Bradley Benavides Re TI

The Committee on the Judiciary is investigating allegations of misconduct at the FBI and requests an interview with Bradley Benavides, a former senior FBI official. The Committee believes Benavides has information about an FBI briefing to Senators Grassley and Johnson in 2020 that hindered their investigation into Hunter Biden and was allegedly arranged to spread a false narrative. Senators Grassley and Johnson have publicly criticized the briefing as unnecessary and intended to obstruct congressional oversight. The Committee requests Benavides schedule an interview by June 21st to discuss these allegations that the FBI impeded a Senate investigation for political purposes.

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June 7, 2023

Mr. Bradley Benavides


Senior Risk Manager
Amazon
410 Terry Avenue N
Seattle, Washington 98109

Dear Mr. Benavides:

The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing to investigate allegations of misconduct at


the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). You served as Section Chief and then Deputy
Assistant Director for the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division from July 2019 until July 2022. We
believe that you possess unique information vital to our oversight. Accordingly, we ask that you
make yourself available for a transcribed interview with Committee staff.

On August 6, 2020, you provided a briefing to Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson
that hampered their investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial connections to foreign
governments and questionable foreign nationals.1 As the Senators subsequently stated in a letter
to you:

[T]he unnecessary FBI briefing provided the Democrats and liberal


media the vehicle to spread their false narrative that our work
advanced Russian disinformation. Although you stated that the FBI
didn’t intend to “interfere” in our investigation, the practical effect
of such an unnecessary briefing and the subsequent leaks relating to
it created interference, which frustrated and obstructed
congressional oversight efforts.2

1
Letter from Ranking Member Charles E. Grassley, S. Comm. on Judiciary, and Ranking Member Ron Johnson, S.
Perm. Subcomm. on Investigations, to Ms. Nikki Floris, Intel. Analyst in Charge, Intel. Div., FBI, and Mr. Bradley
Benavides, Deputy Assistant Dir., Counterintel. Div., FBI (Aug. 25, 2022).
2
Id.
Mr. Bradley Benavides
June 7, 2023
Page 2

Senator Grassley elaborated in testimony before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization
of the Federal Government earlier this year.3 He explained: “the briefing was unnecessary and
completely irrelevant to the substance of our investigation. It was only done because the
Democrats wanted it done so they could try and smear us. And the FBI wrongly did their
bidding.”4

The allegations that the FBI arranged a briefing for two United States senators as a
pretext to impede their investigation—and then leaked that briefing to the media—are deeply
troubling. We, therefore, ask that you make yourself available for a transcribed interview with
Committee staff.
.
The Committee on the Judiciary has legislative and oversight jurisdiction over the FBI
pursuant to Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives.5 To schedule your transcribed
interview, please contact Committee staff at (202) 225-6906 as soon as possible, but no later than
5:00 p.m. on June 21, 2023. If you are represented by counsel, please ask your attorney to
contact Committee staff on your behalf.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Jim Jordan
Chairman

cc: The Honorable Jerrold L. Nadler, Ranking Member

3
Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government: Hearing before the Subcomm. on the Weaponization of
the Fed. Gov’t of the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 118th Cong. (2023).
4
Id.
5
Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, R. X (2023).

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