[Just The News] House Judiciary Committee Chairman says defensive briefing FBI gave him in 2020 portraying Biden allegations as Russian disinformation was "BS."House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan tells Just the News the recently revealed FBI operation known as Round River was an effort to obstruct congressional investigators from getting to the truth about Democrat corruption and to interfere in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win. "It's ridiculous what happened, and it's just wrong," he declared.
"This wasn't an investigation that was being run by the FBI and the intel community. This was an operation, an operation, I think, to protect Joe Biden as he was running for president," Jordan said in a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
The powerful committee chairman and Ohio Republican was reacting to news reported Thursday morning that newly declassified documents show the FBI had 14 confidential informants reporting derogatory evidence on Biden during the 2020 election but embarked on an effort to dismiss that evidence of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company enriching his family as "Russian disinformation."
DISMISSED EVIDENCE OUT OF HAND
One of the documents showed that Jordan was listed by the FBI and spy agencies as "a conduit" of Russian disinformation along with Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, as well as other prominent conservatives.
A 2025 U.S. intelligence community review of the Round River operation raised concerns that FBI analysts put politics over national security and didn't even bother to determine if the Ukraine allegations were true before dismissing them as Russian propaganda.
Jordan revealed he was given a defensive briefing in 2020 by the FBI suggesting the Biden allegations he was investigating were Russian disinformation and said he found it laughable.
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