CNN legal analyst Elie Honig on Wednesday shoveled dirt on the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, which was dealt a lethal blow this week after it was revealed that a key source for the inquiry admitted to having gotten information from people associated with Russian intelligence services.
At the start of his analysis, Honig explained how longtime FBI informant Alexander Smirnov managed to initially deceive law enforcement officials for so long.
"The FBI got burned here," he said. "The FBI handles thousands of what we call 'confidential informants' at any given time. And... a confidential informant is... a person and who's providing information to the FBI, to the Justice Department, but without the expectation of that person ever taking the stand and testifying, It's essentially a secret source of information and one of the challenges with any confidential informant is the FBI and DOJ have to verify that person, have to confirm the things that they're being told, and here they clearly we failed to do that. It is a real embarrassment for the FBI."
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While it may be an embarrassment for the FBI, it could be an even bigger embarrassment to House Republicans who peddled Smirnov's claims as verified facts as they justified an effort to potentially remove Biden from office.
"Look, the impeachment inquiry, which was officially authorized by the House in December... was already built on a shaky foundation, but this guy was a big part of that foundation," said Honig. "And now it is crumbled altogether. I mean, the primary information that he provided to the FBI on which the house relied is essentially that there was this multi-million-dollar bribe payoff made to Hunter Biden and to Joe Biden. And now the FBI has figured out that that was false, so false, so obviously false... I think the House impeachment inquiry, they had a flimsy basis to begin with, and now they've gotten nothing."
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