On Monday evening, FBI Director Kash Patel provided Congress with a declassified August 2020 intelligence report suggesting that China had mass-produced counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses to facilitate a scheme using fake mail-in ballots to sway the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.
According to officials cited by Just the News, these reports were neither corroborated nor fully investigated and were withdrawn from intelligence agencies around the time then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified there was no evidence of foreign interference plots before the election that Biden won over Donald Trump.
The newly released documents were submitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who had previously raised concerns that the intelligence was never fully vetted. Grassley argued that despite evidence of the counterfeit licenses, the information was prematurely dismissed by the bureau.
“Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people’s Bureau,” Patel told Just the News in a statement. “To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election.
“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots – allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public,” Patel also said. “In accordance with Chairman Grassley’s request for documents, I have immediately declassified the material and turned the document over to the Chairman for further review.”
Officials who reviewed the documents told Just the News that in the summer of 2020, a relatively new FBI confidential source reported that the Chinese government was producing and exporting counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses as part of a scheme to create fraudulent voter identities for Chinese nationals living in the United States. The goal, according to the source, was to enable voting through fake mail-in ballots in a plot specifically intended to benefit Biden, the outlet reported.
The officials added that the intelligence report was withdrawn within weeks, and the allegations were never fully investigated. The justification given was that the source required a follow-up interview before the information could be acted upon.
However, officials noted that U.S. Customs and Border Protection had intercepted nearly 20,000 counterfeit driver’s licenses around the same time the intelligence was received, potentially corroborating the report, the outlet said.
