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Two ex-FBI officials charged with lying to Congress over Hunter…

Floris and Benavides each face one false-statements count over 2023 interviews, and the charges came by criminal complaint, not a grand jury indictment; sources everywhere, apparently.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwo former FBI officials are charged with lying to Congress, and one of them allegedly said she learned about the Hunter Biden investigation from Wikipedia.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFloris is forty-six years old, and Benavides has fifty-six birthdays behind him.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEach faces one false-statements count over interviews they gave Congress in twenty twenty-three, and prosecutors say Benavides gave the same Wikipedia answer.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWikipedia? They ran the Foreign Influence Task Force.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFloris led it, and Benavides was its section chief through the twenty twenty election.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe affidavit alleges he proposed talking points for a call with a senator, and she replied, Looks good. That is a very thorough reading of an encyclopedia.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd her lawyers call the charges nonsense, filed ten days before the election.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe judge called the charging of such old conduct by complaint unusual, and NPR notes there is no grand jury indictment yet.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI would call that a procedural footnote, Mr. Darnell, but you would only ask me to call it your favorite.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTen days before the election, and the only thing nobody disputes is that somebody checked Wikipedia.

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