The identification and indictment of Gal Luft, the whistleblower whose testimony Republicans in the House Oversight Committee relied on to pursue charges against the so-called “Biden crime family,” continues to reverberate.
Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin and Rep. Dan Goldman are using the Luft revelation to demand further accountability from Raskin’s own Committee.
In a letter to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, Raskin and Goldman present the alarming possibility that Luft, operating as an unregistered foreign agent, sought to manipulate Comer and the House Committee on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, seeking to undermine U.S. national security.
Comer and Raskin, demanding more information about their own Committee’s machinations, write:
“This latest episode also raises concerns that Mr. Luft may be manipulating your investigation not only for his own self-interest but perhaps also in furtherance of the CCP’s efforts to undermine U.S. security interests and the President of the United States.”
Rep. Raskin & Rep. Goldman
Among other felony charges in the unsealed indictment against Luft is the charge that this key GOP witness in the Biden investigations was “operating as an unregistered foreign agent to ‘advance the interests of the People’s Republic of China’.”
As a result, the two Congressmen are demanding more information about the Oversight Committee’s pursuit of “unfounded and baseless allegations” and Chairman Comer’s “own public endorsements of Mr. Luft’s information.”
The GOP-led Oversight Committee, Raskin and Goldman write, should be required to provide to Democratic Committee colleagues any and all information that “led Committee Republicans to conclude that [Luft] is ‘a very credible witness’ despite being under indictment and a fugitive from justice.”
The video below shows Comer making the claim Raskin and Goldman question:
The indictment alleges that “Mr. Luft repeatedly lied to federal agents” during the 2019 meeting at which he “shared his allegations about Hunter Biden with officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice.”
According to the indictment, the Luft case is “being handled by the Office’s National Security and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel C. Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh are in charge of the prosecution, with assistance from Trial Attorney Scott Claffee of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.”
Richenthal has experience chasing down wealthy Chinese lawbreakers.
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