Round River Docs Suggest FBI Misclassified Information To Hide Biden Family Crimes

 It took the Corrupt Scumbags at the top of the FBI to try to hide the Corrupt Dirty Scumbags in the Biden Crime family

It now appears the FBI had multiple ways of disappearing evidence — both evidence that inculpated the Bidens and exculpated Trump.

Documents recently obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, included an anomaly in the classification coding — one that indicates FBI agents intentionally misclassified information to conceal evidence of Biden-family corruption.

On Monday, Grassley highlighted the discovery in a letter he penned to Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, about misconduct he has uncovered related to “Operation Round River.” “Round River” was the name of the investigation run out of FBI headquarters, in conjunction with the Foreign Influence Task Force (“FITF”); an investigation whistleblowers claim sought to “improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

As The Federalist previously reported, Grassley revealed FITF used the investigation “to seek out CHS holdings at FBI Field Offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as foreign disinformation.” And “at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.” Sources familiar with Round River also told The Federalist “that the investigation sought to scuttle any investigative leads into Biden family corruption by discrediting it as Russia disinformation.”

In his Monday letter, Grassley revealed that the records related to Round River also showed the intelligence community “used its resources to downgrade allegations of criminality relating to the Biden family apparently without sufficient investigation.” And notwithstanding the lack of an appropriate investigation, the intelligence community created a list of supposed “conduits” of disinformation related to evidence implicating the Biden family in Ukrainian corrupt — a list that included then-Attorney General William Barr.

What followed, though, suggests there is much more to come: In his letter, Grassley noted that “some Round River documents include banner markings to identify classified information; however, the banner markings include ‘Round River’ as a classification code.” Grassley continued: “Accordingly, it appears the Wray FBI treated Round River as a Special Access Program when all accounts provided to us so far show no indication that it was in fact such a program.”

This narrative proves explosive when one considers the coding used by the intelligence community and FBI. That coding system first requires documents be classification as Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, or Unclassified. A “banner” on top of the document begins with the appropriate classification category. Two front slashes follow the classification, and then various markings, such as “FOUO,” meaning “For Official Use Only” or NOFORN, standing for “Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals.”

Significantly, and unsurprisingly, there is no “Round River” marking in the register of “Authorized Classification and Control Markings.” Conversely, when a document falls within the “Special Access Program,” agents include SAR-Name, with SAR meaning Special Access Required, in the banner. The FOIA release of the Authorized Classification and Control Markings Register provides this example:

This document is thus Top Secret and concerns a Special Access Program named “Butter Popcorn,” which would be abbreviated SAR-BP.

But according to Grassley’s letter, it does not appear that Round River was classified as a Special Access Program because the banner lacks any such designation. Nonetheless, the banner included the investigation name of Round River. To the Iowa senator, that suggests the agents may have nonetheless treated the investigation as a Special Access Program.

That matters because Special Access Programs don’t just limit who has access to the information within the FBI, but by statute only a few select senators and representatives receive briefings on those programs. So, if the FBI treated Round River as a Special Access Program, the many requests Grassley has made for relevant documents to conduct oversight could have been ignored. High-level approval is also needed to run a Special Access Program, which does not appear to have been given, although on this point, the Chair of the Judiciary Committee asks for “clarification” in his letter.

This latest development follows the earlier discovery by the Iowa senator that the FBI, under Director Wray, hid documents related to Crossfire Hurricane by use of the “Prohibited Access” functionality of the Sentinel case management system. That designation rendered the documents invisible to agents searching the FBI database. 

It now appears the FBI had multiple ways of disappearing evidence — both evidence that inculpated the Bidens and exculpated Trump.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/19/round-river-docs-suggest-fbi-misclassified-information-to-hide-biden-family-crimes/