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New York Rep. Elise Stefanik has accused the FBI of “covering up” Iranian election interference so as to “tip the scales” toward Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.

Speaking with Fox News, the Republican congresswoman revealed that the bureau has been stonewalling her “very basic, easy” questions regarding a recent hack of former President Donald Trump’s campaign by Iranian operatives.

“I believe there was politicization from the Biden-Kamala Harris administration that they were notified prior to the Trump campaign to tip the scales,” Stefanik said. “The FBI has functioned like an arm of the Democrat Party.”

As previously reported, Iranian operatives hacked Trump’s campaign and then distributed their findings to the Democrats and their steadfast allies in the corporate propaganda press.

In September, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, to its credit, indicted three Iranian nationals for the plot.

Later that month, the FBI held a closed briefing with the House Intelligence Committee, of which Stefanik is a member. She told Fox News that the FBI officials present for the hearing seemed “panicked” when she started peppering them with questions.

“I’ve been in enough high-profile oversight hearings to know that when witnesses squirm and refuse to answer questions, it usually means I’ve uncovered something concerning,” she explained in a recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. “At that briefing last month, after a long, panicked pause, the FBI promised to follow up with answers.”

But they never delivered, so Stefanik then penned a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding he cough up the answers wanted. She encountered stonewalling once again.

“The avoidance games continued,” she explained in the Journal op-ed. “First, the bureau said it would deliver answers at an in-person briefing as demanded. Then it promised written answers, which it failed to provide. The FBI has now gone silent, ignoring the congressional questions. I believe it is because top FBI officials know the answers will be bombshells.”

Questions she’d like answered include the following: When and how did the FBI learn of the hack, when did the FBI notify both campaigns of the hack, when did the FBI learn that the hacked content was sent to the media, and has the FBI had any contact with the media about the hack?

“I’m one of the longest-serving members on the House Intelligence Committee. When the FBI won’t answer questions, it’s because you’ve hit on something and they’re hiding something. They are corrupt to the core,” she told Fox News.

She reiterated this sentiment in her op-ed.

“The FBI could easily and quickly answer these questions without impeding any investigation or revealing sources, methods or classified information,” She wrote. “Its refusal to do so suggests it is hiding information that would reflect poorly on the FBI — perhaps an attempt to influence the election through when and whom it notified, or the complicity of Democratic presidential operatives in this foreign election interference.”

In a statement to Fox News, the FBI denied Stefanik’s accusation.

“The FBI under Director [Christopher] Wray has vigorously and repeatedly called out the threat posed by Iran,” the bureau said. “The FBI does not play in partisan politics and has proactively informed victims of the threats posed by this regime while also publicly bringing attention to their actions.”

“The FBI has also briefed dozens of members of Congress across multiple committees in both open and classified briefings and hearings. It is no secret how active the FBI has been in countering actions by Iran as evidenced by the recent indictment of Iranian cyber actors linked to a hack-and-leak operation designed to influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election,” the bureau added.

On Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report revealing that “efforts by Iran to assassinate former President Donald Trump and other former U.S. officials” are “likely to persist after voting ends, regardless of outcome.”

“The report definitively said that Iran prefers Vice President Kamala Harris and will focus efforts on stopping Trump and that Russia prefers Trump and will continue to attack Harris,” Fox News notes.

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