On May 28, 2025, Senator Chuck Grassley released a declassified FBI Electronic Communication dated September 18, 2019 (case 72-WF-3124352) — a Washington Field Office public-corruption review of the Meadows referral. The writers said an initial review found “demonstrably false information in two aspects of her testimony” and that she “may have provided false testimony in other regards.” Whether that “might lead to a viable 1001 charge,” they wrote, was for DOJ’s Public Integrity section.
Grassley’s press release goes further than the EC’s hedges. He says the document proves she lied, that she was never held accountable, and that inaction undermines public trust. Those are a senator’s conclusions. The New York Post headline the same day used the word “perjured.” She was not convicted of perjury. Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, and The Federalist (May 30, 2025) recapped the memo — thumb drive, emails, possible dossier overlap, ham-radio timing, a deleted FSB report on a Simpson drive, prohibited-access Sentinel complaints. Recaps are reporting. “Lied” as a legal fact is not how this file will write it.
Read the PDF for the Bureau’s own verbs: “may have,” “indicative,” “inference.” Read Grassley for the political verb: proves. This site will not collapse those two voices. It will also not pretend DOJ charged her. Grassley says it did not. No docket was found that says otherwise.