Just in case you had any faith left in our federal governing and law enforcement agencies, let me go ahead and douse out that final flicker of hope.

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate admitted Tuesday the FBI redacted mention of audio recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden in a document shown last week to Republican lawmakers in which an FBI informant alleged the Bidens were involved in a bribery scheme. (The document is unclassified).

So, Chuck Grassley let us know about the reality of audio recordings of the Biden's taking bribes from Burisma. But the crazy part isn't the recordings. The crazy part is that the FBI also knew about the alleged recordings but when they reported the facts to Congress they purposefully left that part out.

Watch Marsha Blackburn grill FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate:

Abbate: We often redact documents to protect sources and methods.

Blackburn: So you chose to redact the fact that there are 17 voice recordings, two of those with the now President, you chose to redact that and not give it to house oversight.

Abbate: I have no idea if there are voice recordings or not. What I will tell you... the document was redacted to protect the source.

Abbate was absolutely smoked by Blackburn. It's clear to anyone paying attention that the FBI is completely corrupt.

How does the fact that these audio recordings exist implicate a source at all? And who are they trying to protect this source from? Biden and his cronies? Surely not.

The point is the FBI knew that these recordings exist, according to their own source, but didn't tell that info to Congress because their loyalties are to the Democrats and Joe Biden.

Weaponization of the justice system is the mark of a dying civilization. This whole rot must be cleaned out of the federal government by the root.