The Oversight Committee chairman says he plans to initiate proceedings to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress on Thursday, saying he was not satisfied with just getting to view the document.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are saying the whistleblower who alleges President Biden received a $5 million bribe when he was vice president will not come forward due to safety fears.

The claims were made following a meeting that select members of the Oversight Committee had with FBI officials on Monday after a month-long fight to gain access to the secret whistleblower complaint, known as an FR-1023 form.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who sits on the powerful committee, told the Daily Mail that the whistleblower “fears for their own life because of our government.” The Georgia lawmaker said that the FBI’s “excuse” for not turning over the document to committee members is that the agency wants “to protect their informants, even though the names are redacted.”

“The unclassified document should be in our hands right now,” Ms. Greene said.

Congresswoman Anna Pauling Luna echoed those sentiments, writing on Twitter that the FBI “is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info he has brought forward about the Biden family,”

The committee chairman, Congressman James Comer, announced on Monday after viewing the document that he will move forward with holding the FBI director, Christopher Wray, in contempt of Congress due to lack of...

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