With the new disclosures in the Biden corruption scandal, the media has, again, pivoted to avoid acknowledging the obvious. It now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son’s foreign business deals, the media must now recognize that Hunter was selling influence and access. So they have added yet another task: show Joe Biden actually accepting money.
It is what in literature is called the “impossible task” demand like the Slavic tale of a Tsar ordering a suitor “to go there he does not know where” and to “get that he does not know what.”
A direct bribe given to Joe Biden in an envelope or a direct deposit is obviously not impossible. Call it the “highly improbable task,” After all, former Rep. William Jefferson was found with cold-hard cash in his freezer. However, among professional influence peddlers, a direct payment to the principal would be viewed as sacrilegious — enough for a lifetime ban from the major corruption league.
Jefferson was an amateur. The Bidens have been in the influence peddling business for decades and Hunter told his Chinese contacts that they are “the best” at what these foreign figures wanted from them.
Only a certifiable moron today would deposit any of the $20 million documented by the House committees in an actual account of Joe or Jill Biden. Those accounts are subject to continual monitoring and potential subpoenas.
Instead, the Congress has found dozens of shell companies and accounts used by the Bidens to help conceal the transfer of millions to Biden family members, including grandchildren. This includes references to bills of Joe Biden being paid out of joint accounts and benefits from deals that might include free offices. At the same time, these foreign sources sent direct money to the Biden Family Fund, a financial legacy that Joe Biden would leave in the form of millions of foreign contributions. At 80 with millions in wealth, Joe Biden is likely more motivated by moving wealth to his descendants than himself.
There were also alleged deliverables. Recently, Devon Archer confirmed that Hunter’s Ukrainian clients wanted the help of the Bidens in removing Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Biden would later insist on his being fired as a condition for a billion dollars in U.S. aid.
For years, the media insisted that there was no evidence of influence peddling or evidence contradicting the President. While most of these reporters required little to push false accounts of Russian collusion or Russian disinformation (including the dismissal of the Hunter Biden laptop), they are now demanding a virtual confession from the President or an actual deposit slip to his bank account.
When confronted with the transfer of millions and what Devon Archer now calls “categorically false” denials by the President, the media seems positively exasperated like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. It is insisting that the public should not assume that the influence sold was influence realized. They just need to believe in the Bidens and the “illusion of influence.” When Alice says that she “cannot believe impossible things,” the Queen snaps back “I daresay you haven’t had much practice. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”
The media has shown that it is possible to believe six impossible things to avoid the reality of the Biden scandal. Accordingly, the media now will accept that there was influence peddling but will treat it as “an illusion” until a direct payment is shown to President Biden himself rather than his family.
In this final demand, the media is relying entirely on the skill of the Bidens in hiding payments and avoiding such incriminating deposits. Biden himself has laughingly taunted reporters and asked “where’s the money?”
When confronted on his calling Hunter and his business partners roughly 20 times, he and the White House have pointed out that he merely discussed the weather and pleasantries. The media has largely ignored that only a moron would conduct “business” on a speakerphone at a dinner at the popular Cafe Milano. The point of the calls was to prove the bona fides of Hunter selling influence and access to his father.
The Bidens have perfected what Uncle Earl Long said was the key to maintaining corruption:
“Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk.
Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile.
Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.”
The true illusion was the Bidens in getting this scandal to disappear in front of millions. As I wrote years ago, the key to this Houdinesque trick was to get the media to invest in the deception like audience members called to the stage. The reporters have to back the illusion or admit that they were part of the deception. Even with millions funneled to the Biden family and acknowledgments that they were “selling the [Biden] brand,” it cannot be enough.
Even the use of a ridiculously complex array of two dozen entities to transfer money without any known purpose, it cannot be enough.
It is far easier to demand to see something no self-respecting Beltway bandit would commit: that after creating this labyrinth of shell companies and accounts, the Bidens went ahead and just did the equivalent to a Venmo payment directly to Joe and Jill Biden. It may not be impossible but it is as improbable as Hunter Biden being an energy expert.
A different version of this column ran on Fox.com
You watch MSNBC don’t you?
He probably writes for MSNBC from his WH cubicle.
” … So they have added yet another task: show Joe Biden actually accepting money. …”
Dusting off some old ABSCAM articles, since you like Law Review Articles.
My thoughts were around the request of the “task” of showing Joe Biden actually accepting money. [Entrapment]
It’s as though They want to prove that Joe Biden(s) were Entrapped.
Research:
Abscam, the Judiciary, and the Ethics of Entrapment
Bennett L. Gershman, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
[Link] digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/178/
Text:
[Link] digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=lawfaculty
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Campbell Law Review – Volume 5
Issue 2 Spring 1983 Article 5
January 1983
Constitutional Law – Entrapment and Due Process of Law – The Efficacy of ABSCAM Type Operations
Dennis Franks
Recommended Citation
Dennis Franks, Constitutional Law – Entrapment and Due Process of Law – The Efficacy of ABSCAM Type Operations, 5 Campbell L.
Rev. 377 (1983).
[Link] scholarship.law.campbell.edu/clr/vol5/iss2/5/
Text:
[Link] scholarship.law.campbell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=clr
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97TH CONGRESS | 2dSession SENATE | REPORT No. 97-682
FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY UNDERCOVER ACTIVITIES
OF COMPONENTS
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
TO THE U.S. SENATE
DECEMBER 15 (legislative day, November 30), 1982-0rdered to be printed
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/124269NCJRS.pdf
So there is evidence (𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬), It’s in the Vault somewhere, but would take an Act of Snowden to get to it.
vault.fbi.gov/ | fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/freedom-of-information-privacy-act
𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐈 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠
A decade-old FBI investigation casts light on the tight-knit political world from which the former vice president emerged.
By: Ben Schreckinger ~ 07/21/2020
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/21/christopher-tigani-joe-biden-fundraising-373724
“So how about our completely corrupted DOJ, everyone! Is there no one on the left willing to care about their country more than raw political power for their Democrat party?” @MZHemingway
________________________
Apparently the answer from both sides of the aisle is: Nope.
Classic both-sidesisn
That’s not true. We are the oeople….being spoken about. We know who we are…these are fraudsters using us. We don’t need to fall over oh poor stew! We are Americans aren’t we? And that’s what they doubt upon. .. that’s their goal to gather us to forget ourselves. We will never forget. That we are the American people. The real people. All us.
Their price appears to be 30 pieces of silver.
“Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.” ~ Victor Hugo
Given the necessary investigative latitude and the fullness of time, Special Agents from the IRS Criminal Division provide the imperial evidence that much of the money paid to Hunter went directly his father or to others which benefited his father. (I know from where I speak)
Is it possible that you meant “empirical evidence,” not “imperial evidence”?
I doubt it, he states specifically that he knows from where he speaks.
Special Agents from the IRS Criminal Division provide the imperial evidence
A married, gay Democrat IRS Special Agent, belonging to a bad ass, imperial, storm trooper elite force because they are so precise. I like it!
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
What shameful behavior. Was it really worth it in the long run? What have you done in all your years in politics? What example have you set? What have you accomplished that will leave people better off because of your time in power? Life is much more than monetary gain and power grabbing. Joe is at the jumping off place for his time on this earth and his little world is crashing in and the world sadly looks on as crumbles to dust and ashes.
“As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.”
Merrick Garland Appoints Special Counsel Day After James Comer Says Will Subpoena Biden Family.
Can you say Biden Protection Racket?
Merrick Garland is a shamelessly corrupt piece of partisan-leftist-power-worshipping-power-abusing-political HACK.
Hopefully historians will send him down the shame drain where he belongs.
Why would James Comer announce his game plan to subpoena the Biden family criminals?
Why not keep your mouth shut until after all the subpoenas were issued?
Because it is all Political Theater. It is all FAKE.
Can you see how corrupt the whole thing is? UNIPARTY protects itself.
Why the delay in Impeachment Inquiry for Biden? What is the delay?
Republicans in Congress are just as committed to protecting Biden and destroying Trump as are Democrats.
They all suck.
TRUMP 2024!
Get Geraldo Rivera to open the Biden’s Vault, or at least the Trunk of his Corvette.
Hunter and Joe have ‘at least’ 1 Safe or Vault each, get a Secret Subpoena/Search Warrant to search these.
And get the Search & Seizure right this time.
$ booty · spoils · graft · haul · boost · money · pickings · prize · squeeze · take · bribes $
Jonathan, Are They saying that they want ABSCAM type Footage?
Goes back a few years, I’m very certain we can dig up some video on Biden, it’s in the Silo’s vault.
The ABSCAM Op bagged 6 Congressmen and 1 Senator (6 of the 7 were Democrats)
Of the 31 targeted officials, the following members of Congress were convicted of bribery and conspiracy in 1981:
US Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ)
US Representative Frank Thompson (D-NJ)
US Representative John Jenrette (D-SC)
US Representative Raymond Lederer (D-PA)
US Representative Michael “Ozzie” Myers (D-PA)
US Representative John M. Murphy (D-NY)
US Representative Richard Kelly (R-FL)
Five other government officials were convicted, including
Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Angelo Errichetti (D)
Philadelphia, PA City Council President George X. Schwartz (D)
Philadelphia, PA City Councilman Harry Jannotti (D)
Philadelphia, PA City Councilman Louis Johanson (D)
An inspector for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam#Convictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71uF1sC1f3E
Thw willful blindness of the left is just more proof of their lack of any moral foundations.
The “Big Deal” is NOT the corrupt conduct of the Biden’s.
while it is self evident that their conduct was Criminally illegal and egregious.
Even if you wish to beleive that The Biden’s concocted a get rich scheme based on going right to the edge of actual bribery while merely dancing in the grey area tat the edge for personal profit, it is STILL damningly slef evident that the Biden conduct DEMANDED investigation – FROM THE BEGINING, By the government AND By the Media
And even today what little occurs must be practically FORCED on them.
We wasted years on a Collusion delusion investigation that was based on a KNOWN TO THOSE RUNNING IT HOAX,
and no one in FBI or DOJ or the Press came forward and said – “You Know this all appears to be a Clinton Hoax”
Now we have an even older scandal that DOJ/FBI and the Press have refused to touch for YEARS.
In BOTH of these those of us with an IQ over dirt who have noted that this all reaks of political corruption,
Have been called conspiracy theorists and bigots and racists.
The Big Crime here is NOT the Biden crime family Scamming.
It is the Bias of DOJ/FBI/Government with a complicit press and social media is burrying or persuing things based on Political bias not FACTS and worse berating and persecuting those who actually got it right.
Speaking illusions, it’s an illusion that the US Department of Justice follows the law. For example, Merrick Garland’s recent appointment of David Weiss, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, as Special Counsel to puportedly investigate the Biden Scandals is a violation of law.
A Special Counsel can’t be an employee of the US Government. And there’s a good reason for this. A Special Counsel working for the Biden Administration isn’t independent and can’t investigate itself.
There are also many other characteristics about David Weiss that make him unqualified to serve as Special Counsel, but those are more subjective in nature. However, there’s no escaping the fact that Garland violated the law even if based solely on Weiss’s employment status.
Here is the applicabe law:
Ҥ 600.3 Qualifications of the Special Counsel.
(a) An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. THE SPECIAL COUNSEL SHALL BE SELECTED FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Special Counsels shall agree that their responsibilities as Special Counsel shall take first precedence in their professional lives, and that it may be necessary to devote their full time to the investigation, depending on its complexity and the stage of the investigation.” [Emphasis added.]
Feldman, Good post. But I no longer expect these people to follow the law. I do wonder who or what is actually running the country. But there are no laws; just words in books.
As to who or what is running things it would not surprise me if all the strings led back to some young man in a cubicle in China or another Nigerian prince with special deals for us. It couldn’t be much more insane, incompetent and dishonest than it already is if either were true.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
JFeldman: Garland, probably anticipating this challenge, essentially copy-catted the language used by AG Barr when appointing John Durham. (see AG Order No. 4878.2020) to ostensibly circumvent the potential challenge. No one would ever accuse Garland of being clever on his own….
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116122/documents/HHRG-118-JU00-20230621-SD014.pdf
Lin–Good point about Barr’s appointment of John Durham. But as the wise Confucious once remarked, “Two wongs don’t make a right.”
Hi there JFeldman: (just now looking at posts/comments).
Actually, THIS is what I was referring to:
Here is 600.2, PRECEDING 600.3:
(Please note 600.2(c))
Ҥ 600.2 Alternatives available to the Attorney General.
When matters are brought to the attention of the Attorney General that might warrant consideration of appointment of a Special Counsel, the Attorney General may:
(a) Appoint a Special Counsel;
(b) Direct that an initial investigation, consisting of such factual inquiry or legal research as the Attorney General deems appropriate, be conducted in order to better inform the decision; or
(c) Conclude that under the circumstances of the matter, the public interest would not be served by removing the investigation from the normal processes of the Department, and that the appropriate component of the Department should handle the matter. If the Attorney General reaches this conclusion, he or she may direct that appropriate steps be taken to mitigate any conflicts of interest, such as recusal of particular officials.”
Did you notice Garland’s express words about “the public interest” in his announcement? So also did Barr invoke this concern.
That’s the point I was making.
Barr:
“Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light of the
extraordinary circumstances relating to these matters, the public interest warrants Mr. Durham
continuing this investigation pursuant to the powers and independence afforded by the Special
Counsel regulations.”
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116122/documents/HHRG-118-JU00-20230621-SD014.pdf
Lin, again, exceptionally good points. And with Bill Barr’s Order No. 4878-2020 (appointing John Durham Special Counsel), I think you’ve nailed the exemplar that Merrick Garland used to appoint David Weiss “Special Counsel.” Garland’s use of the phrase in “the public interest” was almost certainly lifted from the language in Barr’s Order.
However, both Bill Barr and Merrick Garland violated the Code of Federal Regulations with their respective Special Counsel appointments of John Durham and David Weiss. As you note above, under § 600.2, Alternatives available to the Attorney General, there are three separate alternatives, and § 600.2(a), the appointment of a Special Counsel, is mutually exclusive from the alternative § 600.2(c), assigning in “the public interest”, “the appropriate component of the Department [to] handle the matter.”
In other words, both Durham and Weiss were made Special Counsels in name only. Neither were genuine, independent Special Counsels as the law requires. As US Attorneys, each is under the thumb of the AG. And the DOJ is making a mockery of the name “General Counsel” and of the law itself. As stated in § 600.2(a), “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” The law says “shall be selected”–not “may be selected.”
Sorry, I meant to say “Special Counsel”–not “General Counsel”–in my last paragraph above.
JFeldman: I really like and appreciate the exchanges between us, THANK YOU for your convincing and respectful demeanor that is making me think….
Of course,- like any crooked, pompous argumentative trial atty would do,- I decided to just start by researching some cases that would support what I said. Rather than shepardizing, while in the process of looking up the appointment of Pat Fitzgerald, I also found this, from CRA:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44857
Pleases open this and look at pp.8-9 and correlative footnotes 84, 85, 86 . Start with the first full paragraph on P. 8, “It should be noted that…”
Ooops, the above post is from me, Lin. I accidentally hit send instead of revert to previous page.
Anyway, this paragraph and correlative footnotes better explains my point than my mumblings/musings!
What say you about this?
I am leaving for the evening and will not see your response until tomorrow, and thanks for taking the time. enjoy your evening!
“haste makes waste.” I meant for you to start on first full para of P. 9 not P.8. Glad I checked to make sure I included the right attachment.
apologies to moderator. All done. Night night.
I reviewed that CRS Report, and, in particular, pages 8-9. Thanks for referencing that Report.
This report describes instances and circusmtances when the DOJ has referred to the appointment of certain US Government employees as “special counsels” and uses quotation marks around the term when the DOJ isn’t complying with § 600.3(a). But none of those instances actually complies with the law. The Report suggests that the term “special counsel” (when used with quotation marks around it) has been (and continues to be) incorrectly used as an informal practice. Page 9 adds this: “While an individual referred to as a “special counsel” thus may be appointed under either the general statutory authority or under the specific special counsel regulations, those named under the regulations might be viewed as possessing more independence, as they are
appointed from outside the agency and are insulated by the regulations from removal except for cause.”
But when AGs call a Government attorney a Special Counsel without using quotation marks and without disclosing and explaining that the term is being used outside the regulations, that’s simply false and misleading. And the CRS Report cites no specific general statutory authority regulation that would enable an AG to lawfully call a Government employee a Special Counsel, even without quotation marks.
Further, on page 11, the Report states the following:
“In the event that the Attorney General has recused himself from a particular matter upon which a special counsel appointment might be appropriate, the regulations contemplate that the Acting Attorney General will take responsibility for the appointment process. [fn 102] Federal law provides that the Deputy Attorney General would serve as the Acting Attorney General. [fn 103] Individuals appointed as special counsels under these regulations must be chosen from outside the federal government. [fn 104]
“Fn 102 Id. § 600.1.
“Fn 103 28 U.S.C. § 508(a). If the Deputy Attorney General is likewise recused, the appointment authority would pass to the Associate Attorney General. Id. § 508(b). See also Exec. Order 13,787, 3 C.F.R. § 16,723 (Mar. 31, 2017) (identifying the order of succession within DOJ if the Attorney General or other senior officials are unable to serve).
“Fn 104 28 C.F.R. § 600.3(a).”
This indicates that a genuine, independent Special Counsel would be appointed by Deputy AG Lisa O. Monaco, not Merrick Garland.
The argument that it’s okay to call Robert Mueller, John Durham, and David Weiss special counsels even though they are from inside the Government is akin to arguing that it’s okay for AGs to go through a certain red light and to exceed the speed limit by 40 miles per hour along a certain street because AGs have had a practice of breaking those laws in the past, which by repetition makes the practice perfectly acceptable.
The most fundimental issue with Weises appointment as SC is NOT whether it dots the i’s and crosses the t’s of the law.
It is whether it is an effort to investigatge where a conflict exists, or whether it is an effort to thwart the investigation by congress.
Garland had the oportunity – nee the requirement to appoint a special counsel years ago.
Frankly Barr should have appointed a Special Counsel on his way out the door.
It has NEVER been plausible that A Biden DOJ could investigate Hunter Biden.
If Weis/Garland wishes to re-assure people that this appointment is real rather than more evidence of a massively politically corrupt DOJ several things must happen QUICKLY.
First Hunter Biden must be indicted for FARA violations.
NEXT Garland must explicitly empower SC Weis or some other SC to investigate President Biden.
We are way way way beyond the point at which this is merely an investigation of Hunter.
Next Hunter Must be formally charged with FARA violations.
I do not expect ANY of that to happen.
Finally REGARDLESS of the SC appointment, the house must continue, and if necescary they must go to court to get the testimony they are after.
This is another of the many reasons that the House needs to impeach Garland NOW, not Biden.
Impeaching Garland brings the whole panaopoly of the conduct of DOJ under the scrutiny of the impeachment committee.
As a general rule the claim that those in government can not comment on ongoing investigations is NOT a legal priviledge.
It is a convention that congress acceeds to in order to avoid interfering with those investigations.
But it is fully within congresses power to say – To hell with the the Government investigations – The executive WILL ANSWER our questions.
We have clearly seen the “ongoing investigations” excuse weaponized as a means to avoid scrutiny of corrupt conduct by those in government.
That only stops when Congress says – “WE do not care” and the courts as they MUST backs them up.
That is most likely to occur in an impeachment investigation of Garland.
It is essential that congress and the american people LEarn with the Biden administration is doing its job WITHOUT political bias, and there is excellent reason to beleive that is NOT the case.
Most of us DO NOT CARE if the congressional investigation results in it becoming impossible to prosecute Devon Archer or even Hunter Biden, or even the entire Biden Family.
I personally have absolutely no problem with the House demanding Hunter Biden’s testimony even if that means he effectively has immunity so long as he testifies truthfully.
This has NEVER been about Hunter Biden. This is about The corruption of those in government.
Whether that is VP Joe Biden’s corruption, or whether that is the corruption of the DOJ/FBI/SC in misusing the law enforcement power of the United states to favor freinds and punish enemies.
Most of us already recognize that is the case. But if many people end up avoiding prosecution to demonstrate how large and deep that problem is – then so be it.
Congresses oversite of Govenrment is more important than those DOJ is or is not prosecuting.
I do not want to address the specifics regardin Durham’s appointment.
But I will note that while I MOSTLY respect Barr – though frankly his is much more “conservative” than I am,
Ultimately Barr was HUGE failure as AG.
He was brought in to restore Trust in the DOJ and FBI. He not only failed – but the conduct of those in DOJ and the FBI during his tenure was if anything WORSE. The FBI’s efforts to censor social media took place While Barr was AG.
MAYBE he was unaware – that would Still make him a failure.
Barr has repeatedly asserted there was no election fraud – and yet, it is now proven beyond ANY doubt that election fraud was taking place under his own nose by those in his own department.
Barr was a failure, and his credibilty regarding Trump or the election is near zero.
Durham was going to be gone with the new administration. vs, Garland making a point to say Weiss was still the States Attorney.
Of course there is only one reason to appoint a special counsel. Because the DoJ cant do the required investigation due to the appearance of conflict of interest.
Also note the the end game of the Special Counsel is to Write a Report. Which has already been written by the White House. It explains all the evidence PROVES Joe never received any money from anybody.
Durham remained special counsel until his final report was submitted in May 2023.
The issue is NOT the SC law.
The issue is Garland and DOJ’s lack of credibility.
Whether Barr or Garland followed the law precisely would be a small academic question if we trusted Garland or Weis.
We do NOT for good reason. Garland in particular has established a reputation for incredibly strained legal readings of the law he must comply with in order to accomplish the political purpose he desires.
Had the law been actually followed – an SC would have been appointed to investigate the Biden’s as AG Barr was headed out the door. There has ALWAYS been a conflict that required an SC with respect to Hunter Biden.
Garland suddenly recognizing that 2 years later is a reason to DISTRUST Garland.
I would further note – that like the collusion delusion, there is NOTHING being exposed by the House that the DOJ/FBI have not know for YEARS.
There is no credible claim by Garland that what the House has recently uncovered was not known to DOJ/FBI years ago.
Nothing has actually changed that requires the appointment of an SC – except that the Public is now aware of the damning reasons one is needed – reasons that the DOJ know years ago.
This all obliterates Faux Trump impeachment I. Trump was impeached by democrats for asking for an investigation that was OBVIOUSLY necescary and SHOULD have started under Obama AG Lynch or acting Obama AG Yates nearly a decade ago.
Absolutely nothing that the House republicans have exposed was not known by DOJ/FBI/IRS in 2016 or even 2015
Thanks for the CFR cite. It would be nice if the appointment could be challenged in court. I just heard Sol Weisberg say that those regulations are not enforceable in court. I’m not in a position to confirm that. But it will likely make it difficult for Congress to get Weiss to testify. He’s definitely not the right guy for the job.
Catherine, If not a court, Congress might be able to do something with it if they have more spine than we have seen so far.
And let’s not forget that Weiss already agreed to not charge Hunter with anything that will give him jail time and did not allow investigation of Joe. His appointment is a joke.
“DEVELOPING: The statute of limitations for the Hunter Biden gun felony runs out on Oct. 12.”
@paulsperry
Assuming that any FARA charges would relate to the period when Biden was VP, when does the SOL on those run out?
Instead of blindly parroting MTG, here is some context:
Section 600.3 of the special counsel regulations specify that the “Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government,” and Weiss is in the U.S. government. Attorney General Garland skirted this requirement by not appointing Weiss pursuant to the special counsel regulations. This has been the Department’s approach in other special counsel regulations.
Attorney General Barr did something instructively similar when he appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as Special Counsel to investigate whether anyone violated federal law in connection with the investigations directed at 2016 presidential campaign activities. Barr’s Order appointing Durham invoked 28 U.S.C. §§ 509, 510, and 515 as the basis for the appointment. These statutes permit the attorney general to authorize an officer of the Department to “conduct any kind of legal proceeding” (Section 505) and to “make such provisions as he considers appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer” of the Justice Department “of any function of the Attorney General” (Section 510). Barr thus appointed Durham pursuant to his general authorities, and then specified that the core special counsel regulations guaranteeing and specifying independence—”28 C.F.R. §§ 600.4 to 600.10”—are “applicable to the Special Counsel.” Barr thus excluded the applicability by reference of the Section (Section 600.3) that required special counsel to be appointed from outside the Department.
The Garland Order invoked the same statutory authorities, plus the funding provisions of 28 USC 530, to appoint Weiss as special counsel. In other words, following Barr (and earlier special counsel appointments, including Robert Mueller’s), he appears to have appointed Weiss pursuant to his general authorities, not the special counsel regulations. And then he made the core special counsel regulations (absent the Section 600.3 “outside the government” requirement”) applicable by reference.
“Someone else, without a doubt, would have followed the regulations of the department, which [is to] say that the person has to be from outside the government,” Dershowitz said. “I surely wouldn’t have appointed a man from Delaware, where there’s a lot
***of homecooking that goes on –the Bidens live in Delaware*** —
who made a sweetheart deal that I predicted on your show would not be accepted. And he’s going to want to justify that sweetheart deal. So he’s not going to want to admit that he did anything wrong.”
While Shapley’s attorneys took the Friday announcement of Weiss’s appointment as a vindication, they nonetheless asserted that it would not be sufficient to remedy the prior issues in the case.
“Nevertheless, Weiss is the wrong choice to reassure the American people that the probe will now be independent and thorough,” they insisted. “As the IRS whistleblowers have testified,
^^^it was under his leadership over the last five years that the President’s son was given preferential treatment, and an unprecedented plea agreement with the President’s son was almost implemented before a federal judge scrutinized it.”
“The appointment at this late date raises more serious questions about whether Congress and the American people were intentionally misled. Sworn testimony and multiple letters to Capitol Hill claiming that Mr. Weiss already had all the authority he needed are now contradicted by the Department’s public actions, as well as Mr. Weiss’s private admission that he didn’t have the final say,” they continued.
“The Inspectors General and Congress should continue to press for answers about the issues raised by the IRS whistleblowers, including the preferential treatment of the President’s son and misleading Congress about the scope of Mr. Weiss’s authority,” they urged. “All of the relevant facts occurred before today’s appointment, and special counsel status does not immunize Mr. Weiss’s office from public scrutiny and accountability.”
You know, if you bothered to read Weiss’s appointment letter — https://www.justice.gov/media/1309991/dl?inline — you’d find that Weiss was appointed under 28 USC 509, 510, 515, and 533, and that 28 CFR 600.3 doesn’t apply.
False. 28 CFR 600.3 absolutely did and does apply for any appoinment of a Special Counsel. 28 USC 509, 510, 515, and 533 don’t provide for some alternative path to the appointment of a Special Counsel. As 28 USC § 533 states, “The Attorney General may appoint officials” to perform various investigations, but none of Code of Federal Regulations allow an exception to the law for appointing a Special Counsel.
Both Barr and Garland violated the law. There no alternatives or exceptions to 28 CFR § 600.3(a).
That’s amazing, I checked it out the law does say that. Also:
“Mr. Weiss was nominated by the former president in 2017 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2018. In 2021, he was asked to remain as U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, where he led this ongoing investigation. 2 days ago ” google doj website
So blatantly breaking the law, what is their excuse this time ?
Let me guess, “a US attorney” is not a US government employee, officially, they are employed by the state where they are assigned, even though they get a us gov paycheck and are in the US gov payments system. That sounds like what they’d claim.
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity. —Victor Hugo
The Biden Crime Family wouldn’t have set up 20 shell corporations if it were just as convenient to accept envelopes of cash. The Democrats are grabbing any excuse to keep their heads above water, but eventually they’ll all sink under the weight of their criminal president. And there’s not a single Democrat raising a voice against this blatant corruption.
What’s the value of managing $2 billion? $200 million a year?
That would be 10% of the investment. Likely it is tied to returns. The Saudis can always ask for it back. There are no shell companies were it is hidden.
>”There are no shell companies were (sic) it is hidden”
Nor, you can be sure, did the DoJ obstruct, or hinder in any way, any investigation(s) into Jarad or president Trump.
On the contrary, according to SC Durham’s report, the DoJ/FBI had no legitimate reason(s) for the investigation(s) they did initiate against Trump. .. especially, the years-long Russian collusion/election/disinformation probes.
*that’s really the most important difference between the DoJ Trump and Biden investigations, imo.
The Russian Collusion investigation, Crossfire Hurricane, began as election interference but then after the election, by which time all involved knew it was a bogus, unpredicated, investigation in search of a crime, it morphed into a conspiracy among Obama administration leaders of the DOJ, FBI, ODNI, and CIA to find some crime that could see the newly elected President Trump removed from office. The conspirators should be charged with sedition but apparently unless a manifesto laying out the plan can be found our DOJ and congress is powerless to act.
“Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk.
Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile.
Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.”
Medically speaking, Joe Biden has demonstrated on many recorded videos that when he speaks, he is a danger to himself if not for his handlers and MSM continually cleaning up after him. Put him on a stand, under oath, ask him questions without cue cards, and he will likely incriminate himself in less than 30 seconds. Bill Clinton did likewise in his torturous definition of the word is when under osth.
Let Joe Biden speak solo, under oath, unaided. Watch then how the House of Cards tumbles, followed by Democrats gas lighting the evidence just like they did with the US House Jan 6 Investigations… illegally
Republicans Investigating J6 Committee Suggest Dems Destroyed Evidence In Apparent Cover Up
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/10/republicans-investigating-j6-committee-suggest-dems-destroyed-evidence-in-apparent-cover-up/
Very interesting reading today. It started well with the “cold hard cash in the freezer”. I commend the Professor on that one. I note that the Professor is getting somewhat exasperated but maybe even angry with the press as so many of the rest of us have been. For some time. I also note when some people here have said “well what can you do”. Well the people are getting angry and we are even starting to see democrats in deep blue states start to question the Biden administration, or even defect to the republicans, which is a start. We saw parents rake school boards over the coals because of the nonsense they were teaching and you have seen states start to take action legislatively to drive back the left tide and governors continue to defy the lunacy of Biden administration diktats. The appliance war that Biden is waging is likely to drive even more away from him.
So what to do. Well our ancestors showed us what to in 1775 when they just would take no more. The Civil war also showed what to do when recalcitrant slavers took the law in their own hands and fired on the Union.
When there is this much anger and no meaningful response by the institutions we used to value and who acted for us, then the people tend to take things into their own hands. Jan 6 was a response in a way to that anger but it was poorly done, unorganized, and more of a party than a real riot and nowhere close to an insurrection. The powers that be failed to heed the meaning. They seem to think this was just a bunch of proud boys strutting their stuff and if you slap them down and jail them that they will just go away. I think that is a dangerous misreading of the tenor of the county.
Make fun of the people at your own peril. When they get really angry, history tells us it will get terribly ugly.
The arrogance of these left leaning institutions and parties could be their undoing in a very dramatic way. They should listen seriously to the people they mock.
I think I’ve read in a couple places that the Biden’s homes were purchased by Hunter and quit claimed over to Joe.
Well it took the IRS to bring down Al Capone. 20+ million in unreported income to Biden family members seems like something the IRS may want to look at but we already have had a little peak into that from the whistleblowers testimony… Nothing to see here folks…
The IRS hears no evil, sees no evil, and speaks no evil about anything the Biden crime syndicate has done. When IRS agents attempt to do so, they are quickly reassigned.
“…cold-hard cash in his freezer.”
That right there is…funny!
Is the illusion of a business product fraud?
It’s not an illusion. Joe Biden IS the “business product” Hunter was selling.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has always been competent at detecting threats, threats against POTUS (see the Utah killing in recent days), threats against leading politicians, and other domestic threats since J. Edgar Hoover was in charge. There are still some extremely dedicated personnel at the FBI today who aren’t ‘in bed’ with the corruption that has metastasized within the leadership of the USA under Joe Biden.
And so it is with hesitation I say that it looks like at some point, sooner or later, the people with the guns (mostly Republicans and Independents, politically) will use them in harmful, even lethal, ways against that ever-longer list of Left-wing/progressive Democrat individuals who either are, or are perceived to be, threatening the Bill of Rights, the Consitution, and what has always been the envy of the rest of the world as the Great American Experiment — the USA.