Hunter Biden investigation 'integrity' undermined if just half of IRS whistleblowers' claims are true: Turley

[bamnutsak]

Hunter Biden prosecutor says Justice Dept didn't interfere in probe

 

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The federal prosecutor overseeing the criminal case against U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter on Monday said the Justice Department never impeded him from bringing charges, appearing to debunk claims made by an Internal Revenue Service whistleblower.

 

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss in a letter to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham denied allegations that he ever formally sought permission from Attorney General Merrick Garland to be designated as special counsel - a status that would have allowed him to bring federal charges in any district across the nation against Hunter Biden.

 

"I have not requested Special Counsel designation," wrote Weiss, who was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump.

 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/hunter-biden-prosecutor-says-justice-dept-didnt-interfere-probe-2023-07-10/

 

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870302-20230710-out-graham-re-david-weiss

[SunnyinBangrak]

20 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Ooooops, well this is awkward for the GOP, one of their main whistleblowers has just been charged with being a Russian Spy. Only yesterday Comer was saying how credible he was. Back to the drawing board then.....lol

 

Republicans’ Key ‘Whistleblower’ Indicted For ‘Working to Advance the Interests Of China’

The whistleblower Republicans said would expose the alleged corruption of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden has been indicted on eight counts.

Gal Luft, who is the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security think tank in Washington, D.C., was indicted in the U.S. Southern District of New York. The indictment was unsealed on Monday.

Luft was initially arrested in Cyprus in February before skipping bail and going on the lam. He remains a fugitive.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republicans-key-whistleblower-indicted-for-working-to-advance-the-interests-of-china/

 

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent, Trafficking In Arms, Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, And Making False Statements To Federal Agents

Gal Luft, a Dual U.S.-Israeli Citizen, Allegedly Evaded FARA Registration While Working to Advance the Interests of China in the United States and Sought to Broker the Illicit Sales of Chinese-Manufactured Weapons and Iranian Oil to China

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-charges-against-co-director-think-tank-acting-unregistered

You must not have watched Luft's recent video explaining what is going on. Still, the narrative that Luft is deceased has been blown out of the water. The threat to Luft's life from the left who are desperate to silence him is a disgrace.

 

"I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed — and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life on the run,” Luft told The Post in a video filmed in an undisclosed location last week."

https://nypost.com/2023/07/10/missing-biden-corruption-witness-dr-gal-luft-hit-with-federal-charges/

Edited July 11, 2023 by SunnyinBangrak

[stevenl]

14 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Ooooops, well this is awkward for the GOP, one of their main whistleblowers has just been charged with being a Russian Spy. Only yesterday Comer was saying how credible he was. Back to the drawing board then.....lol

 

Republicans’ Key ‘Whistleblower’ Indicted For ‘Working to Advance the Interests Of China’

The whistleblower Republicans said would expose the alleged corruption of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden has been indicted on eight counts.

Gal Luft, who is the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security think tank in Washington, D.C., was indicted in the U.S. Southern District of New York. The indictment was unsealed on Monday.

Luft was initially arrested in Cyprus in February before skipping bail and going on the lam. He remains a fugitive.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republicans-key-whistleblower-indicted-for-working-to-advance-the-interests-of-china/

 

U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent, Trafficking In Arms, Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, And Making False Statements To Federal Agents

Gal Luft, a Dual U.S.-Israeli Citizen, Allegedly Evaded FARA Registration While Working to Advance the Interests of China in the United States and Sought to Broker the Illicit Sales of Chinese-Manufactured Weapons and Iranian Oil to China

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-charges-against-co-director-think-tank-acting-unregistered

China you mean.

Won't matter though, they'll claim it's the deep state at work, silencing opponents.

[stevenl]

Just now, stevenl said:

China you mean.

Won't matter though, they'll claim it's the deep state at work, silencing opponents.

Lol, looking at the previous post it looks like the deep state means the left.

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, stevenl said:

China you mean.

Won't matter though, they'll claim it's the deep state at work, silencing opponents.

Yes thanks, China, just edited it.

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

You must not have watched Luft's recent video explaining what is going on. Still, the narrative that Luft is deceased has been blown out of the water. The threat to Luft's life from the left who are desperate to silence him is a disgrace.

Luft, the fugitive you mean.....lol

 

Comer yesterday:

 

"He's very credible and the people on MSNBC who made fun of me when I said we had an informant that was missing, they should feel like fools right now. And this is their worst nightmare."

[bamnutsak]

Just when you think a "story" can't get any nuttier we get a new character introduced in Season 1. Dr. Gal Luft.

 

Head of US think tank charged with acting as Chinese agent

 

NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - The leader of a U.S. think tank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.

 

Gal Luft, a citizen of the United States and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking U.S. government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law.

 

Prosecutors did not identify the former official, but said he was working as an adviser to the then president-elect Donald Trump at the time. Luft is accused of pushing the adviser to support policies favorable to China, including by drafting comments in the adviser's name published in a Chinese newspaper.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/head-us-think-tank-charged-with-acting-chinese-agent-2023-07-10/

 

 

[candide]

3 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

Just when you think a "story" can't get any nuttier we get a new character introduced in Season 1. Dr. Gal Luft.

 

Head of US think tank charged with acting as Chinese agent

 

NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - The leader of a U.S. think tank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.

 

Gal Luft, a citizen of the United States and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking U.S. government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law.

 

Prosecutors did not identify the former official, but said he was working as an adviser to the then president-elect Donald Trump at the time. Luft is accused of pushing the adviser to support policies favorable to China, including by drafting comments in the adviser's name published in a Chinese newspaper.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/head-us-think-tank-charged-with-acting-chinese-agent-2023-07-10/

 

 

So he was linked to the CCP! I have no doubt that MAGA folks, who are outraged about someone working with even only a private Chinese company, will be scandalized! ????

[billd766]

5 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

You must not have watched Luft's recent video explaining what is going on. Still, the narrative that Luft is deceased has been blown out of the water. The threat to Luft's life from the left who are desperate to silence him is a disgrace.

 

"I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed — and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life on the run,” Luft told The Post in a video filmed in an undisclosed location last week."

https://nypost.com/2023/07/10/missing-biden-corruption-witness-dr-gal-luft-hit-with-federal-charges/

Keep looking for straws to clutch.

 

Who knows. You may be lucky one day?

 

Meanwhile DO try to bring some verifiable proof when you do, instead of made up stories and meaningless allegations,

[bamnutsak]

According to Dr. Luft he was interviewed in Brussels by two DOJ prosecutors and four FBI agents, in March 2019.

 

So the Trump DOJ sat on this "information" for nearly two years, including during the election?

 

Sorry but that sounds odd.

 

I still don't get why Rep. Comer doesn't have Dr. Left testify remotely, and submit written statements and supporting documents.

 

Based the allegations I think Dr. Luft has more to fear from the Iranians or the Chinese?

 

 

 

[riclag]

Thanks to millions of Americans who voted the Gop in the house to take the majority ! They have  begun oversight & investigated the malfeasance, corruption , possible criminal acts to protect the bidens!

More to come this week at the hearings!

GOD SPEED!

Breaking yesterday  former supervisor agent for the  Fbi

has confirmed key portions of 

the IRS whistleblower testimony!

 

[candide]

2 hours ago, riclag said:

Thanks to millions of Americans who voted the Gop in the house to take the majority ! They have  begun oversight & investigated the malfeasance, corruption , possible criminal acts to protect the bidens!

More to come this week at the hearings!

GOD SPEED!

Breaking yesterday  former supervisor agent for the  Fbi

has confirmed key portions of 

the IRS whistleblower testimony!

 

So Barr's DOJ and a Republican prosecutor would have covered up for Hunter Biden.... Ahem!

Edited July 18, 2023 by candide

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On 7/11/2023 at 7:55 AM, SunnyinBangrak said:

You must not have watched Luft's recent video explaining what is going on. Still, the narrative that Luft is deceased has been blown out of the water. The threat to Luft's life from the left who are desperate to silence him is a disgrace.

 

"I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed — and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life on the run,” Luft told The Post in a video filmed in an undisclosed location last week."

https://nypost.com/2023/07/10/missing-biden-corruption-witness-dr-gal-luft-hit-with-federal-charges/

Can you name any witnesses in this investigation who were killed by the left?

[riclag]

2 hours ago, candide said:

So Barr's DOJ and a Republican prosecutor would have covered up for Hunter Biden.... Ahem!

Stay tuned  to the hearing this week ,Swing voters in my country are about to be schooled on a small part of the inner workings of the Washington establishment!

 

https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-allegations-could-serious-scandal-legal-analyst-warns-1808733

 

[placeholder]

9 minutes ago, riclag said:

Stay tuned  to the hearing this week ,Swing voters in my country are about to be schooled on a small part of the inner workings of the Washington establishment!

 

https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-allegations-could-serious-scandal-legal-analyst-warns-1808733

 

Promises, promises. For years now, right wingers have been claiming that shocking revelations are about to be revealed. Remember the claims that the Durham investigation was going to expose the machinations of the Deep State and that scores of people in the Justice Dept and prominent Democrats would be convicted of various crimes. One way to look at this is to call you people eternal optimists. Another way would be to say that so far you have learned nothing. 

[Tug]

36 minutes ago, riclag said:

Stay tuned  to the hearing this week ,Swing voters in my country are about to be schooled on a small part of the inner workings of the Washington establishment!

 

https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-allegations-could-serious-scandal-legal-analyst-warns-1808733

 

Have the authority’s caught the Chinese/Iranian/agent……oops I ment the whistle blower yet?is that when we get schooled?

[ozimoron]

47 minutes ago, riclag said:

Stay tuned  to the hearing this week ,Swing voters in my country are about to be schooled on a small part of the inner workings of the Washington establishment!

 

https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-allegations-could-serious-scandal-legal-analyst-warns-1808733

 

Turley is a Fox News contributor

[placeholder]

2 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Turley is a Fox News contributor

Turley also thought that John Durham had strong cases to make. He also defended Aileen Cannon's decision to appoint a special master in the Mar-a-Lago case. So we know where he's coming from. 

[riclag]

6 hours ago, Tug said:

Have the authority’s caught the Chinese/Iranian/agent……oops I ment the whistle blower yet?is that when we get schooled?

Have no idea what your talking about  ! You must be confused again with another scandal that the biden crime family is accused of!Please keep up ! 

 

 

 

[Tug]

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Have no idea what your talking about  ! You must be confused again with another scandal that the biden crime family is accused of!Please keep up ! 

 

 

 

Oh sorry I got this one confused with the other whistle blower that’s been exposed as a tool of Iran and China sorry dude your republican whistleblowers keep getting debunked it gets confusing at times.kinda surprised you aren’t staunchly defending trump on account of him getting indicted on the j6 coup attempt and the 16 fake electors indicted in Michigan today 

[earlinclaifornia]

On 6/27/2023 at 9:42 AM, Hanaguma said:

 

Turley is a serious person. Conservative to be sure, but no crazed partisan by any means. To quote his latest column;

President Biden has repeatedly told the public that he had no knowledge or involvement in his son’s dealings. He maintained the denial despite audiotapes of him referring to business dealings, photos and meetings with his son’s business associates, as well as an eyewitness account of an in-person meeting.

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/26/who-is-lying-merrick-garland-or-the-whistleblowers/

Definitely disagree with your Turley assessment. As proof your not calling his politics correctly I offer as evidence his and Brit's video responding to Wray questioning ....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jonathan-turley-bashes-chris-wrays-response-to-house-gop-hearing-questions-treating-the-public-like-chumps/ar-AA1dOhDF#:~:text=Asked for his thoughts on,best efforts of the FBI.

Clearly a partisan hack!

 

[nauseus]

On 6/27/2023 at 1:09 PM, placeholder said:

There are  millions of people who subscribe to the beliefs of the Qanon creed. There are tens of millions who believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. I guess that proves that Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of children and that Donald Trump is really still the President of the United States.

And of course you know them all personally?

[nauseus]

On 6/27/2023 at 3:49 PM, ozimoron said:

Gasp! The President wouldn't answer questions? I bet that's a first.

Nope. It's become routine recently.

[bamnutsak]

We need playing cards to keep track of the Hunter Biden IRS investigation "Whistleblowers".

 

I think there's:

 

1.) Gary Shapley

 

 2.) an unnamed IRS special agent

 

Are there others?

 

“This is the A-team with the IRS. These two guys have stellar records,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Tuesday.

 

The hearing could also help Republicans distract from Trump’s numerous legal problems after the former president said Tuesday that he expected an imminent indictment in relation to the Justice Department’s probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4104379-gop-to-put-irs-hunter-biden-whistleblowers-at-center-stage/

 

 

I love it when a plan comes together.

[Slip]

Oh dear. The republicans just keep ending up with egg on their faces.  I don't know if it's funny or sad:

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/denver-riggleman-hunter-biden-laptop-data-b2373161.html?mibextid=jf9HGS

 

 

Mr Riggleman said he and his team have obtained proof “based on the 1s and 0s that we have found” that the people involved, including ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, and others, were “manipulating the data”.

 

“We have people like Steve Bannon using words like ‘editorial creativity,’ and we have specific instances of fabrication and manipulation of the data,” he added.

[placeholder]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

And of course you know them all personally?

I'm sure that to you the state of my acqaintance with QAnon subscribers is relevant. But I fail to see how.

[placeholder]

1 hour ago, earlinclaifornia said:

Definitely disagree with your Turley assessment. As proof your not calling his politics correctly I offer as evidence his and Brit's video responding to Wray questioning ....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jonathan-turley-bashes-chris-wrays-response-to-house-gop-hearing-questions-treating-the-public-like-chumps/ar-AA1dOhDF#:~:text=Asked for his thoughts on,best efforts of the FBI.

Clearly a partisan hack!

 

And as I've pointed out before, he maintained contrary to what most legal experts opined, that Durham had 2 strong cases to make as a result of his investigation. We know how that turned out. He also strongly supported Aileen Cannon's determination that a special master should be appointed in the Mar-a-Lago case. Again, most experts pointed out how bizarre that decision was. And ultimately it got sneered out of court by a 3 judge panel including 2 conservative ones appointed by Trump.

[stevenl]

Parnas approaches Comer and asks to stop the wild goose chase.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/giuliani-associate-lev-parnas-urges-house-gop-abandon-biden-probe-rcna94999

[candide]

59 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Parnas approaches Comer and asks to stop the wild goose chase.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/giuliani-associate-lev-parnas-urges-house-gop-abandon-biden-probe-rcna94999

A reminder: Parnas was sent to Ukraine by Giuliani to get dirt on the Bidens, so he got Burisma executives interviewed.

And he brought back this:

"But Zlochevsky, as part of the record released by Raskin on Thursday, was asked about any contacts he had with then-Vice President Joe Biden or his office between 2013 and 2019, and if Hunter Biden facilitated those contacts. Instead, he answers that “no one from Burisma ever had any contacts” with Joe Biden or those working for him while Hunter Biden was on the board.

He also answers “no” to a question about if Joe Biden or his staff helped him or his company, and that Burisma did not approve or ask Hunter Biden to conduct meetings he had with the State Department in 2015."

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/06-29-2023/raskin-comer-back-and-forth/

NB Republicans have pointed to Zlochevsky as the Ukrainian executive referenced in an FBI document, known as an FD-1023, who told the bureau’s confidential source that Biden and his son Hunter Biden had accepted a bribe.

[ozimoron]

15 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Most polls use national adults or registered voters and they [Rasmussen] use ‘likely voters’ which screens it down,” Newport said on Hill.TV. “That skews Republican because Republicans are more likely to vote than not.”

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/405965-pollster-rasmussen-research-has-a-pro-gop-bias/

Rasmussen has always skewed heavily GOP in most polls they conduct for years now.