JOE BIDEN AND RED CHINA…. Has ol’ Joe served them more than Senator Dianne Feinstein?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/12/joe-biden-i-saw-how-much-sen-dianne.html
The segment ends with an assertion that Joe Biden has been compromised, and that’s exactly correct. There hasn’t been a more China-friendly politician in the last 30 years than Biden. TUCKER CARLSON
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION" BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/07/she-ranks-as-one-of-most-corrupt-and.html
IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
After Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to China. A the same time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China hand” to colleagues, even once claiming “that in my last life maybe I was Chinese.” HARIS ALIC
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
“Money laundering is a crime that makes other crimes possible. It can accelerate economic inequality, drain public funds, undermine democracy, and destabilize nations—and the banks play a key role. ‘Some of these people in crisp white shirts in their sharp suits are feeding off the tragedy of people dying all over the world,’ said Martin Woods, a former suspicious transactions investigator for Wachovia.’”
BLOG EDITOR: JP MORGAN IS BARACK OBAMA’S FAVE CRIMINAL BANKSTER. THEY HAVE BEEN VERY GENEROU$ TO OBOMB AND HIS BIDENBOY.
“The other banks on the top 10 list are JPMorgan Chase (whose CEO Jamie Dimon was once known as Obama's "favorite banker"), New York Mellon, Standard Chartered, Barclays, HSBC, Bank of China, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank.”
Chinese Intermediaries Launder Cartels' Drug Proceeds in the United States
From the U.S. to China to the cartels
In a post last week on drugs and the border, I referenced the following quote from the DEA: "Due to China's currency control restrictions, Asian TCOs [transnational criminal organizations] have taken advantage of the availability of U.S. dollars belonging to Mexican and Colombian TCOs in the United States by acquiring the U.S. dollars in exchange for the payment of Colombian/Mexican pesos in the respective drug source country." A recent federal court conviction in Chicago and a Reuters article on that case explain how the scheme works, at least on a small scale.
Report: Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Reject Cooperating with Congress
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Congress should have been informed Hunter Biden was being investigated over his taxes before they considered whether to impeach Donald Trump, a Republican senator who has spent a year examining the business affairs of the Biden family said.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) also claimed on Saturday that Hunter’s attorneys “have refused to cooperate with the committees.”
Hunter Biden, 50, said last week the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware is investigating his “tax affairs” and he is taking the matter “very seriously” while being “confident” he handled his affairs “legally and appropriately,” as Breitbart News reported.
Hunter Biden issues a statement through the transition on the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware's investigation into his taxes pic.twitter.com/MV0IgoRfca
— Brittany Shepherd (@brittanys) December 9, 2020
On Sunday Johnson, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, lamented Congress was left in the dark about the tax investigation.
He said the authorities were already in possession of Hunter’s laptop, which contained emails relating to his Ukrainian business affairs, by the time the impeachment hearings began.
“I’m sympathetic for keeping investigations confidential unless there’s an indictment,” Johnson told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
“But when you’re talking about investigations within the political realm, particularly one that would have affected the impeachment trial of the sitting U.S. president in the U.S. Senate, that should have been relevant information, the fact that they had Hunter Biden’s computer that had all these emails back in December 2019.
“That was before the trial, that was part of that impeachment, we should have known that,” he said.
The younger Biden has faced questions for some time over his business dealings.
A top aide to former Vice President Joe Biden’s transition
Schweizer: ‘National Tragedy’ How Media Acted as ‘Gatekeepers’ of Hunter Biden Story
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Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer addressed the Department of Justice investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his foreign dealings after it was covered up by Biden’s presidential campaign and dismissed by the media.
Schweizer said it is a “national tragedy” the media killed the story before it got out. He then called for a national media that will hold its national leaders into account.
“What you have is a situation today where the Bidens have repeatedly lied to the media, and the media doesn’t care. They don’t want to catch them in the lies; they don’t want to pursue the lies,” Schweizer asserted. “Look at Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden goes on national television, on ABC News, and said, ‘I have not received a single penny from the Chinese.’ Well, we now know, of course, he got close to $5 million from CEFC, a Chinese government-connected energy company. We know he had a big equity stake in that private equity firm — that billion-and-a-half dollar private equity firm. We know there were other transactions involving Rosemont Realty and Rosemont Opportunities Fund, too, so he was flat out lying to the national media. What has been the media’s response? Nothing. They’ve taken it. They’ve accepted it.”
“In fact, they not only covered it up,” he continued. “You know, Ben Smith of The New York Times ran a piece right before the election bragging about the fact that the gatekeepers, which of course include the Times and other publications, had effectively killed this story and how proud they were of it. So, we are in a situation today, Mark, where a grand jury was impaneled in 2018 to look into Hunter Biden and his foreign dealings. It has a counterintelligence component. It has a tax fraud component. It has a public corruption component. This has been going on for two years, and nobody in the national media took it upon themselves to actually pursue that story. It’s a massive disservice to the American public. We need a vibrant media that is following all of our national leaders and holding them into account. And we don’t have that. We have a national media that wants to protect certain powerful figures and wants to go after other public figures. And it’s a national tragedy.”
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Barr resigns: Everyone (except Biden) wins
William Barr resigned as attorney general yesterday, clearing the way for appointment of a special counsel to investigate the crimes of Hunter Biden and any other matters that may arise from that investigation. That "may arise" language, which was included in the appointment of Robert Mueller, functions as an open door to investigate Hunter's father, who received a majority of electoral votes yesterday and would become president if challenges in Congress, as laid out in the Constitution and federal code, do not succeed.
The fact that his resignation letter and President Trump's tweets were cordial tells me that an arrangement between the two men was reached. My strong suspicion is that Trump asked Barr to appoint a special counsel to take over and potentially expand the investigation of Hunter Biden already underway by the U.S. attorney for Delaware and that Barr declined but offered to resign to allow a successor (for now, Deputy Attorney General Jeffery Rosen) to appoint a special counsel.
Barr being sworn in before Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.
YouTube screen grab (cropped).
If Biden is inaugurated, he could easily demand the resignations of all sitting U.S. attorneys, as has been done before by new presidents. That would relatively quietly kill the investigation of the Biden family's corrupt arrangements with foreign entities and governments, since the media would raise no questions and the social media oligopolists would suppress discussion. But firing a special counsel, while not impossible, is more difficult.
Many conservatives, including knowledgeable and insightful commentators, are upset with Barr for concealing news of the Delaware investigation of Hunter prior to the election. While I would have preferred an A.G. who understood that we are in a life-and-death struggle in which the other side is not playing fair and so responded in kind, Barr's devotion was to the institutions of our legal and judicial system, specifically the Department of Justice. Those institutions have self-correcting mechanisms, if they are allowed to operate and the opponents respect the norms. But that's not how the other side is playing it. To analogize, Barr was a Marquess of Queensberry boxer fighting in a cage with a mixed martial arts tag team.
With the arrangement that I hypothesize, Barr gets to quit and keep honoring the code to which he has devoted his professional life. I bet he understands that having already been attacked as Trump's hatchet man, his only defense is to continue to publicly adhere to the rules. See, for example, the disgraceful lead paragraph in the Wall Street Journal's story on his resignation (emphasis added):
Attorney General William Barr will resign just before Christmas, President Trump said Monday, ending a tenure during which Mr. Barr long marshaled the Justice Department to the president's personal and political agenda before falling afoul of him in recent months.
The is ridiculous, given that Barr did not reveal the existence of the Hunter Biden investigation prior to the election or during the impeachment process. Even Chris Cillizza of CNN gets it:
[T]here's [sic] been several examples of late in which Barr bucked the President's wishes in critical moments.
* According to The Wall Street Journal, Barr went out of his way this past fall to ensure that the federal investigation into Hunter Biden's financial dealings never went public in the course of a presidential campaign in which Trump sought to make the son of his Democratic opponent a major issue.
* Earlier this month, Barr directly contradicted Trump's repeated claims that there was widespread voter fraud in the presidential election. "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election," Barr told the Associated Press in an interview.
Those twin moves suggest that, while he was willing to bend to Trump's will, Barr's ultimate loyalty — at least in these instances — was with the rule of law.
Barr was playing it by what I call the Marquess of Queensberry rules, as Paul Mirengoff explained at Powerline:
What about the decision not to reveal that Hunter Biden was under investigation? Justice Department policy states, "In general, the Department of Justice does not publicly announce investigations or investigative findings."
It is also Justice Department policy to be "fair, neutral, and nonpartisan" during elections. This sound policy, in tandem with the sound policy against announcing criminal investigations, strongly supported Barr's decision not to announce the DOJ's investigation of Hunter Biden. No dubious motive is needed to explain the decision, and the decision was not a "tragic failure."
My reading of Barr is that he agreed to leave his lucrative private legal practice and take the slings and arrows inherent in serving as Trump's A.G. because he was outraged by the abuse and corruption taking place at the DOJ. He returned to the attorney general's office because he wanted to right those wrongs and return the Department to the path of righteousness, to which he had devoted himself. That's why he would refuse to violate guidelines, even in the face of abuse of them by his president's opponents.
So he gets to maintain that devotion. But his agreeable resignation opens up the possibility for an MMA-style A.G. to appoint a special counsel to avoid a cover-up of corruption that may reach to the putative president-elect. President Trump, Republicans, and everyone who believes in the rule of law win. Biden and his faction are the only losers. Geniuses like Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler haven't yet figured it out:
"Good riddance," tweeted House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who said the attorney general had "lied to cover for Trump, launched political investigations, subverted justice and the rule of law and violently cracked down on protestors."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who led an investigation of politicization of the department, said that "whomever Joe Biden chooses as the new Attorney General will have a tremendous amount of work to do to repair the integrity of the Department of Justice."
So, you can count on cries of outrage from them when the special counsel is appointed, as I would wager will happen.
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