Prosecutors Who Signed Off On Hunter Biden Deal Didn’t Actually Work On It
Can the Hunter Biden cover-up get any sleazier?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/prosecutors...lly-work-on-it/
July 5, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield

Can the Hunter Biden cover-up get any sleazier?

After sidelining the IRS investigative team working on the Hunter Biden case, the prosecutors working on it were also apparently sidelined.

Lawyers are questioning whether the Delaware attorney’s office kicked its most experienced prosecutors off the Hunter Biden case – just before it filed minor charges against the president’s son…

In a letter to a federal judge last week announcing the charges against Hunter, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss listed three different prosecutors who have apparently had no previous involvement in the case – leading to questions of a last-minute overhaul by the Delaware DoJ.

Under Weiss’s signature, the June 20 letter lists Assistant US Attorneys Leo Wise, Derek Hines, and Benjamin Wallace.

A lawyer for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, who ran the agency’s five-year criminal probe into the First Son, told DailyMail.com: ‘None of the three were involved in the underlying investigation during Gary’s tenure, to my knowledge.’

When an investigation sidelines two teams working on the case and then offers a sweetheart deal to the president’s son, that ought to ring as many alarm bells as a forest fire.

In more than 400 pages of transcribed sworn testimony published by the House Ways and Means Committee last month, the two IRS officials named several members of Weiss’s office who they worked with for years on the probe. But Wise, Hines and Wallace’s names are nowhere to be found in their testimony.

Seems legit.

When you have to take this many years to work on a case that just leads to a slap on the wrist while few of the people who work on it show up at the finish line, that’s an indicator that something is very wrong either with the case or how it was resolved.

The media can only go on describing this as a case resolved by a ‘Trump-appointed’ prosecutor for so long.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

The deceit behind Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal gets even more audacious by the day
By Andrew C. McCarthy
July 11, 2023 4:01pm Updated
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/the-deceit...ous-by-the-day/

The Justice Department’s deceitfulness regarding Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal gets more audacious by the day.

Thanks to the media-Democrat complex’s partisanship, it also gets tougher to pierce — which, of course, is the point.
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Delaware US attorney David Weiss is in a vice of DOJ’s own making.

Credible IRS investigators, including supervisory agent Gary Shapley, have reported that he told several law-enforcement officials connected to the Biden investigation that he was not the ultimate decision-maker regarding whether Biden would be charged, that he was being thwarted by other Biden-appointed US attorneys in Washington, DC, and California (the two districts with venue over tax charges) and that the Biden Justice Department, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, had refused his request to be appointed as a special counsel.
HUNTER BIDENThe Department of Justice has acknowledged it could hold up a probation-only plea deal offered to first son Hunter Biden for tax and gun crimes.AP/Andrew Harnik

On the other hand, Garland, who is Weiss’ boss, has insisted — preposterously — that Weiss has always been the ultimate decision-maker and that all he needed to do was ask Garland for any extra authority he needed to file charges wherever he thought appropriate.

Garland claims he was never asked.

On Monday, Weiss tried to squirm his way out of this vice in a terse, disingenuous letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). -- excerpt, rest at link above --

Secret Service Declines To Honor Records Request For White House Cocaine Docs
Martin Walsh
July 12, 2023
https://conservativebrief.com/ss-joe-748...utm_medium=1126


The U.S. Secret Service turned down a request made under the Freedom of Information Act on Tuesday for communications pertaining to its investigation into the cocaine discovered in the White House, claiming that making the records public would jeopardize the case.

Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold took to Twitter to post the response from the Secret Service to his request, in which the agency stated that “disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

The U.S. Secret Service found an “unknown item” earlier this month, which led to the evacuation of the White House grounds. A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed on Wednesday that laboratory testing for the material discovered in the White House was cocaine.

Secret Service units blocked off roads around the President’s official residence, while a DC Fire Department hazmat team was dispatched to the location to investigate. All road closures have now been lifted, the spokesperson confirmed.

“NEW: In response to my #FOIA request, Secret Service says it cannot release any records about the cocaine found in the White House because it would interfere enforcement proceedings,” he tweeted.

A Republican lawmaker said on Monday he believes the U.S. Secret Service has identified a suspect who brought cocaine into the White House earlier this month, causing another major scandal within the Biden administration.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), a member of the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum during an interview he spoke with law enforcement officials in his state and asked them how long it normally takes to run a set of fingerprints found on the bag containing the drug, and he said he was told it takes around an hour, generally.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

July 16, 2023
It will change the Deep State if individual bureaucrats face consequences
By Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/202...nsequences.html


One of the reasons the Deep State is so powerful is that, thanks in large part to government unions, it’s almost impossible to fire government employees, no matter their infractions. There are no disincentives for bad behavior. At most, people or departments will get scolded, while taxpayers bear any financial costs. Just look at Christopher Wray’s cavalier response to the FBI’s lawbreaking. However, in Michigan and Ohio, there are signs that this may finally change.

One of the most disturbing things about Christopher Wray’s recent House testimony was that he was unaffected by both the Inspector General’s and a court’s finding that the FBI engaged in hundreds of thousands or even more than a million illegal searches:

Wray should have been groveling in response to these questions and promising to straighten up and fly right. Instead, he arrogantly insisted that he really doesn’t see that there’s a problem…and clearly, he doesn’t intend to institute any changes in the FBI. Wray knows he’s not really a public servant. Instead, he’s a free and untouchable agent, with the federal police power at his beck and call.

Wray’s behavior exemplifies the bureaucratic mindset. For too long, government employees haven’t had disincentives to stop them from doing bad work or engaging in illegal conduct. This past week, though, came tiny but still hopeful signs of change.

In Michigan, two officials got the boot after they ignored the all-Muslim city council’s vote to ban “Gay Pride” flags on city property:

Two officials on the Hamtramck Human Relations Commission have been removed after the city council said they violated a city ordinance banning the display of LGBT Pride flags on city property.

The removal came after the all-Muslim city council voted last month to ban the display of LGBT Pride flags on all city properties. In a unanimous vote this week, Russ Gordon and Cathy Stackpoole were kicked off of the human relations commission after the council said the pair were responsible for flying a Pride flag on government property.

“This Council believes in fairness, neutrality towards our residents, and the rule of law, amongst other things for this community. We passed a resolution recently to do just that, and two of our sworn commissioners outright defied it, and did what they wanted,” Council member Khalil Refai told Fox News in a statement.

Refai added that the council considered the flying of the LGBT flag a violation of the city’s trust.

To the extent that Islam isn’t fond of the things I am and that I like (e.g., individual liberty, women, Jews, Israel, etc.), I’ve viewed Islam in America with some wariness. However, the council was bang on the money with this one. In the first place, it’s wrong for a city to go around celebrating sexual behaviors and preferences. There’s nothing offensive to the First Amendment or discriminatory about ceasing those celebrations. In the second place, once the council made the decision, it was the employees’ obligation to abide by it. And in the third place, when the employees refused to abide by the rules, it was time for them to go…and they went.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, the state’s attorney general, Dave Yost, let employees at state colleges and universities know that, if they violated the Supreme Court’s recent decision holding that affirmative action in higher education is unconstitutional, those employees will be “personally liable”:

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says his office can't protect public colleges and universities if they run afoul of the new rules banning schools from considering race during admissions.

“Employees of institutions of higher education will face personal risk should they consider race during the admissions process,” Yost wrote in a strongly worded letter dated June 30.

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Thanks, @Isailedaway