Did the FBI sit on Burisma Evidence?
Now that we are learning more about the e-mails that appear to belong to Hunter Biden, the focus turns to the FBI. It seems that the FBI has had the hard drive in it's possession for almost a year. They had it in December when the President was being "impeached" for an inappropriate phone call concerning matters related to that very hard drive. So why haven't we heard a thing about it from the FBI?
I borrowed the title above from a recent post by Bill O'Reilly, which poses the question regarding the troubled agency.
That brings us to what is going to be done about it? Senator Ron Johnson has sent a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray asking for a confirmation or denial about this hard drive. He is giving the Director a Thursday deadline for a response.
There is also the predictable attack on the messengers. The New York Post, the nation's fourth largest newspaper, is a credible source of information and their story does come with corroboration.
"One of the recipients on an email chain with Hunter Biden that was published earlier this week has authenticated the document, Fox News reported. The email in question, which is dated March 13, 2017, purportedly shows a business partner of Biden’s discussing “remuneration packages” for participants in a deal involving CEFC China Energy, a Chinese energy company that was owned at the time by Ye Jianming."
https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/17/hunter-biden-email-reportedly-authentic/
Yet social media has censored the Post and it's story. Congress will deal with that outrage this Friday.
Also under assault is the President's loyal friend for the past 30 years, the finest Mayor NYC ever had, the man who broke the Mafia and served in the Justice Department for 17 years - Rudy Giuliani. He has been repeatedly investigated and smeared simply for being the President's point man. Last night Mr Giuliani told Mark Levin that Hunter Biden's attorney called the store owner who obtained the hard drive and asked that it be returned to Hunter Biden. That was on the day the Post broke the story. That sounds like an admission to me. We also learned that the store owner made 4 copies of the hard drive. The original went to the FBI. Of the copies - one was for the New York Post, one was for Mr Giuliani and two were secured in secret locations in the event something "happened" to the store owner.
The most ominous part of this story is Biden's China connection. We learn that money from the regime that gave us covid may have lined not only the pockets of Hunter Biden, but even Joe Biden.
I leave it to our readers as this story inescapably continues to develop.
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Good Morning and welcome to day 5 of the non-denial stage of the Hunter Biden e-mail saga.
It's sad that all your hopes for a second term for Trump seem to hinge on this discredited story taking hold. How the mighty Trumpsters have fallen.
Some reporters withheld their bylines and questioned the credibility of an article that made the tabloid's front page on Wednesday.
The New York Post's front-page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly by a staff reporter who refused to put his name on it, two Post employees said.
Bruce Golding, a reporter at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid since 2007, did not allow his byline to be used because he had concerns over the article's credibility, the two Post employees said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
Coming late in a heated presidential campaign, the article suggested that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had used his position to enrich his son Hunter when he was vice president. The Post based the story on photos and documents the paper said it had taken from the hard drive of a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden.
Many Post staff members questioned whether the paper had done enough to verify the authenticity of the hard drive's contents, said five people with knowledge of the tabloid's inner workings. Staff members also had concerns about the reliability of its sources and its timing, the people said.
The article named two sources: Stephen K. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump now facing federal fraud charges, who was said to have made the paper aware of the hard drive last month; and Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, who was said to have given the paper "a copy" of the hard drive on Oct. 11.
Mr. Giuliani said he chose The Post because "either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out."
Top editors met on Oct. 11 to discuss how to use the material provided by Mr. Giuliani. The group included the tabloid veteran Colin Allan, known as Col; Stephen Lynch, The Post's editor in chief; and Michelle Gotthelf, the digital editor in chief, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. Mr. Allan, who was The Post's editor in chief from 2001 to 2016 and returned last year as an adviser, urged his colleagues to move quickly, the person said.
As deadline approached, editors pressed staff members to add their bylines to the story -- and at least one aside from Mr. Golding refused, two Post journalists said. A Post spokeswoman had no comment on how the article was written or edited.
Headlined "BIDEN SECRET E-MAILS," the article appeared Wednesday with two bylines: Emma-Jo Morris, a deputy politics editor who joined the paper after four years at the Murdoch-owned Fox News, and Gabrielle Fonrouge, a Post reporter since 2014.
Ms. Morris did not have a bylined article in The Post before Wednesday, a search of its website showed. She arrived at the tabloid in April after working as an associate producer on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her Instagram account, which was set to private on Wednesday, included photos of her posing with the former Trump administration members Mr. Bannon and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, as well as Roger J. Stone Jr., a friend and former campaign adviser to Mr. Trump. (In July, the president commuted the sentence of Mr. Stone on seven felonies.)
Ms. Fonrouge had little to do with the reporting or writing of the article, said three people with knowledge of how it was prepared. She learned that her byline was on the story only after it was published, the people said.
So, as we see here, the New York Post has it's own scandal.
Everything Trump touches dies.
As we see here - you most likely didn't read the article or listen to the two lengthy videos.
Hopefully our readers take the time. It is interesting.
Your denial is of epic proportions.
Donald Trump is literally the worst person in the history of national U.S. politics, and yet some of his fans have had their lips surgically affixed to his butt. It is inexplicable.
Name them for us.
Imagine the very publication that took an oath to oppose the President and has printed more lies than even the Gateway Pundit is criticizing the Post?
As you like to say - that's laughable!
So the New York Post is owned by Robert Murdock, and rates far Right-Center biased. I've pasted the link & a couple of notes from mediabiasfactcheck on the Post. From the reading not something I would sole-source for news.
However, once again the New York Times comes out with a story fed by anonymous sources. While the Times has been vetted as Left biased but mostly true I have to wonder just how accurate that rating is. IMO the Times has been very hard-core anti-Trump since he took office. They post too many stories from anonymous sources for me.
Let's put aside the Hard drive and Emails. Imagine if Trump's kid was hired for a job that they weren't qualified for in the Ukraine and was paid a crazy amount of money. Then imagine Trump used his power as president to muscle the Ukraine government to get a Prosecutor (who just happened to be going after Trump's kid's bosses) fired. What do you think the Left Wing Media would be saying if this were the scenario? What do you think the FBI would be doing? Now let's introduce the Hard Drive and Emails, what do you think they'd be saying and doing now? Do you think there'd be an investigation? Do you think they'd try to impeach Trump?
They would be going out of their minds. The FBI would have them investigated, indicted and convicted in record time - if for nothing else - for not declaring being an agent of a foreign government. They might even send out an enormous swat team to bust into one of the President's children's homes at dawn with CNN on site to cover it. Of course there would be another 'impeachment" of the President, again with the stipulation by Christmas.
Trump's unqualified kid wasn't hired in Ukraine, she was hired in Washington D.C. and is a Senior Advisor to the President of the United States .
I beg to differ in that his kids are qualified. His son-in-law brought peace agreements to the middle east - something the elite foreign policy experts have failed at. In addition none of the President's children are decedent drug addicts.
Yet, all of Trump's kids are prohibited, for life, from serving on the boards of non-profits!
His kids aren't acting as unlicensed agents of foreign governments.
If you can't defend Hunter the drug addict or Joe the senile without drawing invalid comparisons, it tells me that Joe Biden is going to have a tough time dealing with this.
That sounds like a New York Times piece!
Ivanka is a crook who barely escaped prosecution for fraud in relation to the SoHo Trump project. She is also known for copying apparel and shoe designs from other more profitable companies.
Sorry John, Ivanka is not on trial here. Believe it or not it's about that whopper Joe told us and - btw - his selling out of the US to China.
Really?
Really?
Really?
Um-hum and here's something else that's real - "(Oct. 18, 2020) — CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe said on Sunday morning’s “Face the Nation” that beginning on Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden “will not be seen again until Thursday night.”
Your point?
That just like his defenders, Joe Biden has no answer for this and will now vanish until Thursday. Thursday is the deadline for an FBI response, according to Sen Ron Johnson.
Think 'we' already know .. all one has to do is look back to the Steele Dossier and FISA warrants ... information does not have to be true, nor independently verified before being used by the FBI (depending on who the information is about) or reported on by the American free press - it just has to be click bait.
I have no clue if these emails are real or not .. but I feel it should be investigated beyond Russia Russia Russia... Putin has died and gone to heaven with all the power he and his Motherland have been given over the US (real or imagined) .. Russia Russia Russia .. that is all it takes to send the dogs after a new squirrel....
Peace
We don't have to imagine it.
" we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes."
"I would like you to do us a favor though" "here’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son"
You don't have to, Putin did that for you.
He was already impeached for trying to use his power to muscle the Ukraine government.
You have ZERO facts to back up this supposed Biden email scandal. The emails have not been verified other than by some anonymous source Fox won't reveal.
Are you admitting they are real?
They could be both, right?
Suppose Russia hacked them and gave them to the store owner?
No, just admitting that Putin is the boogie man. Russia did it! Have you ever wondered how it is that H. Clinton spent around a million (+ or -) dollars on Facebook ads ... yet .. Russian disinformation purchased roughly a100k in ads yet influenced an American election in favor of Trump? Our elected officials [media] need to quit giving Putin so much power! With zero facts a counterintelligence investigation was launched in search of a crime regarding collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign ... a Steele Dossier was used by the media and FBI as fact .. pee tape ring a bell .. but Biden emails .. hmmmm .. dismiss them - gotta be fake...?
Americans will NEVER know the truth .. media is now opinion based reporting, elected officials do not know truth, only spin.. why worry about Russian disinformation when 'we' have our own disinformation problem in main stream media .. unnamed sources, individuals familiar with the situation say - disclaimers of the information being reported has not be independently verified ... truth be damn'd just make it up'ish no one will do their research to see if the information is reliable .. just parrot it. Both sides of the aisle are doing it .............. so it must be okay ...?
I still wanna know how Obama could know that Russia was allegedly meddling in 2016 but do nothing til December of that year - why was there no counterintelligence investigation..? : )
Peace Vic ..... 2020 has been a real doozy!
Well said. Yes sir, there is nothing like rational analysis.
Peace Vic ..... 2020 has been a real doozy!
None of it should have happened in the US.
Peace
Does a hard drive exist? Most likely. Is it Hunters? No verifiable evidence proving it is. Could the Russians have fabricated the whole thing in an attempt to get Trump re-elected? Well of course they might have and it's been shown this is a Russian misinformation campaign they have been feeding to gullible morons here in the States for months.
So no, I do not think this is really Hunters hard drive or emails. The FBI has had it for almost a year and if they can't conclude that it is Hunters then I fail to see how a bunch of half witted conservative keyboard warriors are going to do so.
Also, the timing of this supposedly "new" information and the Fox anonymous source supposedly verifying some of the emails three weeks before the election is just way too suspicious. If they actually came out with some verifiable facts instead of all this blustery conjecture then maybe I'd give it more credence, but as it is it's obviously just a pile of shit desperate conservatives are flinging at the wall hoping anything sticks.
I don't really think they are involved, but let's also consider that they could have done what Assange used to do. Get the real info and release it. Stolen or hacked e-mails are just as real as they would be if a drugged up drunk Hunter Biden drops them off and forgets about them.
It's funny that you would entertain the idea that the all powerful Russians would use false information. Maybe because that's what happened with the Steele Dossier (the greatest of all pieces of disinformation).
Of course you don't even though all of our intelligence agencies say they were in 2016 and are again in 2020.
Or they could, as they have done before even with the email dump to WikiLeaks, get the "real info" and release them along with fake emails and scandalous claims that create a Frankensteins monster of disinformation.
No, they are not, because once stolen and in the hands of Russian propaganda operatives they can no longer be trusted, the chain of evidence has been broken, and those who believe it as fact are the exact gullible morons Russia has been hoping for.
Why is that funny? Putin and his regime are fucking criminals. They assassinate journalists, dissenters and political opponents, they stuff ballot boxes, they lie, cheat and steal, they invade sovereign nation neighbors and steal their land and assets, they ARE OUR ENEMIES! Why some seem to want to downplay all that and get cozy with those slimy pieces of filth is truly strange, but I guess for some being an American patriot doesn't matter as much as getting a political "win" so they willingly sell out their nation. Those folk are traitors in my book, giving aid and comfort to our enemies, so fuck them, I hope they get rounded up and charged with treason.
Agreed .... for decades so many things should not have happened in America - seems as though 2020 has become the conduit to amplify/magnify the worst .. yet the best of America always finds a way to shine through...!
Peace
Fox News has just received the receipt from the store owner with Hunter Biden's signature. Are you sill going to say it was Russia!
No, they are not, because once stolen and in the hands of Russian propaganda operatives they can no longer be trusted, the chain of evidence has been broken, and those who believe it as fact are the exact gullible morons Russia has been hoping for.
There are things so damning, the last thing anyone would do is take the chance of adding something that could shoot it all down. Progressives specialize in dismissing a mountain of truth because somebody left out a theme song.
Why is that funny?
Because, it is becoming more evident by the day that Russia has nothing to do with this. We are still waiting for Joe Biden to address it.
I have my fingers crossed
Peace
Of course they will. They think yelling Russia is a get out of jail card to avoid bad news.
Adam Schiff has used it constantly and he is again leading the charge.
This just in:
"Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Monday that Hunter Biden's laptop "is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign," despite claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to the contrary.
"It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence. Unfortunately, it is Adam Schiff who said the intelligence community believes the Hunter Biden laptop and emails on it are part of a Russian disinformation campaign ," said DNI Ratcliffe to FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Monday morning.
“Let me be clear: the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with Adam Schiff, or any member of Congress ... Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign," continued Ratcliffe."
In his defense Adam Schiff thinks he is the Intelligence Community, he also thinks he's Intelligent but he's wrong on both counts. So again the Democrats prove that every bad thing they accuse Trump of doing is actually what Democrats are doing. Adam Schiff the Democrat's Czar of False Propaganda and Disinformation.
They love to hide behind Russian involvement. It must be so convenient to declare any bit of info one doesn't like Russian "dis-information." Still waiting on Schiff's famous proof of collusion.
One thing is very clear. Adam Schiff is so obsessed with "Russia" that he sees "Russia" around every corner, under every table, and behind every curtain.
Neither John Ratcliffe or Maria Bartiromo are credible sources of information.
Last time I checked John Ratcliffe was the Director of National Intelligence.
Ms Bartiromo is the recipient of an Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award (1997), Lincoln Statue Award presented by the Union League of Philadelphia (2004), Gracie Award , for Outstanding Documentary (2008), [28] Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of A Breaking News Story (2008) [29] Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting (2009), [30] In 2011, she was the third journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. [7] [31]
So the last time she was sane was 10 years ago. Not a surprise although her submission to trumpism post 2016 took her to a lower place.
All that smearing is really irrelevant, John.
Facts matter:
Speaking of lapdogs, this just in:
"Presidential Debate Commission Ditches Foreign Policy Focus Following Hunter Biden Laptop Leaks"
https:// thenationalpulse.com/news/president ial-debate-commission-ditches-foreign-policy-focus-following-hunter-biden-laptop-leaks/
Any doubts about whether the debates are in the tank for Biden are now long gone!
"Looks fair to me" said no one ever!
Color me not surprised! Trump can still hold Biden's feet to the fire with the foreign policy issue, because it's related to Covid, national security, and leadership, which are three of the topics.
It sounds like he'll go in a bit less aggressive this time. I think he learned the old boxing adage about letting the challenger come after the champ.
Oh dear! You mean I wasted all that time?
Is that what he said? I thought he said he wouldn't do a remote debate via the internet?
No more debates, huh? They better tell him before Thursday.
You're correct, Vic. In fact, Trump said he wanted even MORE debates, especially when the left-wing debate commission that's in the tank for Biden moved the goal posts over the 2nd one, bogusly claiming Covid safety.
Funny how that fact got lost in the shuffle.
The one you won't acknowledge - that the debate commission is the one that changed the rules for debate # 2.
Seems that is not so in this case. Deeeeeflection
Awww come on razing .. that debate was comedy gold - even SNL could not duplicate it ... 10 minutes in I got ahold of Repo : ) he had already turned it off! That is the power of choice and fresh batteries in the remote ... no one need be subjected to anything they choose not to be : )
I will be watching .. neither candidate knows how to debate, nor answer a question without spin ...... sadly! but alas I think we all need to see the spectacle that is American politics
If only the American people were not so herd mentalified [new word] and thought for themselves rather do what the party [D and R] talking heads say to do .. we could have a Buttigieg on that stage and learn what a real debate is ... a true debate has not been had in decades among presidential candidates...
Hope you are well my friend .. as is the family - I have missed reading your words ...
Peace
Haha!
Very cool .. I know how much family means to you. this is definitely a time in history to embrace our loved ones...
If the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain can normalize relations with Israel .. there is still hope for Peace in America...
Hugs!
Both sides should have been a part of how that was done. They put up a barrier in the VP debate. That would have worked.
Where is the rest of the letter, including the signature and the embossed Senate seal?
You'll have to do your own research.
If you are calling it a fake, I think it's going to come back to haunt you.
You have presented your contribution as an article, not a seed. It is your responsibility to provide your readers the information necessary to verify the information in your 'article'.
Just for your information, ALL official Senate correspondence must be printed on official stationary using the appropriate seal for the circumstance, especially in an official investigation.
That letter is real.
Let's put our reputations on the line.
If it's fake I leave NT. If it's real you leave NT.
Deal?
Wow. I'm just a little old lady. [DELETED]
You are being modest.
Now post the rest of the damn letter, including a verifying link, or delete this 'article'.
I have. Let's stop the trolling - NOW
I don't doubt it, but it doesn't prove anything. All it does is ask questions and state irrelevant facts as it tries to further the Russian misinformation campaign. I hope Ron Johnson is getting a check from the Kremlin as he seems to be doing their bidding.
They are questions that should have been asked & answered this past December.
Valid questions.
And you have no evidence that they weren't. The FBI doesn't simply release all the conspiracy theories it has debunked or the process by which they were investigated and found to be either insufficient or bogus. The fact that the FBI has had this stuff since December 2019 and hasn't seen fit to make public statements or announce any charges proves this is just another nothing burger wrapped up in a new "October Surprise!" wrapper and re-sold to the gullible dumb shits who can't get enough rotted Russian meat.
Then they can dispense with it immediately.
All they have to do is tell us if that really is Hunter Biden's hard drive.
You have no idea what the FBI is doing...........by your own admission there. Have you seen any reports FROM the FBI one way or the other? Yeah. Me either.
No, which is why I remain extremely skeptical of the right wing claims with zero evidence backing it up three weeks before election day. It amazes me that those on the right aren't skeptical of this spurious accusation but claim everything coming from white house insiders, former employees and anonymous sources close to the President who have told us the President called our soldiers "suckers and losers" among many other testaments to his unfitness for office are just "unfounded rumors". How they can gobble up this supposed "source" from Fox and proclaim this is a smoking gun when it's not even been proven to be a gun let alone smoking is just a sad example of bitter conservatives desperation.
Didn't say I wasn't skeptical. If it's bullshit, the FBI should come out and say so to squelch all of the talk and bluster. If it's indeed true, they will keep their respective mouths shut until such time as the deem it true or untrue.
There is the signature
Seal, please.
It's sealed with a kiss!
I'll up that cutie all day long.
Download the PDF of the letter from:
It's too bad we can't get people to put their reputations on the line when they challenge others on simple widely known facts .
I'm afraid that link will also not be satisfactory, because the US Senate's raised seal isn't on it. Many people don't know about this US Code when it comes to copies:
Jasper, you just gave us all the reasons for the seal not to be displayed on that document...that fake document... Even Rudy draws a line as to how far he is willing to go for Donald Trump.
It is real and you even got a link in post 7
That's correct, because it is against the law. The code is very clear and straightforward. The same applies to the seals of the POTUS, VPOTUS, and HoR:
18 U.S. Code § 713. Thank you.
A Senator cannot force the executive branch to do squat. Rob might as well stand on a corner and wave that letter around.
Only the president can order or request an investigation, and 2 weeks before an election?
Order an investigation into your opponent or his kid? The optics are not on his side.
But who knows, Trump shatters all the norms.
What letter? I've been told it's fake.