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Bidens mocked Hunter’s laptop to hide evidence of possibly largest US corruption scandal ever

By: Gregg Jarrett — June 7th 2024 at 08:00
The reality of the Hunter Biden laptop is on display in court. But, the president's criticisms weren't trying to stop his son's gun charge. He was worried about a lot more.

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Hunter’s Missing Gun Appears at Trial 6 Years Later

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — June 5th 2024 at 16:48

Hunter Biden's missing revolver appeared at his gun trial after six years, when the FBI got involved in the case of a missing firearm tossed in a Delaware dumpster.

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FBI Witness Confirms in Court: No Tampering Occurred with Hunter Biden's Laptop

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — June 5th 2024 at 12:09

No tampering occurred with Hunter Biden's laptop, witness Erika Jensen, an FBI agent, told Hunter's gun trial jury on Wednesday.

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FBI director says US needs ‘a whole lot more from Mexico’ to take on cartels and stop flow of precursors

By: Greg Wehner — June 4th 2024 at 21:06
FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Tuesday that the U.S. needs to see a whole lot more from Mexico in terms of stopping the cartels and the flow of migrants to the U.S.

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FBI director warns of jihadist attack in US, similar to Russian concert hall: 'Heightened terrorist threat'

By: Greg Wehner — June 4th 2024 at 19:19
FBI Director Christopher Wray made his plea for FY25 funding while also warning of increased threats of a jihadist attack on U.S. soil like the one at a Russian concert hall.

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Nine Takeaways from First Days of Hunter Biden’s Gun Trial

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — June 4th 2024 at 16:54

Hunter Biden's gun trial uncovered nine explosive pieces of information in the first two days of proceedings.

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FBI Witness Confirms on Stand in Hunter Biden's Trial: The Laptop Is Real

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — June 4th 2024 at 16:16

Witness Erika Jensen, an FBI agent, confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop during the second day of his gun trial on Tuesday.

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Watch Live: FBI Director Christopher Wray Testifies Before Senate

By: Breitbart News · Breitbart News — June 4th 2024 at 14:36

FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, June 4.

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Garland to push back on Trump's 'locked & loaded' FBI claim, deny DOJ control of NY case

By: Landon Mion · David Spunt — June 4th 2024 at 09:01
Attorney General Merrick Garland is testifying before lawmakers and address claims about the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

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Garland to push back on false claims FBI tried to assassinate Trump, DOJ was involved in NY case

By: Landon Mion · David Spunt — June 4th 2024 at 03:32
Attorney General Merrick Garland will respond to false claims the FBI planned to kill former President Trump and false claims the DOJ was involved in Trump's New York case.

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Mexican kidnappers crossed US border to collect ransom, left hostage tied up in trench: docs

By: Chris Eberhart — June 4th 2024 at 03:00
Members of a Mexican family allegedly kidnapped a Los Angeles man in a violent abduction that was recorded and sent to family members with ransom demands

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Penalties for Hunter Biden's Alleged Gun Crimes Include Jail Time, Up to $250,000 in Fines

By: AWR Hawkins · AWR Hawkins — June 3rd 2024 at 18:45

The trial for Hunter Biden's three alleged gun crimes begins Tuesday and the penalties for some of the allegations include jail time and steep fines. 

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5 ways to maximize your chances of survival in a kidnapping situation: experts

By: Christina Coulter — May 31st 2024 at 03:00
These five tips from law enforcement experts could save your life if you are abducted.

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'FBI Lovebirds' Peter Strzok and Lisa Page Reach Tentative Settlement with DOJ

By: Olivia Rondeau · Olivia Rondeau — May 30th 2024 at 13:42

"FBI Lovebirds" Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have reached a tentative settlement with the DOJ over the alleged violation of their privacy rights.

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DOJ reaches settlement with ex-FBI 'lovebirds' caught in anti-Trump text scandal

By: Jamie Joseph — May 30th 2024 at 07:30
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page settled with the DOJ over privacy violations from their released texts, pending a judge's approval, while Strzok's lawsuit for backpay continues.

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Authorities arrest Chinese suspect behind $99M botnet, dismantling major crime network

— May 30th 2024 at 05:48
An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and dismantled one of the world's largest botnets, which was operational for over a decade.

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FBI: Human Smuggler Shot at Border Patrol Agents in Texas

By: Ildefonso Ortiz · Ildefonso Ortiz — May 25th 2024 at 19:18

A suspected human smuggler from South Texas is facing federal charges for allegedly shooting several times at U.S. Border Patrol agents who had tried to stop him in a brushy area near the border.

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Former CIA Agent Pleads Guilty to Spying for China

By: Olivia Rondeau · Olivia Rondeau — May 25th 2024 at 12:59

A Hong Kong-born former U.S. CIA agent has pleaded guilty to spying on behalf of China, the Department of Justice announced Friday. 

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Jack Smith asks judge to restrict Trump statements after 'inflammatory' remarks about FBI raid

By: Michael Dorgan — May 25th 2024 at 08:32
Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump to bar him from public statements that may pose a danger to law enforcement.

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ICE confirms Jordanians who attempted to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico were both in US illegally

By: Greg Wehner · Bill Melugin — May 23rd 2024 at 21:12
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement confirmed that two Jordanian nationals who were apprehended after attempting to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico, are in country illegally.

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The Trump Mar-a-Lago lethal force claim is just stupid. But it's par for the course

By: Andrew McCarthy — May 23rd 2024 at 10:32
All search warrants involve the possibility of forced entry. All of them involve police seizures of property, which can subject the personnel involved to legal as well as safety risks.

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Trump Mar-a-Lago case and felony warrant are Exhibit A in political weaponization of our justice system

By: Brett Tolman — May 23rd 2024 at 10:32
The DOJ and FBI should have coordinated with Trump’s attorneys, conducted their search for documents at Mar-a-Lago and avoided the raid.

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FBI agents raided the office and business of a Mississippi prosecutor, but no one is saying why

— May 22nd 2024 at 19:50
The business and office of Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens was raided by the FBI, although officials did not say whether the Mississippi prosecutor was suspected of wrongdoing.

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Conservatives blast Biden admin authorizing 'deadly use of force' for Trump Mar-a-Lago raid

By: Greg Wehner — May 22nd 2024 at 18:50
Conservative group says everyone, regardless of political leanings, should be 'outraged' at Biden administration's authorization of deadly force during Mar-a-Lago raid.

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FBI Agents Were Authorized to Use 'Deadly Force' at Mar-a-Lago When Seizing Documents

By: Kristina Wong · Kristina Wong — May 22nd 2024 at 13:26

FBI agents were authorized to use "deadly force" if necessary during the raid of Mar-a-Lago when seizing suspected classified documents, recently unsealed court filings reveal.

The post FBI Agents Were Authorized to Use ‘Deadly Force’ at Mar-a-Lago When Seizing Documents appeared first on Breitbart.

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Obama State Dept blocked FBI from arresting supporters of Iran nuclear program in US: Emails

By: Brooke Singman — May 22nd 2024 at 13:56
Obama-Biden State Department “actively interfered" with the FBI executing arrest warrants on individuals allegedly supporting Iranian efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction

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Sen. Bob Menendez's Home Found with over $480K Cash, $150K of Gold Bars

By: Elizabeth Weibel · Elizabeth Weibel — May 21st 2024 at 19:55

The home of a New Jersey Democrat, who has been accused of accepting bribes and using his power as an elected official to benefit the Egyptian government, was searched and discovered to be holding more than $600,000 in cash and gold bars.

The post Sen. Bob Menendez’s Home Found with over $480K Cash, $150K of Gold Bars appeared first on Breitbart.

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New York City mayor's aide now cooperating with federal corruption probe: report

By: Charles Creitz — May 21st 2024 at 15:59
After the feds announced a probe into international flights taken on Turkish Airlines by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the New York Times reported the mayor's top aide is cooperating.

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Report: Donald Trump Eyes DOJ, FBI Purge upon Reelection

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 20th 2024 at 11:33

Former President Donald Trump will purge the administrative state by firing career bureaucrats from the DOJ and the FBI if he wins reelection, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters.

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'Something doesn't sound right' about attempted Quantico breach: Mike Pompeo

By: Fox News Staff — May 18th 2024 at 16:00
Fox News contributor Mike Pompeo sounds off on the Biden administration for choosing to 'hide' and 'delay' information about the Marine Corp base breach in Virginia.

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Serial killer Christopher Wilder may be tied to other unsolved Florida, New York killings

By: Audrey Conklin — May 18th 2024 at 03:00
Christopher Wilder was a serial killer accused of murdering eight girls and women across the country in the 1980s, and he may be tied to others in Florida and New York.

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Ted Cruz Calls for Investigation into Reports of China, Cuba Fueling Anti-Israel Protests in U.S.

By: Joshua Klein · Joshua Klein — May 17th 2024 at 13:13

The Biden administration must investigate reports of communist China and Cuba directly funding and influencing radical left-wing organizations to incite anti-Israel and anti-American protests across the U.S., according to Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who noted the goal of such externally funded subversion campaigns is to create chaos, weaken the country, and “tear us apart.”

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Inmates accused of killing Whitey Bulger in prison agree to plea deals: 3 facts from gangster's FBI files

By: Chris Eberhart — May 17th 2024 at 03:00
Three inmates accused of killing Whitey Bulger agreed to plea deals this week, according to federal court filings.

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'Heightened threat' of terrorism during Pride Month 2024, FBI and DHS warn

By: Timothy Nerozzi — May 16th 2024 at 13:32
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security released a public service announcement last week claiming that Pride month events are at a heightened risk of terrorist activity.

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Garland rips 'unfounded' effort to hold him in contempt after Biden asserts executive privilege over Hur audio

By: Danielle Wallace — May 16th 2024 at 10:38
Attorney General Merrick Garland defended President Biden's decision to assert executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

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'Sharp Increase': More Than 100K Police Officers Attacked on the Job in Two Years

By: Olivia Rondeau · Olivia Rondeau — May 15th 2024 at 13:31

More than 100,000 law enforcement officers have been attacked on the job in the last two years, FBI statistics show.

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As assaults on law enforcement hit 10-year high, police union says officers 'treated like scum'

By: Christina Coulter — May 15th 2024 at 03:00
Assaults on police officers are at a 10-year high, with 79,000 officers attacked while on duty last year, according to newly released FBI data.

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Maryland woman pleads guilty to conspiracy in alleged extremist plot to attack Baltimore power grid

By: Greg Wehner — May 14th 2024 at 16:40
Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiring to take out five substations in the Baltimore region to help break down society.

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Dolton board makes new move against scandal-ridden 'supermayor' Tiffany Henyard

By: Michael Dorgan — May 14th 2024 at 11:09
Dolton board members have appointed a mayor pro tempore to serve in place of controversial Mayor Tiffany Henyard should she not to execute her duties

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Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez faces second federal corruption trial with jury selection starting Monday

By: Danielle Wallace — May 13th 2024 at 06:28
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez., on allegations he acted to benefit foreign governments

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Trump: Documents Case Is Nothing But an 'Election Interference Scam'

By: Kristina Wong · Kristina Wong — May 10th 2024 at 17:53

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called Special Counsel Jack Smith's documents case an "Election Interference Scam" after he recently admitted in a recent filing the FBI messed with boxes of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

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NPR Admits Joe Biden's Immigrants Spike Crime in New York City

By: Warner Todd Huston · Warner Todd Huston — May 10th 2024 at 11:10

Crime is rising rapidly in New York City due to a wave of President Joe Biden's immigrants, and even NPR admits the trend.

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Exclusive — Sen. J.D. Vance: America 'Under Attack' from Chinese 'State-Sponsored' Hackers

By: Sean Moran · Sean Moran — May 10th 2024 at 10:26

Sen. J.D. Vance warned about how America is "under attack" from Chinese government-sponsored state hacking group Volt Typhoon.

The post Exclusive — Sen. J.D. Vance: America ‘Under Attack’ from Chinese ‘State-Sponsored’ Hackers appeared first on Breitbart.

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FBI slams 'false and insulting' claim it urged more warrantless wiretaps on Americans

By: Michael Lee — May 9th 2024 at 15:37
The FBI pushed back on a report that said a top official at the law enforcement agency had encouraged employees to engage in more warrantless wiretapping on U.S. soil.

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Guns thefts from cars have tripled over the past decade, FBI data shows

— May 9th 2024 at 08:08
Over the past decade, the rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled, now constituting the largest source of stolen firearms in the country.

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Trump says keeping FBI in DC will be 'centerpiece of my plan' rebuilding capital city

By: Timothy Nerozzi — May 8th 2024 at 06:14
Former President Donald Trump wrote on Tuesday via his social media platform Truth Social that if elected to a second term, he would ensure the FBI headquarters stays in Washington, D.C.

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The Smirnov turnoff, Devine ed.

By: Scott Johnson — February 26th 2024 at 10:17
(Scott Johnson)

Miranda Devine addresses “The Smirnov turnoff” in today’s New York Post column “New election year means another Russiagate as Biden, Dems try to smear impeachment probe.” Devine is of course the invaluable historian of The Laptop From Hell and the Biden family business. Here is the opening of her column:

For the 2016 election, Democrats launched Russiagate 1.0: the Trump-Russia collusion hoax proven groundless by the Mueller investigation.

For the 2020 election, it was Russiagate 2.0. Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken prompted former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell to concoct the “Dirty 51” letter falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop was Russian disinformation.

That lie justified censorship of The Post’s accurate stories from the laptop of Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s international influence peddling schemes.

Now that we’re heading into the 2024 election, we have Russiagate 3.0. Democrats pretend the impeachment inquiry has “utterly collapsed” because of the curious indictment last week of trusted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov on false statement charges after he allegedly told his FBI handler that Hunter and Joe each had received a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainians.

In a frantic effort to keep Smirnov in jail pre-trial, prosecutors for notorious Biden protector David Weiss, the Delaware US attorney, used language ripped straight out of the Russiagate textbook: “Smirnov’s efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties [Joe] continues.”

Now Smirnov is being used as make-believe vindication of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the fake laptop letter to help Biden win the 2020 election.

Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA operations officer who claims to be a victim of the dubious “Havana syndrome,” pounced on the Smirnov story.

“It validates exactly what we were warning about,” he told NBC News. “The Russians were going to push this narrative of Hunter Biden and corruption, to hurt Joe Biden.”

No. Hunter’s “laptop from hell” was not Russian disinformation. It still isn’t. The FBI has had it in its possession since December 2019 and has authenticated it as real and valid for use in court.

The Dirty 51 are grasping at straws to try to justify their interference in the 2020 election. It wasn’t the Russians. It was Trump-deranged former CIA management who felt any means justified the ends if they could stop Trump winning a second term.

But now, as the laptop is augmented by whistleblower receipts and witness testimony, and as House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer unravels the complex web of corrupt foreign payments to the Biden family, the president’s praetorian guard is desperate. They are drowning in evidence of corruption while burbling, “There is no evidence!” Russia is all they have.

The joke is on Biden’s media handmaidens still pushing Joe Biden’s absurd lies.

No, the laptop is not a “Russian plant,” as he claimed. And, yes, Joe did talk to Hunter about his “overseas business dealings.”

Heck, he did a lot more than talk.

He made himself available for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffees, and pleasant chit chat on the speakerphone with Hunter’s foreign benefactors, all to oil the wheels of the family business — which was selling access to him, as he well knew.

“Look after my boy,” he told Kremlin-backed oligarch Elena Baturina and her husband, Yuri Luzhkov, the corrupt former mayor of Moscow, when Hunter activated the speakerphone at a Russian restaurant in Brooklyn called Romanoff on May 4, 2014.

They sure did. Just three months earlier, Baturina had wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, the firm cofounded by Hunter, his “best friend in business” Devon Archer, John Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz, and Jimmy Bulger, nephew of mobster “Whitey” Bulger.

Devine has much more here.

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Killer Trifecta

By: Lloyd Billingsley — February 24th 2024 at 18:22
(Lloyd Billingsley)

As mentioned in a previous item, Philip Haney, author of See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad, had a sequel in the works, but turned up dead by gunshot in Amador County, California, in early 2020. Dr. Katherine Raven, who has performed more than 5000 forensic autopsies, signed off on a “homicide autopsy.”

Two years later, under a sheriff who graduated from the FBI academy, a deputy with no apparent medical training listed “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” as the cause of death.

The FBI held on to Haney’s computer, thumb drives, and “whistleblower documents.” The DHS accused Haney of harboring “contraband” and violating five federal laws. The signs point to a faked suicide, hardly a new tactic. As Sidney Hook recalled in Out of Step, Soviet defector Gen. Walter Krivitsky was “suicided” in a Washington hotel room by Stalin’s NKVD, forerunner to the KGB.

Danish diplomat Povl Bang-Jensen refused to reveal names of Hungarian patriots who testified to the UN about Soviet atrocities during the 1956 invasion. In 1959, after going missing for two days, Bang-Jensen was found dead in a New York park, shot through the right temple. The scene looked staged but the case was officially declared a suicide. See Betrayal at the UN, by DeWitt Copp and Marshal Peck.

In 1993, White House official Vincent Foster turned up dead in Fort Marcy Park. The death was ruled a suicide but the scene left plenty to ponder, especially as the Clinton White House senior staff behaved in highly suspicious ways after Foster’s death (removing—and likely destroying—files from his office, etc.) See The Strange Death of Vincent Foster, by Christopher Ruddy.

Communist assassins also killed by staging fake car accidents. That was the fate of Soviet actor Solomon Mikhoels, artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. By this time, Stalin had revived traditional Russian anti-Semitism, branding Jews “rootless cosmpolitans.”

Nobel laureate Albert Camus, author of The Plague and other books, opposed the Soviet invasion of Hungary and was on record that Communism equals murder. In The Death of Camus, Giovanni Catelli compiles evidence that Camus was the victim of a fake car accident set up by the KGB. The ultimate trick, as Whittaker Chambers explained in Witness, was to make the assassination look like a natural death. That is a distinct possibility in several cases, to be explored at length in future.

The death of Philip Haney, meanwhile, shows what can happen to those who expose Islamic terrorists and their enablers in the US government. That raises issues for those who expose the FBI as the government’s secret police and KGB. When booting up a computer or tablet, see if “FBI Van,” or “FBI Surveillance Van,” show up in other networks in your neighborhood, then suddenly disappear.

Watch for persons unknown offering to send materials to your residence. Take note of strangers who suddenly engage you in conversation and just before leaving ask where you live. Apprise colleagues, friends and loved ones of these realities. Most important, never stop calling out those who attack the God-given freedoms of the people.

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The Smirnov turnoff

By: Scott Johnson — February 24th 2024 at 07:31
(Scott Johnson)

We are apparently meant to take last week’s indictment of long-time FBI confidential human source Alexander Smirnov as a repudiation of what we have learned about the Biden family business. Smirnov’s indictment was sought by Biden-friendly United States Attorney David Weiss. It is linked in the related Department of Justice press release.

Kim Strassel observes in her weekly Wall Street Journal column: “If th[e allegations are] true, it ought to be massive story that the FBI for 13 years relied on a man who prosecutors now worry has troubling and ‘extensive’ ties to Russian intelligence. Instead, the media in its desire to embarrass Republicans is working to absolve the FBI, with the New York Times explaining the bureau never did ‘think much’ of the Smirnov claims and concluded in 2020 that they ‘did not merit continued investigation.’”

This particular episode of the Biden saga reminds me of the phonetically linked Yakov Smirnoff. Smirnoff is the immigrant comedian who wielded his catchphrase to great effect: What a country! Smirnoff’s catchphrase might qualify as the motto of the entire saga of the Biden family business. Looking around for a photo of Yakov Smirnoff I discovered that Jonathan Turley also drew on Smirnoff’s work in his New York Post column on the indictment.

Peter Schweizer first outlined the Biden family saga based entirely on publicly available documents in Profiles in Corruption (2020). In one of the interviews about the book, Peter observed: “We’re not talking about a congressman who’s trying to get a road paving for his nephew from the federal highway funds…We’re talking about globalized graft and corruption involving actors around the world who don’t particularly have the interests of the United States at heart.”

Yesterday Andrew McCarthy elaborated on “David Weiss’s Very Peculiar Smirnov Indictment in the Biden Case.” He commented: “[N]one of the most critical evidence of Biden-family influence-peddling comes from Smirnov or Russians.”

I sat down intending to demonstrate the irrelevance of the Smirnov indictment in light of the evidence accumulated to date, but Andy has done my job for me this morning in today’s NRO column “The Smirnov Indictment Does Not Vindicate the Bidens.” Subhead: “There is already extensive evidence, having nothing to do with Smirnov, of corrupt Biden-family influence-peddling.” If you can’t see the corruption, you’re not paying attention or you’re not looking. It’s in plain view. Miranda Devine also makes this point in her accessible New York Post column “Despite media spin, there’s still overwhelming evidence Joe Biden knew of family’s business dealings.”

I’m sorry McCarthy’s columns are posted behind NRO’s paywall. I wish some public-spirited benefactor would make a deal with NR’s publisher to extract McCarthy from NRO’s paywall prison. He brings his long experience as a federal prosecutor to bear and is the best columnist out there on matters at the intersection of law and politics.

The Wall Street Journal has posted Mark Kelly’s accessible video below in connection with the appearance of James Biden for deposition by the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees behind closed doors this week (Fox News story here). The caption on the video reads: “The latest revelations in the House Oversight Committee investigation into Biden family business dealings surrounds two checks that landed in Joe Biden’s personal bank account, one for $40,000, the other for $200,000.” As I say, if you can’t see it you’re not looking.

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CONFIRMED: The FBI Has Spies in Catholic Churches to Hunt for ‘Domestic Terrorism’

By: Robert Spencer — April 11th 2023 at 04:00
CONFIRMED: The FBI Has Spies in Catholic Churches to Hunt for ‘Domestic Terrorism’
New in PJ Media: A few weeks ago, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, “Are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin Mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?” Garland pleaded innocent, insisting, “No, the Justice Department does not do that and does not, uh, um, do investigations based on religion.” But […]
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Great Idea! Trump Calls for Defunding the FBI and DOJ

By: Robert Spencer — April 6th 2023 at 05:00
Great Idea! Trump Calls for Defunding the FBI and DOJ
New in PJ Media: Donald Trump said it in an all-caps message on Truth Social Wednesday morning: “REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES. THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TOTALLY WEAPONIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ARE VICIOUSLY USING THIS ABUSE OF POWER TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ALREADY UNDER SIEGE […]
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Now That the FBI Is Just the Left’s Enforcement Arm, House GOP Threatens to Hold up Funding for Its Massive New HQ

By: Robert Spencer — March 30th 2023 at 04:00
Now That the FBI Is Just the Left’s Enforcement Arm, House GOP Threatens to Hold up Funding for Its Massive New HQ
New in PJ Media: You can see it in the classic movie The Godfather: the Mafia chieftain, Don Corleone, reluctantly agrees to meet with his chief enforcer, Luca Brasi, because he is aware of a cardinal law of the underworld: keep your muscle happy, or your muscle could turn on you. In the same spirit, the […]
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