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Devon Archer, a Biden family business associate and Hunter’s “best friend in business,” reportedly backed out of his scheduled appearance on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, canceling for a third time .

Does the oversight committee have teeth?

Put Archer in the same prison with the January 6th political prisoners awaiting speedy trials.

Weiss knew in 2020 that the FBI had corroborated the confidential informant’s story of Biden bribery

David Weiss, the US Attorney for the District of Delaware charged with investigating Biden, has a lot of explaining to do when he testifies before Congress in September or October. Thanks to the efforts of Senator Grassley, the public now has then the FBI Form 1023, with the account of outright bribery bribery of the Biden crime family following what sounds like a shakedown of Burisma. The 1023 account is based on a still-anonymous Confidential Human Source (CHS) who had previously proven reliable.

But now, thanks to the work of Professor Margot Cleveland, we learn that FBI agents from the Pittsburgh field office vetted the claims of the CHS and found support for them. More importantly, David Weiss, the US Attorney for Delaware, was briefed on the allegations and their corroboration on October 2020. Prof. Cleveland writes:

The Federalist has now learned that the Pittsburgh FBI office had corroborated several details contained in the FD-1023 as part of the intake process that former Attorney General William Barr established before the election under the leadership of the Western District of Pennsylvania’s then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady. Significantly, in briefing the Delaware U.S. attorney on the results of their office’s screening of evidence related to Ukraine, the Pittsburgh FBI agents told the Delaware office they had corroborated multiple facts included in the FD-1023, an individual with knowledge of the briefing told The Federalist.

Following the late June 2020 interview with the CHS, the Pittsburgh FBI office obtained travel records for the CHS, and those records confirmed the CHS had traveled to the locales detailed in the FD-1023 during the relevant time period. The trips included a late 2015 or early 2016 visit to Kiev, Ukraine; a trip a couple of months later to Vienna, Austria; and travel to London in 2019.

There is further corroboration offered in the article.

Keep in mind that the Pittsburgh FBI office was granted a very limited role by then-AG Barr:

As Barr previously made clear, the role of the Pittsburgh office was limited to providing a “clearing-house function” for information related to Ukraine to weed out “any potential disinformation.” The purpose of the intake process, Barr stressed, was to “check[] out the source and credibility of evidence before assigning it to one of the ongoing investigations already pending in the Department,” such as the Delaware investigation into Hunter Biden.

As such, the Pittsburgh office lacked the authority to subpoena witnesses or records or to use grand jury proceedings to further corroborate the FD-1023. That responsibility fell with the Delaware office.

Weiss’s subsequent behavior raises a lot of questions for Congress to explore:

But not only did the Delaware office apparently ignore the allegations contained in the FD-1023, as well as the corroborating evidence already allegedly accumulated by the Pittsburgh FBI office, but U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s office allegedly secreted the very existence of the FD-1023 from the whistleblowers. Both IRS whistleblowers testified last week that they did not even learn of the existence of the FD-1023 until Barr publicly confirmed he had sent the information to Delaware for further investigation.

Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf also excluded the IRS agents working the Hunter Biden investigation from the meeting at which the Pittsburgh FBI agents briefed the office on the FD-1023 and the corroborating evidence they had already uncovered. The IRS whistleblowers further testified that portions of Hunter Biden’s laptop were withheld from them and they were explicitly prohibited from taking any investigative steps connected to Joe Biden — or questioning anyone by using Joe Biden’s name, “Dad,” or “the Big Guy.”

Assistant Us Attorney Lesly Wolf also behaved in other questionable was, as Prof Cleveland earlier wrote:

Grassley then highlighted the numerous ways Wolf appeared to have obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden’s potentially criminal business activities. “IRS whistleblowers have affirmed that AUSA Wolf prevented investigators from seeking information about Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s criminal business arrangements,” Grassley said, adding that she also “frustrated investigative efforts” by the IRS agents to question Hunter Biden’s business partner, Rob Walker, about Joe Biden.

Wolf also refused to allow agents to search Joe Biden’s guest house, even though there was “more than enough probable cause,” and she prevented investigators from searching a storage unit used by the now-president’s son, the letter said. In fact, Grassley stressed, Wolf alerted Hunter Biden’s lawyers to the investigators’ interest in the storage unit.

Given what Grassley called Wolf’s “questionable and obstructive conduct,” he asked Weiss whether Wolf had taken “similar proactive measures to frustrate any investigation into the FD-1023.” Grassley also probed Weiss’s knowledge of the accusations leveled against Wolf and how he has handled them. From Grassley’s questions, he seems to believe Wolf knows whether the DOJ buried evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden received bribes from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma.

AUSA Wolf should answer for these actions, but it appears that the Justice Department maybe trying to obstruct testimony to Congress, as Debra Heine writes at American Greatness:

In their response, the Department said Weiss was the right person to address the allegations of the two IRS whistleblowers and the committees’ questions about the scope of his authority.

“The Department believes it is strongly in the public interest for the American people and for Congress to hear directly from U.S. Attorney Weiss on these assertions and questions about his authority at a public hearing,” the letter to Jordan said. “To address these issues, U.S. Attorney Weiss is available to appear at a public hearing before the Committee, consistent with the law and Department policy, after the House returns from its August district work period.”

But Uriarte added the Department was “deeply concerned” by the chairmen’s notification on Monday that the Committee had authorized deposition subpoenas for the other individuals identified in their June 29 letter.

“Any attempts at compulsory process are unjustified and premature,” he wrote. “The Committee authorized subpoenas less than a business day after your July 21 letter and before the stated deadline in that letter. It has been less than a month since the Committee’s original requests, and little more than a week since the Department responded to that letter on the date requested by the Committee.”

Uriarte said the Department would continue to discuss the matter with the Committee.

Those discussions should include Congress’s constitutional duty to provide oversight for the executive branch. That duty entitles Congress to subpoena responsible employees of the Justice Department, like Wolf. Anything less smacks of conspiracy to obstruct Congress and cover up serious crimes.

https://www.americanthinker.co..._biden_bribery_.html

The subtle change in messaging at yesterdays cringe Jean-Pierre presser.
Clearly that's to cover for Devon Archers potential testimony that Hunter called his "dad" during business meetings dozens of times.

Nothing to see here, aaand we're walking...

^^^^

It's hardly subtle.

"I've been asked this question a million times and my answer is not going to change..."

Except it DID change:

Previously Joe Biden said, “I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses.”
Today, the White House appears to have modified that position and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre now says, “the President was never in business with his son.”
WATCH:

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It's hardly subtle.

Well, it wasn't to me either, and yet it didn't seem like anyone there caught it to press the issue at the time. I guess we'll see going forward.

Regardless, as anyone that pays attention already knew, he's been lying about it for years.

Only An Impeachment Inquiry Can Unravel Biden Family Corruption And The Feds’ Role
By: Margot Cleveland

Last week, our country passed the tipping point: The evidence of President Joe Biden’s corruption during his time as vice president is now so overwhelming and the implications so serious, the disparate investigations underway in the House and Senate can no longer suffice. Nor can the Department of Justice and the FBI — even under the auspices of a special counsel — be trusted to oversee the investigation given the overwhelming evidence that they obstructed the probe into the Biden family.

There is only one option left that can deliver truth and transparency to the American public, and that is an impeachment inquiry that investigates not just President Joe Biden, but Attorney General Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney David Weiss, and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

https://thefederalist.com/2023...n-and-the-feds-role/

What's going on with Biden's Dog??

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/...ent-one-to-hospital/

Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nearly 2-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House over similar aggressive behavior, according to internal Secret Service communications reviewed by The Post.

The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously reported — mirrors attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021.

In the most serious documented incident involving Commander, the White House physician’s office on Nov. 3, 2022, referred a bitten Secret Service uniformed officer to a local hospital for treatment after the dog clamped down on their arm and thigh, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Act to conservative legal group Judicial Watch.

Records show Commander broke the skin of a different Secret Service member’s hand and arm weeks later after the president unleashed him outside the White House following a family movie night — and the following month, Commander bit the back of a security technician at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home.

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Sounds as well as he raises dogs like he raises children

The entire lot is feral, why would you expect the dog to be different?

Saw a little video on one of Biden's gaffs today and someone commented on how Biden has brought dignity and integrity back to the White House and fixed the economy.




Yet another example of the dignity Biden has brought to the White House. Maybe they need to keep the dogs away from the white powder.

What tha FUCK?!

Biden claims he effectively 'ended cancer as we know it'

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"One of the things I'm always asked is why Americans have sort of lost faith for a while in being able to do big things. If you could do anything at all Joe, what would you do? I said I'd cure cancer. They looked at me like why cancer? Because no one thinks we can. That's why and we can. We ended cancer as we know it," the president declared.

When the Emperor holds court, he can claim anything he wants, the truth be damned, and none in attendance will challenge him. That's what we've come to: a press which has completely abdicated their responsibility to the truth and who don't merely stand idly by, mute; they excuse outrageous, complete lies such as this and protect His Majesty without question.

That sack of shit is cancer, ass cancer..

Seems Hunters lawyers tried to pull a fast one a bit ago. If it was an actual lawyer, they could potentially be disbarred...

By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:49 EDT, 25 July 2023 | UPDATED: 19:11 EDT, 25 July 2023


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...explain-tonight.html

EXCLUSIVE:
Hunter Biden's lawyers face SANCTIONS after being accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal tax case as judge orders First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by tonight
-Hunter Biden's legal team is accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal case
-The alleged dirty trick was a ploy to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers from the court docket
-Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered Hunter's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm today or be sanctioned

Hunter Biden's lawyers face potential sanctions after allegedly lying to the clerk in his criminal case.

Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered the First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.

The alleged dirty trick was a ploy to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers about the Justice Department's lackluster criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax offenses from the court docket.

Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter's 'sweetheart' plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President's son preferential treatment.

It is claimed that someone from Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.


Basically, the US House added some of their findings to the case in a brief, and Hunters lawyers tried to trick the court clerk into removing them... That's not going to help their case, obviously, and the judge does NOT have to accept the plea deal. This might be just the nudge the judge needs to toss the deal.

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Here is another article on that subject that is a little easier to understand.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/...al-damning-evidence/

stoic - This is such a dirty trick, I thought it might be good to include more from your article


Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter's 'sweetheart' plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President's son preferential treatment.

It is claimed that someone from Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.

The documents were then taken down and sealed.

Kittila, quickly filed a second outraged letter to the judge.

'We promptly contacted the clerk's office, and we were advised that someone contacted the court representing that they worked with my office and that they were asking the court to remove this from the docket,' Kittila wrote to the judge.

'We immediately advised that this was inaccurate.'

In a fiery email exchange with Kittila about the apparent skullduggery, Hunter's lawyer Clark hit back, denying any improper conduct and claiming 'the clerk took the filing down on their own accord'.

But the top Republican's lawyer included in his filing a copy of an email from the Delaware clerk, backing up his claims.

'The woman who called was a Jessica Bengels,' he wrote adding her phone number.

'She said she worked with Theodore Kittila and it was important the document was removed immediately,' the clerk, Sam Grimes, wrote to Kittila.

According to Grimes's email, the alleged trickster is New York-based Latham & Watkins litigation services director Jessica Bengels.

Bengels' LinkedIn page says she has been 'litigation services counsel' at the firm since January 2023, and has worked there since 2006. She went to Brown University then Fordham law school.

Clark worked for Latham & Watkins up until April this year.

Hunter's lawyers claim that the filing contained 'personal tax information' and should be sealed, despite the same documents being publicly released online by the House Ways and Means Committee a month ago.

'Your attempts to publicly file my client's personal financial information with no protections are improper, illegal and in violation of applicable rules,' Clark wrote to Kittila. 'I stand by all of my statements.'

Judge Noreika appeared displeased, issuing an order on Tuesday afternoon over the alleged dirty trick giving Hunter's lawyers just hours to justify themselves.

'It appears that the caller misrepresented her identity and who she worked for in an attempt to improperly convince the clerk's office to remove the amicus materials from the docket,' the order said.

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Here is another article on that subject that is a little easier to understand.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/...al-damning-evidence/

A tad easier, yes. thanks sdy and wcb6092

Also, at the 1st link, all the correspondence is presented.

Wasn't this supposed to be decided tomorrow?

If Ms. Bengels did that, either on her own or in concert with someone, sanctions is the least of her problems.

Judges like skilled litigation but they won't stand for stuff like this. Ms. Bengels is in a heap of trouble if the call came from her.

The clerk has already said who it was and the representation was made that she was working with the other firm. Judges will back their clerks until the end of time and the clerk's word will be gospel.

The Daily Mail article added the following update: PUBLISHED: 17:49 EDT, 25 July 2023 | UPDATED: 21:31 EDT, 25 July 2023

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Hunter Biden's lawyers have responded to allegations that they conspired to lie to a court clerk in the First Son's criminal case in Delaware.

Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika had ordered the First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.

Just before the deadline, Hunter's Latham & Watkins lawyer Matthew Salerno filed a response claiming the incident was down to 'an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication.'

It was alleged that Hunter's lawyers sought to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers about the Justice Department's lackluster criminal investigation into his tax offenses from the court docket.

'The matter under consideration appears to stem from an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the Court. We have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred, but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation,' Salerno wrote to Judge Noreika on Tuesday evening.

He claimed that Jessica Bengels, the Latham staffer accused of pretending to be from another law firm, has a phone number which should show up as 'LATHAM' on the clerk's caller ID.

Salerno attached an affidavit from Bengels, in which she claimed she initially called a different court clerk, ‘Julia’, from her Latham phone, identified herself truthfully, but was later called back by the first clerk, Samantha.

‘At around 11.54am, another Court employee called my Latham & Watkins phone number (which I believe she knew through caller ID) to let me know she would be removing the material from the docket,’ Bengels wrote. ‘She did not ask which law firm I was affiliated with, and at no time during this call did I mention anything about my law firm affiliation.

‘I believe there may have been some confusion when Julia passed the information on to the other Court employee, resulting in a mistaken understanding that I had called from Mr. Kittila’s firm.

‘I am completely confident that I never indicated that I was calling from Mr. Kittila’s firm or that I worked with him in any way.’

Regarding the last 2 lines, sure, uh huh, where would she have got that idea from...