David Harsanyi’s latest article for thefederalist.com, titled “It’s Increasingly Clear The Feds Were Protecting Joe Biden, Not Hunter”, nails the meaning and importance of yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the Biden crime family (what would you call them) about as well as it can be done.
No cutesiness, no too-clever-by-half rhetoric, no overdramatization. Just plain facts.
Here are a few key excerpts (more of the article than I’d usually post, but I don’t want to leave any of it out):
Two veteran IRS agents with impeccable records have now testified under oath that federal officials not only slow-walked the Hunter Biden probe but nixed efforts to investigate Joe’s role in the family business.
On Wednesday, we learned the identity of “Whistleblower X.” Joseph Ziegler, a self-proclaimed Democrat who worked at the agency since 2010, told the House Oversight Committee that he handled 95 percent of the evidence in the Hunter tax investigation. Ziegler testified that throughout the five-year investigation, he was “handcuffed,” “hamstrung,” “marginalized,” and ultimately stopped from moving forward in the manner he would for any other scofflaw.
Ziegler wrote a 99-page memo laying out the case for felony charges, wholly consistent with the IRS guidelines governing charging in tax evasion cases. He maintains that every investigator and prosecutor on the case agreed felonies were in order — all of which should be easy enough to find out.
Sure, it’s fun to talk about salacious parts of the Hunter case, but the far bigger concern should be finding out why companies operating in authoritarian nations sent Biden $17 million. It would be a fair question even if there had been no criminal investigation.
Gary Shapley, the second whistleblower, also testified that every time prosecutors wanted to talk to Joe’s grown grandchildren or others who were receiving payments from foreign companies connected to the “big guy,” investigators shut them down. Shapley told the committee that every step of the way “decisions were made that benefited the subject of this investigation.” That included the Justice Department stretching out the investigation to allow the statute of limitations to expire.
Shapley says a U.S. attorney for D.C. appointed by Joe Biden was the one who had the final call on whether felony charges were brought against Hunter. U.S. Attorney David Weiss, he testified under oath, told a room filled with five other senior FBI and IRS agents that he was “not the deciding person on whether charges are filed.” Maybe Congress should get everyone else under oath and find out?
Any real political journalist with access would be pressuring the White House daily to explain what services Joe Biden’s son, brother, and grown grandchildren — and virtually every other member of his family — rendered foreign entities in Romania, China, and Ukraine that were worth over $17 million. The president could make this all go away by explaining the situation.
Frankly, I don’t expect to ever find out. It is what it is, but please stop telling me no one is above the law.
This is real. This isn’t some concoction about classified documents or a preposterous 27 year old claim of “rape” in the fitting room of a busy department store that no one else noticed.
This is millions and millions of dollars from foreign interests being shuttled through a bunch of shell corporations (any hope they’ll check to see if taxes were paid on the money) to members of the current president’s family – which we are supposed to believe then-Vice President Joe Biden didn’t provide any value for and knew nothing about.
This is criminal activity. Major criminal activity by and on behalf of the Biden family – absolutely, unequivocally including President Joe Biden – that every effort has been made to sweep under the rug by agencies that we used to have at least some reason to believe are respectable and uncompromised, but have no reason to believe it any more.
This may well be the single biggest political scandal in United States History. And we’re supposed to be too stupid, and/or too gullible and/or too partisan to either notice or give a damn about.
I’m not. Are you?
