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Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele

2025-02-24

[IsraelTimes] Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them

Argentinian President Javier Milei promised officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center his full cooperation in granting access to documents related to the financing of so-called "ratlines" that helped Nazis escape Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
after the Holocaust. The promise was made in Buenos Aires at the presidential palace, Casa Rosada, during a meeting with Milei and activists on Tuesday.

That man is repeatedly a delightful surprise — he keeps doing things that we wanted but that somehow until him could not be done. And President Trump is another — and they seem to be inspiring each other to greater heights. Truly we live in a time of miracles!

For decades, organizations including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after the famed Nazi hunter, have sought records related to unofficial escape routes taken by thousands of Nazis during the years after World War II. Up to 10,000 Nazis and other fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
war criminals escaped justice by fleeing to Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
and other countries.

"While some previous leaders promised full cooperation to get to the hard truths that involved Argentina’s past, Milei is the first to act with lightning speed to enable the SWC to uncover important pieces of the historic puzzle, especially as it related to involvement with Nazis before, during and after the Holocaust," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Times of Israel.

Milei also made headlines last week for declaring two days of national mourning for the slain Bibas hostages — Shira Bibas and her children, Ariel and Kfir. An image of the trio was projected onto a central obelisk in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.

During the SWC meeting on Tuesday, Jonathan Missner, managing partner at Stein, Mitchell, Beato & Missner, brought a letter from US Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter — which was handed to Milei — requested the Argentinian leader’s assistance in uncovering how the ratlines were organized and funded. A copy of the letter was sent to US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
For many years, Missner and his firm have sought justice for victims of Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its terror proxies, including Hezbollah. The firm represents SWC in the Argentinian ratline matter and other concerns.

NAZIS’ ESCAPE ROUTES
Several countries in the Americas received Nazis, including Canada, the US, and Mexico. Nazis also fled to Australia, Spain, and Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
. In some cases, US intelligence officials used ratlines to pluck top Nazi scientists away from Soviet orbits.

One of two primary escape routes went through Germany and Spain, then across the Atlantic to Argentina. The second route went from Germany to Rome, then Genoa, and then across the Atlantic. The elaborate routes developed with unofficial support from several Vatican officials in 1942, initially as an escape path for Catholics fleeing Europe.

"People should understand that for many decades after the Holocaust, governments and multinational corporations helped Nazis hide their stolen money, avoid prosecution, and live the free lives that their victims deserved," Missner told The Times of Israel.

Up to 5,000 Nazis are said to have settled in Argentina, including Holocaust "architect" Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, one of the most recognizable — and wanted — Nazis. Traveling along a ratline in 1948, the notorious Auschwitz physician used the new identity of Helmut Gregor when fleeing Europe.

"These files will be instrumental in obtaining justice, which is instrumental to honoring the memory of those who suffered and died in the Holocaust," said Cooper. "Especially in a post-October 7 world, those who financed, facilitated, or otherwise assisted these ratlines must be held accountable," he said.

’WILL ONLY HELP HISTORIANS, IF AT ALL’
Not all advocates for Holocaust justice agree that Argentina’s decision was particularly monumental.

"My impression is that the decision to open all the archives regarding the entry to Argentina of Nazi criminals will only help historians, if at all. To the best of my knowledge, all the perpetrators are already dead, as well as the individuals who assisted their escape," Efraim Zuroff told The Times of Israel.

As a protégé of late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, Zuroff directed the SWC office in Jerusalem until last year. From Israel, he specialized in bringing eastern European Holocaust perpetrators to justice.

According to Zuroff, author Uki Goni’s "The Real Odessa" book previously "revealed the identity of the criminals, and those who assisted their escape and entry into Argentina," he said.

But from Missner’s point of view, factors other than securing convictions and revealing names are involved in the matter.

"Words are one thing — actions are another. President Milei’s historic decision signals his unequivocal allyship with the Jewish community while reinforcing his commitment to accountability and transparency at home," Missner told The Times of Israel.

Support for harboring Nazi war criminals went right to the top in Argentina, according to historians. President Juan Peron was angered by the Nuremberg Trials and authorized key facets of the escape routes, making them a state affair. In addition to German Nazis, the Peron regime and other South American governments aided war criminals from Hungary, Croatia and elsewhere.

"President Milei is a staunch ally of the global Jewish community and was eager to open these archives. He knows that confronting Argentina’s history of Nazi collaboration requires nothing less than full transparency, and the same principle undergirds his pursuit of justice for the AMIA bombing," said Missner.

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Government Corruption

Prior warning? Secret Service to face bombshell revelation from top Homeland watchdog

2024-08-01

[JustTheNews] Sources say inspector general about to release heavily redacted report showing it warned Secret Service about security deficiencies back in April.

After a gunman shot up the White House a decade ago, exposing vulnerabilities at one of America’s iconic landmarks, lawmakers in Congress got an unexpected second dose of bad news.

“The Secret Service did not identify best practices and lessons learned from the 2011 White House shooting incident,” the Homeland Security Department inspector general wrote in a stinging 2016 report that warned that an agency with a zero failure mission failed to learn from one of its high-profile setbacks.

Now eight years later, with the Secret Service once again reeling from a spectacular failure, the same watchdog office is about to drop a fresh bombshell certain to impact the investigation into the near assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Congress was briefed this week that months before the assassination attempt on Trump, Secret Service managers were warned by the Homeland inspector general about serious deficiencies, including communication woes with local police partners and inadequate training for agents who conducted security sweeps at events for protectees, sources told Just the News on Wednesday night.

The concerns flagged by Homeland Security Department Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari were related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but involve issues that have also been raised in the Secret Service's failures to stop a gunman from wounding Trump at a Butler, Pa., rally on July 13, the congressional aides said.

Some of the concerns could be made public as early as Thursday when Cuffari’s staff is expected to release to Congress a heavily redacted report that was completed in April and titled “USSS Preparation for and Response to the Events of January 6, 2021,” the aides said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because they weren’t permitted to talk to news media.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration subcommittee on oversight, has been pressing Cuffari to release the report and to resist extensive redactions being sought by the Secret Service and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

According to the congressional sources, the report in April made several specific recommendations to then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as a result of an internal investigation that found Secret Service agents failed to identify an active pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, and brought then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris within yards of the explosive device.

Congressional aides also told Just the News one of the findings was that the Secret Service should implement additional training related to security sweeps, such as the one that failed to detect the pipe bomb at the DNC back in 2021.

That recommendation created a heated response from Secret Service management, which insisted no additional training was needed because the agency had made some of its own changes in an April 2022 policy memo, the aides said.

Another recommendation related to communications with local law enforcement, which increasingly are called upon to assist Secret Service at major events like the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., the aides said.

During the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Secret Service needed to collaborate with other agencies including U.S. Capitol Police and Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police.

If both of those findings are formally released to Congress later this week, they will have immediate implications for simultaneous investigations ongoing in the House and Senate related to the July 13 assassination attempt.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has made public extensive information from local police authorities who worked with the Secret Service, including that the Secret Service failed to attend a briefing the morning of the Trump rally with local law enforcement, who then developed concerns about the eventual shooter more than 100 minutes before bullets began flying,

In addition, the Secret Service acknowledged it failed to cover the rooftop where the shooter fired from inside the event’s defined security perimeter even though it made for an ideal shooter’s nest.

One of the lawmakers participating in the Senate probe, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kanas, told Just the News on Wednesday the failures of the Secret Service are so extensive that an outside emergency intervention team of experts needs to be imposed on the agency to affect immediate change.

“I feel like our Secret Service is using technology and protocols from last century, as opposed to we really need: people on the ground, especially out there hunting for the bad guy, not just protecting the president,” he said. “I want people that are experts, going out there and profiling bad guys, and I'm going to be right in his face and figured out who this person is. So I think it's a cultural upside down problem, and they have to start over."

A lack – or failure – of communication between the Secret Service and its local law enforcement partners was one of the key security pillars that appears to have failed at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.

According to a detailed timeline assembled by Grassley after an investigation into the assassination attempt, local law enforcement spotted the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, nearly 100 minutes before he fired on Donald Trump and other rally attendees.

Nearly an hour and a half before Trump took the stage, texts show that local law enforcement noticed Crooks “snuck in” and “parked by our cars.” This identification came more than a hour before a local officer photographed Crooks and sent the pictures in a group message with other officers on the sniper teams. The other snipers recommended that the officer notify the Secret Service about the suspicious individual, Just the News reported.

The texts provided by Grassley indicate the local law enforcement team notified “command” about the suspicious individual, yet there is no indication that the Secret Service took any immediate actions regarding suspect.

Other key security failures highlight communications before and during the shooting. In some cases, there were warning signs even before the rally.

Shortly after the attempted assassination, a video emerged from the event that appears to show that rally attendees who were watching the speech from outside the fence warned the police that there was a suspicious individual climbing on the roof of the building from where Crooks ultimately opened fire. The video shows one man shouting, “Officer! Officer!” and a woman saying, “He’s on the roof!”

This video, which was disseminated widely on social media after the assassination attempt, was one of the first pieces of evidence that showed law enforcement became aware of Crooks prior to the shooting.

Also, several attendees reported to local police officers that Crooks was suspicious while he was pacing near the metal detectors, according to the Associated Press. Crooks reportedly attempted to bring a rangefinder commonly used by shooting enthusiasts through the metal detectors, raising the suspicion of law enforcement.

In addition to a failure of effective communication between local law enforcement and the Secret Service, there were more warning signs and failures before the event that may have prevented it.

According to the Washington Post, the local police assisting the Secret Service with security warned the agency that they did not have enough manpower or resources to station a patrol car outside the key building used in Crook’s assassination attempt. The Butler County District Attorney said the agency “was informed that the local police department did not have manpower to assist with securing that building.”

Additionally, the Secret Service was reportedly absent from the 9 a.m. briefing hosted by the Butler County Emergency Services Unit.

Ultimately one of the most startling security lapses is that the former president remained on the rally stage delivering his speech and was not evacuated by the Secret Service even though it was monitoring an active threat.

The videos of the event show no attempts by any of the officers to get Trump out of harm’s way on the stage before Crooks fired on him. Even after the would-be assassin shot multiple rounds at Trump and the crowd, the Secret Service seemed confused in its response.

USSS agents could be heard asking “What are we doing?” and “Where are we going from here?” on the microphone as they attempted to evacuate Trump, according to The Hill. For his part, Trump insisted that the agents let him find his shoes, and paused briefly to raise his fist and shout "fight!" to the crowd

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3 Potential Scandals Plaguing The FBI-Biden Bribe Saga

2023-06-14

[Federalist] FBI Director Christopher Wray narrowly avoided contempt of Congress proceedings last week over his refusal to provide the House Oversight Committee with an unclassified document memorializing a trusted informant’s allegation that then-Vice President Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian energy oligarch Burisma.

Dramatic as the near-rebuke may have appeared, and as explosive as the contents of the FBI’s concealed FD-1023 form seem to be, the trio of apparent scandals this saga touches on transcends its immediate significance.

INFLUENCE PEDDLING
The first scandal — hiding in plain sight for years yet never fully exposed, let alone prosecuted — concerns the Biden family’s potentially criminal, national security-imperiling, public trust-eroding influence peddling. The reality of this influence peddling makes the stunning allegation of a Joe Biden bribe seem infinitely more plausible than it might otherwise appear.

The House Oversight Committee’s recent review of thousands of records from subpoenas to four banks — which preceded its pursuit of the FD-1023 — shows that "Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies," the majority of which were formed during Biden’s vice presidency. Through this web, "the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ and their related companies" [emphasis original] during and after the then-vice president’s tenure.

Millions seem to have come from a company controlled by a corrupt Romanian oligarch and entities tied to the Chinese Communist Party. The money flowed to Biden family members, many of whom possessed no discernible relevant skills or experience. And at times, there was no evidence they rendered any services.

These findings build on the earlier work of Republican Sens. Charles Grassley — who, alongside House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, pressed FBI Director Wray to produce the FD-1023 — and Ron Johnson. The duo detailed dubious Biden family dealings with Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian nationals as well — Ukraine, of course, being the famously corrupt country of origin for the alleged Biden bribe.

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-Land of the Free

Ex-prosecutor approached DOJ in 2018 with witness who claimed Joe Biden involved in 'bribery'

2023-05-09

[JustTheNews] Feds didn't take former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins up on his offer, but later scoured his phone records seeking his sources.

A respected former federal prosecutor approached the U.S. Justice Department in fall 2018 on behalf of a foreign witness who claimed to have evidence that Joe Biden had "exercised influence to protect" his son's employer in Ukraine in return for money to his family, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News.

The agency didn't take up the ex-prosecutor on his offer but instead secretly obtained his phone records a year later in an apparent effort to identify his contacts.

Retired Little Rock, Ark., U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins wrote then-New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman on Oct. 4, 2018 that then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko was willing to travel to the United States to present evidence about the Bidens and Burisma Holdings.

Lutsenko believes "VP Biden (and Sec State Kerry) exercised influence to protect Burisma Holdings in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, (business partner) Devon Archer, and Joe Biden," Cummins emailed Berman.

Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer were both hired to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas firm, in spring 2014 while Joe Biden was vice president and in charge of U.S.-Ukraine policy.

The hiring raised eyebrows since the gas company was considered corrupt by the U.S. State Department and State officials have testified they believed the hiring of the VP's son created the appearance of a conflict of interest.

In a series of emails, Cummins said Lutsenko could produce two "John Doe" witnesses who could corroborate the claims, including that some of the money Burisma paid to Hunter Biden as a board member for Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky's firm benefited Joe Biden.

"There is a claim they have proof of a wire of significant funds from Zlochevsky to Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC which they claim directly went to the benefit of Joe Biden," Cummins wrote. "I have never understood why they think they know it went to him. I think the entity was associated with Hunter Biden and Archer.

"All I have been told is that the person who made the transfers was told that 'one goes to Joe Biden.' A little thin," Cummins wrote in one of several emails trying to prod Berman to set up a meeting.

In an interview with Just the News and The New York Post, Cummins said he was surprised DOJ didn't engage and try to determine if what Ukrainian officials were alleging was true,

"I can't really imagine a legitimate reason for the DOJ not to follow up on an offer like that," he said. "I felt like it was stonewalled."

Cummins, who served as chief federal prosecutor for the Arkansas federal district under George W. Bush, said he was even more stunned late last year when he got a belated notice from Apple that federal prosecutors obtained data in 2019 from his iPhone with a grand jury subpoena.

Cummins' 2018 approach to the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is the second known instance in which a witness came forward with allegations that the current president engaged in illegal behavior when he was Barack Obama's vice president.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed last week that the FBI received information in June 2020 from a confidential human source, or informant, alleging that Joe Biden was involved in a pay-to-play bribery scheme in Ukraine.

Comer subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray in May of this year to turn over the FD-1023 report that details the informant's allegations, and both lawmakers said they were concerned the FBI and DOJ did not thoroughly investigate the informant's claim.

"The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national," said Comer in a statement released by House Oversight last week. "The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself. Senator Grassley and I will seek the truth to ensure accountability for the American people."

Hunter Biden has denied any wrongdoing but acknowledges he is under federal criminal investigation for tax matters. His legal team met with DOJ about the case late last month and is reportedly expecting Hunter Biden to be indicted soon.

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Home Front: Politix

Attorney General Garland says every prisoner 'deserves dignity' when asked if 'biological males' should be in female jails as Republicans grill him on the Hunter Biden investigation, fentanyl deaths and rising crime

2023-03-02

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Deserves dignity? What does that have to do with fully male adult men in dresses raping their female fellow prisoners?

AG Merrick Garland testified before Senate Judiciary about Department of Justice oversight

Sen. Lindsey Graham asked about treatment of transgender prisoners

Of course he did

Sen. Charles Grassley sought assurances on Hunter Biden probe

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Government Corruption

Grassley Details How a ‘Triad' of Media, FBI, and Dems Tried to Thwart Investigation into the Biden Family's Corrupt Business Dealings

2023-02-11

[American Greatness] In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee’s first hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) detailed how a "triad" of partisan media, FBI, and Democrats used disinformation from a Russian agent to smear their investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

In addition to Grassley, the committee on Thursday heard from Senator Ron Johnson (R- Wis.), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, former FBI agent Thomas Baker, Professor Jonathan Turley, and former FBI agent Nicole Parker.

"In the past few years, I’ve never seen so much effort from the FBI, the partisan media, and some of my Democrat colleagues to interfere with with and undermine very legitimate congressional inquiries," Grassley said at the beginning of his testimony.

As one glaring example of this, Grassley cited the FBI’s corrupt Crossfire Hurricane investigation that sought to torpedo Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for president, and when that failed, hobble his presidency and punish his associates.

"Bit by bit, piece by piece, it’s been deconstructed and shown to be a politically motivated investigation," he testified.

The senator said that the most recent example of the "triad at work" involved their attempts to undermine his and Sen. Johnson’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which began in August of 2019. At the time, Grassley was the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Johnson was chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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Government Corruption

FBI special agent who opened Trump investigation reportedly escorted out of Bureau

2022-08-31

[JustTheNews] Former FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault was reportedly escorted out of the bureau on Friday, amid whistleblower allegations that he showed political bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations.

The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that "Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three 'headquarters-looking types.'" The article appears to have been updated and now states that Thibault "abruptly resigned" but that he was "forced to leave his post" and cites two unnamed former FBI officials.

Just the News was unable to independently confirm the Times' report.

Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland

...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court...
to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
in 2020 unrelated to the raid, according to information made public by Sen. Charles Grassley.

Those whistleblower allegations have raised questions about the bureau as it also deals with the fallout of the raid on Trump's home earlier this month.

In that matter, the public release of the affidavit that accompanied the search warrant revealed the warrant application relied heavily on information from news articles, including a CBS Miami piece titled "Moving Trucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago" and a Breitbart News article in which former Trump adviser Kash Patel discussed the classified status of documents the bureau previously removed from the estate on behalf of the National Archives.

Grassley confirmed to Just the News prior to the raid that Thibault had been removed from his post and reassigned to an unspecified position.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Hunter Biden Probe Will End With ‘Very Sympathetic Plea Agreement,' Former Federal Prosecutor Predicts

2022-07-22

[American Greatness] As the federal investigation into Hunter Biden and his tax affairs wraps up, the fix appears to be in, according to former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty.

Yesterday, it was widely reported that the investigation had reached a "critical stage," and Justice Department officials were looking into whether to charge Hunter with various tax violations, possible foreign lobbying violations and more.

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a prosecutor appointed by former President Donald Trump, is conducting the investigation, which reportedly began in 2018.

Trusty—currently an attorney and Fox News legal analyst—told America’s Newsroom hosts Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith that he was "skeptical" that anything other than a whitewash is in the works.

"It sounds like we’re trotting out a guilty plea, not an indictment," he said, going to explain that a plea deal would involve "very narrow facts" that "deflate" the case.

"It could deflate everything into a little silo for Hunter Biden, and a very sympathetic story about addiction," he said, adding that he had heard that there was "open fretting by prosecutors on the case" that "Hunter Biden’s drug addiction was somehow a defense to a bunch of white collar crimes."

Trusty told the Fox hosts why he thinks using Hunter’s drug addiction as a defense is not applicable.

"That can be a mitigator. It can be a defense when you have something involving spur-of-the-moment action, but for months and years of financial transactions, drug addiction is a non-starter," he explained. "If they’re floating it out there, it could mean we have a very sympathetic plea agreement coming in the near future," Trusty said.

The former prosecutor said it looks to him like the government is soft-peddling the corrupt foreign lobbying/influence peddling case, which implicates other members of the Biden family, including "the big guy," Joe Biden.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), issued a detailed report in September of 2020 on the Biden family’s shady influence peddling operations.

Johnson and Grassley alleged in their report that the Obama administration knew Hunter’s work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings prevented "the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine" during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.

The report also revealed that Hunter Biden had business associations with Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and People’s Liberation Army resulting in millions of dollars in questionable cash transactions. The Senate investigation also found links between Hunter Biden and Eastern European human trafficking, the adult entertainment industry, and/or prostitution.

"What you’re not hearing at all out of Delaware is the word "conspiracy," Trusty pointed out, adding that 80 to 90 percent of white collar cases involve a conspiracy charge, which he noted, "by definition means you’re looking outside a single person’s actions."

The former prosecutor said he was only reading "the tea leaves," but what he’s seeing is not promising.

"It’s not sounding like that [a conspiracy case] from the rumor mill, so far," he said. "So again, I think it looks like a very contained and friendly agreement coming on the horizon."

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Senate senility

2021-06-06

[POWERLINEBLOG] The Washington Post reports that the current U.S. Senate is the oldest in American history. Dianne Feinstein

...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 88, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
turns 88 this month. Charles Grassley turns 88 in September.

Richard Shelby is 87. James Inhofe is 86. Patrick Leahy

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Powerful rant: A Time to Hate - It’s not too late

2020-05-18

[The Spectator] The liars destroy with impunity because they know they always will get away with it. Republicans watch the character assassination and then go on Sean Hannity to sound brave for five minutes. "These people will pay a steep price, Sean." "I won’t let them get away with it, Sean." "Let not your heart be troubled, Sean." "We will investigate every crime and every perjury, Sean." Three years of hearing this from Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Trey Gowdy, Charles Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Jason Chaffetz, Kevin McCarthy. Well, Fox News Alert: They all got away with it. Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Blasey Ford. Schiff. Hillary. Strzok. Page. McCabe.

If the Left truly believed in the truth of the slogans they chanted in their failed effort to destroy Justice Kavanaugh, does anyone truly believe that Biden still would be standing today? Does anyone truly believe that Sonia Sotomayor could not have been completely destroyed at the time of her SCOTUS nomination if she were conservative? If the media were not a division of the Democrat Party, does anyone doubt that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today would have been forced from office like his immediate predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, if only for presiding over so extraordinary a health catastrophe that his one state accounts for half the coronavirus illnesses and deaths in the whole country? Cuomo ordered nursing homes in his state to admit coronavirus-infected seniors into facilities that were woefully unprepared to handle the medical ramifications, and that order singularly caused mass death. And yet the same media that seek any and every angle to blame Trump for not wearing a mask lionize Cuomo, who not only should wear a mask but also should change his fingerprints, undergo plastic surgery to reconfigure his appearance, and hide for dear life in some El Chapo cave from the children and grandchildren left behind by the more than 5,000 defenseless seniors whom he has martyred so far on the altar of Democrat liberalism.

There is a time to love and a time to hate. This is a time to hate.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Treasury Dept sends sensitive info on Hunter Biden to expanding Senate inquiry

2020-02-07

[Yahoo via Right Scoop] It looks like the Senate is deepening their investigation into Hunter Biden and his dealings with Burisma. Yesterday we told you about the Senate requesting travel information from the Secret Service. Now it’s being reported that the Senate is getting sensitive financial info as well:

From Yahoo News:

The Treasury Department has complied with Republican senators’ requests for highly sensitive and closely held financial records about Hunter Biden and his associates and has turned over "’evidence’ of questionable origin" to them, according to a leading Democrat on one of the committees conducting the investigation.

For months, while the impeachment controversy raged, powerful committee chairmen in the Republican-controlled Senate have been quietly but openly pursuing an inquiry into Hunter Biden’s business affairs and Ukrainian officials’ alleged interventions in the 2016 election, the same matters that President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani unsuccessfully tried to coerce Ukraine’s government to investigate.

Unlike Trump and Giuliani, however, Sens. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Finance Committee; Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; and Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have focused their efforts in Washington, seeking to extract politically useful information from agencies of the U.S. government. They’ve issued letters requesting records from Cabinet departments and agencies, including the State Department, the Treasury, the Justice Department, the FBI, the National Archives and the Secret Service.

Notice how they write that Republicans are "seeking to extract politically useful information", making it sound like this is all about politics, when this is exactly what Democrats have been doing to Trump since he stepped into the Oval Office. It’s been one big fat fishing expedition, yet Democrats are pursuing the truth, you see?

It continues:

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Strzok/Page Texts Suggest Effort to Recruit White House Staffers to Spy on Trump Team

2019-04-26

[PJ] Communications between two former FBI officials nine days after the 2016 election regarding a briefing with Vice President-elect Pence have attracted fresh scrutiny from top Senate Republicans, Fox News reported Thursday.

The text messages, exchanged between FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, "may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team" wrote Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, in a letter to Attorney General William Barr Thursday.

To be clear, the texts may show that top officials at the FBI were attempting to recruit staffers to spy on the Trump transition team.

In the letter, the senators wrote that they wanted to bring the matter to Barr's attention to assist his review into the "genesis and conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016." According to the letter:

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