An FBI intelligence officer, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was indicted last week on charges of lying to the FBI, claiming that Joe Biden and his Guard were paid to Hunter and Joe Biden, respectively. There’s a lot of fuss about the indictment of Alexander Smirnov last week. A $5 million bribe by the owner of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
For more than three years, Joe Biden has refused to address the mountain of evidence that his family was spreading corrupt influence while he was vice president.
He has refused to discuss evidence that he was involved in the crackdown on suspicious figures in the world’s most corrupt countries, where he was responsible for U.S. policy by his son Hunter and brother Jim. .
He claimed to know nothing about Hunter and Jim’s business dealings, even though there was evidence dozens of times that he met Hunter’s foreign business partners and spoke on speakerphone at least 20 times. When questioned, he straight up lied.
But now, like a drowning man, the president suddenly seized on the indictment of Mr. Smirnov as justified, issuing an unusually live statement from the White House on Friday, insisting that the impeachment inquiry against him had been dropped. , called on House Republicans to halt the investigation. “It was a tremendous effort from the beginning,” he said.
Democratic hitmen Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman have been on the airwaves trying to frame Smirnov’s indictment as an absurd new Russian hoax, and Hunter’s high-priced lawyer Abby Lowell has been on Tuesday’s new In court filings, Smirnov fatally tainted the case against Hunter, declaring it to be evidence. The president’s son is being unfairly prosecuted because of his last name.
‘Straw doll’
They made Smirnov into a straw man by portraying him as a “lead informant” in the impeachment inquiry.
But he wasn’t like that.
Smirnov was no informant.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer could do nothing but go public with Mr. Smirnov’s allegations because the FBI had kept the informant and the existence of an “investigation” secret.
Smirnov’s indictment does not mean Joe and Hunter will be safe.
Far from it.
The evidence against them is overwhelming.
Comer’s investigation was well underway before Smirnov’s allegations surfaced last July.
He has collected evidence through bank records that millions of dollars from China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan are being laundered through multiple shell companies for the Biden family, and that Joe and Hunter’s foreign sponsorship It also collected startling testimony from Hunter’s former business partner about meetings with people. Before the big payments go down.
Biden’s methods of corruption were well established.
And that was before IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler testified before Congress about the Justice Department’s corrupt interference in the five-year Hunter Biden investigation in Delaware. U.S. Attorney David Weiss approved a sweetheart plea deal with Hunter. The officer does not commit a felony and receives full immunity from future prosecution.
Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler indicated that Mr. Weiss could have filed heavy tax and firearms charges against Hunter in 2019.
Instead, Mr. Weiss sought to exonerate Mr. Hunter and run the statute of limitations on the most serious charges, charges related to Ukraine and Burisma that would lead investigators to Joe Biden.
Smirnov is an FBI problem.
He was a “trusted”, well-paid, long-term informant for the bureau, reportedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over 14 years.
The indictment says he testified in several cases that likely led to convictions.
The indictment says Mr. Smirnov is cleared by the FBI to carry out criminal activities and is classified as an elite informant, used only in national security and serious organized crime cases.
Smirnov’s bribery allegations against the Bidens first came to light in an FBI intelligence log provided by a confidential human source, known as FD-1023.
Investigation of suspicions
Then-Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said on Jan. 3, 2020, that Biden, who had been inducted into the Justice Department from then-Attorney General Bill Barr and included then-President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, ordered to investigate allegations of corruption.
The purpose was to insulate misinformation from tainting the investigation Weiss was conducting against Hunter for tax, money laundering and foreign agency violations.
Mr. Brady’s team discovered the description of Mr. Hunter’s Ukraine dealings in the so-called FD-1023 report from Mr. Smirnov, which had been buried in the Washington field office’s files since 2017.
Smirnov was re-examined and was told by Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky that he bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter to get Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired. He made a bombshell statement.
Mr. Brady’s team performed as much due diligence as possible within the brief.
Although they did not know Smirnov’s identity, Smirnov’s FBI agents confirmed through his passport that Smirnov had traveled to Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 and was in London at the time of the alleged separate meeting. .
Through open source information, the team also confirmed that Burisma had acquired a US gas company for $30 million, as Smirnov said Zlochevsky was planning.
They also accessed the Justice Department’s money laundering files and the Treasury Department’s Suspicious Activity Report, finding that Mr. Zlochevsky had unusually transferred $10 million to another organization in early 2014. did.
Mr. Hunter joined Burisma’s board of directors in April 2014.
Thus, there was enough smoke for Brady to forward FD-1023 to Weiss’ office for further investigation as well as a brief.
Mr. Weiss inserted a disingenuous line in Mr. Smirnov’s indictment claiming that Mr. Brady’s evaluation was “terminated.”
This was a bureaucratic smokescreen in which the FBI declared the Pittsburgh evaluation “closed” after the handover to Weiss, but that did not mean the allegations were found to be unreliable.
As Brady testified and Barr agreed, the opposite was true.
But Mr. Weiss refused to respond to Mr. Brady’s explanation. Brady had to go over Weiss’ head and appeal to his superiors at the Justice Department and have it compulsorily accepted.
In October 2020, when Brady was finally able to brief the state of Delaware, the investigators were removed and so surprised to learn what had happened that they returned to Congress to update their testimony. He said he should have shown FD-1023 and FD-1023. They would have thoroughly investigated the allegations.
Instead, it took nearly three years and Hunter’s plea deal for Weiss to launch the investigation that should have occurred in June 2020, rather than hiding his suspicions.
He was content to let Hunter’s plea deal pass with total immunity, regardless of whether the allegations were true or not.
After all, bleeding clearly needs to be pointed out.
the company they protect
Let’s say it’s true that Smirnov fabricated bribery allegations to smear Joe before the 2020 election and that Russians were involved.
The truth is, if Joe, Hunter, and Jim Biden hadn’t had such a bad relationship, they wouldn’t have been at risk of falling victim to such a dubious operation.
What is Joe doing while having dinner at Café Milano with Elena Baturina, a Russian oligarch who is an ally of Vladimir Putin who donated $3.5 million to Hunter’s business?
Why did Hunter receive $1 million a year from Burisma while his father was vice president, when Zlochevsky is under investigation for corruption in Ukraine as well as in a joint operation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Squad and the FBI? I wonder if it is?
and so on.
If the Biden family had not received millions of dollars from so many shady figures in corrupt countries, the suspicions would not be weighing heavily on their heads.
They jeopardized national security with their reckless greed.
