51 Bozos In Our Intelligence Officials Protected Hunter

Sure, it can be and often is.

 

Like I said, you'd do present evidence. You just "pop" off.

 

If it isn't conspiracy theory drivel from BSers.

 

Once again, are we in a thread about intelligence officials or some other topic?

 

You seem constitutionally unable to acknowledge some leaks are about government positions, including leaks by the government to test public reaction.

 

You seem personally unable to realize that we weren't talking about leaks until you decided to bring it up, no doubt to distract from your defense of of 51 intelligence "professionals" who committed election interference.

 

The OP is conflating two different scenarios and claiming they are the same.
They clearly are not.
Hunter's laptop is his laptop. Everyone knows this.

The info on it is not in violation. But the OP claims it is, simply because it is his laptop.
What info is on the laptop, that is clearly Hunter's laptop.

 

link to support whatever it is you're trying to claim?

Your opinion isn't going to cut it.

 

WaPo, NYT, and CBS all had their experts look at it and declared the laptop was authentic...

Copy of what's believed to be Hunter Biden's laptop data turned over by repair shop to FBI showed no tampering, analysis says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-data-analysis/

The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
https://archive.ph/IdTMj

Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies, say two security experts who examined the data at the request of The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/

How many different people have to authenticate it before you are happy?
The FBI has authenticated it...

Special counsel David Weiss confirmed that Hunter Biden’s laptop, that was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop, is in fact real, and the information discovered on it matched already obtained information from the Biden son’s Apple iCloud account. Joe Biden had said on the debate stage in 2020 that the laptop was "Russian disinfo." This was echoed by his staff.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEAXvZ0XMAA-NQa?format=jpg&name=small

 

That argument was settled years ago. No one gives a **** anymore about what anyone said about the chain of custody issue insofar as 'russia'. However, given it's chain of custody, there is an issue with how it was handled in America.

Let go of it.

No one was protecting Hunter, Comer Pyle and his crusty crew of cretins have all the evidence that was on it.

ANd you know what? they haven't found squat.

If anyone was protecting Hunter, why in hell did Garland appoint a special counsel to investigate him? Why in hell did Joe allow it to continue? Why in hell didn't Joe pardon Hunter?

The claim is bogus.

Imagine if Trump was president and his son was under indictment, how long to you suppose that would be allowed to continue? Not in a million years would Trump allow iot. Hell, he's pardoned many of his cronies who were convicted, totally abusing the pardon process trading loyalty for pardons. (Okay, one token exceptions, he pardoned Blagojevich, whoopeedoo).

 

There is no evidence on influence peddling. If there was, after a 6 year investigation by US Attorney David Weiss, you think he wouldn't have loved to have indicted Hunter for it? ---though he had to settle for a consolation prize, a gun rap and a tax cheat. No corruption, no money laundering, no influence peddling was ever proven.

 

Hilarious!

Inside the Collapse of Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal

The deal’s collapse — chronicled in over 200 pages of confidential correspondence between Mr. Weiss’s office and Mr. Biden’s legal team, and interviews with those close to Mr. Biden, lawyers involved in the case and Justice Department officials — came after intense negotiations that started with the prospect that Mr. Biden would not be charged at all and now could end in his possible indictment and trial.


Earlier this year, The Times found, Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation.

 

30 years of DEI hires

 

Irrelevant to the point of the OP.

Weiss found no evidence on the allegations of 'money laundering', 'corruption', and 'influence peddling', even the plea deal that was scrubbed didn't mention them, so your point isn't a point at all.

 

They have every right to do what they did.

 

But very relevant to your post #236, which is what I was responding to.

And there is a very good reason why the plea deal didn't handle all of the charges that were originally referred.

In the spring of 2023, two brave IRS whistleblowers stepped forward to notify Congress of how the Justice Department had impeded, delayed, and obstructed the criminal investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden. The whistleblowers, who came forward only after IRS leadership failed to address their concerns, noted several deviations by Justice Department officials “from the normal process that provided preferential treatment, in this case to Hunter Biden.” The whistleblowers exposed how the Justice Department allowed the statute of limitations on certain charges against Hunter Biden to lapse, prohibited line investigators from referring to or asking about President Biden during witness interviews, withheld evidence from line investigators, excluded the investigative team from meetings with defense counsel, and tipped off defense counsel about pending search warrants.

 

So you think they had every right to lie to the American people about an issue in order to sway the outcome of the election? As private citizens, you are probably right. But they were trading their lies on their credibility as intelligence professionals with access to classified information.

Which is why pulling their clearances is the very least we should do.

 

I think they have every right to attempt to influence voters.

They have to live with what they do. I think Bolton is wrong, but I don't object to him trying to convince the rest of us that his approach is correct.

No, I disagree.

 

Yes I know you disagree, but I'm unclear why you think it's OK to perpetuate a lie and a fraud by trading on your access to government secrets. You think a person who would do that should have access to classified information?

 

Weiss did not look for shady deals and Joe’s involvement. He wouldn’t see it if he didn’t look. It is called “coverup”

 

It's the way the game is played.

I not only never took a dime in politics--no travel, no tickets to [fill in the blank], etc. I have plenty of bucks and the politics I played was mostly local.

 

So this is game of thrones to you? No rules? If it is "the way the game is played," then when you get caught why shouldn't you pay the consequences? I'm not suggesting going "Dracarys" on them, or even criminal charges, simply pull the clearances they've sadly misused.

They played the game and got caught.

 

If it was, I wouldn't have been turning down every bit of even the usual minor graft.

I think you should.

They didn't break the law.

 

I'm not arguing they did break the law; but you don't need to break the law to get your clearance yanked. There are a multitude of reasons for that to happen that don't require any legislative action. I don't understand what argument you are trying to make that they should maintain their security clearance.

 

That point was made clear when I got mine.

Like Trump says all the time about himself--they "did nothing wrong."