[American Greatness] A top House Republican investigator says the Treasury Department is restricting access to over 150 suspicious activity reports on Hunter Biden, amid explosive new revelations coming from Biden’s "laptop from Hell," and iPhone.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week, following up on a letter he sent in May.
"I wrote to you requesting information regarding Hunter Biden and other Biden associates and family members’ financial transactions flagged by U.S. banks for reporting to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) through Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). The Biden Administration is restricting Congress’ access to SARs, and Committee Republicans are investigating whether this change in longstanding policy is motivated by efforts to shield Hunter Biden and potentially President Biden from scrutiny," Comer wrote.
The congressman said that "despite Treasury’s assertion in the press ... Treasury is refusing to release SARs connected with Hunter Biden or his family and associates — including the President."
The Treasury Department claimed in May that it provides SARs to Congress "in a manner that enables robust oversight and that is consistent with how other sensitive law enforcement information is produced" and that it "has made SARs available for every request we’ve received, regardless of party, and will continue to do so."
"This is not true," Comer declared in his new letter. "During a phone call on June 13, 2022, Treasury officials informed Committee Republican staff that they will not provide SARs to Committee Republicans unless Democrats join the request."
The congressman added: "Treasury’s actions call for investigation and raise new questions about the degree to which the Biden Administration is using the federal government to provide cover for the Biden family and its associates. The American people deserve to know whether the President’s connections to his son’s business deals occurred at the expense of the United States’ interests and whether they represent a national security threat."
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GOPe types will ignore it, hoping to be treated the same way when they do criminal stuff.
They will never learn.
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Much of this stuff seems to come across my GETTR feed. I don’t really care to see it. I never watched the Paris Hilton footage; why would I care to see Hunter wank himself in similar lighting. I am glad that at least the naked ones of Joe and kids are blurred enough so that I don’t have to see whether Joe’s monicker of Big Guy is well earned. Some of the Obama pictures look faked. I am not sure why people are still posting them as the pictures are either faked or the perps are untouchable by law enforcement. The drug use ones are very sad. I do pray for their family.
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[NYPOST] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... ’s no-nonsense new district attorney reportedly held an "uncomfortable," "icy" first meeting with staff inherited from her booted woke predecessor — an introduction described as "horrible" and even "insane."
Brooke Jenkins, 40, has long signaled her radically different approach to her much-maligned predecessor, Chesa Boudin — even quitting her job last October to help lead the campaign that got him recalled.
After being appointed by Mayor London Breed, Jenkins headed to her City Hall office for the first time on Friday for a 20-minute meeting with her staff, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Most of her 25 staff were hired by either Boudin or his predecessor, George Gascon, who is now also facing recall efforts to get him ousted from his current job as Los Angeles County’s DA.
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I'm seeing a lot of "conservative" commentators going on about how inflation is costing people a multiple of what the stimulus checks provided. Great argument if you are speaking to economically literate people. To the economic illiterates, inflation just means they will avidly vote for an even smaller stimulus check next time on the principle that they are hurting and will take any help they think they can get.
I'm tired of Conservative Inc.™
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What is keeping that average down? Or are we excluding not day-to-day durable goods? Or is this typical bad government news reporting real number by half?
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Some of the true inflation may be hid by a reduction in container size. You pay the same for a large coke and get less. In some cases competition is reducing margins for producers. There would have to be more collusion than is currently happening in the apparel or bedding sectors. Sales for optional purchases like furniture probably can’t inflate without people delaying or forgoing purchases. The impact on farm goods will vary based on fertilizer and distribution costs.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/13/2022 13:14 Comments ||
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They have been jiggering the definitions used to calculate inflation for some time.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/13/2022 13:17 Comments ||
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#5
Yup; five bucks for a three bite fast food sandwich.
Posted by: Frank G ||
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actually, under the chained-cost method of calculating inflation, the increase would have been 8.4% y over y
that index accounts for product switching, e.g., if apples increase more in price than oranges, people buy more oranges and fewer apples
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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#3 Some of the true inflation may be hid by a reduction in container size. You pay the same for a large coke and get less. In some cases competition is reducing margins for producers. There would have to be more collusion than is currently happening in the apparel or bedding sectors. Sales for optional purchases like furniture probably can’t inflate without people delaying or forgoing purchases. The impact on farm goods will vary based on fertilizer and distribution costs.
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So clothing will shrink to reduce the amount of fabric used? Does that signal the return of the 'miniskirts' and the 'halter tops' as everyday work wear? or would there be a drastic reduction in clothing coverage?
I'm seeing men wearing shorts and short sleeve shirts, in some cases, one or several sizes too small!
Anyone know where I can buy bulk eye bleach, preferably in 55 gallons drums.
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So clothing will shrink to reduce the amount of fabric used? Does that signal the return of the 'miniskirts' and the 'halter tops' as everyday work wear? or would there be a drastic reduction in clothing coverage?
As I recall, the correlation is good economy—> short, skimpy clothes. Bad economy —> conservative hemlines and modest clothes.
But shorts and short sleeves just mean summer. ;-) And too small just means they gained more during lockdown than they want to admit, and don’t want to go shopping when they’re just going to lose it again — really.
[Gateway Pundit] On Tuesday, July 1, a no-name political operative who sits on the Board of Directors for Mark Zuckerberg’s private election mafia the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) won the Republican primary Secretary of State race in Colorado.
Popular conservative and MAGA candidate Tina Peters was leading in the polls and had a 15 point lead on her closest competitor Pam Anderson before the votes were counted.
But Pam Anderson from Zuckerberg’s CTCL had the night of her life and defeated Peters by 20 points. It looks like another one of those Georgia, Pennsyvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona election night miracles. It’s not who gets the votes, it’s who counts the votes.
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Colorado has had iffy election results since they introduced the dominion machines. Coincidently, the demoncrats have been winning since then in this state.
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RC,
good question
Colorado has a blend of open/closed primaries.
In the primaries, Dems have to vote in the Dem primary. Repub have to vote in the Repub primary. Unaffiliated can vote in either primary.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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I'm with 49 Pan. The Dems have continued to act as if they have nothing to fear from the electorate. The only reason they don't want Pudding Brains to run is that there is no possible win by cheating that would pass the public sniff test.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
07/13/2022 15:26 Comments ||
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So all that has to happen is a bunch of dems officially say they're "unaffiliated" and they can flood Republican primaries. So, open primaries effectively.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
07/13/2022 16:24 Comments ||
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^^ It would be curious to run the numbers for the D primary in relation to other years.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
07/13/2022 17:38 Comments ||
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for S of State in CO
The D incumbent Jena Griswold got about 500k votes running unopposed.
The three R candidates together got about 620k votes.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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for comparison in the primary for Gov of CO
the cumulative R vote was about 630k
The Democrat Incumbant running un opposed got 530k
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[NYPOST] "Not a whisper." That was Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, saying that his search for a notorious child rape case in his state had turned up nothing.
That is odd given the vast coverage by the media, and even condemnation of the president of the United States, of the supposed case of a 10-year-old girl raped and impregnated in Ohio and forced to seek an child sacrifice abortion in Indiana.
What is even stranger than the utter lack of confirmation of the story is the utter lack of interest in confirming it — or in the welfare of the child herself. We have little proof that the story is true despite some significant legal and factual questions.
The story of the child rape united the nation in revulsion, but also became the rallying point for the denunciation of the Supreme Court, including in comments by President Biden. In his White House address, Biden cried that this child "was forced to have to travel out of the state to Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy and maybe save her life. Ten years old — 10 years old! — raped, six weeks pregnant, already traumatized, was forced to travel to another state."
The president used the story to attack the Supreme Court and ask, "What century are they in?"
The media also exhaustively covered the story. It was written up everywhere from Israel to Bangladesh. On MSNBC, Joy Reid declared, "It is hard to imagine anything more cruel, more disturbing than forcing a child, a 10-year-old still playing with fidget toys and tablets, to carry her father or her brother’s child to term or forcing her to travel across state lines for an child sacrifice abortion. And yet, here we are."
#2
...The response to this - at least in my conversations so far - has been to say that the situation may have been so bad that the doctor decided that their duty to the patient outweighed their duty to the law.
This is usually followed by a great deal of screaming on their part.
Mike
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07/13/2022 4:40 Comments ||
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..except given the age of the 'victim' its a crime without consent and destroying the DNA evidence is crime.
#4
In the end, the doctor should get audited to determine whether she complied with mandatory reporting laws - which she probably doesn’t. This may lead to an avalanche of audits.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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I can't wait until lefties start talking about "an Underground Railroad for abortions" and offend blacks even further.
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07/13/2022 12:45 Comments ||
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And all the "big name" con-servatives on Twitter who boosted the hoax angle are pretending they had nothing to do with it and suddenly saying "Oh. Look!"
They do the conservative cause no favors with their "Look at meeeeeee" blathering.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/13/2022 15:22 Comments ||
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So much wrong with this story and so much coming out. One thing is for certain: it was not at all necessary for victim to travel out of state for an abortion per Ohio law. This IS the lie that cannot be explained away. The abortionist is a major suspect in this case and could implicate PP in coverups of many under age abortions.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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The real story here is that Family and Child Services tried to cover up a rape, but failed because a leftist wanted to use ut to score political points.
Lots of social worker drones deserve prison time for trying to cover it up, and everyone else who ignored mandatory reporting laws needs to go with them.
And the left needs to figure out if they think rape is a bad thing or not. It's weaponized to go after middle-class men in college, but apparently they're cool with it happening to children.
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[NYPOST] Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told a group of bodega owners Tuesday that there is "absolutely" a chance he may drop the murder charge against worker Jose Alba, although he left himself plenty of wiggle room to still continue with the controversial case.
A chance? Somewhat greater than zero but not a likelihood? Golly.
Bragg has been barraged from all sides, including by Mayor Eric Adams, for charging Alba with the rap even though surveillance video clearly shows the Manhattan worker being attacked by an ex-con, who the clerk ended up stabbing in alleged self-defense.
The United Bodegas of America’s closed door-sit-down with Bragg at his Manhattan office was "very, very good," with the DA telling the group that Alba, 61, could see charges against him dropped, said Fernando Mateo, the group’s rep, after the huddle.
"We felt very good because his tone was very soothing. His demeanor was very direct, and he said, ’I don’t understand why people are jumping to conclusions. I have not made a determination. I am investigating,’" Mateo recalled Bragg saying when asked about Alba’s case.
"I asked, ’Do the possibilities exist that you will drop these charges?’ And he said, ’Absolutely.’"
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A couple more polls and maybe see what the calls from Albany are like. Then he'll decide.
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07/13/2022 7:29 Comments ||
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He already charged and set an asinine bail that he doesn't put on actual murderers. He's blowing smoke.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
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The arrest was more than likely to stem a potential George Floyd type situation.
WOKE, BLM, and the anti FASCISTS have created
blackmail situation of Violent acts. To the point, DA's and Politicians would rather violate the rights of a few over the costs of the organized LOOTING, RIOTING, physical attacks and murders sure to follow otherwise.
#7
Sounds more like he's using the Alba case for political reasons.
He'll drop the charges, blame someone else ('the system') and then hope to come out the hero...
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[American Greatness] A top House Republican investigator says the Treasury Department is restricting access to over 150 suspicious activity reports on Hunter Biden, amid explosive new revelations coming from Biden’s "laptop from Hell," and iPhone.
[NYPOST] Embattled Manhattan District Attorney 
