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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Investigators Zero In On Biden Aide With Links To Hunter In Docs Scandal
Just a little bit more about the mysterious Kathy Chung.
[DailyWire] A longtime aide to President Joe Biden with links to his son Hunter is being scrutinized by Justice Department and Congress investigators as part of their inquiries into the handling of classified documents.

Kathy Chung, who is now a Pentagon official, has emerged as a key individual as she oversaw the transport of materials to the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., after Biden left the vice presidency in early 2017. Multiple reports said Chung has already been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the Justice Department’s probe. The House Oversight Committee sent her a letter over the weekend seeking documents and information as part of a congressional inquiry led by Chairman James Comer (R-KY).

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Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Still can't find any pictures of Miss Chung. I looked. I did find this (is Joe sniffing Hallie's hair after Beau's funeral?)...



...along with a Huffpo article about so-called right-wing conspiracy theorists...Right-Wing Media, Top Republican Team Up To Push Racist Conspiracy Theory About Ex-Biden Aide. If they're squealing that loud then Comer must be onto something.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/08/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't meet anybody in a city park at night ...just saying.
Posted by: magpie || 02/08/2023 13:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems Hunter's Chinese fetish is only exceeded by his cocaine fetish.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 02/08/2023 14:30 Comments || Top||

#4  a small team(1) at the end of the Obama administration who placed folders(2) into boxes in the vice president’s White House office that made their way to a transition office(3), and then to another temporary location in Chinatown(4)

So 4, 'filter and extract' actions?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/08/2023 14:46 Comments || Top||


#6  Who is Kathy Chung? Curiously, neither the U.K. Daily Mail nor Fox News, both of which are experts at digging up photos, has been able to come up with a picture of Ms. Chung, despite her currently serving in a rather public position for a rather public figure, the Defense secretary, Lloyd Austin.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/08/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||


#8  Orientalist peril! Who flung
That vermilion elephant dung
At mysterious Wong,
At us commies and [GONG]
At immaculate mandarin Chung?

Colour of the south innit.
Posted by: Cromoper Bourbon6540 || 02/08/2023 19:57 Comments || Top||

#9  About time to take a look at Obama, the Shadow POTUS as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/08/2023 23:53 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Twitter Thread on Google and overthrow of the US people
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 02/08/2023 05:57 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  DuckDuckGo and Lycos are good alternatives.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/08/2023 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't use Duck..they censor as much as G()()gle. Numerous reports on this (just don't use Duck to search for them) LOL
Posted by: Warthog || 02/08/2023 12:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Lycos was the first search engine I ever used way back in the days before Goggle. Then Goggle came along and everybody forgot all the other search engines. I don't know if it's because Goggle was that much better or if they simply got more publicity. But I know that competition is good.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/08/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  All search sucks these days because the social media companies created little kingdoms on the internet and they screw up the searches to anything within their domain.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/08/2023 15:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Border Patrol chiefs to testify before House panel after initially being blocked by Mayorkas
[JustTheNews] “President [Joe] Biden’s radical open borders agenda has ignited the worst border crisis in American history,” Rep. Comer said in a statement last month when he announced the hearing.

U.S. Border Patrol chiefs will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Tuesday after they were first blocked by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from doing so.

Last month, Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, sent a letter to Mayorkas stating the committee would be investigating the “Biden Administration’s creation of and failure to resolve the worst border crisis in American history. … The American people deserve answers about [DHS’] role in undermining Customs and Border Protection agents’ efforts to secure the southern border.”

Four Border Patrol agents overseeing southern border sectors were called to testify: Chiefs Jason Owens, Gregory Bovino, Gloria Chavez, and Acting Chief Patricia McGurk-Daniel. Initially, two were cleared to testify by Mayorkas and two weren’t.

Comer then threatened to use the “compulsory process” to require them to testify. By Jan. 31, Mayorkas agreed to all four testifying and Comer sent another letter to him saying, “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially sought to prevent Congress from hearing invaluable testimony from Chief Patrol Agents, believing that DHS’s internal protocols superseded Congressional oversight prerogatives. I am pleased that the DHS is no longer taking such a position, and will make available as witnesses” all four agents.

Comer last week told reporters at the National Press Club that the committee requested they testify about “the worst offenses with respect to illegal border crossings are occurring, just to come before the committee. … We need to hear from people on the front lines” to ask their advice and how Congress can help them do their jobs.

Comer’s initial Jan. 19 letter to Mayorkas requested documents and copies of internal communications from DHS including data on border crossers released by DHS into the U.S. and DHS’ plan to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as “Remain in Mexico,” over which Texas sued. A federal court halted the administration’s plan to terminate it although Texas maintains the administration isn’t following the court order.

The letter also requires Mayorkas to provide information about “the effect of historic numbers of illegal border crossings on retention rates, staffing, recruitment and morale among” Border Patrol agents. The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing them, has argued that under this administration more agents are retiring and recruitment and morale is at an all-time historic low.

Comer also requested all documents and information about an ICE memorandum Mayorkas issued in September 2021 that drastically altered enforcement policies. Texas and Louisiana sued to stop it, supported by 19 states that filed a brief with the Supreme Court.

“President [Joe] Biden’s radical open borders agenda has ignited the worst border crisis in American history,” Comer said in a statement last month when he announced the hearing. “The Biden Administration’s deliberate actions are fueling human smuggling, stimulating drug cartel operations, enabling deadly drugs such as fentanyl to flow into American communities, and encouraging illegal immigrants to flout U.S. immigration laws. … Republicans will hold the Biden Administration accountable for this ongoing humanitarian, national security, and public health crisis that has turned every town into a border town.”

In early January, Biden said on his first day in office he sent to Congress a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would extend amnesty to a wide range of people illegally in the U.S. He also announced DHS’ new mobile app that allows foreign nationals to file asylum claims remotely from anywhere in the world as well as expanding the parole process and creating a new visa process. Multiple states also sued over the parole and visas policies, which they argue are illegal.

The hearing comes after Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified in a case brought by Florida that Biden policies led to increased illegal crossings and one of his emails revealed the administration’s plan to release people en masse into the U.S. once Title 42 was lifted.

Since Biden’s been in office, over 5 million people from over 150 countries have illegally entered the U.S. while Mayorkas has consistently maintained the southern border is closed. A record 3.3 million people were apprehended or reported evading capture by law enforcement in fiscal 2022, according to Border Patrol data obtained by The Center Square, including nearly 1.8 million in Texas alone.

Several House Republicans have called for Mayorkas’ impeachment; two Republicans from Texas and Arizona each filed separate articles of impeachment. Mayorkas says he isn’t resigning and has blamed the previous administration for the problems he says he’s inherited.

The NBPC disagrees, tweeting on Monday: “Two years ago we ceased to have any semblance of a functioning border. It's just an out-of-control free-for-all ... a disaster zone of massive human misery, death and lawlessness. How much longer can this country continue to absorb millions of illegal aliens?

“Everyday thousands more illegal aliens enter our country by crashing our border between ports of entry. Has Biden thought about how many millions he's going to shuttle in? Is he even aware enough to realize that many of these people can't be ID'd and no way to check records?”
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


#2  #1 that news deserves to be a post all its own on Rantburg
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 02/08/2023 11:37 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
A Twitter Thread chain to follow about Hamilton 68
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 02/08/2023 05:14 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  So the State Department cooks up a bunch of Twitter bots and blames it on Putin?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/08/2023 12:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden labor secretary to exit, marking first Cabinet secretary departure of presidency
[10News] Bye, Marty! You corrupt POS
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will reportedly leave the Biden administration in the coming days.

Walsh's departure will mark the first Cabinet secretary departure of Joe Biden's presidency.

The labor secretary's departure is expected to be announced some time after President Biden's State of the Union address.

Two other Biden administration officials who serve as advisers have announced their departures as well, including chief of staff Ron Klain and Brian Deese who serves as the director of the National Economic Council.

55-year-old Walsh will succeed Donald Fehr as the new executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA) after his departure from the White House, ESPN reported.

Fehr has led the NHLPA since 2010 negotiating through two collective bargaining agreements with owners in the NHL.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/08/2023 06:42 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Cartoon Pic says it all.

Jump and run.
Lock in a Private Sector position, while F-100 or some SIG employers still think your WH / LSD DC Swamp ties are worth a $,$$$,$$$ figure salary with bonus exit benefits .
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/08/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Sullying the NHL’s rep.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/08/2023 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the NHL just sullied itself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/08/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Anyone know anything about the rumor the NY Rangers had a PRIDE night and none of the players participated?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/08/2023 12:39 Comments || Top||

#5  I saw something last week but blew past it. What i did gather was the players that didn’t bow to the rainbow god received some sort of fine/penalty/something.
Sorry not to be more helpful.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/08/2023 19:53 Comments || Top||



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