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2024-02-14 Government Corruption

Hunter Biden friend tells Congress how first family's name scored Chinese deal worth millions

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [31 views ] Top

#1 An image on Twitter of a draft of Hunters letter from his laptop HERE

Posted by 3dc 2024-02-14 04:05|| 2024-02-14 04:05|| Front Page Top

#2 PDF from the oversight committee HERE

Posted by 3dc 2024-02-14 04:08|| 2024-02-14 04:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I still suspect the SOB's have been selling (or receiving payment in kind) for classified documents for years, probably to the Chinese. Mine may be a solo opinion, but that's where I see the evidence leading.

What other use or motive could there have possibly been for box after box, year after year ?

Did I mention he took the train home to Delaware every weekend? A travel and courier activity pattern. Then as president, trips abroad with... Hunter.

Yes, 'A Job For Hunter.' You read the book, now see the movie.

I would NOT discount the possibility that the "selling" was a sanctioned US Intelligence disinformation project. Notice if you will, that little has been divulged about the document originators, subject matter, or content. Some of the documents are obviously rather dated by now. No discussion of follow-up 'damage assessments' either, which is telling. No mention of future safeguards, also quite telling.

Again, the purpose? I can't see Joe or Hunter sitting around reading 'black books' or cable traffic. The 'not mentioned' aspects are generally the most revealing.

Sorry, tinfoil hat time? That's just the way I see it.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-14 06:05|| 2024-02-14 06:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Well said, B. ^^^^

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-14 06:50|| 2024-02-14 06:50|| Front Page Top

#5 So easy to peddle Joe Biden's influence that even a crack head could do it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-14 13:01|| 2024-02-14 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Who did Joe have influence over back then?

Posted by AlanC 2024-02-14 14:06|| 2024-02-14 14:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #3 above. Sanctioned after discovery perhaps, not as an original dangle. Somewhere IC career minds weighed the damage to ascendent leftist power centers in DC who control funding/staffing decisions if the crime was revealed, and alternatively, by turning the asset (the Biden's et al) possible value to feed spiked disinformation to the Chinese and protect/damage control compromised TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) and sources.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-14 14:19|| 2024-02-14 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ If my guess is accurate, this is real-world Game of Thrones and ther IC is now stuck holding a "tarbaby" of its own making.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-14 14:23|| 2024-02-14 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #7: Entirely possible. A Biden 'clean up' via a hasty intelligence disinformation project.

Sorry, nothing can be discussed. National security issues in play. What are your questions pertaining to Ukraine, Syria, or Taiwan ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-14 15:15|| 2024-02-14 15:15|| Front Page Top

#10 The famous Klingon trick of turning Road Apples into Apple Sauce, except that the taste just always lingers...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-14 15:51|| 2024-02-14 15:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Ref #7: ...to feed spiked disinformation to the Chinese and protect/damage control compromised TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) and sources.

I have a vague but recent memory of our intelligence network in China being rolled up, with a good number of the rollees no longer partaking of the benefits program.

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-14 17:34|| 2024-02-14 17:34|| Front Page Top

#12 My guess on the documents is that they would be salable to companies more so than to governments. Based on Feinstein’s office manager, I would think the CCP would already have all the docs they want. Nobody was sleeping with Swallwell for his good looks and winning personality. It would be cheaper still to subvert a Congressional staffer or someone on the NSC. There doesn’t seem to be any requirement of loyalty to the US in DC. I don’t see any evidence they are doing background checks based on the klepto tyrannies dude formerly in the Energy Dept.
Our enemies aren’t interested in old garage documents. They get their documents fresh. Burisma would have paid for the documents, on the other hand. It wouldn’t take a genius to calculate how much they would pay.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-14 17:38|| 2024-02-14 17:38|| Front Page Top

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