[FOX] Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker criticized the FBI and the DOJ on "Fox & Friends First" Wednesday, pointing out the organizations' noticeably "partisan tint" on the Hunter Biden investigation. Whitaker said the departments should be "above politics" and their existing biases pose a threat to the "rule of law."
GRASSLEY PRESSES DOJ, FBI FOR TRANSPARENCY ON ’PARTISAN’ POLITICIZATION OF AGENCIES, HUNTER BIDEN PROBE
MATTHEW WHITAKER: I've said several times that Chris Wray needs to get this partisan nature and any political bias out of the FBI. In this example, this FBI agent that Chuck Grassley is asking questions about had very derogatory social media postings, which it makes no sense why an FBI agent would be on social media doing politics, but was and so these are the kind of things that raise questions. I think Chuck Grassley is absolutely right, and my point as well is that the FBI and the Department of Justice need to be above politics. Right now, especially this Jan. 6th investigation, and the Biden investigation, appear to have a partisan tint to it, and it's not good for the rule of law and the long-term success of the Department of Justice.
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Didn't do much good in 2020. What makes Whitaker think it will do any good in 2024?
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What mechanism does Whitaker think is availble to Grassley and Congress to do something? As was said above, it didn't happen in 2020 or any other time in my recent memory.
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Oh please, that would require the DOJ and the FBI to actually DO THEIR JOBS, which we all know ain't gonna happen. Maybe if the FBI is secretly dumped in Gitmo and replaced by a combination of Texas Rangers and real policeman, the group of US Marshals who actually get crap done, we'd see it.
[Reactionary] Yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley sent this letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding allegations from "highly credible whistleblowers" about the FBI’s "false portrayal" of derogatory Hunter Biden materials as "disinformation."
If these allegations are true, it’s a damning depiction of FBI leadership and it proves their efforts to influence the 2020 election. This is the second (if not third) straight election the FBI has meddled in, given the influence the Trump/Russia investigation - and its unlawful origins with the FBI - had over the 2018 midterms.
Grassley’s whistleblowers allege that in August 2020, FBI Headquarters "improperly discredit[ed] negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease." In fact, it was a scheme of top FBI officials. As Grassley explains:
"the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation."
The context and timing is important, as this was leading up to the 2020 election. Who benefited from this scheme? Democrat candidate Joe Biden. And it appears the FBI’s scheme furthered the interests of Congressional Democrats. Here’s how that happened.
On July 13, 2020, Democrat leaders — Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiff — sent this letter to the FBI alleging that "Congress was the subject of a foreign disinformation campaign." The Democrats demanded that "the FBI provide a classified defensive briefing" on the issue of foreign disinformation, and that "the briefing draw on all-source intelligence information and analysis." Parts of that letter were leaked to tie the Congressional Hunter Biden investigation to foreign disinformation.
Three days later, on July 16, 2020, Democrat Senators Gary Peters and Ron Wyden made their own demand of an FBI and intelligence community briefing related to purported foreign interference.
According to Grassley, these Democrat efforts resulted in an unnecessary briefing from the FBI in August 2020 relating to "disinformation" — which was later leaked to the press to paint the Biden investigation "in a false light." In other words, the FBI was more than willing to be used by the Democrats less than 3 months before the 2020 election.
Then there’s also the issue of FBI Headquarters interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. Grassley states:
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Trump said that if he was elected again he would purge Deep State. Expect the Deep State orcs to do whatever they can to preserve the gangster government.
[FOX] Members of Congress are now deciding how to vote on one of the most consequential pieces of national-security legislation in recent history: the "CHIPS" Act, dedicated to increasing U.S. domestic manufacturing of semiconductors.
I urge them to support it. Failure to do so would be an enormous victory for the Chinese Communist Party and a massive loss of American workers and American servicemen who should not be forced to rely upon Chinese technology to protect us and them.
Semiconductors are key to the United States maintaining its technological edge now and for decades to come. The strategic landscape in this critical technology area has been shifting to our disadvantage for far too long. Less and less cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing in America and ever more semiconductor capacity inside China risks making the world subject to coercion by the Chinese Communist Party, especially given Beijing’s military threat to the democratic island of Taiwan. The CHIPS Act is our first major opportunity to reverse this dangerous strategic disadvantage and decouple this industry from China’s influence.
Beyond national security, semiconductors are found in electronics that every American uses in their daily lives, from cell phones to cars in addition to advanced military systems. Our dependence on hostile nations for these critical wafers will, much as dependence on Russian energy has done for Europe, risk catastrophic outcomes for all of us here in America.
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[Bee] President Joe Biden has just signed a bill into law prohibiting everyone in America from using the word "recession." The Economic Integrity Protection Act — also known as the "Don't Say Recession" bill — now threatens to punish any American with the full force of the law for simply uttering the word "recession."
"Come on folks, gotta stop saying 'recession.' It's a dirty word, sweetheart!" said Biden to an old White House intern he mistook for a young White House intern. "My grandmammy used to wash my mouth out with soap for using that word! Watch your mouth, Jack!"
"We tried changing the definition of recession, but if anything it just made people point out Biden's recession even more," said Treasury Secretary and inflation expert Janet Yellen. "Apparently when the price of everything is inflated which causes economic decline, reduced trade, and a fall in GDP for 2 consecutive quarters people start to notice. Weird." Yellen then went back to drafting a new plan to tax McDonald's Dollar Menu items.
According to sources, those who break the law and use the word "recession" will face up to 10 years in prison, which after inflation, amounts to 17 years.
At publishing time, the Biden administration confirmed the bill has a sunset clause that will take effect if a Republican is ever elected President.
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[FoxBusinessNews] IMF downgrades economic outlook as it projects higher inflation globally.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed its global growth outlook for 2022 and 2023, warning the world economy faces a "gloomy and more uncertain" future that could include a recession.
The Washington-based institution said in its latest World Economic Outlook that global gross domestic product will grow by 3.2% this year – a 0.4 percentage point drop from its April estimate. The IMF expects global growth to decelerate further to 2.9% next year, which is a 0.7 percentage point decline from its previous estimate. By comparison, the economy grew by 6.1% last year following the brief but extremely severe recession in 2020.
The revised outlook comes as the economy confronts a slew of challenges, including the ongoing fallout from the Russian war in Ukraine, the hottest inflation in decades and continued COVID-19-related lockdowns in China that have fueled a worse-than-anticipated slowdown in the country.
"The outlook has darkened significantly since April," Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief economist, said in a blog accompanying the latest report. "The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last one."
Inflation has climbed more quickly than the IMF expected and broadened throughout the economy. The fund now projects that consumer prices will accelerate even further this year – hitting 6.6% in wealthy countries and 9.5% in developing nations – the result of rising food and energy prices, as well as continued supply and demand imbalances.
In all, the IMF forecast the global consumer price index will surge 8.3% this year, which would mark the biggest increase since 1996. That is up from the previous estimate of 6.9% in April.
Rapid price growth has forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at the fastest pace in three decades as it tries to catch up with runaway inflation. Central bank policymakers already approved a 75-basis point rate hike in June – the first since 1994 – and are expected to raise the benchmark federal funds rate by another three-quarter percentage point on Wednesday.
The Bank of England and European Central Bank have also started to tighten monetary policy in order to combat raging inflation.
By hiking interest rates – which creates higher rates on consumer and business loans – these central banks hope to cool consumer demand and allow supply time to catch up, likely slowing the pace of price growth. But there is a risk that raising rates too high too quickly could trigger a recession.
"With increasing prices continuing to squeeze living standards worldwide, taming inflation should be the first priority for policymakers," the IMF said in the report.
The IMF is slated to release another round of updated projections in October.
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[FOX] Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker criticized the FBI and the DOJ on "Fox & Friends First" Wednesday, pointing out the organizations' noticeably "partisan tint" on the Hunter Biden investigation. Whitaker said the departments should be "above politics" and their existing biases pose a threat to the "rule of law."
[FOX] Members of Congress are now deciding how to vote on one of the most consequential pieces of national-security legislation in recent history: the "CHIPS" Act, dedicated to increasing U.S. domestic manufacturing of semiconductors.
[Bee] President Joe Biden has just signed a bill into law prohibiting everyone in America from using the word "recession." The Economic Integrity Protection Act — also known as the "Don't Say Recession" bill — now threatens to punish any American with the full force of the law for simply uttering the word "recession."
