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2023-06-29 Government Corruption
DOJ Rot Goes So Much Deeper Than Merrick Garland
[The Federalist] Following the sensational whistleblower testimony that dropped Thursday, revealing how the Department of Justice systematically blocked an IRS investigation into Joe Biden’s son Hunter and diverted agents from examining the incriminating evidence against his presidential father, House Republicans are threatening the overdue impeachment of Attorney General Merrick Garland — except most of the pro-Biden interference in the DOJ happened before Garland was installed, while President Donald Trump was still in office.

Does Garland still deserve impeachment for his assortment of abuses, such as sitting on his hands to avoid real accountability for the younger Biden (and his pop), while weaponizing the country’s top law enforcement agency to try to send Biden’s top presidential challenger to federal prison? Absolutely. Is it smart politically for Kevin McCarthy to use the current momentum to hold Garland to account? Probably. Is the alleged involvement in a foreign bribery scheme enough to merit Biden’s own impeachment? Most definitely.

But if the blame — and punishment — for the DOJ corruption revealed by whistleblowers stops with Merrick Garland or even Joe Biden, it will happen again.

That’s because the Justice Department’s pattern of shielding the Biden family from the law wasn’t masterminded by either man. It happened because of career officials and bureaucrats, whose names most Americans don’t know, and whom Americans will never have the chance to vote out. They didn’t have to be told what to do.

According to whistleblower Gary Shapley, it was in late 2019, a year before Joe Biden was elected, that the FBI acquired and authenticated the infamous laptop Hunter Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop. The IRS began an investigation into likely tax crimes almost immediately.

Between April and June 2020, when IRS agents were preparing to execute interviews and search warrants, it was "career DOJ officials," Shapley said, who "purposely slow-walk[ed] investigative actions."

After IRS agents discovered a WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden purportedly threatened a Chinese business associate that "I am sitting here with my father" and that the Bidens could "hold a grudge" if a "commitment made" to them was not "fulfilled," federal prosecutors rejected IRS efforts to look into the messages. That was around August 2020, when Trump had nearly half a year left in the White House.

In October 2020, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf acknowledged "probable cause had been achieved" for executing a search warrant on Hunter Biden but still refused to allow a search. In the meantime, the DOJ continued to block IRS investigators from accessing the laptop and openly cited the investigation’s potential to hurt Biden’s electoral chances as their reason for slow-walking it.

Wolf would also order IRS investigators not to ask about "dad" or about an email stating there would be "Ten held by H for the big guy." That happened in December, more than a month before Biden’s inauguration.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-29 07:03|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 I remember realizing there was a problem during Reno’s actions to help Cuba in the Elian Gonzales case. The fact that the DOJ was also corrupt during the GOP administrations wasn’t clear to me until I saw Jeff Sessions get Shanghai’d and stuffed into a school locker for the duration of his “service.”
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-29 12:54||   2023-06-29 12:54|| Front Page Top

#2 agree w Super Hose

a lot of the biden protection moves came about during the Trump Admin

Ashcroft was too timid to get into the weeds. Sessions also. Barr was a bit better but overwhelmed by fighting fires and temperamentally unwilling to acknowledge the rot within. Trump didn't help this either because he caused a lot of turbulence that distracted Barr.
Posted by lord garth  2023-06-29 14:02||   2023-06-29 14:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The rot seems to creep during GOP administrations and slime must faster when we have a Dem leader conspiring to corrupt the system.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-29 14:46||   2023-06-29 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 DoJ and Janet Reno "rot" back in 1993.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-29 16:47||   2023-06-29 16:47|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Exactly. We had Feds with guns all over the place. Now they are censoring the internet, and the IRS is pointing guns as well. I am sure that they have a plan to federalize the city police forces next. Did security get better when they absorbed airport security?
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-29 16:56||   2023-06-29 16:56|| Front Page Top

#6 What Ripley said
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-29 20:20||   2023-06-29 20:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I think how the US dealt with the Elian Gonzalez deal was heartless bullshit. The little boy needed to be with his father. Period. End of political story. I don't care if it's fooking North Korea.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-29 22:27||   2023-06-29 22:27|| Front Page Top

#8 The cancer (rot) is at stage 4. Gonna need surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
Posted by JohnQC 2023-06-29 23:23||   2023-06-29 23:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah Hover? Rotten at the start.
Posted by Woodrow 2023-06-29 23:43||   2023-06-29 23:43|| Front Page Top

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