The FBI has become too much like the media in its desperation to cover up for Joe Biden and his family.
Two weeks ago, I described the growing mountain of evidence that indicates President Joe Biden, his younger brother, James, and his son Hunter were involved in a bribery scheme that netted them millions of dollars while Joe was vice president. (READ MORE: To Protect and Serve Biden)
As I wrote then, the FBI and its director, Christopher Wray, had refused to turn over to the House Committee on Oversight and its chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), an FBI form FD-1023 on which information from a highly trusted source appeared stating that Biden and his family had taken some $5 million in bribes while he was vice president. The FBI first denied the existence of the document, then admitted it did exist but refused to produce it.
Faced with a contempt of Congress charge, Wray eventually allowed Comer and some of his committee members to see the unclassified document. He insisted that they do so without making a copy of it and only view it in the congressional “SCIF,” the “sensitive compartmented information facility” that exists only to view secret documents and to enable congressional oversight of the intelligence community.
Did I mention the fact that the document is unclassified?
Last week, in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate admitted that the FBI had redacted any mention of audio recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden from the document before the congressmen were allowed to see it.
The FBI had no right — and no legitimate reason — to redact the document in any respect. The only reason they did so was to protect the Bidens from the consequences of their actions.
One of the things that the House Oversight Committee has been looking into is the “suspicious activity reports” banks make when some account receives or disburses a lot of money to or from an unusual source. Those reports are used to identify crimes such as fraud, money laundering, and terrorist funding. There are about 150 such reports on accounts held by Hunter and/or James Biden.
Appearing on Fox News, Comer said, “We have more bank records coming in, but we’re gonna exceed $10 million this week, but I think we’ll get up to $20 to $30 million” in bribe allegations. He noted that it is becoming clear that the Bidens probably engaged in bribery, influence peddling, and money laundering. He added, “This is going to be hard for Biden to explain, this is not going to go away, and I think eventually the mainstream media is going to start asking the real questions.”
According to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the document finally shown to Comer’s committee members states that Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that was allegedly the source of millions in bribes, kept some 17 audio recordings of his conversations with Hunter Biden as an “insurance policy.”
We should remember at this point that Hunter was paid at least $60,000 per month to be on Burisma’s board of directors when Joe Biden was vice president. It was influence peddling in its purest form. According to a Breitbart news report, Zlochevsky says he was “forced” to give a bribe of some $10 million to Hunter and/or James.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, is now under subpoena to testify before Comer’s Oversight Committee. That testimony will reportedly be about a $10 million bribe to the Biden family and other Biden-related transactions. Archer is trying to work a deal with the committee, probably for some sort of immunity from prosecution for the information he will testify to before the committee. He may testify in an open hearing or in a sworn — and presumably videotaped — deposition.
With all of these allegations swirling around Biden and co., you might think that a special counsel would be appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. That won’t happen because the Justice Department and the FBI are entirely politicized. If one were appointed, it wouldn’t do any good for that precise reason.
Under the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, (28 CFR Part 600), if an attorney general is recused from an investigation, the acting attorney general may — not must — appoint an independent special counsel like Robert Mueller, who investigated Trump (again) and found no collusion between him and Russia, or Jack Smith, who has had Trump indicted for misuse of classified documents.
A special counsel so appointed would have to use Department of Justice employees — the FBI — to conduct his investigation.
But neither will Garland recuse himself in respect to any investigation of Biden nor is the FBI trustworthy of undertaking such an investigation without political — and ideological — influence dominating it.
What we’re left with is a DOJ–FBI coverup of the Biden family’s crimes and the investigation being conducted by Comer and his House Oversight Committee. Comer can’t indict anyone but he needs to keep the heat on the FBI to turn over whatever information it may have to further his own investigation.
Moreover, Comer should send his staff to Ukraine to interview Zlochevsky and obtain copies of any audio recordings he has of his conversations with anyone named Biden. While they are there, they should also investigate how close the prosecutor Biden forced Zelensky to fire was getting to the Biden influence peddling/bribery scheme.
What Comer can do, and no court can, is initiate an impeachment of Joe Biden. I’m betting he will soon have more than enough evidence against Biden to do so.
The media will do its best to help the FBI cover up whatever crimes the Biden family may have committed. We in conservative media need to give voice to Comer and his investigation not only because the liberal media will ignore it, but also because it’s the right thing to do.