Whistleblower
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That brings us to the central deceit.
While Garland would have you believe Weiss would have been granted any necessary authority if only he’d asked, it was not Weiss’ job to ask. Rather, it was Garland’s duty to appoint a special counsel, regardless of whether a subordinate asked him to do so.
Under the regulations, a special counsel must be brought in from outside the government.
By definition, if Weiss had asked to be appointed a special counsel, he would effectively have been resigning his coveted position as US attorney for Delaware. Why would Garland have expected Weiss to ask for Garland to fire him?
More to the point, there is no provision in the regs for the AG to appoint a special counsel on request by a district US attorney.
Rather, the regs require the AG to name a special counsel if the AG is aware of a conflict of interest that prevents the Justice Department from investigating and prosecuting a case in the normal course.
There can be no greater conflict of interest than that posed by the president’s Justice Department’s having to investigate the president himself and/or a close family member of the president.
It is the textbook case for a special counsel.
The Biden Justice Department could not credibly investigate the Biden family. Garland knows that, yet he refused to appoint a special counsel.
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Different whistleblower
"Gal Luft, a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking U.S. government official – and adviser to then President-elect Donald Trump – on behalf of principals based in China in 2016 without registering in the U.S. as a foreign agent as federal law requires.
The 57-year-old fugitive has become a key figure in Republican-led corruption investigations into President Joe Biden, accusing him, his son Hunter Biden and other family members of having improper financial arrangements with the China-controlled energy company CEFC."
@taiwan_girl said in Whistleblower:
on behalf of principals based in China in 2016 without registering in the U.S. as a foreign agent as federal law requires.
Guess who else worked for the same company (CEFC China Energy) and didn't register as a foreign agent?
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FBI Director very anti- Republican. LOL
"Representative Ken Buck, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, offered a rare thank you to Wray during Wednesday's hearing, reminding his colleagues that the FBI director was both nominated to the post by former Republican presidents and expressing his support for the bureau's work.
On Wednesday, Buck asked Wray to confirm that he was first appointed to the position of assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's criminal division by former President George W. Bush and confirmed by a Republican Senate. The Colorado Republican then reminded those at the hearing that it was former President Donald Trump who nominated Wray to lead the FBI, with the approval of another Republican Senate.
"I think there were only five votes against me, and they were all from Democrats," Wray answered.
When Trump announced he was nominated Wray over Twitter in 2017, he called Wray "a man of impeccable credentials."
"According to Wikipedia, you are still a registered Republican, and I hope you don't change your party affiliation after this hearing is over," Buck told Wray.
Wray himself told Republicans on the Judiciary panel that it was "insane" to say he acted in bias against the GOP given his "personal background."
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Thou shalt not testify:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Redacted-letter-1.pdf
[T]he Department expects that you will decline to respond to questions seeking non-public information likely covered by one or more components of executive privilege or other significant confidentiality interests, in particular information about deliberations or ongoing investigative activity in law enforcement matters...You should instead refer such questions to the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs.”
Consistent with longstanding practice, this will afford the Department the full opportunity to consider particular questions and possible accommodations that may fulfill the Committee’s legitimate need for information while protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests.
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Is Wray a necessary ingredient in anybody's narrative that the Hunter Biden investigation was torpedoed due to politics?
@Horace said in Whistleblower:
Is Wray a necessary ingredient in anybody's narrative that the Hunter Biden investigation was torpedoed due to politics?
Sure - he at least has to agree to go along with it. He continues to publicly affirm his independence on the investigation.
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Agent Zeigler...
I have witnessed the corrosion of ethical standards and the abuse of power that threaten our nation. It is within this context that I have chosen to shed light on these actions and expose those responsible. I recognize that while I was present at the start of this investigation and was closely involved with the investigation for roughly five years – that I'm just a part of the story. Others – including my colleague and supervisor Gary Shapley who is here with me today – have their own views and understandings of what took place during this investigation.
Mr. Weiss stated that he had been granted "ultimate authority" over this matter but then later stated in the same letter that his "charging authority" is geographically "limited" and that he would need to ask President Biden appointed U.S. Attorney's[sic] to "partner" with him in charging the case. We know that as recently in March of 2023, even the Department of Justice-Tax Division attorney assigned to the case questioned Mr. Weiss's authority and didn't know where Mr. Weiss was going to charge the case.
My own agency retaliated against me and threatened me with criminal conduct in response to an internal email I sent to IRS leadership, even after years of essentially being left on an island when it came to this investigation. It is not my desire to become a martyr for this case — and I fear effectively ending my career. I did not ask to be in this position, nor did I want to be...
At the end of the day, I worked on a complex criminal tax investigation over the last 5 years and the investigative process is 999% done and we were in the process of bringing the case to indictment. Since October of 2022, the Delaware AUSAs and DOJ-Tax had effectively stopped communicating with me and my team has ultimately been removed from the investigative team.
I had recently heard an elected official say that I must be more credible, because I am a gay democrat married to a man. I'm no more credible than this man sitting next to me due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs. I was raised and have always strived to do what is right. I have heard from some, that I am a trator to the democratic party and that I am causing more division in our society. I implore you, that if you were put in my position with the facts as I have stated them, that you would be doing the exact same thing – regardless of your political party affiliation. I hope that I am an example to other LGBTQ people out there, who are questioning doing the right thing at a potential cost to themselves and others. We should ALWAYS do the right thing, no matter how painful the process might be. I contemplated scenarios that would have been highly regrettable. But I did what was right and I am sitting in front of you here today.
"it is not difficult to believe that appointing a special counsel in this matter is the best way to go forward to give everyone confidence in the fairness of our tax system."
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@Horace said in Whistleblower:
Is Wray a necessary ingredient in anybody's narrative that the Hunter Biden investigation was torpedoed due to politics?
Sure - he at least has to agree to go along with it. He continues to publicly affirm his independence on the investigation.
@Jon said in Whistleblower:
@Horace said in Whistleblower:
Is Wray a necessary ingredient in anybody's narrative that the Hunter Biden investigation was torpedoed due to politics?
Sure - he at least has to agree to go along with it. He continues to publicly affirm his independence on the investigation.
No room for the director to be unaware of everything that goes on under him?
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It was kind of interesting watching the Democrats on the committee question the witnesses. The rep from Delaware spent his entire 5 minutes talking about hypocrisy, because the GOP was silent about (sit down) Trump and here they are complaining about Biden. He asked no questions. it was 5 minutes of grandstanding.
Somehow he forgot to mention that Trump was impeached - twice.
He also forgot to mention that, for the last 2 years of Trump's term, his party controlled congress. They could have investigated anything...
Another representative claimed that it was all irrelevant because Biden was not president when these alleged irregularities occurred.
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When the whistleblowers heard Weiss claim that he didn't have authority to investigate, there were a couple of FBI agents in the room.
Jim Jordan subpoenaed them for their testimony.
FBI says "pound sand."
https://www.scribd.com/document/667997076/DOJ-responds-to-Jim-Jordan#
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Weiss requested Special Counsel status and was denied.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/irs-whistleblower-hunter-probe-took-notes-00115623
Shapley writes that David Weiss, the Donald Trump-appointed Delaware U.S. Attorney who is leading the Hunter Biden investigation, told law enforcement officials he was “not the deciding person” regarding the investigation...Weiss himself has pushed back on Shapley’s testimony, telling lawmakers that he was “never…denied the authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction.”
In the letter, the lawyers write that Shapley took the notes “during the meeting.” Portions of the handwritten notes are redacted and contain “information not previously released by the House Ways and Means Committee,” according to the letter.
“USA CA [U.S. Attorney, California Martin] Estrada in charge of authorizing those charges in that jurisdiction,” the notes say. “Weiss requested Special Counsel status in D.C. Main DOJ said ‘NO’ – follow the process”
Another FBI agent who attended the Oct. 7 meeting also testified to congressional investigators. That agent said she did not recall Weiss saying he was not the deciding person, and that a comment like that would have stuck out to her, according to her transcript, also obtained by POLITICO. She also said that she both entered and left the meeting under the impression that Weiss could bring charges wherever he liked. She was granted anonymity because she works on sensitive investigations, according to a person familiar with her testimony.
Shapley took notes at the time. The other agent "doesn't recall."
