Posted on 02/08/2020 9:50:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that recent disclosures from the office Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) could interfere with the Senate Finance Committee’s investigation of Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.
Citing Wyden’s spokesperson, Yahoo News reported on Feb. 6 that the Treasury Department is “rapidly complying” with a request from Grassley’s office for financial documents on Biden. A spokesperson for Grassley criticized the disclosure in a statement to The Epoch Times.
“It’s unfortunate that Democrats whom we’ve kept in the loop on our investigations would recklessly seek to interfere with legitimate government oversight,” Taylor Foy, a Grassley spokesperson, said.
Grassley’s initial inquiry to the Treasury dates back to mid-August last year. The senator received a classified briefing about the inquiry in October.
The spokesperson for Wyden’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
In the Yahoo News report, Wyden’s spokesperson alleges that the Treasury is giving preference to requests from Republicans over those from the Democrats.
“Applying a blatant double standard, Trump administration agencies like the Treasury Department are rapidly complying with Senate Republican requests—no subpoenas necessary — and producing ‘evidence’ of questionable origin,” Ashley Schapitl, a Wyden spokesperson, said in a statement. “The administration told House Democrats to go pound sand when their oversight authority was mandatory while voluntarily cooperating with the Senate Republicans’ sideshow at lightning speed.”
Three Republican-led Senate committees are investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China. The Republicans sent a wave of requests in November last year to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the State Department and the National Archives.
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remove them from the committee.
That was the whole purpose of the “leaks.” Protect Biden.
As if congressional investigations are worth a bucket of spit.
Stop treating Dems like they’re trustworthy.
They’re not.
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It’s all theater. Nothing will come of any of this looking into Biden.
Dear senators; you have a very simple solution to solve these leak issues. Check out the rules of the senate. Act upon the rules of the senate.
Let’s see. It’s not like everybody doesn’t know already what’s in there. Beck did a video about it days ago. 0bama’s secret, illegal war in Ukraine and Billions of missing dollars.
Oh, and yes, THAT is “what this is all about”.
Elections matter.
Deliberate leaks. Could this be considered as interfering in an investigation? They had to know that Biden was on the take, and no doubt several of them were profiting from it.
DIMocRATs are dishonest and lack integrity. Do not trust them...even if they say it is sunny outside. They are NEVER to be trusted about anything. How pathetic.
It's SOP now, and the Democrats are in no position to complain (though they will anyway because that's how they get Republicans to capitulate).
_PJ
Of course these leaks are all accidental.
The whole impeachment scam boils down to the Democrats desperately trying to hide their treasonous activities from being made public. They know many in their ranks are guilty of crimes that will bring down their entire party!
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If these Investigations went any slower, they’d be going backwards.
Dems IG determines Fake Whistleblower was Credible in less than 10 days.
Urgency shows interest.
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agreed these people at the top never go to jail. Clinton Obama Comes Lynch included.
More blatant criminal activity by Congressional Democrats.
Which dickwad Republican Senator was it that said don’t investigate Biden? We want things to go back to normal. For all practical purposes that Republican is an accessory to crime.
Hey Wyden...
Elections have consequences.
--Barack Hussein Obama
You are absolutely correct. Nothing will come of the Biden criminal money laundering operation with Ukraine. There are way too many Republicans in on the deal. There were many millions of dollars involved and it wasn’t difficult to spread it around to the right criminals, I mean politicians.
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