Posted on 02/01/2022 1:36:27 PM PST by devane617
“They are likely working for Soros or another meglimaniac. All part of the plan to remove Biden as the pasty...”
DITTO. The Times is implementing ‘the’ plan. Biden is toast and what happens next will be historic.
Not that I think Hunter isn’t guilty of major corruption and general sumbaggery, but since when would a private citizen’s email be subject to a FOIA request???
The It Takes a Village Idiot?
They also did a FOIA on Rudy. They want to discredit him, too. NYT will be NYT.
Is Bobulinski still alive? Has anyone seen him?
Are pigs about to fly?
Daily mail.com
Monday, Feb 7th 2022
REVEALED: US diplomat in Kiev sent classified email in 2016 warning that Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine ‘undercut the anti-corruption message’ his VP father was advancing
A classified 2016 state department email written by former US diplomat George Kent was published this week
In the email, Kent warned that Hunter Biden’s Ukraine dealings ‘undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing’ in the country
The email was kept from public view for five years
It was obtained by Just the News and published this week
The email was published one day after the New York Times sued the state department for allegedly withholding emails involving Hunter Biden that were sent or received by officials at the US Embassy in Romania
Republicans are threatening to make Hunter Biden testify before Congress if they take back the House of Representatives in the midterm elections
His business in Ukraine played a central role in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019
Hunter Biden has also created an ethics headache for the Biden White House when he joined the art world last year, selling paintings for $500,000
By ANDREA CAVALLIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine while his father was still vice president ‘undercut’ anti-corruption efforts in the country, warned a top U.S. diplomat stationed in Kiev in a classified email sent to the U.S. State Department in 2016.
The email, obtained by Just the News, was published one day after the New York Times sued the State Department for allegedly withholding emails involving Hunter Biden that were sent or received by officials at the US Embassy in Romania between 2015 and 2019 that involve Hunter Biden.
The email, dated November 22, 2016, was written by George Kent, who was at the time the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. The Harvard-educated diplomat detailed a discussion about a ‘saga’ surrounding the case against Mykola Zlochevsky, a former Ukrainian natural resources minister and founder of Burisma Holdings, which paid Hunter Biden $1 million a year to sit on its board, according to the email.
Kent was one of the Democrats’ key witnesses in their first successful attempt to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2019.
However, his email said that the ‘real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine.’
Kent went on to say that ‘Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior, with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules in the oil/gas sector.’
Kent had previously testified behind closed doors that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Burisma in 2015, according to reports.
George Kent (pictured in 2019) raised concern over Hunter Biden’s Ukraine dealings in a 2016 email to the state department published this week
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Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine played a central role in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019
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Former U.S. diplomat George Kent (left) wrote in a classified email that Hunter Biden’s ‘presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine’
In the email, Kent said that the ‘real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter¿s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine’
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In the email, Kent said that the ‘real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine’
The classified email was sent to a former State Department official Jorgan Andrews and other people whose names are blacked out. It was not produced during impeachment proceedings in 2019, Just the News reported
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The classified email was sent to a former State Department official Jorgan Andrews and other people whose names are blacked out. It was not produced during impeachment proceedings in 2019, Just the News reported
Kent had previously testified behind closed doors that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Burisma in 2015, according to reports
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Kent had previously testified behind closed doors that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Burisma in 2015, according to reports
The email, labeled confidential, was sent to former State Department official Jorgan Andrews and others whose names are blacked out. It was not produced during impeachment proceedings, Just the News reported.
On Monday, the New York Times sued the State Department for allegedly dragging its feet in handing over emails from Romanian embassy officials connected to Hunter Biden and his former business associate Tony Bobulinski
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, seeks emails dating from 2015 to 2019. The Times alleges that the State Department is failing to address its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in a timely manner. When the Times asked when the State Department would get around to the request, the paper was told to expect an answer on April 15, 2023, according to Politico.
The Times appears to be looking into whether embassy personnel did any special favors on behalf of business officials, including the president’s son and Bobulinski. Joe Biden was serving as vice president for two of the years the emails cover, 2015-2016.
Emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, obtained by DailyMail.com in 2021, reveal how Joe Biden’s son and his colleagues leveraged their US government connections and plotted a propaganda campaign for grafting Romanian tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu.
Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), anyone advocating for foreign entities to US government officials, or acting as a publicist for a foreign entity in the US, must add themselves to a Department of Justice public register.
However, an exception applies for attorneys representing a client in a foreign court case, who are not required to register under FARA.
Emails show Hunter’s colleagues, Christopher Boies and Michael Gottlieb - partners in the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner - were seeking to set up meetings with the US ambassador to Romania after discussing among themselves whether he would intervene in Popoviciu’s case.
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Hunter brought in political heavyweight and family friend Louis Freeh, the former director of the FBI, to use his US law enforcement contacts for Popoviciu’s advantage, and was offered a referral fee as a result.
Hunter and his colleagues also discussed a media campaign, including to major U.S. publication the Wall Street Journal, to support their client who was later found guilty of bribery.
None of them were required to register for this work under FARA, due to various exemptions including those for lawyers of foreign defendants.
The FOIA also seeks information on Rudy Giuliani, who was dispatched by former President Trump to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden’s business relationships with Ukraine.
Giuliani tipped off the New York Post about the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop.
In 2020, Senate Republicans investigated Hunter Biden’s $50,000-a-month seat on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, then mired in corruption, while his father helped shape policy toward Kiev.
The matter was at the center of Trump’s first impeachment trial accusing the president of pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate Hunter’s business dealings. Giving the appearance of a conflict of interest, Hunter’s board seat alarmed some State Department officials.
The elder Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to Ukraine to force the country to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma at the time. But the then-vice president’s office said the U.S. wanted Shokin gone because he was not investigating corruption among the country’s politicians.
But while the investigation found no evidence that Biden as vice president improperly manipulated policy in favor of his son.
The Republicans’ investigation also found that Hunter had received massive sums of money - some in the seven-figure range - from foreigners in China, Russia and elsewhere while his father was in office.
Politico reports that the FOIA request threatens to revive an old feud between the Biden White House and the Times’ money and influence reporter Ken Vogel, who has spearheaded coverage of the president’s son.
Then-deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield wrote to the Times’ executive editor Dean Bacquet and accused Vogel of ‘egregious journalistic malpractice.’
Then-rapid response director Andrew Bates has also sparred with Vogel on Twitter.
‘SCOOP from Philadelphia: KEN VOGEL (@kenvogel) is a COWARD,’ Bates tweeted in Feb. 2020.
Bates claimed that Vogel’s report on Hunter Biden’s Ukraine dealings in May 2019 ‘for the first time amplified this misinformation campaign into the mainstream.’
Emails found on the laptop pointed to an effort by Hunter to set up a meeting in 2015 between Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser at a Ukrainian energy firm. The FBI had since seized the laptop from the Delaware computer repair shop owner, who says Hunter dropped it off to him in 2019 and never came to retrieve it.
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