Posted on 02/26/2022 7:40:46 PM PST by dynachrome
Secret Service ‘hid’ info on Hunter Biden travels, GOP senators claim
NY POST,CBy Bruce Golding, January 19, 2022
Sen. Ron Johnson has alleged that the Secret Service hid names and correspondences with Hunter Biden without any legal justification.
The Secret Service improperly redacted hundreds of pages of records related to Hunter Biden’s overseas travel — and apparently withheld information about trips to China, Russia and other countries, two leading Republican senators claim.
In a Tuesday letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) alleged the agency “hid names and other information contained in email conversations regarding Hunter Biden without any proper legal justification.”
The senators specifically noted that documents turned over at their request “do not show whether [Secret Service] personnel or Hunter Biden traveled to Kazakhstan in May or June 2014” during a trip to Paris.
Biden — whose father, President Biden, was vice president at the time — decided to ditch his Secret Service bodyguards before flying to Kazakhstan to pursue a deal on behalf of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, the Washington Examiner reported last year.
Hunter Biden reportedly planned to meet with then-Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who was arrested on treason charges Saturday following his ouster as head of the country’s counterintelligence and anti-terror agency.
Hunter Biden (left) and Joe Biden (right) and Kazakhstan’s former prime minister, Karim Massimov (far right).
Hunter Biden and Joe Biden pose with Kazakhstan’s former prime minister, Karim Massimov (far right).
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PHOTO In 2015, Joe and Hunter Biden were apparently photographed posing with Massimov and Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev during a gathering at the Cafe Milano restaurant in Washington, DC.
Critics have accused the younger Biden of influence-peddling and a report last year said the Justice Department was investigating a consulting firm linked to Hunter over its work for Bursima, which paid him as much as $1 million a year.
In 2020, Hunter Biden disclosed that he was under investigation for possible tax fraud, reportedly involving his business dealings in China and other foreign countries.
Sen. Charles Grassley co-signed the letter with Sen. Ron Johnson expressing their wish to see the unredacted files.
Sen. Charles Grassley co-signed the letter with Sen. Ron Johnson expressing their wish to see the unredacted files.
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In Tuesday’s letter, first reported by the Examiner, Grassley and Johnson expressed “serious concerns” over the “extensive Freedom of Information Act redactions, which do not apply to Congress” in the 259 pages they received from the Secret Service.
“These inappropriate redactions impede our offices’ ability to understand the full scope of the interactions between Hunter Biden, his associates, and the USSS,” they wrote.
Grassley and Johnson also said the Secret Service “did not produce any communications regarding Hunter Biden’s travel for the years 2010, 2011, and 2013,” even though its own “travel records show that Hunter Biden made trips to China and other destinations around the world, including, Russia, Italy, Spain and Mexico.”
The lawmakers demanded that the Secret Service provide complete, unredacted copies of the documents it turned over and explain why it didn’t produce records from 2010, 2011 and 2013.
The senators said they wanted a response “as soon as possible” and set a Jan. 26 deadline.
The Secret Service didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Grassley and Johnson have been investigating Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and in 2020 released a report that said his job with Burisma created a “potential conflict of interest” for his dad, who was deeply involved in US policy toward Ukraine.
That report also alleged Hunter Biden sent “thousands of dollars” to people who appeared linked to “an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”
Hunter Biden, now pursuing a controversial career as a self-taught painter, also owned a 10 percent stake in a Chinese investment firm known as BHR Partners, but his lawyer last month told the New York Times that he “no longer holds any interest” in it.
Hunter Biden reportedly planned to meet with then-Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov before was he ousted and arrested for treason.
The White House has refused to say who bought Hunter Biden’s share in the company or how much he was paid for it.
The daddy card goes a long way in D.C. good old boy club nods.
All your posts this thread— outstanding. And this last one the photo of the two scum living soulless a@@holes as father and son— being portrayed like hunter is some “victim” and the father “suffering”..... appalling.
We should never forget that daddy JoeBama got hunter a non-trained non-OCS non-anything— commissioned USNaval officer- in Public Relations— and STILL this a@@hole vacant hole of a non-brain hunter got court martialed out because he could not PASS regular drug tests of Naval Investigative Services. He was doing crack he was NEVER clean or in control of his faculties. And he had been given a job to properly contain any and all operational details of US Navy operations and functions. INCREDIBLE.
And now this complete utter LIE— by order (since Secret Service is part of DHS look who heads that- and direct order of..JoeBama) of JoeBama that they cannot find REQUIRED documentation of their operations both public and “secret”?
HUGE LIE!
But out there (and still in possession of Giuliani- who tried to have the FBI take it with them when they raided his office) are many copies of the Hunter Biden laptop containing the disgusting immoral actions documented by him- to include: cocaine being blown through a straw into his a@@hole- video of chi-com hookers doing this and he saved it on his laptop— to brag!! And many other examples of degraded perversion and corruption. A daddy’s son. And look at the dad and the permanent cheerleader he’s married to- the former babysitter to... Hunter. Protecting him in the absence of JoeBama’s brain function as an illegal stand in President.
This cannot continue any longer- it is how the CHI-COMs control this idiot for life and now demented—nothing. Almost on the order of Tiberius or Caligula. And uh...how to put it— very “Roman”.
Every corrupt activity makes perfect sense when you factor in.....
that Biden cares nothing about a country or it’s citizenry.
SELF SERVING Biden heads the Biden Crime Family.
His ONE AND ONLY concern is TBCF’s well being and enrichment......
to him NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
A born govt parasite.......those manicured, lily white hands never did a lick of real work. Brazenly wears $18 thousand Rolex and others from his expensive collection, bought by selling his office. Spends lge amts of time grooming himself for the cameras.
Judicial Watch’s Oct 13, 2021, Georgia Open Records Act obtained records of communication from South African Rodney Joffe..........Joffe, retired this month from Neustar, another information services company.
A cybersecurity firm at the center of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe was paid nearly $20,000 by The Biden campaign.
<><>The Biden campaign paid Neustar Information Services in 2020 for accounting and compliance work, according to Federal Election Commission records.
<><>According to Durham, Neustar’s chief technology officer, Rodney Joffe, accessed sensitive web traffic data that the company maintained on behalf of the White House executive office to collect “derogatory” information about Donald Trump.
The South African Joffe allegedly provided the information to Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who in turn gave it to the CIA during a meeting in February 2017. Durham charged Sussmann in September with lying to the FBI about his investigation of Trump.
That raises the question: was the same action going on against Trump in 2020?
The Biden and Clinton campaigns are the only two presidential committees to have ever paid Neustar, according to Federal Election Commission records.
<><>Biden’s campaign paid Neustar $18,819 on Sept. 29, 2020, the records show.
<><>The Clinton campaign paid the firm $3,000 in May 2015 for mobile phone services.
<><> Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee paid $3,000 to Neustar in 2017.
Neustar executives and staffers contributed $17,906 to Biden’s campaign, FEC records show.
Given how the Biden administration is bending over backwards to protect Putin’s cash flow, you’d think Hunter was on his payroll.
How else to explain that the Biden administration has explicitly excluded financial transactions “related to energy” from any impact from sanctions?
The definition of “related to energy” the Treasuring Department put out can literally be interpreted to mean about 99 percent of all transactions anywhere. Read this and ask yourself what sanctions actually matter? You won’t find many.
You really do have to think Hunter is cashing checks directly from Putin at this point. It’s the only way to explain the disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality coming out of the President’s mouth.
Stupidity and senility only go so far, this is so blatant that there has to be more to it. Joe Biden has always been worthless, he’s now taken that skill to a whole new level. And a lot of people are dying because of it.
This is the closest he ever gets to drJill’s body parts.
He was traveling incognito with his faithful sidekick, Tonto.
It’s now near 1March. 2022.
Wonder if they met that January deadline? Har, Har.
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