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Focus Moves to Office Joe Biden Shared With Chinese as Search for Classified Docs Intensifies
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 12, 2023 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 01/13/2023 12:51:12 AM PST by Brown Deer

The discovery of two batches of classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president could bring renewed attention to an office the president shared with his scandal-plagued son Hunter and a Chinese energy conglomerate linked to Chinese military intelligence.

Joe and Hunter Biden were "office mates" with executives from CEFC China Energy in 2017, according to emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop. In an email to the general manager for the K Street office building, Hunter Biden said the office would be shared by his consulting firm Hudson West, CEFC China Energy, and the Biden Foundation, his family charity.

"[P]lease have keys made available for new office mates," Hunter Biden wrote in a Sept. 21, 2017 email, listing Joe Biden, his stepmother Jill Biden, his uncle Jim Biden, and Gongwen Dong, whom he identified as the "emissary" for the chairman of the now-bankrupt Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.

While the Bidens left the office in 2018, their cohabitation with CEFC executives could raise national security concerns in light of the revelation that Joe Biden kept classified documents related to Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom in another Washington, D.C., office. Biden aides have also discovered classified records in Biden’s garage at his home in Wilmington, Del. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate how the documents, some of which are marked "top secret," ended up at the Biden properties.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the discoveries should prompt the Justice Department to conduct an exhaustive search of all of Joe and Hunter Biden’s current and former properties.

"If the DOJ and specifically the FBI haven’t conducted the widest possible search of every known location where Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and their associates may have kept classified documents—this is in no way a complete or legitimate investigation," Issa told the Washington Free Beacon.

It is unclear whether any classified materials were stored at the Bidens’ K Street office. But CEFC employees’ access to the office could be of particular concern given the energy conglomerate’s ties to Chinese military intelligence. Hunter Biden worked closely with the firm’s former chairman, Ye Jianming. According to a Senate Republican report, Ye served from 2003 to 2005 as deputy secretary general of the China Association for International Friendly Contacts, a front group for the People’s Liberation Army that "performs dual roles of intelligence collection and conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns."

Hunter Biden also forged close ties to CEFC employee JiaQi Bao, whom House Republicans suspect of working for Chinese intelligence. House Oversight Committee Republicans last year provided FBI director Christopher Wray with "evidence of Bao’s close relationship to Hunter Biden and her attempts to ingratiate herself with his father." Republicans said Bao received a degree from Tsinghua University, a recruiting hub for China’s intelligence services. Before joining CEFC, she worked for China’s National Development and Reform Commission.

Bao appears to have worked in the Bidens’ K Street office, located in the heart of Washington’s lobbying district.

In a March 25, 2018, email, Bao asked Hunter if there was "anything in the office that you would like me to pick up/organize for you." Bao also urged Hunter to take as much money as he could from his partnership with CEFC. "Figure out a way to have the money transferred to the right U.S. account before any restriction levied by Chinese regulators," she wrote.

"After infiltrating the Biden family, Bao urged Hunter to encourage Joe Biden to run for president months before he announced and then supplied the Biden family campaign advice related to China," said Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight panel.

In 2017 and 2018, CEFC paid Hunter Biden $5 million to scout out energy deals in the United States and Europe. CEFC paid Biden another $1 million to serve as a legal adviser for Patrick Ho, a CEFC executive who was indicted for trying to bribe two African officials for oil rights. Biden referred to Ho as "the fucking spy chief of China," in a May 2018 voice mail, according to Senate Republicans.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.


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To: Brown Deer
P]lease have keys made available for new office mates,"

The chances the Chinese didn't go over every inch of that office, including looking into locked cabinets, is zero.

61 posted on 01/13/2023 5:06:33 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: BlueStateRightist

I dunno. Some of those Wall Street guys probably should be shot.


62 posted on 01/13/2023 5:08:15 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Clutch Martin

Where’s the FBI?
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Given what the Twitter releases have revealed about the FBI, that’s a frightening question....


63 posted on 01/13/2023 5:08:56 AM PST by hecticskeptic (")
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To: Liz

ping


64 posted on 01/13/2023 5:15:46 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Husker24

This way, the swamp can take out Trump in 2024 AND Biden forever


65 posted on 01/13/2023 5:37:12 AM PST by Does so (This way, the swamp can take out Trump in 2024 AND Biden forever)
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To: Texas resident

This way, the swamp can take out Trump in 2024 AND Biden forever


66 posted on 01/13/2023 5:38:29 AM PST by Does so (This way, the swamp can take out Trump in 2024 AND Biden forever)
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To: Brown Deer

This is how Joe became a millionaire on a government salary. Selling favors, access, and classified information.

May they all burn.


67 posted on 01/13/2023 5:53:15 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: Jonty30

WTF?
Did he put a searchlight on his roof to let the Chinese know he had stuff for them too//

I assume he just yelled at them down the hallway.


68 posted on 01/13/2023 5:55:16 AM PST by gbaker
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To: Brown Deer

Gee, are these Joe’s lawyers searching or is some law enforcement agency finally conducting the search? If not, why doesn’t the DOJ just ask Joe to look and promise to one day in the future let the DOJ know if he found anything. You know maybe like 54 years in the future..... you know like the 54 years after the JFK Assassination, where all records would be released 25 years after that event, but now Congress had to pass a law in 2017 for release of ALL JFK assassination records which the Feds still have not fully complied!


69 posted on 01/13/2023 5:58:00 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Brown Deer

If they actually investigate, we would likely find treason.


70 posted on 01/13/2023 5:58:44 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DoughtyOne; Brown Deer; Travis McGee; AnthonySoprano
Obama this week has been as silent as a tomb....


71 posted on 01/13/2023 6:13:51 AM PST by 4Liberty (Kamala’s relatives owned slaves.)
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To: DoughtyOne

How about finger print and DNA testing the documents to see who had access?


72 posted on 01/13/2023 6:26:53 AM PST by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: Brown Deer

73 posted on 01/13/2023 6:27:45 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Brown Deer

PURE TREASON!

But DOJ/FBI will do nothing.

Biden is an angel, Trump is the devil.


74 posted on 01/13/2023 7:26:35 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Kaiser8408a

Yep, selling out to foreign countries like the Biden crime family did actually is treasonous.


75 posted on 01/13/2023 7:28:24 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Brown Deer
"The discovery of two batches of classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president could bring renewed attention to an office down the president shared with his scandal-plagued son Hunter and a Chinese energy conglomerate linked to Chinese military intelligence."
76 posted on 01/13/2023 7:42:49 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Sicon
FBI is on it...


77 posted on 01/13/2023 7:47:10 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Brown Deer

Here is a key item of information ...

“While the Bidens left the office in 2018 ...”


78 posted on 01/13/2023 7:58:55 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Robert357

He will not seek reelection. The Democrats and their subservient media are using this episode to ensure he’s too tainted to run again, even for them. Now to get rid of Kamala . . .


79 posted on 01/13/2023 8:02:21 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Clutch Martin

“..Where’s the FBI?...”

At school board meetings gathering the names of pissed-off parents. /s


80 posted on 01/13/2023 8:40:59 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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