Something must have changed. 
Posted on 01/27/2023 9:27:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Shortly after the new Congress was seated, Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen with a records request. He wanted his committee to review any “suspicious activity reports” the Treasury might have related to Hunter Biden’s financial transactions over the years. This was meant to be part of the “Biden Incorporated” investigations that recently began. Yesterday, the Treasury’s Legislative Affairs chief, Jonathan Davidson, responded to Comer, telling him to basically go pound sand. His letter wasn’t quite that blunt, but he declined to provide any records, saying that the Treasury would need to know more details about why the committee would need such “highly sensitive” information. His justification for declining the request doesn’t appear to be very substantial, however. (Yahoo News)
The US Treasury Department refused Wednesday to provide House Republicans any suspicious activity reports it may have on foreign banking and other business transactions by Hunter Biden and other members of President Joe Biden’s family.
Jonathan Davidson, Treasury’s legislative affairs chief, told House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer in a letter that he needs more details about why the panel is seeking such “highly sensitive” information.
Comer wrote on Jan. 11 to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for any so-called suspicious activity reports — used by banks to flag what they deem dubiously large transactions — as part of his panel’s probes into overseas business and other dealings by the president’s son.
The response may have come from Jonathan Davidson, but you can rest assured that he wouldn’t make that sort of decision without Janet Yellen signing off on it. And it’s a safe bet that the President was flagged in advance as well.
It’s also fairly obvious that the Treasury was scrambling to come up with some sort of rationale to block the Oversight committee from conducting, well… oversight. The best they were able to come up with was a claim that the “improper disclosure” of those types of records might “undermine the executive branch’s conduct of law enforcement, intelligence, and national security activities.”
I’m sorry, but… what? What are they talking about? The records in question involve Hunter Biden. He holds no elected office and has no responsibilities involving law enforcement, the intelligence community, or anything to do with national security. (Aside from possibly having undermined national security with some of his shady deals.)
Or at least his records shouldn’t involve anything like that unless some of the transactions showed significant payments to his father. Is that what Yellen is sitting on? If any potential records include all of the data related to suspiciously large transactions, it might potentially involve that joint bank account that Hunter and Joe Biden shared, as testified to by one of Hunter’s business partners.
The very existence of that account should have been enough to raise questions. It’s not all that unusual for parents to open a joint account with a minor child, particularly if they’re trying to help them build up a college tuition fund. But how many grown men maintain and actively use a joint account with one of their parents after they have supposedly grown up and set out in the world on their own? A shared account is probably a useful way to obfuscate precisely who is depositing and withdrawing funds. (But why would Hunter Biden need to do that, right?)
This entire exchange stinks on ice. There has been a growing body of evidence, primarily from Hunter’s infamous laptop from hell, that he was involved in very questionable deals in both Ukraine and China. And “the Big Guy” very likely was getting a cut of the action. Hunter’s bank records could provide valuable insight into precisely what was going on. And the Oversight Committee should have all of those records that were requested.
There are two sets of laws in America.
Even though the democrats loved saying “No one is above the law...”
Criminal deep state protects it’s own criminals!
Don’t they legally have to give the information over?
Legality was never an impediment before and it won’t be now.
Isn’t this what the Democrats used to call Obstruction of Justice? Back in the old days?
Most transparent administration evah!
They might as well say, “we’re going to do whatever we want, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
tehcnically they might be legally responsible to do so, but they own or control everything and are above the law- the law is only for conservatives- and woe to any of them (GOP) if they step over the line even slightly-
Thee is no doubt biden has taken part in massive criminal activity.
Defund Treasury until they are accountable.
Well if they cannot borrows y money we don’t need them.
Xiden and his handlers are worse than Putin or Xi.
Most, not all, but most federal bureaucrats are criminals and crime enablers. We know the honest bureaucrats are in the minority based on the fact of the rancid behavior of management - of the FBI, DoJ, Treasury, etc. - and the belief such management has that it can get away with it.
Treason.
I would respect that more…
Constitutional Crisis coming up!.......................
Bet he never registered as a foreign agent doing business with foreign countries. They went after Paul Manafort for that, despite no one having been held criminally accountable in the past for not doing so.
Something must have changed.
Reason, they want a reason to release the records?
They didn’t need a reason, or even a crime, to ask for and expect President Trumps records! Claimed Trump was a tax cheat, claimed he defrauded people, Democrats made many claims.........FALSE CLAIMS to try to embarrass Trump. Why, they even Raided his house with FBI for records that he kept for his library, and didn’t do anything to Obama or Biden.
Now, the Congress asks if Hunter Biden was involved with cash deals and sketchy payments while he worked for a ‘investment group’ that seemed to have ‘classified like information in bullet format’ transmitted to foreign companies that payed him....well alot of money. Where did the classified information come from? Where did the money go to?
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