Posted on 07/06/2023 9:00:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hunter Biden’s attorneys are freaking out. The media is gradually learning that something is amiss. The IRS whistleblower testimony has been deemed credible. What has been debunked is the series of attempts by the FBI and the Department of Justice to spin the origins of the investigations into the cracked-out son of the president. Attorney General Merrick Garland swore that David Weiss, US Attorney for Delaware, had the discretion to bring charges, which turned out to be false. Weiss was blocked multiple times, wanting to charge Hunter in 2022.
The IRS’s task force into Hunter was scrapped abruptly following the release of the Durham Report, which found that the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s purported Kremlin ties was grounded in zero evidence and should have never been green-lit. Now, we’re learning from whistleblowers that the DOJ interfered in their investigation into Hunter for political reasons, to say nothing, some of the probe’s roads could have led to Joe Biden. IRS Agent Gary Shapley went on the record with CBS News in May about the interference. It’s now being asked in the press room, which has drawn the ire of the press secretary’s office. Shapley’s recollection of events could land Garland in impeachment hearings.
Yet, Hunter Biden’s attorneys have gone further, alleging that Shapley broke the law by leaking sensitive information to The Washington Post. As Margot Cleveland of The Federalist wrote, it’s a move to damage his credibility as a witness because they’ve exhausted all the other options that aren’t in the sleazebag category. You know the town, the principals who can do damage, and Mr. Shapley is no exception. Biden’s attorney’s attempt to discredit him ended poorly, to say the least:
Hunter Biden’s high-priced attorneys again tried to turn the president’s son into a victim by portraying IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley as a partisan leaker and a criminal — but on Monday, Shapley responded. Shapley’s counter was a devasting blow to Hunter Biden’s legal strategy and also represented a shot across the bow of the Biden-friendly Washington Post.
On Friday, Winston and Strawn attorney Abbe David Lowell dispatched a 10-page missive to Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, regarding what Lowell called the Republican House’s “obsession with attacking the Biden family.” While the letter complained of the House’s supposed abandonment of congressional protocol and rules of conduct, Hunter Biden’s attorneys’ real focus was Shapley, whom they painted as a partisan hack, not a whistleblower — and a criminal to boot.
The June 30 letter from Hunter’s attorneys strongly implied Shapley was responsible for leaking information to The Washington Post that served as the basis for an Oct. 6, 2022 article authored by Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein. The article claimed that “federal agents investigating President Biden’s son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase…” Biden’s lawyers then challenged the House to ask the whistleblowers if they had leaked information to the Post.
Shapley didn’t wait for the House to ask, instead submitting an affidavit to the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday in which he unequivocally swore he “was not the source for the October 6, 2022, Washington Post article.” Shapley further attested that he had never “had any contact with Barrett or Stein,” the authors of the article. He also stated under oath that he “never leaked confidential taxpayer information.”
The whistleblower then expressly authorized “the Washington Post and/or journalists Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein, or any other Washington Post reporter to release any communications directly or indirectly to or from me,” agreeing “to waive any purported journalistic privilege and/or confidentiality that would have arisen had I been a source for the Washington Post.”
At the same time, Shapley’s lawyers wrote to Washington Post authors Barrett and Stein, noting that “Biden family attorneys have falsely accused SSA Shapley of illegally leaking to you for your story, ‘Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden.’”
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What a joke....nothing will come of this.
The WaPo authors know the truth. Let's see if they stand up and acknowledge that Shapley is not the source of the story, or if they sign onto the White House cover-up.
If the WaPo cooperates with Shapely, then Abbe Lowell will know he has a problem. If the WaPo stays silent, then Lowell knows he can count on them to cover up any future lies he may hurl.
-PJ
Hunter’s lawyers were the ‘leakers’ so they cold blame Shapely....................
So far, they are staying silent.
Now that Shapley has issued his statement and his release of obligation to the WaPo, their silence takes on a different meaning. Now their silence means they don't want to affirm Shapley's statements.
This gives Shapely a forum to continue to press the WaPo on why they are remaining silent, and to then impute a motive directly on WaPo that they are directly involved in the cover-up until they relent or he gets the House to call the authors to testify.
I'd like to see Rep. Jason Smith ask Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein, or any other Washington Post reporter if Mr. Shapley's statements are true? I'd like to see them pressed on what confidential sources are being protected by not acknowledging that Shapely is NOT one of them?
-PJ
That would be great!
What Shapley did was as ballsey as one can get - bypassing the Biden-establishment’s tree of control and preemptively posting his challenge directly into the House process.
And now I see Dan Bongino is asserting, with authoritative credibility, that the only way cocaine got into the Whitehouse was via a family member.
Even our hopelessly gullible and naive Democrat neighbors are going to have to see this corruption for what it is. Now, of course, most of them will just plug their ears and reject it and start chanting “Nah-nah-nah-nah-naaawh!” But they’ll have to see it.
No they won't. Not until they see it reported on ABCNNBCBSWaPoNYTPBS.............
Third World Banana Republic. 🍌
Alternative media does a good job of covering these issues, but, the platforms are not that easy to use. It's getting better, but there is definitely room for improvement.
Also, do the blabbing mouths of the MSM know that they are lying, and being used to brainwash the public for the benefit of the globalist slavers? 🤔
Of course they do.....................
If Shaply leaked, it sure as hell wouldn’t be to the Washington Post.
Yes, we all know than nothing will come of this. But it is still good to see the truth come out, and not have to pretend we have a impartial justice system in the US.
Yes, the propagandists of the MSM know they are lying, but they like their high paying jobs too much to quit.
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