Judicial Watch Obtains Secret Service Records Showing Hunter Biden Took 411 Flights, Visited 29 Countries

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received records from the U.S. Secret Service showing that, for the first five and a half years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a Secret Service protective detail. During the time period of the records provided, Hunter Biden, son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, took 411 separate domestic and international flights, including to 29 different foreign countries. He visited China five times.

Judicial Watch’s February 7, 2020, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sought:

Records reflecting the dates and locations of travel, international and domestic, for Hunter Biden while he received a U.S. Secret Service protective detail; please note whether his travel was on Air Force One or Two, or other government aircraft, as applicable and whether additional family members were present for each trip; time frame is 2001 to present.

The Secret Service did not indicate, as was requested, whether Biden’s travel was on Air Force One, Air Force Two or other government aircraft, or whether additional family members were present.

The Secret Service records show that countries and territories visited by Hunter Biden, between June 2009 and May 2014, included:

The records were also provided, but were not made public, to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson in a request the senators sent to Secret Service Director James Murray on February 5, 2020.

In its cover letter to Grassley and Johnson, which was included in the records produced to Judicial Watch, the Secret Service said that the senators’ request was time and labor intensive, and they could only provide a limited amount of information by the senators’ imposed turnaround time of February 19.

“Given the Burisma-Ukraine-China influence peddling scandals, Hunter Biden’s extensive international travel during the Obama-Biden presidency, including at least 5 trips to China, will raise additional questions.” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

According to reports , Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two for the official trip to Beijing in December 2013. The records obtained by Judicial Watch from the Secret Service show Hunter Biden arrived in Tokyo on December 2, 2013 and departed for Beijing two days later. While it is typical for the families of the president and vice president to travel with them, questions have been raised about whether Hunter Biden used the government trip to further his business interests.

NBC reporter Josh Lederman, who was one of four reporters on the December 2013 trip, noted in an October 2, 2019 report that, “What wasn’t known then was that as he accompanied his father to China, Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund that associates said at the time was planning to raise big money, including from China.”

During the last year and a half of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden served on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings while his father was heading up Ukraine policy. Judicial Watch is seeking records through six lawsuits and dozens of FOIA requests related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian Burisma Holdings and the Chinese BHR Partners.

Hunter's 411 plane trips to 29 countries complete w/ S/S detail (as if he was s-o-m-e-b-o-d-y) was helping bring home the bacon for Dad and all the people who needed to get paid off.

And "we know" Hunter got plenty of "official" help from dear old Dad to pull off these money making schemes. Read on.

Revealed: Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter's lobbying
Joe Biden lobbied Department of Justice Congress and Homeland Security for Hunter's lobbying clients
BY Alana Goodman, Washington Examiner| October 24, 2019 07:37 PM

Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.

On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

Biden’s behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his son’s business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his son’s work, including calling for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor and backing policies that helped the Delaware-based credit card industry while Hunter was working for MBNA, which is headquartered in the state.

Government records show that Biden, who has always insisted he knows nothing about his son's business activities, helped Hunter's work with strategic and highly specific interventions that could have benefited his son to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

On Feb. 28, 2007, Biden contacted DHS to express that he was “concerned about the Department's proposed chemical security regulations authorized by Section 550 of DHS Appropriations Act of 2007,” according to the department’s log of its contacts with members of Congress.

Section 550, which was passed in 2006 as part of the DHS appropriations bill, requires high-risk chemical plants to submit site safety plans to DHS for approval, including security credentialing and training for employees.

Eight weeks earlier, the Industrial Safety Training Council had hired Hunter Biden’s firm to lobby DHS on the issue. The trade group, which represents companies that provide safety training for chemical facility employees, was mounting a heavy lobbying campaign over section 550, submitting congressional testimony about the need to expand background checks for chemical plant employees.

The Industrial Safety Training Council was seeking to expand the “language in DHS legislation regarding security clearance and credentialing for chemical facility employees and employers” in January 2007, according to lobbying disclosure records.

While Hunter Biden did not register as an individual lobbyist for the trade association, he was one of three senior partners in his firm at the time. The Industrial Safety Training Council paid Oldaker, Biden & Belair a total of $200,000 between early 2007 and the end of 2008.

The Biden campaign did not respond to request for comment. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said Biden should have avoided involvement with issues that his son’s firm was also lobbying on because of the appearance of conflict.

“It’s implausible Sen. Biden did not know his son’s firm was lobbying on this arcane issue,” said Tom Anderson, the director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project. “Sometimes appearances are exactly what they are," he said. “This is a recurring problem we’ve seen on the Hill, where family members are enriched because of their relationship with a member.”

Biden also sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Jan. 31, 2007 requesting a meeting with the Department of Justice to discuss expanding the federal fingerprint background check system.

“I write to request your assistance in implementing an expanded background check system for our nation's volunteer organizations,” wrote Biden. “If we can work together to expand the number of volunteer organizations that have access to fast, accurate, and inexpensive fingerprint background checks, we will make significant and important strides in our ongoing effort to protect kids across our country.”

Biden added, “I would like to convene a small meeting with key representatives” from DOJ, the FBI, members of Congress and volunteer groups.

One of Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients at the time, a coalition of state-level criminal justice advocates called SEARCH, was also lobbying the federal government for a broader fingerprint screening system at the time.

The same day as Biden’s letter, SEARCH adopted a resolution calling on Congress to consider "any effort to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of criminal history records” and expand the current system to “allow the return of all criminal history record information maintained by the States on the search subject through a single fingerprint check.”

The group initially hired Oldaker, Biden & Belair in 2006 to lobby for federal funding for state-level criminal justice programs, paying the firm $114,000 over the next year.

In early 2008, SEARCH was seeking funding “to assist states in development and use of information to accelerate automation of fingerprint authentication processes and criminal justice data which are compatible with the FBI’s" system, according to lobbying records.

Biden introduced a bill called the “Child Protection Improvements Act” on March 13, 2008, which created a national fingerprint background check system for volunteer groups that worked with children. Oldaker, Biden & Belair promptly began lobbying for the bill on behalf of their client, SEARCH, according to lobbying records. SEARCH paid the firm $93,000 in 2008, records show.

Hunter Biden founded Oldaker, Biden & Belair with William Oldaker, a former adviser to his father. During his time at the firm, he was registered to lobby for clients on issues ranging from online gambling to higher education. After Biden became a vice presidential candidate in 2008, Hunter stepped away from lobbying, and the firm was renamed Oldaker, Belair & Wittington that Biden was concerned conflicts with his son’s lobbying work could negatively affect his presidential run in 2008.

Biden was "concerned with the impact that Hunter's lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination," according to court documents filed by a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s in 2007, ABC News reported.

"Because my dad was vice president of the United States, there's literally nothing, as a young man or as a full-grown adult, that my father in some way hasn't had influence over," Hunter told the outlet in an interview.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-outreach-to-dhs-and-doj-overlapped-

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NOTE: All of these do-good interventions showing Joe as a proud, helpful father apparently laid the groundwork
for the massive global money-making schemes on the horizon Hunter would later be involved with .....
with Joe Biden and Obama weighing in "officially" bigtime............. as soon as the checks cleared.

The genius of our Founding Fathers was that they understood that power corrupts and that government is a self serving institution that cannot be trusted.

The US Constitution is in it’s entirety a document designed to lay out the structure/design of government, the basic operating systems and confines or limits of government powers.

Today with a massive government bureaucracy that makes laws by the day and side steps they entire intended and designed process (Agencies making regulations with the power of the law behind them). Fix: Any government regulation still has to get simple majority approval by House and Senate if a rule is made that affects the public may it be a small portion or everyone. If anyone outside the agency is impacted financially, or restricted in any way conducting business, government needs to follow the Constitutional process in how laws are made.

*** Ironically, the government agency today does not enforce or protect the US Constitution and serve the people, but is looking for ways around this obstacle “Constitution,” may it be the NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA, EPA, FDA, TSA, ATF, FAA... This is the true question they ask themselves: how can I control, regulate, search or tax EVERYTHING, i.e. grow our organization, create more senior executive positions, justify or increase our budget? A document like the US Constitution which “limits” government powers is inherently opposed to the interests of these government agencies which spend millions of tax dollars using their lawyers to argue how to get around these restrictions. Real world examples: guns, pot, TSA searches at airports, our big brother mass surveillance programs by the Intel community, the FAA and their crazy medical requirements for private pilots a few years ago, the EPA dictating how much water a toilet uses per flush and shutting the last US lead acid battery factory down a few years ago and celebrating that internally as if it was a great accomplishment, the DEA requiring reporting on the purchase of frigging decongestant, the NIH/CDC requiring reporting of sensitive and personal information to them regards whatever they deem important...

Bill of Rights having been abridged (all 10 of them have exclusions/exceptions and no longer are in force). Fix: Heads of government agencies and all bureaucrats get remedial training on what the Bill of Rights are. By law heads of government agencies are “personally culpable” if a persons civil rights are violated by some government agency for up to 20 years after the incident and it is up to state courts to determine if there was a violation. i.e. if as a consequence of “policy” someones rights were violated, the appointed heads of those agencies can be held both criminally and civilly liable. It’s the “policy” that the head signed off on which has to be proven to violate peoples civil rights, example if the head of the TSA orders as a matter of policy that people are searched at airports and it is deemed that this violates a basic Constitutional right of not being searched in person or affects without probable cause and a warrant, then the head of the TSA can look at criminal or civil legal action against him.

A small political elite that stays in power forever and creates political dynasties, almost always by selling favors through their office held to special interests that are willing to give them kick backs (usually legally and right under the nose of everyone, you just need some savvy lawyers to help you in how to do it). This is how public servants become multi millionaires and billionaires like the Clinton’s, Kennedy’s, Biden’s, and others. Fix: Term limits. That simple. Almost all these dynasties are the consequence of the eternal legislator. The same issue was with the president and FDR proved that this is a real problem. Today it is the legislative branch that suffers from this problem.

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