Posted on 02/21/2024 10:17:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Even if Smirnov is guilty, that does not exonerate Weiss.
A federal judge rejected Special Counsel David Weiss’s request that confidential human source Alexander Smirnov remain jailed pending trial on charges that he lied to the FBI. While the special counsel’s office lost its motion to detain Smirnov, Weiss likely viewed the defeat as a public relations victory, given the gratuitous details he included in the memorandum filed with the court.
Weiss would be wrong, however, to consider anything about his office’s prosecution of Smirnov as a win. Rather, Tuesday’s court filing — if accurate — renders Weiss’s incompetence even more consequential.
Last week, news broke that Weiss had charged Smirnov in a two-count indictment with making false statements to the FBI and creating a false and fictitious record. The charges stem from Smirnov’s alleged lies to the FBI in June of 2020 concerning conversations Smirnov claims he had in 2015-2016 and then again in 2017 with various executives of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Among other things, Smirnov claimed Burisma executives said Hunter and Joe Biden pressured them to pay them $5 million each in bribes to ensure the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office left Burisma untouched. The handler memorialized Smirnov’s reporting in an FD-1023, which Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, later released to the public after whistleblowers suggested the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office had failed to investigate the CHS’s claims.
In indicting Smirnov, Weiss confirmed his office had botched the Hunter Biden investigation by ignoring the FD-1023 for nearly three years — and then only investigating Smirnov’s claims after Grassley made the document public. Specifically, according to Thursday’s indictment, the FBI did not question Smirnov about his reporting until Sept. 27, 2023.
As I wrote at the time, the “timeline confirms the incompetence of Weiss in handling the...
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Except it is not incompetence, it is an intentional cover-up for the Biden family just like the tax charges that they allowed the statute of limitations to expire.
This looks like another Russia Russia Russia hoax
boiled rope.
Yes - Weiss is a corrupt political fixer for the Biden Family Syndicate.
Weiss has to prove Smirov is lying about the bribes. Seems like he is more interested in burying him in the can.
I know it used to be the reverse.
Christine Ballsy Ford. I hear she has a memoire coming out. That’s quite a trick when she can’t remember anything.
A secret service agent protecting Biden on his Delaware beach vacations, was bitten so bad by Commander he lost a significant amount of blood. CNN.
Were the Washington Redskins renamed to honor Biden’s dog?
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