Category: Justice Department

Life Imitates Art

The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, The Post has learned. [More]

I remember that scene…

“Where’s the media outrage,” you ask…?

[Via Michael G]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly ran a story headlined “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.” [More]

And that’s why I call ’em the DSM.

[Via bondmen]

Bull, Durham

The report, coming almost four years to the day since Durham’s assignment began, will probably be derided by Democrats as the end of a partisan boondoggle. Republicans will have to wrestle with a much-touted investigation that has cost taxpayers more than $6.5 million and didn’t send a single person to jail, even though Trump once predicted that Durham would uncover the “crime of the century.” [More]

Just because this is another flaccid Kraken doesn’t mean Trump was wrong.

It just means the possibilities for peaceful revolution keep getting sabotaged by those who believe they are in power.

All Things Considered

Federal prosecutors have considered four possible charges against Hunter Biden – Possible charges are two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion and a felony count related to a gun purchase. [More]

If they do choose the latter — and I doubt they will — find one report that specifically called out lying on a 4473 that came out before this one. Being “just a blogger” and not a #realreporter, I don’t want to claim anything that turns out not to be true.

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Abridging’ Is

The multinational software company Oracle is cutting ties with the Global Disinformation Index, a State Department-funded group that the Washington Examiner revealed has been secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets. [More]

That DOJ hasn’t slapped this down hard from the outset is all I need to see to know what we’re dealing with.

[Via Michael G]

The Big Guy’s Boy

DOJ Openly Ignores Hunter Biden’s Ties to International Arms Trafficker Who Sold Grenade Launchers, Anti-Tank Missiles [More]

HEY, LOOK EVERYBODY: STORMY DANIELS! And the thought strikes that she hasn’t done anything to advance her career that Kamala Harris hasn’t done to advance hers. That and Merrick Garland’s the bigger whore.

[Via bondmen]

The Big Chill

Independent journalist Steve Baker says he was recently warned that his aggressive reporting and commentary about Jan. 6 have created growing ire at the U.S. Department of Justice that could lead to his prosecution for being at the Capitol on that fateful Wednesday in 2021. [More]

Well, if he’s an “independent,” he’s not an “Authorized Journalist” then, is he?

And scary official threats of retaliation for reporting the truth… where have we seen that before?

[Via bondmen]

Curses, Foiled Again!

The Court ORDERS that Defendants and their officers, agents, servants, and employees are enjoined from implementing or enforcing against Polymer80, Inc. or its customers, in any manner, the provisions in 27 C.F.R. § 478.11 and 478.12 that this Court has determined are likely unlawful. [More]

Garland again,

This didn’t age well, did it, Leon?

[Via Jess]

Tyrants Gonna Tyrannize

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that struck down a federal law preventing people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from having guns. [More]

Because how better “to secure the Blessings of Liberty” than to deny rights to people who haven’t even been charged with anything, let alone convicted?

[Via bondmen]

When Mini-Tyrants Rage

A coalition of 14 attorneys general condemned payment networks majors including Visa Inc, American Express Co and Mastercard Inc for pausing work on a merchant code to help detect suspicious gun sales in the United States. [More]

That tells me everything I need to know.

Why is Reuters calling state attorneys general “U.S. attorneys general”?

[Via Jess]

Related UPDATE

Senators Menendez, Warren urge regulators to support new gun sale code [More]

And that tells me everything I need to know, too.

[Via Steve T]

We’re the Only Ones Cowing Enough

The FBI Targeted Patriotic Conservatives Exercising Their First Amendment Rights: ‘They’re All Bleeping Terrorists’ [More]

Right. The object here is to send an unmistakable intimidating message about who’s in charge in case anybody else is getting any ideas. That and smear any opposing ideology as the stuff of domestic terrorists.

I wonder if the people who really could be in charge, and in short order, are ever going to realize the disparity in numbers…?

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Inciting Enough

Newly Released J6 Footage Shows ‘Non-Uniformed’ Officers, Police Urging Pro-Trump Protesters to Go to the Capitol [More]

It’s a well-known and exploitable psychological phenomenon. I’m surprised sentences aren’t being appealed based on exploitation and manipulation by provocateurs trained to agitate and elicit such reactions in crowds.

I wonder if subpoenas by defense attorneys would reveal coordinated plans and instructions.

[Via Michael G]