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Started 5/9/22 by WALTER784; 48947 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-20
EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department is concealing 400 pages of 'sensitive documents' laying bare payoffs and gifts to Hunter and Jim Biden from China, Russia and Ukraine - after acknowledging the records exist - lawyer claims in suit
Colorado lawyer Kevin Evans sued the Department of Justice in March after it failed to comply with his request for records on the Bidens' business dealings
Evans asked for documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
He requested information regarding 'any relationship, communication, gift(s), and/or remuneration in any form' between Bidens and China, Russia or Ukraine
He said government lawyers first admitted in court to having at least 400 pages of 'potentially relevant' documents
Evans claims the DoJ are now trying to get away with saying they can 'neither confirm nor deny' the existence of any records that match his request
By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:56 GMT, 2 January 2023 | UPDATED: 20:35 GMT, 2 January 2023
The Department of Justice is trying to prevent disclosure of 400 pages of sensitive documents on Hunter and Jim Biden's dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine – by pretending they don't exist.
Colorado lawyer Kevin Evans sued the department in March after it failed to comply with his request for records on the Bidens' dealings under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Evans, a FOIA expert, asked for documents pertaining to 'any relationship, communication, gift(s), and/or remuneration in any form' between the president's son Hunter or brother Jim, and China, Russia or Ukraine.
He said government lawyers first admitted in court to having at least 400 pages of 'potentially relevant' documents – but are now trying to get away with saying they can 'neither confirm nor deny' the existence of any records that match his request.
The DoJ is trying to prevent disclosure of 400 pages of sensitive documents on Hunter and uncle Jim Biden's dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine, DailyMail.com can reveal
Colorado lawyer Kevin Evans sued the department in March after it failed to comply with his request for records on the Bidens dealings under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
A Justice Department prosecutor, David Weiss, is currently considering a criminal case against Hunter with potential allegations of money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying and tax crimes in relation to the First Son's overseas business dealings.
The 400 pages are not the only cache of Biden records being sought from the government.
The National Archives and Records Administration is preparing to release hundreds of Obama White House internal documents containing information about Hunter's relationship with controversial Ukrainian gas company Burisma, Business Insider reported this month.
Joe Biden was vice president at the time, with responsibility for relations with Ukraine. His son was serving on the board of Burisma, getting paid $83,000 per month.
Biden's administration is able to veto the release, but must decide by February whether to invoke executive privilege to keep them hidden until 2029.
The records date back to 2014 and include 69 images and 260 email messages mentioning Burisma.
Evans' case has its next hearing in January.
The Greenwood Village, Colorado-based lawyer said he filed his FOIA request in November 2020 after reading about the Bidens' overseas business dealings, and the Justice Department strung him along for almost two years before he eventually sued them.
'They eventually produced about 60 pages of documents, but they're all letters from senators and congressmen asking about Hunter, and letters from DoJ back,' he said.
'Then towards the end of last year they said, ''well we have these 400 pages of potentially responsive documents, we need to review them.''
'In March I filed suit, and before Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty they made the same representation: they've done a thorough search, they've uncovered 400 potentially responsive documents.'
Evans said in his suit that he filed his FOIA request in November 2020 after reading about the Bidens' overseas business dealings, and the Justice Department strung him along for almost two years before he eventually sued them
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From: WALTER784
Jan-20
HUGE: Matt Gaetz Reveals Republicans Will Release the 14,000 Hours of J6 Tapes That Have Been Hidden (VIDEO)
By Cullen Linebarger
Published January 10, 2023 at 3:40pm
Looks like we will finally get the full story on what really happened on January 6th. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Charlie Kirk today on Kirk’s radio show that the new Republican Congress will unveil the hidden J6 tapes.
Gaetz told Charlie Kirk that releasing the tapes “would give more full context to that day rather than the cherry-picked moments of the January 6th committee.” He further explained this is one example of the deal made with Kevin McCarthy to provide the American people the truth rather than the lies propagated by the Biden Regime.
VIDEO:
Here is the relevant part of their conversation:
Kirk: One of my favorite members of Congress is Thomas Massie and the fact that he is going to be on this new committee (the Church Committee) really gives me hope.
Matt, do you anticipate allowing the dogs to be released if you will against this fourth branch of government (the Deep State).
Gaetz: Kevin McCarthy told us he is going to get the evidence out in front of the American people and that means releasing the 14,000 hours of tapes that have been hidden that I think would give more full context to that day (January 6th) rather than the cherry-picked moments the January 6th committee tried to use to inflame and further divide out country.
So yes, I do believe that part of this deal is a concession that we are going to get the truth out in front of the American people.
Should Congress actually follow through and release the tapes, this will serve as the first step toward getting justice for the January 6th prisoners. The Gateway Pundit has provided numerous accounts of the horrifying conditions the Regime has placed them in.
TGP owner Jim Hoft has been particularly outspoken over the treatment of the Regime’s political prisoners and has attended protests speaking on their behalf. TGP writer Cara Castronuova has also broken numerous critical stories on the prisoners’ suffering.
The deal made between McCarthy and the conservative rebels continues to look better as the days go by. We have patriots like Matt Gaetz to thank for this.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-20
Jan 6 Report Hides Any Mention of Pipe Bomber Who Was Cause of Shutting Down Congress That Day
By Joe Hoft
Published December 24, 2022 at 1:00pm
On January 6, 2021, Congress was shut down due to concerns with bombs left behind by a pipe bomber. This bomber is barely mentioned in the Jan 6 Report.
We learned from the Jan 6 committee that there was a pipe bomber who left pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC. These bombs were discovered around 1:00 pm according to the final Jan 6 report. This was mentioned in the Appendix to the report.
Julie Kelly noted that the pipe bomb was barely mentioned in the report (only 5 times). The FBI Head, Steven D’Antuono, the Head of the Washington Field Office who was in charge of the pipe bomb investigation, was not interviewed by the Jan 6 gang of corrupt politicians.
What apparently is also missing from the report is that the FBI misled the American people about the pipe bombs. These bombs were placed at the RNC and DNC on Jan 5th, the day before the protests of the 2020 Election in Washington DC.
We also learned that the US Capitol was shut down on Jan 6 because of the pipe bombs. This too was withheld from the American people. The story was that the Capitol was shut down due to the riot outside the Capitol. The many politicians who ignored the 2020 Election steal claimed that Trump supporters were the cause of Congress being shut down. This was not true.
The corrupt and unconstitutional Jan 6 Committee ends where it began – hiding behind lies and crimes while projecting its actions on the good people of this nation.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-20
Congressman plans to stop U.S. scheme of holding 'political' prisoners
'Greatest threat to our republic is our own government which grossly abuses its power'
By WND Staff
Published December 26, 2022 at 3:28pm
Hundreds of Americans have been held in jail for months, even years, not because they are accused of some extreme crime, but because they protested the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, likely trespassed, and ultimately offended the Democrats whose candidate then moved into the White House.
There have been many horror stories from those Jan. 6, "political" prisoners, from their detention in horrific conditions, to officials depriving them of ordinary rights to counsel, to apparently coerced plea bargains.
But now, according to a report from the Epoch Times, there could be coming an end to that.
The report explains retiring U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, has proposed a bill to address the detention, treatment and prosecution of defendants from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
It's called the Matthew Lawrence Perna Act and it's named after the man from Pennsylvania who was arrested for being in the Capitol building during those protests.
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The report confirmed, "The bill, if passed, would prohibit the detention of political activists arrested during the course of a protest for non-violent crimes. The bill would also allow for speedy trials for detainees arrested for non-violent crimes during a political protest, among other provisions."
The report noted that after a year of the federal government delaying his case, Perna pleaded guilty and then, facing enhanced charges and harsher sentencing, he killed himself.
Gohmert said, "The Biden administration and the FBI would like to have the public believe that Trump supporters pose the greatest threat to our democracy. However, the greatest threat to our Republic is our own government which grossly abuses its power, uses tools for spying on foreign threats to spy on its citizens, and now holds political prisoners."
The report noted that Gohmert developed language for the bill that protects "nonviolent political protesters" regardless of the issue at hand, or their political affiliation.
The congressman also was helped by Geri Perna, Matthew Perna's aunt, who first worked as her nephew's advocate and then later, after his death, signed on with Gohmert's plan.
Protesters at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Video screenshot)
She told the Epoch Times in an interview, "From the beginning, Rep. Gohmert has been vocal and hardworking—he has been the loudest and hardest working—in raising the issue of the unjust political prosecution of Matthew, and others protested peacefully and nonviolently on that day."
The bill also addresses "malicious prosecution" and reins in claims by prosecutors that all those cases have "national security" implications.
Just before his death, Perna took a call from his lawyer and learned prosecutors were delaying his sentencing and adding a charge of terrorism so that he could serve years in prison, just for entering the building.
Congressman plans to stop U.S. scheme of holding 'political' prisoners (wnd.com)
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From: WALTER784
Jan-20
JUST IN: Another Twitter Files Drop: How Pfizer Board Member Scott Gottlieb Used Twitter Lobbyist at White House to Suppress Debate on Covid Vaccines
By Cristina Laila
Published January 9, 2023 at 3:35pm
Journalist Alex Berenson released another ‘Twitter Files’ drop: How Scott Gottlieb – a top Pfizer board member – used the same Twitter lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid vaccines.
Including help from fellow head of the USDA!
Dr. Scott Gottlieb – former FDA Commissioner-turned-member-of-board-of-directors of Pfizer, pressured Twitter to censor former NY Times reporter and author Alex Berenson for questioning the mRNA vaccines.
Pfizer made billions of dollars off of its mRNA Covid vaccines.
2. In August 2021, Gottlieb told Todd O’Boyle – a senior manager in Twitter’s public policy department – that a tweet from Dr. Brett Giroir claiming CORRECTLY that natural immunity was superior to vaccine immunity was “corrosive” and might “go viral.”
3. Twitter put a misleading tag on the tweet, preventing it from being shared. Gottlieb then went after a tweet about Covid’s low risk to kids from Justin Hart. Pfizer would soon win the okay for its mRNA shots for children, so keeping parents scared was crucial…
4. In October 2022, Scott Gottlieb claimed on Twitter and CNBC that he was not trying to suppress debate on mRNA jabs. These files prove that Gottlieb – board member at a company that has made $70 billion on the shots – did just that.
Excerpt from Alex Berenson’s Substack:
On August 27, 2021, Dr. Scott Gottlieb – a Pfizer director with over 550,000 Twitter followers – saw a tweet he didn’t like, a tweet that might hurt sales of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines.
The tweet explained correctly that natural immunity after Covid infection was superior to vaccine protection. It called on the White House to “follow the science” and exempt people with natural immunity from upcoming vaccine mandates.
It came not from an “anti-vaxxer” like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but from Dr. Brett Giroir, a physician who had briefly followed Gottlieb as the head of the Food & Drug Administration. Further, the tweet actually encouraged people who did not have natural immunity to “Get vaccinated!”
No matter.
By suggesting some people might not need Covid vaccinations, the tweet could raise questions about the shots. Besides being former FDA commissioner, a CNBC contributor, and a prominent voice on Covid public policy, Gottlieb was a senior board member at Pfizer, which depended on mRNA jabs for almost half its $81 billion in sales in 2021. Pfizer paid Gottlieb $365,000 for his work that year.
Gottlieb stepped in, emailing Todd O’Boyle, a top lobbyist in Twitter’s Washington office who was also Twitter’s point of contact with the White House.
The post was “corrosive,” Gottlieb wrote. He worried it would “end up going viral and driving news coverage.”
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From: Showtalk
Jan-21
Lives are ruined in the process. I didn’t care much for Stone but he didn’t deserve that.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-21
Showtalk said...
Lives are ruined in the process. I didn’t care much for Stone but he didn’t deserve that.
Neither did Flynn nor numerous others the Democrats targeted.
Those who ruined the lives of these individuals should be brought up on charges of defamation.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-21
Showtalk said...
They all deserve speedy trials.
Due to infringement of their rights for so long, they should all be freed without trial!
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From: WALTER784
Jan-22
Ashli Babbitt’s shooter housed at Andrews for six months
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist
January 13, 2023 09:08 AM
The U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot and killed Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt was housed for six months in a hotel suite reserved for top brass at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, according to newly released Air Force records.
Capitol Police paid for a suite for Lt. Michael Byrd and a “pet” at the hotel inside the fenced base from July 2021 to January 2022 for thousands of dollars, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.
Byrd, who did not face any charges in the killing of the unarmed Babbitt, revealed his role in August 2021 and said that he had been threatened for his actions. Capitol Police did not immediately explain why they housed Byrd at the Presidential Inn, a military-only facility on Andrews.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Secrets he was surprised that Byrd was housed at the base at taxpayer expense.
This is one example of the pages the Air Force delivered under FOIA to Judicial Watch in its continued Jan. 6 probe.
Courtesy Judicial Watch
“How in Lord's name does the Defense Department get involved in providing security?” he said. “So now the Defense Department is at the beck and call to help manage someone involved in a police shooting? It’s crazy."
Fitton released 31 pages of documents in the latest release of Jan. 6-related information the watchdog group has uncovered.
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Babbitt, 35, was the only person involved in the Capitol riots to die on Jan. 6. She was shot trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby at the back of the House chamber.
Explaining his action, Byrd said he felt she was endangering his colleagues. “I know that day I saved countless lives,” he said.
Ashli Babbitt’s shooter housed at Andrews for six months | Washington Examiner
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