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| Hunter and Joe Biden -- logically ai |
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is not a rhetorical flamethrower, unlike former President Donald Trump. And so, when Grassley “revealed from the Senate floor Monday,” according to a Fox News report, that “the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Joe Biden and Hunter Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an ‘insurance policy’”, the story should have awakened sleepy journalists who were, at the moment, otherwise occupied covering the indictment of former President Donald Trump, the media’s longstanding fixation.
The “payments,”
amounting to about $5 million, it had long ago been established, were for services rendered by President Joe
Biden’s wayward son. Here and there in the past, a raised eyebrow had appeared
in off-center publications. Was the
prodigal son a dupe of foreign powers, an undercover agent for the CIA perhaps?
He sure was taking in a lot of money from China, whose fascist government has not
yet proclaimed, as did shoe-pounder Nikita Khrushchev during the administration
of John F. Kennedy, that it will “bury us.” Did Hunter’s dad know about his
questionable dealings with foreign entities?
Dad several times
pleaded ignorance.
Why were the
governments of Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Romania and China paying Hunter Biden and
other family members through shell companies such as Burisma millions of
dollars when apparently everybody but his father Joe knew that Hunter was
providing no product or service to these foreign entities, some of them, like fascist
China, permanent enemies of the United States. Multiple members of the Biden
Family were enriched by these payoffs.
Biden had
strenuously denied several times that he knew what his son was up to, much of
it displayed graphically in a computer the absent minded Hunter had left in a
repair shop.
The New
York Times informs us that
Hunter’s business relationship with China was not all take, take: “The
president’s son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion
purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s largest cobalt
deposits. The metal is a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles.”
Electric vehicles,
as a replacement for the environmentally devalued internal combustion engine,
has been much on Biden’s mind both preceding and following son Hunter’s
business ventures. Until recently, much of America’s media, preoccupied with
Democrat Party campaign scripts, has devoted little attention to China’s abysmal
human rights record, its largely successful attempts to create monopolies in
necessary raw products such as rare earth materials, indispensible in computers
and as a hardening agent for military weaponry.
Now Cobalt, a key
ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles is being monopolized by fascist
China.
Grassley is telling
us the FBI form says there are 17 audio recordings a Burisma executive had with
Hunter, tucked away by the executive as “insurance,” just in case something
went wrong – or was made to go wrong by powerful U.S. agencies such as, to pick
one among many, the U.S. Justice Department – leaving the besieged Burisma
executive “holding the bag,” as a Mafia bagman might put it.
After a tempestuous
struggle to wrest from the FBI form FD-1023 that mentions the recordings --
redacted by the FBI in the data it sent, after much wrangling, to a U.S.
Congress investigating committee -- Grassley fumed from the Senate floor,
reminding FBI hoarders, “it’s important that the document be made public
without unnecessary redactions for the American people to see."
“The FD-1023 form,
dated June 30, 2020,” Fox News Digital has reported, “is the FBI's interview
with a ‘highly credible’ confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and
conversations he or she had with a top Burisma executive over the course of
several years, starting in 2015.”
According to
Grassley, the FBI produced, unclassified
document also states that the executive possesses two audio recordings
of phone calls between himself and then-Vice President Joe Biden, a claim
strenuously denied in the past by the president.
Grassley slammed the
FBI from the Senate floor for not complying with the House Oversight
Committee’s subpoena, saying Congress "still lacks a full and complete
picture with respect to what that document really says.
"That’s why
it’s important that the document be made public without unnecessary redactions
for the American people to see. The 1023 produced to that House Committee
redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and
Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them -- 17
total recordings... According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses two
audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden… The
Justice Department and FBI must show their work. They no longer deserve the
benefit of the doubt."
The FBI, chastened
by threats of contempt of Congress, made an accommodation and, according to the
Fox report, “later brought the form to a secure setting on Capitol Hill for all
Oversight Committee members to view, but the document is still not in the
committee's possession.”
This is startling
behavior in an administration that claims almost weekly to be the custodian of
American democracy. It bears repeating that the FBI document sought by the
House Oversight Committee is unclassified.
There can be no
democracy if the demos – the
ancient Greek city state from which the word “democracy” is derived -- does not
know what its administrators are doing, and why. It is the “why” that now is
puzzling Republicans considered by the ruling Biden administration to be
unfriendly to democracy.
Intense smoke of
this kind strongly suggest a fire. None of the seven members of Connecticut’s
all Democrat U.S. Congressional Delegations seem the least alarmed, and none of
them are reaching for fire alarms.
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