Key congressman says Hunter Biden was 'operative for foreign influence,' belongs in jail

Alleging that Hunter Biden "clearly" acted as "an operative for foreign influence" who failed to disclose foreign earnings and clients, an influential congressman is questioning why it has taken four years to decide whether to prosecute President Joe Biden's son.

"It's surprising that he didn't go to jail," California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Monday on the "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show.

Before the 2020 presidential election, damaging revelations from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop began surfacing in independent media outlets, leading to allegations of wide-ranging misconduct by the president's son, including alleged tax evasion, money laundering, business dealings with entities tied to China's ruling communist regime, undisclosed lobbying for foreign clients and trading on his father's name and foreign policy clout to secure overseas business.

Establishment media outlets and major social media platforms attempted to ignore, censor or discredit the laptop story during the 2020 campaign, while, according to recent whistleblower reports, the FBI's Washington Field Office sought to block criminal investigation of the allegations. Mainstream legacy outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post belatedly acknowledged the authenticity of the laptop long after the 2020 election was decided.

"[W]hen you deliberately don't disclose income — even in the thousands of dollars, much less the millions of dollars — that's a crime," said Issa. "It's a felony. And usually, at best, you get to pay compensation and plead to a crime in lieu of maybe going to jail. That's not the case [with Hunter Biden]. He appears as though he's getting a free pass, and just paying now what he should have paid years ago.

"And the reality is, the laptop also reveals that this was a man making millions but always in financial trouble … [with] ex-wife payments, child support payments and, quite frankly, his drug addiction."

If Republicans gain a majority in the House in the midterm elections, one of the issues surrounding Hunter Biden they will look at, Issa revealed, is whether the president's son benefited from selective enforcement of the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Obscure and rarely enforced with criminal penalties over the last half-century, the measure was weaponized during the Trump administration by a politically biased Department of Justice, according to Issa and other critics, to target Trump associates such as Paul Manafort and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in an effort to extract incriminating testimony against Trump.

"Hunter Biden was an operative for foreign influence, and did use or at least appears to have used his father and others for that game," the California Republican continued. "Meaning he lobbied, and when you lobby and you don't disclose that, you've committed a crime. So one of the things we're going to look at is this selective prosecution and whether this law needs to either be scrapped or real teeth to be put into it so that it's consistent in prosecution. Which unless they prosecute Hunter Biden, certainly it wasn't."

In a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, Joe Biden was asked if he thought his son's foreign business dealings created a conflict of interest.

"There's not a single thing that I've observed at all that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter," the president replied.

"I love my son, number one," Biden later said. "He fought an addiction problem, he overcame it, he wrote about it."

Hunter Biden's attorney has not responded for comment.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/tueskey-congressman-says-hunter-biden-was-operative-foreign-influence

Homeland Security watchdog raises red flags about visa screenings

The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General is urging that immigration authorities overhaul the Visa Security Program (VSP) amid an unprecedented migration surge under the Biden administration.

Under the VSP, federal agencies screen visa applications received at consular posts across 29 countries, the report noted. During its investigation, the watchdog observed that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) does not keep detailed records of these screenings and was therefore unable to confirmed that every application did in fact receive proper vetting.

Moreover, of the 120 applications the IG reviewed, it found 15 with potential issues. In 13 of these cases, analysts did not sufficiently substantiate their conclusions while a further two suffered from incomplete data due to problems with Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) data transfer system.

The review further found that CBP does not track costs associated with the VSP.

Three recommendations came from the report and the DHS concurred with all of them.

The Inspector General first advised that DHS officials "ensure analysts are following the requirements in the Visa Security Program's standard operating procedures and other guidance as they vet visas and document their activities." It further recommended that ICE fix the issues with the data transfer system.

Lastly, it advised CBP to "develop and implement a plan to track, in possible - or estimate, if tracking is not possible - the costs of National Targeting Center [NTC] activities associated with the Visa Security Program and report those costs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

Included in the report were DHS responses to each recommendation and information they provided indicating steps the agency had taken to address each. It first highlighted efforts to make procedural handbooks available to employees in physical and digital forms as well as to include the presentation of such materials to new employees as part of an "onboarding" process.

DHS then responded that ICE had removed the 4,000-character limit on its data transfer system and was subsequently working to overhaul its entire interface. It also promised to compile an annual cost estimate for NTC support for the VSP, which will be available by the end of November of this year.

The report follows a separate one from the DHS IG earlier this month that found the department did not properly vet Afghan evacuees during the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Taliban seized the country.

More than 79,000 Afghan refugees came to the United States during and after the mujahideen takeover of the country. The watchdog asserted that "dozens" of evacuees with known "derogatory information" were admitted and paroled into the U.S. during that time. The Inspector General recommended that DHS and its subordinate agencies take steps to identify and vet Afghan evacuees in the U.S. and to plan for a similar future crisis.

Neither DHS nor CBP concurred with those recommendations.WTF

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dhs-inspector-general-recommends-overhaul-visa-security-program

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So DHS And Border patrol is back to the same scam policies under Obama, letting terrorists come in the country, that got a whistleblower killed.

Virginia Thomas to meet with Jan. 6 committee

Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, will attend an interview with the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6.

"As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas is eager to answer the Committee's questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election. She looks forward to that opportunity," Thomas attorney Mark Paoletta told CNN.

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two GOP members on the committee, indicated in July that the investigative body was mulling a subpoena should Thomas decline to voluntarily meet with the lawmakers.

"We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not," Cheney said at the time. "It's very important for us to speak with her and as I said, I hope she will agree to do so voluntarily but I'm sure we will contemplate a subpoena if she won't."

Thomas has been a prominent skeptic of the 2020 presidential election results. The committee is in possession of correspondence between Thomas and Trump election lawyer John Eastman, as well as texts between her and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/virginia-thomas-meet-jan-6-committee

Another witchhunt and smear campaign for the midterms

Air Force Academy tells cadets to be gender inclusive by avoiding using 'mom and dad,' report

The Air Force Academy has reportedly told cadets in diversity and inclusion training to use words that "include all genders" and to refrain from using terms such as "mom and dad."

"Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider 'parent or caregiver' instead of 'mom and dad,' " the presentation stated on a slide, Fox News reported Thursday.

"Use words that include all genders​: 'Folks' or 'Y’all' instead of 'guys'; 'partner' vs. 'boyfriend or girlfriend,'" cadets were told in the academy's "Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do," presentation.

The academy, based in Colorado, told cadets to avoid using language such as "colorblind," "I don't see color," or "we're all just people," one slide shows. Other words to avoid are the "'N', 'R', or 'F' words."

The academy also offers a "Cadet Wing Diversity and Inclusion Program," in which graduates are able to wear a purple rope to identify themselves as a "diversity representative."

Florida GOP Rep. Mike Waltz, a Green Beret, said he finds "alarming parallels" between the insignia that diversity and equity officers in the Air Force program wear and the armbands worn by "political commissars" in the Soviet army and Chinese Communist military.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/air-force-academy-tells-cadets-be-gender-inclusive-avoiding-using-mom-and-dad

Air Force Academy tells cadets to be gender inclusive by avoiding using 'mom and dad,' report

The Air Force Academy has reportedly told cadets in diversity and inclusion training to use words that "include all genders" and to refrain from using terms such as "mom and dad."

"Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider 'parent or caregiver' instead of 'mom and dad,' " the presentation stated on a slide, Fox News reported Thursday.

"Use words that include all genders​: 'Folks' or 'Y’all' instead of 'guys'; 'partner' vs. 'boyfriend or girlfriend,'" cadets were told in the academy's "Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do," presentation.

The academy, based in Colorado, told cadets to avoid using language such as "colorblind," "I don't see color," or "we're all just people," one slide shows. Other words to avoid are the "'N', 'R', or 'F' words."

The academy also offers a "Cadet Wing Diversity and Inclusion Program," in which graduates are able to wear a purple rope to identify themselves as a "diversity representative."

Florida GOP Rep. Mike Waltz, a Green Beret, said he finds "alarming parallels" between the insignia that diversity and equity officers in the Air Force program wear and the armbands worn by "political commissars" in the Soviet army and Chinese Communist military.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/air-force-academy-tells-cadets-be-gender-inclusive-avoiding-using-mom-and-dad

House Republicans who backed election reform bill didn't seek reelection, lost to Trump candidates

All nine House Republicanswho joined with Democrats on Wednesday night to pass a measure to change how Congress certifies Electoral College ballots after a presidential election are either not running for reelection this year or were defeated in primaries by Trump-backed candidates.

The measure, the Presidential Election Reform Act, passed the Democrat-controlled House 229-203 and was _\crafted by two members__ of the chamber's special committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot that disrupted Congress' certification process.

The members are California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, the panel's vice chairperson.

In addition to Cheney, the other eight House Republicans who voted for the bill were Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler, of Washington; Anthony Gonzalez, of Ohio; Tom Rice, of South Carolina; Peter Meijer and Fred Upton, both of Michigan; Chris Jacobs and John Katko, both of New York; and Illinois' Adam Kinzinger – the only other Republican besides Cheney on the special committee.

The bill reforms the 1887 Electoral Count Act and in part reaffirms the vice president's role in certifying the Electoral College results is simply procedural. It also makes it more difficult to object to a state's electors.

Beutler, Cheney, Herrera, Meijer and Rice lost their reelection primaries to challengers backed by former President Trump. Gonzalez, Jacobs, Katko, Kinzinger and Upton have announced their retirement from the House.

Except for Jacobs, all of them voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 riot.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/all-9-republicans-who-voted-jan-6-election-reform-bill-arent-running-reelection

How much more damage are these assholes going to do to America?

Accountability: DeSantis suspends another public official from office

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended another public official from office, this time Jose Angel Martinez, Miami-Dade County Commissioner-District 11, after he was arrested Aug. 30.

Martinez was arrested “for felony charges of unlawful compensation for official behavior … and conspiracy to commit unlawful compensation,” in violation of state statutes, which are second and third degree felonies, the governor’s office said.

DeSantis’s communications director issued a statement saying, “it is in the best interest of the residents of Miami-Dade County that Martinez be immediately suspended from the public office that he holds” and that his replacement would be appointed in the coming weeks.

Martinez first held his nonpartisan District 11 seat in 2000. He ran for Congress in 2014 as a Republican and lost. He then ran again for county commissioner in 2016 and won. He won reelection in 2020.

(Another bought and paid for county commissioner. There’s no such thing as non partisan, states should change this make judges reveal their political party they support)

According to his arrest warrant, Martinez allegedly accepted a total of $15,000 in payments from a supermarket and property owner who was fighting a county ordinance and subsequent fines for being in violation, NBC News Miami reported. The owner allegedly made the payments while also lobbying the commissioners to amend the ordinance.

Martinez's attorney, Benedict Kuehne, issued a statement saying the charges were "baseless" and "unfounded." While Martinez looks forward to clearing his name, Kuehne said, he also supports whomever DeSantis chooses as his replacement. (There’s that fucking word again,baseless. Everything is baseless even when they get caught)

"The Commissioner offers his support to whomever the Governor decides to appoint to the Miami-Dade County District 11 seat,” Kuehne said. “The most important issue continues to be providing services and protecting the well-being of the residents of the District 11 and of our entire community.

"Commissioner Martinez looks forward to being completely vindicated and cleared of any wrongdoing. He has devoted his entire adult life to serving the best interests of the public and he is humbled by the outpouring of support and confidence from the people of District 11 and throughout Miami-Dade County."

According to Article IV, Section 7(a) of the Florida Constitution, the governor may suspend from office any county officer for commission of a felony.

DeSantis did so via executive order, which prohibits Martinez “from performing any official act, duty, or function of public office; from receiving any pay or allowance; and from being entitled to any of the emoluments or privileges of public office during the period of this suspension.”

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/desantis-suspends-another-public-official-office