Hunter Biden allegations — INFLUENCE OP? — RUDY DUPED BY BORAT — DOJ: GOP HUNTER INFORMANT IS 🇷🇺 SPY

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@AnonymityX1000 you clown did you even read your own article?

This isn't a stunning mea culpa. NPR acknowledged that US Intelligence has not officially discredited the story.

This doesn't even mean that members of the intelligence community didn't privately discredit the story, just that the official public relations team hasn't issued a statement.

Might be a surprise to you but neither the CIA nor FBI likes to have their spokespeople come out and make a big deal about stuff.

From the New York Post no less

I did read the article did you?
So you are replying that their retraction/correction isn't a bid deal because it still might have happened just in secret and offering 0 proof of that. Good work.
NY Post been around over 200 years, if they were slandering people all the time they would be gone by now.

 

[Dorian Breh]

I did read the article did you?
So you are replying that their retraction/correction isn't a bid deal because it still might have happened just in secret and offering 0 proof of that. Good work.
NY Post been around over 200 years, if they were slandering people all the time they would be gone by now.

There's several quotes from a member of the intelligence community discrediting the story in this very thread.

The point is that it hasn't been "officially" discredited. If you can't understand the distinction between official and unofficial then you are way out of your element in higher learning.

Actually, if you don't know about the New York Post, who it's owners are, or how libel laws work in the United States then its plain to see you are completely out of your element.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

There's several quotes from a member of the intelligence community discrediting the story in this very thread.

The point is that it hasn't been "officially" discredited. If you can't understand the distinction between official and unofficial then you are way out of your element in higher learning.

Actually, if you don't know about the New York Post, who it's owners are, or how libel laws work in the United States then its plain to see you are completely out of your element.

The story I posted is news today. The most recent reply in this thread previous to mine was months ago so that's actually not possible. lol Please quite them.
Yes, that's why NPR had to do a retraction. Thanks, if you have some info about the 'official' position please post or you're just talking with 0 proof.
NPR is doing the retraction/correction not the NY Post. Despite who owns either or how libel laws work.

 

[Dorian Breh]

The story I posted is news today. The most recent reply in this thread previous to mine was months ago so that's actually not possible. lol Please quite them.
Yes, that's why NPR had to do a retraction. Thanks, if you have some info about the 'official' position please post or you're just talking with 0 proof.
NPR is doing the retraction/correction not the NY Post. Despite who owns either or how libel laws work.

Now you're just babbling.

Enjoy your ignorance.

Hold this neg.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Now you're just babbling.

Enjoy your ignorance.

Hold this neg.

Didn't know NPR and the intelligence community had such die hard fans.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/15/hunter-biden-informant-indicted-fbi-burisma/

Former FBI informant charged with lying about Biden business​

Charges come amid pitched accusations from Republicans in Congress over alleged informants​

By Devlin Barrett

and

Jacqueline Alemany

Updated February 15, 2024 at 7:14 p.m. EST|Published February 15, 2024 at 5:11 p.m. EST

President Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden watch fireworks during an Independence Day event at the White House on July 4, 2023. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)


Special counsel David Weiss — who has previously filed criminal charges against President Biden’s son Hunter — announced new charges Thursday against a former FBI informant who officials say lied about the Bidens’ business dealings.


The indictment returned by a grand jury in Los Angeles accuses Alexander Smirnov of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record. The charges amount to a stark rebuke of conservatives, particularly Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, who touted Smirnov’s claims as he and other Republican lawmakers tried to build a corruption case against the president and his family.

Smirnov, 43, is described in charging documents as a former confidential human source for the FBI who gave agents false information in 2020 about a prominent political figure and his son. The description of the two individuals matches that of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and a person familiar with the matter said those are the individuals about whom Smirnov lied. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

Smirnov allegedly reported to an FBI agent in 2017 that he had a phone call with the owner of the Ukrainian firm Burisma, in which it was discussed that “Public Official 1’s son, was a member of Burisma’s Board.” The fact that Hunter Biden served on the company’s board was publicly known at the time.

In 2020, the indictment alleges, Smirnov brought new claims to the bureau, including that he knew of conversations from 2015 or 2016 in which Burisma executives said they hired the son “to protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Those claims by Smirnov were false, the indictment alleges.

Comer and other congressional Republicans spent months arguing that the FBI informant’s claims were evidence that Hunter Biden — and by extension his father — engaged in corrupt business deals, and that the FBI did not pursue those claims.

Thursday’s indictment implicitly argues that some of the most sensational charges Republicans have sought to level against the president and his son were based on lies.

Smirnov, according to the indictment, “transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his candidacy.”

Authorities allege that Smirnov, in talking to his FBI handler, repeatedly expressed dislike for Joe Biden, and at one point texted the agent that Biden was “going to jail.”

In a written statement, Comer stood by his role in the Smirnov affair, saying “the FBI’s actions in this matter are very concerning.” Comer also criticized the FBI for not being more forthcoming in what it knew about Smirnov’s claims, though it is rare for agents engaged in sensitive criminal and national security investigations to share informant accounts with elected officials.


Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the indictment shows that “Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts. We were right, and the air is out of their balloon.”


Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said the charges against Smirnov show GOP efforts to impeach the president are “based on a lie” and called on House Republicans to drop the inquiry.

The Washington Post reported last spring that an FBI document containing the informant’s claims was previously reviewed by the FBI under then-Attorney General William P. Barr, found not to be supported by facts, and subsequently dropped. When Comer’s team demanded to see the document, FBI officials warned that wider disclosure of the information could jeopardize the safety of a confidential source.

For a number of reasons, it is rare for the FBI to charge one of its informants with lying. First, the bureau tries to encourage people with important information to come forward, sometimes at great risk to themselves, and arresting some of the people who do so might discourage others from becoming informants. Second, many agents tend to view informants as frequently wrong or dishonest and don’t think it is worth trying to build a criminal case out of those flaws.

But in Smirnov’s case, Republicans made his allegations a kind of cause célèbre, saying he had offered key information in their probe of Hunter Biden and the president. FBI officials were repeatedly forced to answer politicians’ questions about Smirnov’s claims and faced accusations from conservatives that the FBI itself may be corrupt.

U.S. authorities said that when agents questioned Smirnov again in 2023, he repeated some past false claims, changed other parts of his story and suggested new falsehoods after claiming to have met with Russian officials.

Smirnov was arrested at a Las Vegas airport on Wednesday, when he flew into the United States from overseas, the Justice Department said.

Weiss, who brought the indictment against Smirnov, is the U.S. attorney in Delaware and was appointed to that position during the Trump administration. His investigation of Hunter Biden began during the Trump administration as well.

Last year, Weiss asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint him as a special counsel, which formally gave him more independence in charging decisions. He subsequently charged Hunter Biden in Delaware with lying on gun purchase forms years ago. Weiss has also charged Hunter Biden in federal court in Los Angeles with multiple tax crimes.

The dual indictments of Hunter Biden, filed after a plea deal fell apart last year, mean that he could end up going on trial later this year — potentially twice — as his father runs for a second term as president.

 

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Fox News Silent on Bogus Hunter Biden Witness It Hyped Constantly

Alexander Smirnov was a mainstay of coverage about the supposed “Biden Crime Family,” but his arrest for lying to Feds drew crickets.

nymag.com

EARLY AND OFTEN FEB. 16, 2024

Fox News Silent on Bogus Hunter Biden Witness It Hyped Constantly​

By Matt Stieb, Intelligencer staff writer

Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

When Russian businessman Alexander Smirnov landed at the Las Vegas airport on Valentine’s Day, the FBI was waiting for him. Since 2010, he had worked with the agency as an informant, providing intel on what the Feds described as “various criminal investigations” — the most infamous of which was the special-counsel inquiry into Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad. Smirnov claimed to have explosive information revealing that Joe Biden had taken a cut of his son’s considerable payments as a consultant in exchange for influencing an investigation in Ukraine. But federal prosecutors say Smirnov strayed from the truth: On Thursday, they charged him with making false statements and obstructing the yearslong investigation of the president’s son.

Frequent viewers of conservative media are well acquainted with Smirnov. Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity have said that his allegations are key to what they describe as the “Biden crime family” — the narrative that Hunter Biden accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the energy company Burisma to give to his father in exchange for then-VP Biden making a Ukrainian investigation into Burisma go away. According to the watchdog group Media Matters, Hannity alone featured 85 segments in 2023 on the allegations. (Republican politicians also trusted the source: Last July, Representative James Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley released an FBI record detailing the unsubstantiated allegations, describing Smirnov as a “trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme.”)

Fox News viewers have heard plenty about the lesser charges Hunter Biden is facing, including possession of a firearm as a drug user and tax evasion. But after prosecutors provided evidence that the corruption allegation was false, there was no mention of the story on Hannity on Thursday — or anywhere in Fox News’s prime-time programming, for that matter. (Chuck Grassley’s office has also stood by his public release of the unsubstantiated allegations.)



In the 37-page indictment, prosecutors state that Smirnov lied about his claims of Joe Biden’s criminal activity. The indictment states that, in June 2020, Smirnov told his FBI handlers that he had two meetings in 2015 in which Burisma executives told him that they hired Hunter Biden as a consultant to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Smirnov claimed that Burisma paid Hunter Biden $10 million for his trouble.

But prosecutors state that Smirnov never provided any evidence for this explosive allegation. A meeting Smirnov described taking place in 2015 in which he said he first heard about Biden-related corruption never occurred: Prosecutors found that Smirnov’s first meeting with Burisma happened in 2017, after Biden had left office. “The Defendant’s story to the FBI was a fabrication,” the indictment states. “An amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts that had actually occurred but at a later date than he claimed and for the purpose of pitching Burisma on [Smirnov’s] services and products, not for discussing bribes to [Joe Biden] when he was in office.”

“For months, we have warned that Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts,” Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement on Thursday. “We were right, and the air is out of their balloon.” Addressing reporters on Friday, Joe Biden stated that the allegations have “been an outrageous effort from the beginning.”

 

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So dude who had the so called smoking gun is a fukking liar.
Where do the Republicans go from here.

 

[Hood Critic]

So dude who had the so called smoking gun is a fukking liar.
Where do the Republicans go from here.

Same place they always go, pretend-it-never-happened-ville.

 

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Excuse me?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/biden-former-fbi-informant-russian-intelligence/index.html

Indicted ex-FBI informant told investigators he got Hunter Biden dirt from Russian intelligence officials​

Hannah Rabinowitz

CNN — none
The former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest that Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing information to him about Hunter Biden, prosecutors said Tuesday in a new court filing, noting that the information was false.

Alexander Smirnov claims to have “extensive and extremely recent” contacts with foreign intelligence officials, prosecutors said in the filing. They said he previously told the FBI that he has longstanding and extensive contacts with Russian spies, including individuals he said were high-level intelligence officers or command Russian assassins abroad.

Prosecutors with special counsel David Weiss’ team said Tuesday that Smirnov has maintained those ties and noted that, in a post-arrest interview last week, “Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about Businessperson 1,” referring to Hunter Biden.

This is a developing story and will be updated.




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