Evidence of DOJ and Garland corruption, from one of the nation's top legal analysts

The piece below was posted by the normally pro-Democrat site "The Hill."  (I've edited it.)  I'd like to invite my Democrat friends to explain why this is just nothing...nothing at all.

“I’m not the deciding official.”

Those five words, allegedly from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, shocked IRS and FBI investigators in a meeting on October 22, 2022. This is because, in refusing to appoint a special counsel, Attorney Garland Merrick Garland had repeatedly assured the public and Congress that Weiss had total authority over his investigation.

IRS supervisory agent Gary A. Shapley Jr. told Congress he was so dismayed by Weiss’s statement and other admissions that he memorialized them in a communication to other team members.

Shapley and another whistleblower detail what they describe as a pattern of interference with their investigation of Hunter Biden, including the denial of searches, lines of questioning, and even attempted indictments.

Clearly, someone is lying. Either these whistleblowers are lying to Congress, or Garland and the Justice Department officials are lying.

Consider the response from Hunter’s attorney,
Christopher Clark, when asked to explain a shocking Whatsapp message that the president’s son had allegedly sent to a Chinese official with foreign intelligence contacts who was funneling millions to him.

“I am sitting here with my father,” Hunter wrote, “and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

President Biden has repeatedly told the public that he had no knowledge or involvement in his son’s dealings, despite audiotapes of him referring to business dealings, photos and meetings with his son’s business associates, as well as an eyewitness account of an in-person meeting.

When Hunter's attorney was asked about this message, most of us expected a flat denial.  But instead of denying that the above-quoted message had been sent, the attorney huffed that it was “illegal” to release the text (without saying why) and then added that “[a]ny verifiable words or actions of my client in the midst of a horrible addiction are solely his own and have no connection to anyone in his family.”

The whistleblower also details how investigators wanted to confirm the authenticity of the Whatsapp message through that company, only to have Garland's DOJ shut down that effort.

Almost three years after the story of Hunter's abandoned laptop broke, Hunter has never denied that the laptop was his. In fact his admission in a one-on-one TV interview on a mainstream network that "I don't know.  It could be mine" implicitly admits that he took a laptop to the Delaware repair shop, since otherwise he would have flatly denied it.

If Hunter Biden was evasive, Garland was irate. He denounced allegations of DOJ corruption as “an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy, and essential to the safety of the American people.”

That statement borders on delusion. Polls show that a majority of the public now views the DOJ as politically compromised and even engaged in election interference.
Garland’s response to those charges is akin to a doctor charged with malpractice claiming the charge is an attack on medicine itself.

As in the past, Garland continues to demand that the public trust him and his department, saying “We make our cases based on the facts and the law.”  But it's becoming increasingly clear that this is a lie.

For years, many of us have criticized Garland for his inexplicable refusal to appoint a Special Counsel on the Biden influence-peddling scandal, given the many references to "the big guy" in the verified Hunter emails. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the president was taking money from foreign agents.

A special counsel could have shed light on that.

Even after a respected FBI source detailed allegations of a bribery scheme involving Ukrainian figures, Garland still refused to make the appointment. Such an appointment would not only expose Joe Biden to high-risk interviews, but would also allow the Special Counsel to issue a report on influence peddling by his family.

Garland was willing to appoint a Special Counsel to look into classified records found in Biden’s various offices, yet he continues to bar an appointment on major corruption allegations implicating the president.

The whistleblowers detailed repeated occasions in which they were told to back off.

The whistleblowers allege that the Justice Department consistently cut them off in seeking searches or answers related to President Biden. However, the line that stood out the most was this: “U.S. Attorney Weiss stated that he subsequently asked for special counsel authority from Main DOJ at that time *and was denied that authority.”*

If true, that means Weiss himself--the man Garland claimed was solely responsible for investigating and charging in the case--saw a need for such an appointment. Moreover, the report indicates that others in the investigation believed that there was a need to create such separation from the Justice Department in light of what they viewed as the special treatment given the president’s son.

These accounts could explain why Garland's DOJ took five years to secure a guilty plea to two misdemeanors that could have been established in the first month of the investigation.

Rational people must ask why the DOJ has blocked investigation into the influence peddling or a charge under FARA.  Garland must be asked to explain why Hunter’s lawyer cannot recall any government agent ever asking about the laptop.

The DOJ and FBI are corrupt, because the head of the DOJ is corrupt.

Source.

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