A few days ago, The New York Times announced that it was suing the Biden State Department for withholding correspondence mentioning Hunter Biden which is in possession of the US Embassy in Romania.
In its lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, the NYT states
that they had on two separate occasions placed requests, under the Freedom of
Information Act.
The story was reported by Politico.
The State Department had responded that the requested records would be
provided only after April 15, 2023. The law requires all
federal agencies to respond to a FOIA request within 20 business days unless there are "unusual circumstances."
The NYT's suit is an effort to expedite the State Department’s
timeline for the FOIA disclosures.
Specifically, The NYT had requested access to emails, memos, and other
records from 2015 to 2019 from Romanian embassy officials, including former US
Ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm, mentioning a number of individuals such as Hunter
Biden and his former business associate Tony Bobulinski.
Politico reports that the goal
behind the exercise was to investigate if embassy officials did any special favors
on behalf of private businesses such as that of Hunter Biden.
The request
seeks records about the following:
1. The possible improper use of federal government
resources to assist and advance private business interests with connections to
United States government officials and
2.
The possible evasion of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA) by those private business interests, and
3.
The non-enforcement of FARA by the federal
government in relation to those private business interests.
This would raise questions about possible conflicts of
interest and corruption.
In a statement to Politico, an NYT spokesperson said, “As a routine part of their
reporting, NYT journalists regularly seek potentially newsworthy information
from a variety of sources, including from the U.S. government through FOIA
requests.”
“We’re hopeful the government will promptly release any
relevant documents, and as always we are prepared to pursue our request through
a lawsuit if necessary. Just as we do on any line of reporting, we will assess
the newsworthiness of the material once we receive it,” the spokesperson added.
The State Department has declined to comment on the situation.
Last year, the Daily Mail reporters that an email from Hunter’s
laptop shows that Hunter was hired
by Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu to overturn his bribery
conviction through a massive propaganda campaign with help from VP Joe's
government connections and former FBI director Louis Freeh. Despite the efforts,
Popoviciu was convicted of bribery.
Emails also showed that Freeh
‘donated’ $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden’s grandchildren as he
sought to pursue “some very good and profitable matters” with him.
Perhaps this is what the NYT is looking into?
Back in October 2020, less than a month prior to the Presidential
Election Day, the New York Post had reported about Hunter Biden's misplaced laptop that contained emails that proved that Hunter Biden had introduced
his father who was Vice President to a top executive from Burisma, a Ukrainian
energy company. This contradicts Joe
Biden’s claim that he’s 'never spoken to my son about his overseas
business dealings.
Burisma was
paying Hunter $1 million a year when Biden was Vice President, cut his monthly
compensation, the amount was cut in half two months Biden left office.
This was a clear case of nepotism, conflicts of interest, and
corruption.
Mainstream media outlets had scoffed at a New York Post’s
story while Facebook and Twitter had prevented the stories from circulating.
The Media
Research Center study discovered that one of every six Biden voters
(17%) said he would not have voted for Biden if he had known the facts about
various news stories the mainstream news media refused to cover and that social
media chose to block.
The question remains why would the NYT, who have been willing propagandists
for the Democrats, suddenly develop the urge to pursue to truth and sues a
Democrat State Department?
Back in 2019, the NYT Kenneth Vogel was among the rare variety few the mainstream media that covered the Hunter story and even described Hunter as both a “significant liability” for Biden. Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, the Biden team regularly expressed fury at the Times over Vogel’s coverage of Hunter Biden. While Democrats viciously attacked him on all forums possible.
Perhaps Vogel is merely doing his job in pursuing the story or maybe he is taking on the Bidens?
Another possible explanation is that the Washington Media-Democrat
complex is tired of Biden’s incompetence. They probably think that Biden's abominable
record of misgovernance is what is likely to cause them to lose rather badly to the
Republicans during the mid-terms in November.
However, what the Democrats fear most is that Biden may lose in a landslide to
Donald Trump in 2024. Polls show Biden losing support among all traditional Democrat
voter groups.
Perhaps the NYT is being used as a proxy in this struggle. It has certainly placed Biden in a Catch-22 situation.
If Biden’s State Department
were to reveal communication records that prove a clear case of conflict of interest and
corruption, Joe certainly looks bad and could be forced out of office. Their attempt
to stall the handover of information makes them appear guilty as if they have something
to conceal. They could be accused of obstructing the path of the news media.
Filing a lawsuit is an open display of hostility, which gives
the NYT an occasion to claim that they were also tough on Biden.
It will be interesting to see if the NYT will actually publish
the story that reveals Hunter Biden’s shady web international business relationships cultivated when
his father was Vice President.
The story perhaps is being used as leverage for the Democrats
to compel Biden not to run in 2024?
In the coming weeks, if CNN, MSNBC, and other propaganda outfits amplify this story we can be sure that powers that be in Washington want Biden out of the way.
This article also appears on American Thinker
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