DoJ is concealing documents that lay bare Hunter and Jim Biden’s payoffs with China and Russia
The Justice Department is trying to prevent the public disclosure of 400 pages of sensitive documents about Hunter and Jim Biden’s relations with China, Russia and Ukraine — by pretending they don’t exist.
Colorado attorney Kevin Evans sued the department in March after it failed to comply with its request for records of the Bidens’ transactions under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Evans, a FOIA expert, requested documents related to “any relationship, communication, gift(s) and/or reward of any kind” between the president’s son, Hunter or brother Jim, and China, Russia or Ukraine.
He said government lawyers admitted for the first time in court that they had at least 400 pages of “potentially relevant” documents – but are now trying to get away with saying they “can neither confirm nor deny” the existence of documents matching his request.
The DoJ is trying to prevent the disclosure of 400 pages of sensitive documents about Hunter and Uncle Jim Biden’s dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine, DailyMail.com can reveal
Colorado attorney Kevin Evans sued the department in March after it failed to comply with its request for records of the Bidens transactions under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
A Justice Department prosecutor, David Weiss, is currently considering a criminal case against Hunter with possible charges of money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying and tax crimes related to the First Son’s overseas business dealings.
The 400 pages are not the only cache of Biden records sought from the government.
The National Archives and Records Administration is preparing to release hundreds of internal documents from the Obama White House containing information about Hunter’s relationship with the controversial Ukrainian gas company Burisma, Business Insider reported this month.
Joe Biden was vice president at the time and responsible for relations with Ukraine. His son was on the board of Burisma and received $83,000 a month.
Biden’s administration can veto the release, but must decide in February whether to invoke the executive branch’s privilege to keep them hidden until 2029.
Dating back to 2014, the data includes 69 images and 260 emails mentioning Burisma.
Evans’ case has its next hearing in January.
The lawyer from Greenwood Village, Colorado, said he filed his FOIA request in November 2020 after reading about the Bidens’ foreign business dealings, and the Justice Department stringed him along for nearly two years before finally releasing them. sued.
“They ended up producing about 60 pages of documents, but it’s all letters from senators and congressmen asking questions about Hunter, and letters from DoJ back,” he said.
“Then towards the end of last year they said, ‘Well, we’ve got these 400 pages of potentially responsive documents, we need to review them.’”
“In March I filed a lawsuit, and before Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty they made the same statement: they did a thorough investigation, they uncovered 400 potentially responsive documents.”
Evans said in his lawsuit that he filed his FOIA request in November 2020 after reading about the Bidens’ foreign business dealings, and the Justice Department stringed him along for nearly two years before finally suing them.
Evans said the government hesitated for a few more months and then made a confusing new argument: that they could “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of data.
Government agencies have legal precedent for making such claims to prevent disclosures that could harm national security.
The precedent dates back to a 1975 Los Angeles Times story about a salvage ship secretly built by the CIA to recover a sunken Soviet submarine.
The paper filed a FOIA request about it, and the agency responded that it could “neither confirm nor deny” that it had records of the ship, USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer. The response, upheld by courts, became known as a ‘Glomar response’.
“I don’t know how on earth they can now take the position that Glomar applies,” Evans said. “It seems to me that the cat is out of the bag here after I revealed the documents exist.”
But the lawyer thinks that the government will nevertheless try to prevent the disclosure of the papers.
While Biden was vice president, Hunter served on the board of directors of the controversial Ukrainian gas company Burisma and was paid $83,000 a month
Justice Department prosecutor David Weiss is considering a criminal case against Hunter with possible charges of money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying and tax crimes
“I am confident that they will plead for summary judgment on the privacy waivers under FOIA in an effort to avoid having to provide these documents,” he said.
“But I don’t think they should in this case, especially if they’ve disclosed and recorded that responsive documents may exist.
The problem is that FOIA has become a toothless vehicle. Courts do not abide by the spirit of the law, they are more likely to sit back and accept the government’s point of view than to force disclosure.”
Emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop obtained by DailyMail.com, and whistleblower testimony, show that he was involved in a multimillion-dollar deal with a Chinese oil giant closely linked to the Chinese government.
Bank records show that Hunter’s Chinese business partners transferred $10 million to their joint venture.
And emails, texts and whistleblower accounts suggest that Joe knew about the deal and may have even been involved.
The most notorious example is a 2017 email from one of Hunter’s business partners, James Gilliar, suggesting that Hunter would hold 10% of the shares in the deal on behalf of “the big man” – a reference to his father.
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