Briefly Noted: The Drip, Drip, Continues
Most of the dripping isn’t exactly new. It dates back to the Hunter laptop that Bluto Barr and waste of space FBI Director Wray concealed from the nation before Election 2020. The NYPost has reported on most of these matters, but for reasons best known to the ruling elite in DC it’s all being run in front of the public now. The full story on the latest drip is reprised at the NYPost:
Hunter Biden Alcoa email promising Russian oligarch info raises fresh concern about Joe’s access
However, I’ll simply quote from Red State’s digest, which gets to the heart of the matter:
Hunter Biden Tried to Sell Intelligence on Russian Oligarchs
First, RS quotes from the meatiest part of the NYPost article:
Documents dating back to 2011 on his notorious “laptop from hell” showed Hunter offered to sell intelligence on Russian oligarchs to the US aluminum firm Alcoa Inc. for $55,000, according to The Post’s exclusive October 2021 report.
As his father served as former President Barack Obama’s second-in-command, Hunter Biden offered to provide a “statistical analysis of political and corporate risks, elite networks associated with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian CEO of Basic Element company and United company RUSAL,” which had just signed a metal supply agreement with Alcoa.
Hunter Biden also offered the company a “list of elites of similar rank in Russia, map of [Deripaska’s] networks based on frequency of interaction with selected elites and countries.”
The deeply detailed proposal has come under sharp scrutiny given recent revelations that Hunter Biden had access to the Delaware lake-front home where secret papers from his father’s time as vice president were discovered in a garage, basement and library — combined with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives.
That bolded passage is the real eye opening part. As Bonchie notes:
The obvious question is how Hunter Biden had detailed intelligence on Russian oligarchs, including a map of Oleg Deripaska’s networks. That’s the kind of thing a normal American would not have, no matter how connected. On the contrary, it’s the kind of information that would take a government intelligence apparatus to produce and that you’d find in classified intelligence briefings.
Who got classified intelligence briefings and took them, storing them in the same house Hunter Biden was living in? That would be Joe Biden. So yeah, this looks really, really bad.
Now, the software that US intel agencies use to map an individual’s networks may be commercial software that’s widely available. However, the data that went into mapping Oleg Deripaska’s networks is not publicly available, nor is the work product publicly available. This would all be classified, highly classified: Sources and methods. Therefore, it’s a no-brainer that the information Hunter was selling was derived from “classified intelligence briefings.”
The big question is, who’s coordinating this campaign. It was all known years ago to both the intel and the LE branches of the Deep State, and they covered it up as part of their then campaign to get Trump out of the White House. Now it’s clear that people of comparable influence to those who stabbed Trump in the back are determined to do the same to Zhou. And they’ve got the goods. This is the kind of stuff—selling classified information through a non-cleared and deeply depraved son—that can get that job done. There are any number of excellent reasons to do this to Zhou—that’s not the issue. The only real question is, How powerful are the people behind this campaign?
And …
LOL !
Mark, Thanks for the closing humor - helps make Saturday more, well, weekend like. :^)
Vette-Gate, on it's own, is curious in light of the Mar-a-Lago invasion. Seems to reduce the 'value' expected from all those stage photos of 'Confidential Info' stuff. While net concern of the larger Confidential papers Homework is arguable, intending on pushing Trump down is politically 'logical' while Biden's behavior only has logic in his removal being pushed. I'd thought it was about reigning him in; however todays' Red State article points to compounding Hunter's bringing down of a presidency (rather than only his victimhood from simply a Lap-Top forgotten). You (Mark) closed the Biden Drip segment suggesting the real question is How Powerful are the people behind this campaign. I'd suggest, while that answer is relevant to 'if' Joe's removed, the question that speaks to our Country and it's survival is some part of Why, which group's agenda (or combination of groups) is winning, how many more innocent lives will be spent fighting amongst the various (nefarious) groups and will truth ever get exposed in it all? Truth, I believe, is the only real chance of a recovery of our Country to a similarity to the one that existed that won WWII. It seems (amateur historian speaking here) it's not been the same (or right) since President Eisenhower left office. I'd note from Presidential through Congressional to Judicial, the foundation intentions have been undercut and our true Liberty eroded.
The Hungarian statement provided is a ray of light of hope on the World level, if you will. The typical reaction I noted was that Hungary should be expelled from NATO and vilified for not goin' along with the program. My opinion is that statement represents that there remains some sanity in the World. And in that I'm reminded to not lose Hope. I think it's just important we recognize where Hope truly lay and, in spite of all these earthly sad events, remains our Salvation. [Not to be cryptic - Hope lay not in mankind but it's Creator].
My Best to all readers and the Author. (WRH)