Special Agents or Flying Monkeys?

People are picking on Joe Biden a lot, but we should congratulate him on one thing: the astounding amount of government power he is devoting to investigating cases of petty theft.

Ordinarily, when something of yours is stolen, law enforcement will do nothing whatsoever to recover it. This includes things like $150,000 cars. They don’t go to pawn shops and chop shops trying to get your things back. They just write reports and file them, unless civilians tell them who did the stealing. Joe Biden’s DOJ and FBI are changing all that.

Someone offered Project Veritas a diary, claiming it belonged to Ashley Blazer Biden, a random citizen who allegedly wrote it in drug rehab, and who, not that this is important, is the daughter of the president. Project Veritas turned it down because it could not be authenticated. Another outlet published 112 pages, and they are not flattering to the president. They suggest Ashley has been traumatized by his bullying and manipulation, and regarding her psychological issues, the writer suggests her father showered with her when she was too old for it to be appropriate.

It’s very sad stuff. Two of the president’s children died young, and the other two are addicts with wrecked lives that have been exposed to the public. Hunter Biden has written very depressing things about his life, suggesting his dad is a controlling bully who keeps his children dependent, and his sister’s writings seem to reveal feelings of worthlessness and despair. One gets the impression these two were expendable fuel for their hyper-aggressive dad’s ambitions.

The state has no legitimate interest in recovering the diary. It contains no state secrets. Ashley Biden doesn’t have the nuclear codes.

Now Joe Biden’s FBI has conducted raids on Project Veritas journalists and their associates, trying to get the diary and charge someone with theft. They raided the HOMES of private citizens. As though they had stolen the plans for hypersonic missiles.

Thank goodness law enforcement has been improved so much. I thought Democrats were against the police, presumably including the federal ones, but now they are spending huge sums trying to locate diaries.

It’s also nice of the FBI to authenticate the diary, saving Project Veritas the trouble. If it’s not stolen, there can be no theft, so the FBI wouldn’t be looking for it if the Bidens had not told them it was genuine. Biden and/or his daughter had to supply them with that information. Actually, it had to be Biden, because the FBI would not have paid any attention if his daughter had called them by herself. “I’m the president’s daughter, and I want the FBI to get my diary back and have the thief prosecuted.” That would not fly. It would be like Tiffany Trump calling up the Navy and demanding to go water-skiing behind an aircraft carrier.

Now any journalist, anywhere, can publish the diary and say it’s genuine. Biden and the FBI made this possible.

The journalists involved say the diary was discarded at the rehab facility and discovered by a third party. This is probably true. A diary will not get out of a woman’s hands unless she is done with it. If it matters to her, she will protect it.

So here’s what is almost certainly happening:

1. Ashley Biden discarded her diary, which we now know is genuine.

2. Someone found it, legally, and sold it, legally.

3. Joe Biden got very angry because it said disgusting things about him which are probably true.

4. Joe Biden sent the FBI to steal an item that was known to have been obtained and published legally and which has no monetary value.

I know what you’ll say. Maybe an overzealous underling at the DOJ or FBI is behind this. No. They would have cleared it with Biden, because otherwise, they would have risked their careers, and no government bureaucrat risks his career unnecessarily. They’re not made like that.

The FBI’s sudden willingness to help citizens is truly amazing. It would be astonishing if they tried to find a worthless diary that had been stolen, but they are going far beyond that. They are raiding private residences looking for something they know isn’t stolen. They are conducting raids to illegally confiscate an American’s rightful property. That’s how much they now care about our lost trash.

I wonder if they would do that for me. Democrats are always looking out for the little guy. I sold a bicycle to someone, and I regret it. I’m going to call the FBI and see if they will raid his house for me.

Let’s say they find the diary. What kind of charge are they hoping to gin up? Petty theft of the lowest possible order? Debbie Lacey stole my pencil when I was in the fourth grade. Will the FBI help me?

I can’t wait to see the prosecution. It will be the first time anyone has been hauled into federal court for petty theft. They don’t have jurisdiction over things like that. Will they go to state court? I would love to see the expression on the judge’s face.

Either Biden is showing the kind of legal acumen that put him in the lower half of a bad law school class, or he knows there was no theft, and he doesn’t care. There is a type of theft called “theft by finding,” and it means what it sounds like it means, but in order to prosecute, you have to show that the item wasn’t abandoned, like a discarded diary at a rehab facility. You can’t steal my trash from a hotel wastebasket after I leave. If you take it, it’s legally yours. It can’t be stolen because it has no owner.

Here’s a great question: who appointed the judge who approved the warrants? What was going on in his head when he decided to allow the FBI to barge into houses in order to recover a used notebook with zero value?

Don’t let Hunter Biden visit your house. A few days later, you might be waterboarded. “WHERE IS THE UMBRELLA? WE KNOW YOU HAVE IT!”

Here’s a smarter question: why is a federal agency involved? If I somehow managed to get someone to investigate the loss of a diary, it would have to be a police chief or sheriff. Petty theft is not a federal crime, except in DC, where all courts are federal. The raids were conducted in New York, not DC. This should be a local matter. The FBI doesn’t investigate things like that. You can’t call the FBI when your neighbors have a loud party or someone eggs your house.

Here’s a guess: the FBI is on Joe Biden’s leash, and local police are not. If Joe Biden gets mad at a person in Pocatello, Idaho, and tries to get the cops to raid his house on a bogus charge, the cops will tell him to get lost. A politicized federal agency can’t do that.

I checked CNN’s site (P.U.) to see if they had an explanation. I figured they would have some kind of a defense for Biden, if one existed. No luck. The story is not on their site. That tells me they know it’s a problem. Otherwise, they would be hooting with joy over a black eye for Project Veritas.

I think they’re withholding comment while they struggle to find a way to condemn conservative journalists without looking like hacks and morons.

Now, what was the purpose of the raids? It was to punish journalists for embarrassing Joe Biden and/or for threatening his future.

How do we know this? Simple. The goal was not to prevent the diary from being published, because that has already happened. It was not to remove the diary from public view, because that would be illegal and impossible. The goal had to be something else. The most obvious explanation, as Mr. Ockham would agree, is that Biden wants to discourage journalists from publishing things that threaten him. He wants to put them in fear so they will be quiet in the future.

It makes me wonder if Biden was behind Obama’s unethical persecution of journalists. Or maybe Biden simply learned from the master. Or maybe Obama is “helping” a demented chief executive make decisions right now. I’ve heard people suggest Obama is running things. I find it hard to swallow, but Biden is continuing a disgraceful and characteristic part of Obama’s legacy.

Here’s another question: what will our nation’s unethical, left-wing press do now? They can either support an egregious governmental violation of the law, intended to discourage legitimate journalism, or they can circle the blue wagons and call for prosecutions. If they do that, they’re tying the noose for their own necks. Will it stop them?

Here is one thing we know for sure: whatever they do will have no basis in ethics or concern for the welfare of our nation. Bet your life on that.

We should be very disturbed to see a president and his enforcers go on a petty, illegal errand like this. It’s worse than the Watergate break-in. At least Nixon’s team could say they were violating a business, for business reasons, not people’s homes. The Watergate burglars didn’t risk traumatizing wives and children.

If our president, his DOJ and FBI, and his judges will do this to us over an embarrassing diary that has already been published, what is beyond them?

I’m a little uncomfortable about writing this entry, even though no one reads my blog. What if I were working for Fox, I were sitting on a Biden-rupturing expose fed to me by sources that had done wrong, yet which was legal to publish, and I knew millions of people would see my work? I would feel chilled.

I am ready for the rapture. I don’t want to be here when dissidents fear the president the way they feared Stalin.

OOPS

I think I may owe an apology or two.

I finally got some additional information. It appears that Bob Barr’s DOJ started the investigation, so it’s not like Biden’s DOJ initiated things 10 minutes after the inauguration. Also, I don’t think FBI agents get to choose their assignments, so it may well be that there is no reason to be critical of the ones who ransacked two homes. They were implementing subpoenas issued by a court at the behest of DOJ prosecutors. Maybe the prosecutors, the DOJ brass, and Biden can be blamed, but FBI agents are little fish with limited autonomy.

I learned that Biden (his people, same thing) notified the DOJ of a burglary before the 2020 election. His daughter claimed some items were stolen from her, and she named the diary as one of the items. Barr started the investigation, perhaps to find out if some organization was committing serious crimes in order to influence a presidential election. Maybe the real point was to show Trump was not involved.

Obvious questions: was there really a burglary? Who, on the right or anywhere else, would expect a drug addict’s rehab diary to make a former vice president look like an abusive parent and possible molester? Who would hold that expectation so strongly he would break into a home to find evidence? It doesn’t pass the smell test. Diaries are private, and it’s pretty unlikely Ashley Biden told people hers made her father look sleazy and cruel.

It’s easy to file a false police report which is impossible to prove false. It’s nearly a zero-risk crime.

If there had been molestation or other bombshell parenting accusations in the past, AND the perhaps-imaginary right-wing thief had heard of them, I suppose he might be on the lookout for evidence, but would he really break into a home, locate the diary, realize it might be helpful, and then effectively confess his crime to multiple strangers by trying to sell it?

“Here’s Ashley Biden’s diary. I would like to sell it to you while the authorities are investigating the burglary in which it was stolen.” Really?

Another question: why would the thief take things other than the diary? You’re in a home committing a political crime, you find the item you miraculously know may advance your cause, and then you take the time to steal other stuff, greatly increasing the risk you will be caught. I don’t see it.

Maybe it was a trans burglar who wore the same size clothes as Ashley.

Was it a plain old burglar who wanted jewelry and knickknacks? Maybe he stumbled across the diary! Plausible?

Okay, so an ignorant burglar who only cares about money finds out he’s in the home of the daughter of the former vice president, who looks likely to be elected president, and he steals her diary even though he has no reason to think it has any value. So he wanted to offend a very powerful man by stealing a diary with no cash value and tremendous evidentiary value.

It’s much easier for me to believe Ashley Biden abandoned her diary, as claimed by the person who tried to sell it, because addicts have lots of worries and may not be all that fastidious about holding onto belongings that aren’t important to them. After all, her brother abandoned his first-disavowed, later-authenticated computer.

Rehab facilities tell addicts to keep diaries. They call it “journaling.” They think it helps addicts recover. It may be that Ashley Biden kept the journal as part of her treatment and lost interest in it when her stay ended. That would explain why she left it in her quarters, as claimed. If I were in rehab, I would probably do the same thing with things I didn’t want, assuming the staff would dispose of my trash instead of selling it to Project Veritas. It’s an assumption most people would make, even though rehab employees have a bad reputation among knowledgeable people.

A burglar would be pretty unlikely to see the importance of the diary, but a rehab employee is another story. He would know exactly who Ashley Biden was, and he would see the cash potential. Rehab employees aren’t angels. They sell drugs to drug addicts. They sell food to fat people. A job at a rehab facility is an opportunity to milk desperate people, who will be highly motivated to protect you, for money.

It’s very common for rehab employees to sell drugs. In fact, it’s common for facility operators to sell them. Look it up. Don’t believe me. Ashley Biden may have been cared for by people who didn’t have her best interests at heart. This, unlike the burglar story, would be very easy to believe. There is no evidence for it, however.

If the abandonment claim is true, what can the journalists involved be guilty of? Theft is off the table. Merely publishing the diary is not a crime, because if it were, the publisher would have been charged months ago. This whole thing must revolve around a hope that theft can be proven, and somehow that theft has to amount to, or be connected to, a serious federal crime. Burglary is more serious than mere theft, but it’s not something that ordinarily goes straight to federal court. Is there a prospective defendant from outside the state of New York? Nothing will make sense until the grand jury’s papers are released.

Question: if you are a presidential candidate, and your daughter’s home is robbed, why would you contact the DOJ? Why not the police? Why would you be involved at all? Grown people call the police for themselves. Biden knew, or was afraid, something dangerous was out there. Maybe the person who had the diary had tried to contact his campaign, hoping to commit extortion. That could motivate Biden to fake a burglary in hopes of bringing national attention to the diary and making the person who found it fear prosecution.

What if Biden himself was fooled? If I were his daughter, and I let my bombshell diary fall into the hands of an extortioner, and the extortioner contacted me, I might be able to mitigate my dad’s wrath and protect my inheritance by claiming I had been robbed. It would be a good way to get ahead of an eruption. I don’t know how honest Ms. Biden is, though. Maybe she wouldn’t do that. Her dad is very dishonest, but maybe she isn’t like him.

Addicts are generally terrible liars.

Joe Biden didn’t contact the FBI right before an election because he expected them to investigate the theft of his daughter’s yoga pants and neti pot. Things were very busy in the Biden basement. To choose to involve himself in this distraction, he needed a better reason.

I think it’s fair to say that if someone had stolen earrings from Ivanka Trump’s nightstand during the election, Trump would have told her to call the cops and let him campaign. Some reports say Ms. Biden reported the crime, but that’s apparently wrong. Other sources say Biden’s people reported it, confirming the guess I made earlier today.

Project Veritas tried to return the diary to Ms. Biden through her attorney. Her attorney refused it, according to the news, because accepting it would be tantamount to authentication. Why didn’t the attorney call the FBI? Why didn’t he accept the diary, which he must have known was real? Obviously, Biden didn’t want things written in the diary to be confirmed to be his daughter’s writings.

Biden and the attorney knew the diary was authentic.

You call the FBI saying an authentic diary was stolen. Someone tries to give the diary back, and you refuse it because you want people to think it’s a fake.

????????

As long as big-time press outlets think a document is fake, they will be hesitant to publish it. By refusing the diary, the Bidens succeeded in stifling its distribution. Now they admit it’s genuine, drawing a tremendous amount of attention to it. It’s now legal for any website to print the text of the diary and say Ashley Biden wrote it.

Now the question isn’t whether Ms. Biden wrote the diary; it’s whether the bad things she said about her dad, in a private journal she never expected anyone to see, where she had no motivation to make things up, are true.

Why didn’t the Bidens call the DOJ off? It would have allowed them to refrain from proactively authenticating the diary, which they have now done. Are they afraid to end the probe?

Continuing the investigation after the inauguration makes Biden and his DOJ look corrupt. If Biden had tried to shut it down in order to avoid authenticating the diary, he might have looked even more corrupt.

The Bidens couldn’t cast doubt on the diary after a certain point, though, because Ms. Biden said a diary had been stolen, and no one took action against the people who published what they claimed was the diary. After refraining from suing the publisher for months, any effort to discredit the diary would not have been credible. The Bidens failed to disavow, bolstering the diary through passivity, and then, by refusing to call the dogs off, they authenticated.

Why did the DOJ search the homes? It’s not normal for them to treat journalists like this. It shouldn’t be happening under a non-Obama administration. The DOJ should have discretion to choose, and they should be disinclined to ignore tradition. Is someone pushing them?

Web sources say the president has the power to interfere in individual cases. He should not use it, obviously, but he apparently has it. Trump had the power to dismiss Robert Mueller.

It may be a mistake to look for a rationale in the mind of Joe Biden. He has done a lot of irrational things. He put a huge number of people out of work with a vaccine mandate, during a major unemployment crisis. He crippled our oil supply, said electric cars would make it okay, and went to OPEC to beg for more crude. He wants to pay illegal aliens gigantic sums because they were separated from each other at the border, when he should know this will act as a powerful attractant for more aliens. He kept our borders closed after every country in the world had already gone through at least one wave of covid.

Biden has dementia, and he wasn’t very bright to begin with, so he is likely to make bad decisions, and he is also likely to have his authority usurped by underlings who are inconsistent because they aren’t in agreement about everything. They say a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Maybe the diary case is a camel, and Biden’s people, not Biden, are making the weird calls.

While I was trying to figure out how this mess happened, I found information from Rachel Maddow, of all people. A known leftist conspiracy nut, Maddow is hardly credible in most circumstances, and you would expect her to pounce on Project Veritas whether it was justified or not, but today I watched her express amazement that a federal case had been launched over a diary. Even she is shocked that two homes were searched. This doesn’t bode well for Biden. Unless new facts that change the picture pop up–and they would have to be remarkable–this case may leave a big stain on his already sagging image.