Scott
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I thought the article from which the title of this thread gets its name was quite interesting. Sharing part of the article itself below:
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Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor in Ukraine, was at that time probing Burisma Holdings, a major Ukrainian energy firm that employed Biden’s son. In early 2016, Biden successfully leveraged the threat of withholding U.S. financial assistance to have Shokin removed, he recounted during a 2018 event.
“I said, ‘you’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, [expletive], he got fired,” Biden said at the time. “And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
In the wake of the visit, Ukrainian officials “privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine,” the newly declassified report stated. “These officials viewed the alleged ties ... as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
An email also declassified by Ratcliffe, written by a Presidential Daily Brief briefer from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said that the briefer had spoken with Biden and that Biden “would strongly prefer the report not be disseminated.”
The report was marked on the first page as “non-disseminated.” It was also labeled as sensitive further down and a warning said that due to the sensitivity, the report should only be distributed to named recipients.
Those recipients and much of the report were redacted.
The CIA declined to comment. Biden could not be reached for comment.
Shokin has said that he was ousted due to the probe into Burisma.
A report from GOP members of three House of Representatives committees, published in 2024 after investigations into Biden family business dealings with Ukraine and other countries, concluded that Biden engaged in impeachable conduct, including withholding the loan guarantee “until Ukraine took government action to stop the investigation into” Burisma.
At the time, representatives for the White House said in response to the report in a statement provided to media outlets that Republicans “only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories.”
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Full article:
www.theepochtimes.com
I decided to see who was covering this story. As expected, most sources were on the right:
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Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor in Ukraine, was at that time probing Burisma Holdings, a major Ukrainian energy firm that employed Biden’s son. In early 2016, Biden successfully leveraged the threat of withholding U.S. financial assistance to have Shokin removed, he recounted during a 2018 event.
“I said, ‘you’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, [expletive], he got fired,” Biden said at the time. “And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
In the wake of the visit, Ukrainian officials “privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine,” the newly declassified report stated. “These officials viewed the alleged ties ... as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
An email also declassified by Ratcliffe, written by a Presidential Daily Brief briefer from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said that the briefer had spoken with Biden and that Biden “would strongly prefer the report not be disseminated.”
The report was marked on the first page as “non-disseminated.” It was also labeled as sensitive further down and a warning said that due to the sensitivity, the report should only be distributed to named recipients.
Those recipients and much of the report were redacted.
The CIA declined to comment. Biden could not be reached for comment.
Shokin has said that he was ousted due to the probe into Burisma.
A report from GOP members of three House of Representatives committees, published in 2024 after investigations into Biden family business dealings with Ukraine and other countries, concluded that Biden engaged in impeachable conduct, including withholding the loan guarantee “until Ukraine took government action to stop the investigation into” Burisma.
At the time, representatives for the White House said in response to the report in a statement provided to media outlets that Republicans “only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories.”
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Full article:
Biden ‘Strongly’ Preferred CIA to Not Distribute Sensitive Ukraine Report, Declassified Records Show
The report detailed how Ukrainian officials were surprised by then-Vice President Joe Biden’s actions when he was in Ukraine in 2015.
www.theepochtimes.com
I decided to see who was covering this story. As expected, most sources were on the right:
CIA Releases Ukraine Docs on Biden's 2015 Visit
CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified intelligence documents regarding Ukraine on Tuesday, posting on social media that he determined the release was in the public's interest, while the documents were discovered during a CIA review of historical records.
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