I read Res's link. Let's call it the liberal response. Clearly, the bias is against Republicans, though can't say it didn't make good points.
They really pounded the pulpit with this one:
There’s something else that debunks the story: that Chuck Grassley apparently cares so little about substantiating it he’s willing to risk the life of the informant.
They interpret that as meaning he obviously thinks it's fake. I disagree, I think he believes the informant is credible but is willing to risk the informant's life and case credibility. It was unnecessary to make it public. Couldn't Grassley and his peers read the information themselves and privately pressure the FBI to do more? I think it's more likely he believes it's real, but believes the probability of being a dead end is high enough to justify the immediate sugar rush of releasing.
It may not result in the informant being killed, but will that informant ever trust the FBI again? At minimum, the informant will need to be set up for life to continue working with investigators. Worse, if there was anybody else involved who could have corroborated the intel as an independent witness, that door has shut for two reasons. 1) others informing unlikely, knowing they'll be outed 2) now that the nature of the claim is public information, any witness suddenly coming forward saying the same thing will be suspect. You need witnesses corroborating from separate interrogation rooms.
So here's the problems I see for the 5 mil case, I'm not done yet, I'm just reporting where I'm at and open to feedback in case I'm missing something.
1) As mentioned, the CHS who made the claim appears convinced that payments to Joe Biden were done so discretely that it would take 10 years to unravel*, if that's credible, then proving Biden's guilt by tracking financial transactions is unlikely.
2) Hunters laptop with 127,000 emails searchable online apparently has no yielded no direct indictment of Joe's guilt. No emails from dad saying, "hey, don't forget about out meeting with xyz tomorrow" or anything else that would count as an admission or we'd never hear the end of it. If guilty, Joe must be sharper than he's given credit for. He's the king of discretion.
3) If tracking finances is out and catching Joe in an admission is very unlikely, the main hope seems to be to get more from the witness, who has just been burned. So that's out.
I've only spent about 20 minutes on the 640 pager, it's very hard for me to follow, but I plan on pursuing it some more. Dr. Shades, Dr. E, or any others who are also reading feel free to direct me to the information that substantiates the 5 mil bribe claim, and unpacking it.
Finally, if any conservative reading this believes I'm simply dismissing out of liberal bias, please explain to me where I'm going wrong.
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