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Another Joe Biden FBI Scandal
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/another-joe-biden-fbi-scandal.php
Emphasis in the original.
1. How in Hades is what Wiles's attorney did ethical, and possibly even not illegal?
2. Did LIEden's FBI coerce Wiles's attorney into carrying out what appears to be a gross ethical breach?
BTW, the author of this blogpost, John Hinderaker, practiced law for 41 years, so he has substantial awareness of attorney-client relationship ethics.
Someone's lying. And in this case, I'd bet it's not the lawyer.
Yesterday, Reuters reported that hidden files within the FBI revealed communications surveillance on now-FBI Director Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in 2022-23. The "toll records" surveillance supposedly came as part of the Department of Justice probes into Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified material at Mar-a-Lago and the January 6 riot. Neither Patel nor Wiles played a role in either, however, although both had begun working for Trump's nascent presidential campaign during that same period.
This alone raises significant questions about the nature of Merrick Garland's DoJ and Jack Smith's actions as special counsel, which I explored yesterday. The real bombshell from Reuters came further into the article, however, when they reported that the FBI had recorded a call between Wiles and her attorney at the time without her knowledge:
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Note well that this does not involve "toll records." This was a direct wiretap of the phone call itself, the kind of surveillance that crosses lines in several ways. First, the FBI would be required to get a warrant for this kind of recording, or it would have to get consent from at least one party to the call, assuming the call took place in a one-party consent jurisdiction. Wiles ran Save America at the time, located in Virginia, which is a one-party consent state.
The FBI claimed it had the consent of Wiles' attorney to record their call, which would satisfy that legal issue – but opened up another huge controversy. What kind of attorney would allow the FBI to record a privileged conversation with a client? Amid calls for disbarment and prosecution, Wiles' attorney reached out to Axios' Marc Caputo to categorically deny ever consenting to a wiretap with his client:QuoteHere’s what the lawyer told me: “If I ever pulled a stunt like that I wouldn’t – and shouldn’t – have a license to practice law. I’m as shocked as Susie.”
surfered (12,727 posts)
Health Insurance Premiums
As a retired CPA, I still prepare income tax returns pro bono for friends and neighborhood widows and orphans.
One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act was the required reporting of the cost of employer provided health insurance. It's reported in box 12a (Code DD) of Form W-2.
My most recent return was for a 40 year-old single male (the son of a very good friend). His gross wages were $25,778. The cost of his employer proved health insurance for 2025 was $7,744, which is 30% of his gross income and he has no chronic health problems. If it wasn't employer provided, there's no way he could afford coverage.
There is something terrible wrong with our system.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221052850
If I remember correctly, and I'm old so I could be wrong, Willie C was NOT impeached for sexual impropriety, he was impeached for perjury.
Chasstev365 (7,511 posts)
So God Damn tired of Democrats being held to a high standard while Republican aren't
As a sitting President, Bill Clinton had to sit through a deposition taken by Ken Star that was designed just to embarrass and humiliate the president, yet George Bush refused to sit under oath with the 911 Commission.
Ken Star and Newt Gingrich were having affairs, as they lead the charge to impeach Bill Clinton.
