On the eve of Hunter Biden’s tax trial in California, the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has sued the FBI, CIA and five other federal agencies for records revealing whether Joe Biden or any of his family members ever received a defensive briefing on the First Son’s business dealings.
The Heritage records requests “go to the heart of whether President Biden or his family were, at a minimum, made aware of the potential Kompromat that could have been developed against the then-Vice President and future President of the United States as a result of his son’s foreign business dealings,” says the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Washington DC District Court.
A defensive briefing is a security heads-up given to government officials and other exposed individuals at risk of becoming targets of foreign intelligence services.
The bombshell lawsuit also seeks any records that would show Biden family members were given defensive briefings related to Hunter’s so-called “sugar brother,” Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, who lent him over $6 million to pay his IRS debts and fund his lifestyle.
Morris was named by two IRS whistleblowers as allegedly having been deemed by the CIA as off-limits to tax investigators probing Hunter’s activities.
The lawsuit points out that, “Federal law enforcement and the Intelligence Community have offered defensive briefings to high-ranking U.S. government officials for far fewer entanglements with foreign entities.”
For example, on August 6, 2020, the FBI ambushed Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson with what the Republicans allege was a gratuitous defensive briefing while they were investigating Hunter’s business dealings.
The existence of the briefing was immediately leaked to The Washington Post in a successful effort to discredit their investigation and spook their Republican colleagues.
If counterintelligence defensive briefings were provided to Biden family members, as might be expected considering Hunter’s high-risk entanglements with shady oligarchs and Chinese military intelligence figures during his father’s vice presidency, Heritage wants to know why Hunter continued to take millions of dollars from foreign partners, including CEFC, and why his father met with those partners even after his vice presidency ended.
Other defendants named in the lawsuit include the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the State Department.
The conservative Washington, DC, think tank filed the lawsuit after the federal agencies failed to comply with numerous FOIA requests in April.
