NEW: Head Of Blue-Ribbon Covid Commission Has History Of Praising China, Criticizing U.S.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs is head of Lancet's commission investigating origins of the virus. Peter Daszak, who worked on the WHO's Wuhan team, is also on commission. dailycaller.com/2021/02/18/jef…
Sachs has met with WHO and UN as chairman of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission.
In September, he called the Wuhan lab leak theory "dangerous."
He appears frequently on China's state-run networks to bash U.S, praise Beijing.
In 2018, he called U.S. “today’s greatest threat to the international rule of law” and “global peace.”
Last year: “The U.S. is a force for division, not for cooperation."
The kicker: Sachs was an economic adviser for China's economic planning commission in early 2000s.
He was also on the advisory board for China Energy Fund Committee, a think tank whose chairman was convicted for bribing African officials.
HUNTER Biden was a lawyer for the guy
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NEW: 'Team Biden' Sought To Cultivate Ties With Imaad Zuberi, Who Is Now Awaiting Sentencing On Tax And Foreign Agent Charges
Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop and court filings in Zuberi's case provide new details of the effort dailycaller.com/2021/02/15/hun…
After the 2012 election, a longtime adviser to Joe Biden urged Hunter to cultivate relationships with a group of big donors, including Zuberi.
The goal: "To pull them in a little closer to Team Biden."
Zuberi met Joe Biden multiple times in 2014, and claimed in an email to Saudi Arabia's ambassador that Biden expressed frustration about the Saudi position on the Iran nuclear deal.
NEW: Biden's CIA pick is president of a think tank that received millions in funding from a Chinese Communist Party-linked businessman and front group.
Bill Burns has been president of Carnegie Endowment since 2015.
Since then, a Chinese businessman who serves on the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory board for the government, has joined the think tank's board, and donated up to $1.5 million.
The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation gave up to $500,000 through 2017.
CUSEF serves as a front group for the Chinese Communist Party in its outreach overseas.
EXCLUSIVE: Biden Justice Department Nominee Lisa Monaco Prosecuted Black Man Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Selling $20 In Drugs dailycaller.com/2021/02/01/lis…
Reginald Steward’s co-defendant had charges dropped after he pleaded guilty in another case.
The co-defendant, not Steward, was who sold two dime bags of heroin to an undercover cop.
Monaco has touted her work in the Enron task force, which prosecuted executives involved in a billion-dollar fraud.
None of them received sentences as steep as Steward.
Joesph Pientka told the Senate that he wanted to do an additional source review of Steele in November 2016. Word came down that it was tabled because Priestap was concerned about leaks.
This is one of several examples of Priestap stepping in to block info related to Steele. Others:
*Priestap told the IG that he agreed with the Brits not to disseminate derogatory info on Steele. Because of that, the FISA court was never told of concerns about Steele's judgement
Steven D'Antuono of FBI's Washington Field Office says they've opened 160 case files on Capitol riots and received 100,000 pieces of digital information through tip line.
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin expects hundreds of criminal cases
Sherwin says of 170+ case files, they've charged over 70 cases so far.
Nuland told the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 that she was "not aware" of a meeting Chris Steele had at State Dept in Oct. 2016. But she also claimed she intentionally avoided taking part in that meeting.
Nuland said in an interview on CBS she deferred to the FBI on how to handle information from Steele that was given to State Department.
But, according to internal FBI emails, Nuland was reluctant to give FBI the information in late Sept. 2016.