{"id":1971092,"date":"2023-07-12T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-democrats-clash-over-alleged-tipster-in-hunter-biden-investigation-after-doj-brings-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:18:24","slug":"republicans-democrats-clash-over-alleged-tipster-in-hunter-biden-investigation-after-doj-brings-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-democrats-clash-over-alleged-tipster-in-hunter-biden-investigation-after-doj-brings-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP, Dems Clash Over Tipster in Hunter Biden Probe After DOJ Files Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-democrats-clash-over-alleged-tipster-in-hunter-biden-investigation-after-doj-brings-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971092&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0712\/2d1002c5-459f-46d7-9448-a5df095932d8\/audio.mp3?length=3856365&#038;duration=321\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday sent a letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is chairman of the committee, to turn over everything provided by Gal Luft.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Luft, co-director of the think tank Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-charges-think-tank-director-who-claimed-to-be-tipster-in-hunter-biden-case-as-chinese-agent-arms-trafficker_5386259.html\">Monday<\/a> charged with eight counts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-considering-executive-action-on-guns\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden Considering Executive Action On Guns\">including working<\/a> as a foreign agent for China, arms trafficking, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">making false statements<\/a> to federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>Days before the indictment was made public, Mr. Luft filmed a video from an undisclosed location detailing the timeline of events from his own perspective. He had originally been arrested in February in the Republic of Cyprus and fled after being released on bail. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GalLuft\/status\/1678039609110937604\">video<\/a> was first obtained by the NY Post.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2019, Mr. Luft participated in a two-day interview with six FBI personnel. Mr. Luft, who holds U.S.-Israeli dual citizenship, was in Brussels at the time, and the FBI personnel flew overseas to meet with him. In the meeting, Mr. Luft says he gave insider information about the Biden family\u2019s financial dealings with CEFC China Energy. In his think tank position, he had had an advisory position with CEFC China Energy and said in the video the information he provided was similar to the information found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/hunter-biden-gives-deposition-in-defamation-lawsuit-brought-by-delaware-laptop-repairman_5364251.html\">laptop<\/a>\u00a0allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-verified-laptop-belonged-to-hunter-biden-whistleblower_5350520.html?utm_source=open&#038;utm_medium=search\">belonging<\/a> to\u00a0Hunter Biden, but it appeared it was not acted on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5260966\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on April 10, 2023. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Luft said in the video his motive was never political; he only wanted to prevent another lengthy \u201cRussia collusion\u201d type scandal with a sitting president but that it happened again anyway.<\/p>\n<h2>Veracity of the Brussels Interview<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Comer has been investigating the Biden family\u2019s financial dealings with foreign nationals and has said on multiple occasions that Mr. Luft was a credible witness, one the FBI had flown six people to Brussels in order to interview for two days.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, the information Mr. Luft gave was false. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) emphasized in their letter that Mr. Luft was no whistleblower but instead a \u201cconman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears as if Mr. Luft sought \u2018whistleblower\u2019 status from you in an effort to defend himself from criminal prosecution while a fugitive from justice,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorse yet, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregons-new-secretary-of-state-democrat-caught-hosting-birthday-gathering-in-defiance-of-governors-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon\u2019s New Secretary Of State (Democrat) CAUGHT Hosting Birthday Gathering In Defiance Of Governor\u2019s Covid Orders\">latest episode<\/a> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-blasts-biden-we-are-headed-for-border-chaos\/\" title=\"Rubio Blasts Biden: \u2018We Are Headed For Border Chaos\u2019\">raises concerns<\/a> that Mr. Luft may be manipulating your investigation not only for his own self-interest but perhaps also in furtherance of the CCP\u2019s efforts to undermine U.S. security interests and the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They further wrote that Mr. Luft\u2019s status discredited the rest of the investigation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5108941\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) questions witnesses during the first public hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 8, 2023. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-democrats-clash-over-alleged-tipster-in-hunter-biden-investigation-after-doj-brings-charges\/\" title=\"GOP, Dems Clash Over Tipster in Hunter Biden Probe After DOJ Files Charges\">recent revelations naturally raise broader concerns<\/a> about the credibility and motivations of other purported whistleblowers that Congressional Republicans have relied on to support unfounded and baseless allegations. Sadly, the Luft episode severely undermines the credibility of the critical function of whistleblowers in this body,\u201d wrote the members (<a href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2023-07-11.JBR%20Goldman%20to%20Comer%20re%20Luft.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>They demanded Mr. Comer provide Committee Democrats with everything Mr. Luft had supplied, noting that Mr. Comer had not yet shared any of these materials.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Comer, who is requesting the materials from the FBI\u2019s 2019 Brussels interview with Mr. Luft, responded with a statement questioning their motives and urged Democrats to likewise look into what the FBI actually uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s astonishing that Ranking Member Raskin and Rep. Dan Goldman didn\u2019t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats have requested Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, to submit all materials received from Gal Luft. Luft, co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, faces eight charges. The letter was sent on Wednesday by the Democrats on the committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1971093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}