First,
I appreciate your sense that the CIA is never the right answer for nearly every situation. And that is generally going to be correct.
But the CIA’s genuine and official job is to compile information on important foreign officials and business folk, to know their weaknesses, and to develop them as information sources. You and I pay taxes to hire people and tell them to do just that thing. It’s not a fictional thing. The CIA is not the illuminati, they’re a real organization who has a specific and explicit role in the government. If something would fall in their scope of interest then it’s reasonable to include them as an counterexample of how things could have played out, that’s entirely non-corrupt and good for all of us.
Hunter spent real time trying to make business deals with influential Ukrainians and Chinese figures. The usual way of running sales pitches is to use your connections to find out about people, learn what they like and then invite them to go out, party, get drunk, and have a good time. During that, you’re going to find it a variety of things about them - and how they like to party - and others in their circle.
Anyone who parties a little too hard, seems to be having money problems, maybe has some addiction issues, those are prime beef for the CIA. “State owned corporation” is a popular theme in Hunter’s business interests.
If I was CIA, I would chat him up. And if I didn’t, I can’t think of any good excuse for skipping it.
It’s like with Donald Trump. He’s a natural magnet for bad people and all the FBI had to do was Google everyone coming out of the Oval Office for four years to find leads on criminal activities. Some people, because of their natural inclinations and connections are just sort of inherently useful for certain national security purposes, even without any real connection to it.
Second,
But, to be clear, I am not saying that Hunter has met with the CIA, had anything for them, nor gained any favors from that. Your choice to believe otherwise and act like I said otherwise doesn’t follow from what was written, wastes both of our time, and throws the discussion off course for no reason.
I’m saying that any impression that there must be some evil and corrupt explanation for why certain things are or aren’t happening with Hunter Biden are based on men’s storytelling. You can just add easily conjure up positive and wondrous alternatives from the evidence. We could point out that it’s not unimaginable for him to have gotten drunk with important people, for him to have had financial documents implicating other people in financial crimes, or otherwise to have had things that he was able to trade to the US government. In all of these cases, the trade would be secret and would not be indicative of corrupt political pressure by the President, Joe Biden.
If it seems like something is strange in the case of Hunter’s prosecution, there’s plenty of non-corrupt alternatives that are equally as evidence driven. … Which is to say, there is no evidence. It is just making shit up as much to imagine that Joe is a mafia boss as it is to say that Hunter met a Chinese politician in a club, they snorted cocaine off some stripper’s belly, and now the USA knows about that guy’s dirty secret. And if both of those have equal evidentiary backing then we should all chill out and just look at who is running the investigation.
Third,
If Weiss seems like a good choice then we don’t need to worry about any irregularities. There’s lots of reasons both boring and bizarre that could explain it. We don’t have visibility into the process, we never will, and we’re just playing pretend to act otherwise. Probably, the end decision is reasonable if Weiss is reasonable.