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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJames Risen: Biden going to Ukraine actually might have resulted in greater legal peril for his son
James Risen, The Intercepts senior national security correspondent, best-selling author, former New York Times reporter, published two pieces in The Intercept this week, including one headlined I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down.
The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world. There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get and crack down on corruption. His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect the possible effect of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma.
[link:https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/27/ukraine_president_biden_investigation|
Biden, right out in the open, did the right thing regardless of potential cost to his family, and the Right spun it into a smear.
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James Risen: Biden going to Ukraine actually might have resulted in greater legal peril for his son (Original Post)
Ramsey Barner
Sep 2019
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. No. VP Biden and son are being smeared
because at this point in time he can beat shithole. Nothing more, nothing less. That is the bottom line.
Desert grandma
(804 posts)2. I absolutely agree.
malaise
(268,980 posts)3. DUers gained lots of wisdom during the Obama birther smears and the Hillary email smears
Not biting. Have a good life
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)4. Intercept is one of the least reliable of news sources
Intercept admits reporter fabricated stories and quotes.
More at the link
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/02/the-intercept-fires-reporter-juan-thompson
The intercept is edited by glen greenwal and Laura poitras- a big Julián assange fan
Pretty much speaks for itself