More Kevin Morris And Nixon's Smokng Gun
I posted last week that sources close to Morris had told Politico that he could no longer afford to pay Hunter's legal bills. My suspicion was that Hunter's lawyer Abbe Lowell, who is reported to bill as much as $1500 an hour, had secured liens on Morris's New York and Malibu properties to be sure he gets paid, and Morris's wife, the Hollywood agent Gaby Morgerman, apparently the actual family breadwinner, had put her foot down. Others have speculated that either Morris or his wife had looked at the $6.5 million as an investment, hoping for some sort of future return from Joe, but reassessing Joe's prospects for reelection, had decided to cut their losses.
Considering how little we actually know, either of those expanations, or indeed any number of others, could be true. But new revelations add another wrinkle to the whole story:
The CIA appeared to instruct the Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for Delaware, Lesley Wolf, to block an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) team’s investigation into Hunter Biden from using his benefactor, Kevin Morris, as a witness, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley said in an affidavit the House Ways and Means Committee released Wednesday.
Shapley, as a lead investigator for the IRS Criminal Division, was heading a probe into Biden in August 2021 when Wolf informed him that she and DOJ Tax Attorney Jack Morgan had been summoned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Wolf, Morgan and the CIA discussed Hunter Biden’s associate and benefactor, Kevin Morris, Shapley said in the affidavit.
Shapley and his team were considering using Morris as a witness for their case against Biden, but Wolf apparently shut the possibility down.
“AUSA Wolf stated that they were provided a classified briefing in relation to Mr. Morris and as a result we could no longer pursue him as a witness,” Shapley stated.
According to Just the News,
It remains unknown why the CIA intervened in the case, how they became aware that the IRS investigators had targeted Morris as a witness and most importantly, who at the CIA issued the directive.
“We don't know whether it's that Kevin Morris has some sort of asset for the CIA, whether he has some sort of target or whether they have other derogatory information about him being a national security threat. But whatever it was, it was enough that Lesley Wolf and the prosecution team said we're not going to put him on the stand,” Tristan Leavitt, whose organization Empower Oversight is representing Shapley, told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Wednesday.
This story may provide some context for Morris acting in some type of intelligence capacity, however remote and ill-advised:
The State Bar of California is investigating an ethics complaint brought against Hunter Biden’s attorney and “sugar brother” Kevin Morris by filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who wants the wealthy Malibu lawyer disbarred for allegedly infiltrating the set of his movie “My Son Hunter” using false pretenses to gather information for the first son.
to Se complaint, filed last week and obtained by The Post, McAleer alleges that Morris, who made a fortune representing the co-creators of “South Park,” flew on his private jet in November [2021] to Serbia, where the Hunter Biden biopic was being filmed, and pretended he was an independent documentary filmmaker producing content for “South Park streaming.”
“Kevin Morris was Hunter Biden’s lawyer who used deception and misrepresentation to spy on a movie project about his client to gather information to help his client,” the complaint alleges.
Again, the reaearch I've been able to do on the web about Morris suggests that by the time he met Hunter in 2019, at best, he had no regular income of his own, and in the link above, he described himself to McAleer's people in 2021 as a "retired attorney" -- he had in fact formally left his own law firm in 2020, but since 2009, he'd been attempting to make a career as a novelist, which ultimately failed. Who was funding the flight on his private jet to Serbia to poke around McAleer's movie project? Now the CIA can't be ruled out.But this also brings to mind one of the biggest presidential scandals ever, Watergate, and the so-called "smoking gun" in which Nixon tried to use the CIA to thwart another investigation. In a famous tape,
Haldeman explained to Nixon the cover-up plan: "the way to handle this now is for us to have Walters [CIA] call Pat Gray [FBI] and just say, 'Stay the hell out of this ... this is ah, business here we don't want you to go any further on it.'"
Nixon approved the plan, and after he was given more information about the involvement of his campaign in the break-in, he told Haldeman: "All right, fine, I understand it all. We won't second-guess Mitchell and the rest." Returning to the use of the CIA to obstruct the FBI, he instructed Haldeman: "You call them in. Good. Good deal. Play it tough. That's the way they play it and that's the way we are going to play it."
We may or may not ever learn the answers to the questoins Just the News asked -- "why the CIA intervened in the [Kevin Morris] case, how they became aware that the IRS investigators had targeted Morris as a witness and most importantly, who at the CIA issued the directive", but it's certainly within the realm of credibilty that orders came, as they did from the White House in 1972, to tell the CIA to wave another investigation off.What won't go away for me, regardless of what does or doesn't come to light, is that nothing we've been told so far about Kevin Morris fits.
