A Bigfoot And UFO Nut Is A Key Member Of Hunter's Legal Team

Last week I posted on an incresingly unserious-looking Kevin Morris, who represents himself as Hunter Biden's lead attorney. One item I noted was that Morris has hired bigfoot and UFO expert Denver Riggleman to work on the defense team. As I outlined in that post, Riggleman, who is not an attorney, served one term as a Republican congressman from Virginia from 2019 to 2021, but he managed to get so crosswise with the Republicans in his district that they refused to renominate him for the 2020 election.

The illustration at the top of this post is from his podcast's web site, which you can find here. On one hand, he pretty clearly believes in bigfoot and UFOs, and he also believes QAnon is a vast conspiracy. After leaving the House in January 2021, he nevertheless attached himself as an adviser to the January 6 committee and argued that the demonstrators had been guided by QAnon types.

As I said in my post last week, he's a flake and a quack. This is only confirmed by his YouTube channel, a sample episode of which you can see below:

This past Sunday, he was interviewed by Jim Acosta on CNN, who took him seriously -- and in fact, Conservative Inc took it seriously that Acosta took him seriously.

Acosta begins by noting that Riggleman worked with the January 6th committee, which apparently adds great credibility in the eyes of the host. At that point, Riggleman begins to suggest that the material on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which has been forensically authenticated by numerous news outlets (including The New York Times and The Washington Post, albeit belatedly), is actually fake. He claims to have the “data” on his side.

The link quotes from Riggleman in the Acosta interview:

What we wanted to look at first is the data that’s out there that’s purported to be Hunter Biden’s laptop. We wanted to see if there was any forensic format or if there was any forensic validity to it, and there was none. Jim, I think what surprised me is that, if you’re looking at data from 4chan or from a site like Marco Polo, you have to have forensic validity, and I am shocked that anyone anybody Congress would use that data or any journalist would even use those sources. Because what we found out, and we do have the data, we have the ones and zeros. we have the facts-based analysis based on the ones and zeros that we have, we found this the very same folks. We have videos.

His point, as far as anyone can parse it out, appears to be that what we think is Hunter's laptop -- and that includes what the FBI, the New York Times, and the Washington Post have concluded is Hunter's laptop -- is an elaborate hoax, apparently concocted with the help of AI by the same people who are behind QAnon. He claims an expertise in data analysis, "ones and zeros", that allows him to prove this. But according to Wikipedia, his educational and work background had nothing to do with this:

Riggleman earned an Associate of Arts from Rowan College at Burlington County, formerly Burlington County College, in 1996. He received an Associate of Applied Science in avionics systems from the Community College of the Air Force at Air University in 1996. In 1998, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. Riggleman received a graduate certificate in project management from Villanova University in 2007.

. . . Riggleman served in the Air Force for 15 years.[7] After initially serving as an enlisted avionics technician, he received a commission and went on to serve as an intelligence officer.

Riggleman founded NSA contractor Analytics Warehouse, LLC, in 2007, and was its CEO until 2015.

But here's my big puzzle: Kevin Morris, who represents himself as Hunter Biden's lead defense attorney -- by implication, this means he's supervising Abbe Lowell and Chris Clark -- has hired this guy to work on that same legal team on the basis that the laptop is a hoax generated by AI in the service of QAnon. But Clark in particular has repeatedly implied in public remarks that the laptop is authentic, for instance:

"I’ve seen people wave various random e-mails around. I’ve never seen it. Obviously whatever that stuff [is] has been available to everyone in the United States for many years, sadly. I don’t know how you’d feel if everyone was disseminating the contents of your stolen phone. I wouldn’t be happy about it," Clark said.

I can't imagine that Riggleman was able to get on CNN and represent himself as working on Hunter's legal team without Keven Morris allowing it to happen. For instance,

Acosta began with a softball: "Why did you decide to take on this case and work with the Hunter Biden legal team and what's your role here?"

Riggleman said he's doing the same forensic analysis for the Bidens that he did for Pelosi. . . . "I also found out, you know, as the Hunter Biden legal team reached out to me, that a lot of the people that have been pushing this are the same people that pushed the J-6 conspiracy theories."

I assume that Riggleman said these things with Kevin Morris's approval, because if he hadn't, Morris would have immediately issued a statement disassociating the legal team and Hunter from Riggleman and demanded a retraction from CNN.

But this in turn makes me start to think Kevin Morris is as big a quack as Denver Riggleman. Let's recall, though, that any potential case against Joe Biden will be inextricably linked to Hunter's cases, which will almost certainly not go away with his pending guilty plea in Delaware. But at least for now, Kevin Morris is running that show with the invaluable assistance of Denver Riggleman of bigfoot and UFO fame.

I'm still working my way through this.

Wishful Thinking

Over the weekend there was an uptick in calls from various quarters for Joe Biden to step down from his intent to run for reelection next year, but I think the attempts by B-listers like Steven Hayward to see reason for optimism are just wishful thinking.

I still say Biden won’t be the Democratic nominee next year. And I think there’s a 50/50 chance that if Biden doesn’t drop out of his own volition, Gavin Newsom will decide some time this fall to jump in the race, with a “more in sorrow than anger” announcement that praises Biden for his good deeds, but that it’s time for a generational shift. Don’t think Newsom and his advisers aren’t weighing this possibility.

The big factor that Hayward and the others who think this way are leaving out is that Biden is basically the last Democrat who can remotely claim to lead a fusion party that unites what's left of the New Deal coalition -- which, recall, once comprised labor, Catholics, immigrants, Jews and other ethnics, Southern segregationists, and Ivy League gentry. Substantial numbers of most of these have left the party over the past two generations, while Southern segregationists have effecttively disappeared.

The traditional members of the New Deal coalition have been replaced by greens, radical feminists, parlor leftists, queer theorists, race hustlers, and the urban criminal class. The challenge for Democrats has been to keep these groups off center stage, either by bumping them aside and triangulating a la Bill Clinton, or co-opting them a la Barack Obama. Without a strong leadership figure who can do either while maintaining some semblance of party unity, there's no chance of building a winning electoral coalition, since the Republicans have begun to occupy the center.

This has been the Democrat dilemma for the past several election cycles -- it's Bernie Sanders or a more moderate-seeming alternative like Hillary or Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders was at least a cis white male, while Joe Biden was both that and a seeming moderate. The problem is that Bernie is even older than Joe, while Hillary is not in good health. Joe is the last viable Democrat figure, all the others who are younger are too closely associated with the new Democrat factions.

Note that Mr Hayward expects Gavin Newsom to step in and supplant Joe. But Newsom is not the same kind of Californian as Nixon or Reagan. He's tied too closely to Covid lockdowns, poop on the streets, crime, homelessness, and high taxes-- and this leaves aside that he's a leader in the only state policy initiative so far to raise the possibility of reparations for the descendants of African slaves by appointing a task force to study the issue.

Newsom signed the task force into law in 2020, touting California being the first state to study reparations and calling the bill a corrective to the “structural racism and bias built into and permeating throughout our democratic and economic institutions” without explicitly embracing monetary compensation.

The difficulty is that the task force came up with a recommendation that those eligible receive up to $1.2 million in reparations, while individual members of the task force have been demanding other measures like abolishing child support payments for African-American fathers. The dilemma for Democrat candidates at this point is that either they endorse measures like this, which will alienate not just whites but Latins and Asians, who'll have to pay reparations as well, or they don't, which will bring down the wrath of the reparations hustlers and their allies.

This is a problem Newsom has brought on himself just by opening the door to it, but of course, he did this in an attempt to appease the reparations hustler wing of his party within California in the first place. His nomination in 2024 would simply assure a substantial number of Democrats supporting a third-party candidate. Mr Hayward is the expert who's paid to think this through; I have no idea why it kasn't occurred to him.

The lizard people behind Biden will simply veto any potential Newsom candicacy on the basis that Newsom will be unelectable in the general, while Biden has proven that, whatever may happen down the road, he's been elected once.

By the same token, Kamala Harris isn't electable, but the bigger issue is that no other potential Democrat candidate, such as those who ran in the 2020 primaries, is an arguable national figure who can campaign on behalf of the old New Deal coalition. They all represent individual new factions, the greens, radical feminists, parlor leftists, queer theorists, race hustlers, and the urban criminal class. They all face the Bud Light dilemma, where on one hand, they'll offend one group, but if they try to turn around and satisfy that group, they'll offend someone else, and in the end, nobody wants their product.

The Democrat strategy is going to be to tough it out over Joe, because they don't have any choice. Whatever issue comes up, coke in the Sit Room, bribes from the Chicomms, stumbles, mumbles, and falls, they're going to say nothing, hope things blow over, and basicaly claim that bad as Joe is, he isn't Trump.

What they need to do is somehow contain Robert Kennedy Jr, because his threat is that he comes off as less wacky than legacy media wants to make out, and for some segment of voters, who will mostly be Democrats left over from the old New Deal coalition nostalgic for a Kennedy, he'll be better than Joe but not Donald Trump.

My problem with Kennedy is that he has cogent things to say about vaccines, but he also wants to legalize psychedelics.

Louis Freeh And The Alternate Universe

The other day I noted that the White House versions of the cocaine story seem to come from the same alternate universe as the story of the frantic race to find the missing Titan sub before the oxygen runs out. Now it'sd starting to look as though former FBI Director and international fixer Louis Freeh has access to the same portal. Just the first page of hits from a web search on Freeh brought up the strange story of the August 25, 2014 one-car accident in rural Vermont, in which Freeh is said to have fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed his GMC Yukon.

What was hinky about the story from the start was that it was an explanation of the accident eight months after the fact, and it came from none other than James Comey, who was FBI Director at the time, backed up by Vermont Sen Patrick Leahy. In LA, celebrities wreck their Porsches and Lambos all the time, LAPD or CHP gives the details, KTLA or the Times reports a day or so later, and everyone moves on. Here, it turns out, Louis Freeh, former FBI Director, wrecks his Yukon fedmobile, the whole matter is swept under the rug for eight months, until the current FBI Director gives the details, which themselves are strange.

Only one source asked the obvious questions, shortly after the wreck itself but well before Director Comey's comments:

Recently, we reported on an Aug. 25 one-car crash involving the long-time former FBI director, Louis Freeh. Considering Freeh’s prominence and tenure in the national security apparatus, the incident has received surprisingly little media attention and virtually no serious scrutiny.

. . . Now, we’d like to update you on two key points, and then on some other curiosities.

First: local Vermont media are reporting that, just prior to his crash along a relatively straight and flat portion of a rural stretch of Vermont Highway 12, Freeh, 64, nearly took out three motorists, whose evasive actions saved themselves.

Second: a still unidentified FBI agent quickly materialized at the scene of the crash.

As I said above, this piece was written eight months before Director Comey and Sen Leahy gave their updates, but the problem of the extra FBI agent who suddenly turned up on the scene stood out right away. The version at the link says this of the agent:

A still unidentified FBI agent was one of the first people to arrive at the accident scene, according to police. He was apparently from out of state. What he was doing there is still not clear. Police believed him to be off-duty, but could not say with certainty.

That report in USA Today from April 24, 2015, eight months after the accident, carried Director Comey's and Sen Leahy's version of events, which raised more questions than they answered. These explanations weren't available to the writers in the link above, and they don't seem to have followed up on them, if they even knew about them:

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh would have died within 60 seconds of sustaining a severed artery in a car crash eight months ago in Vermont if not for the life-saving actions of emergency crews, officials revealed Friday.

Current FBI leader James Comey and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made the remarks when questioned about Freeh's medical condition, including a leg mangled in the Aug. 25 wreck in Barnard in central Vermont.

This was the first time that public officials have provided details concerning the serious nature of Freeh's condition after the accident.

Leahy noted that Freeh had a severed artery in a leg, but first responders, along with a retired FBI agent who witnessed the crash, came to Freeh's aid.

So OK, the mysterious FBI agent from out of state wasn't on duty, he was retired, and he just happened to be standing around on a rural stretch of Vermont Highway 12 when he witnessed the crash and was able to rush in within a minute and save his former director's life, or something like that. And this is the firat time anyone has provided any details at all about the crash or Freeh's medical condition. The link above notes the initial secrecy over the whole incident:

It’s important to remember that this happened shortly after noon, and not terribly far from Freeh’s vacation home, not typical circumstances for a driver to have fallen asleep.

Freeh and his staff have been mum on the whole thing; the FBI has provided no details or explanation. And law enforcement has not appeared to be especially zealous in figuring out what happened.

. . . Freeh is, or was, under armed guard at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a hospital in neighboring New Hampshire that is considered among the top hospitals. It routinely has very tight security, so the reason for the extra precautions is not clear.

And nobody said anything more until, eight months later, James Comey, FBI Director himself at the time, backed up by Sen Leahy, gave a not entirely convincing explanation. Their version is that Freeh's femoral artery had been severed in the crash.

"Louis would have died within a minute or so. They stopped the bleeding," Leahy said.

"I told him he better believe in guardian angels," said Leahy, who noted the retired FBI agent also had the same first name as Freeh.

Yes indeed, a severed femoral artery can result in death within minutes -- but how long does it normally take first responders to get to the rural scene of an accident like that? Less than a minute, according to Sen Leahy. Unless the acccident was right outside the local firehouse, I can't buy this. So it must have been the angel FBI agent on the scene, huh?

But this doesn't explain how, unless he was a real angel, he was so conveniently on the scene -- but this in turn raises an entirely reasonable question, whether in fact the severed artery was Freeh's actual injury, and the angel agent was just part of a smokescreen. We're sort of back to the same alternate universe where they're frantically searching for the Titan sub before the oxygen runs out, when the pseudo-urgency masks the real question.

In the days after the accident, nothing was released about what happened to Freeh, and everyone -- hospital, police, Freeh's international fixer staff -- was mum. Eight months later, boy oh boy, gotta stop that bleeding or he'll die within minutes! And of course, this doesn't come from the hospital, the police, or Freeh's international fixer staff -- it comes from the current FBI Director and a US senator.

Well, that should settle it, huh? What we do know is that by 2015, Freeh and his team of international fixers were working closely with Hunter Biden on the case of Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu, who was on the brink of a bribery conviction. By 2016, James Comey was coordinating with the Hillary Clinton campaign to use putative Russian pee tapes against Donald Trump. By 2018, he was saying

“I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013,” the former FBI director, 57, told George Stephanopoulos. “It’s possible, but I don’t know.”

And then there's the entirely separate case of the angel Secret Service agents who turned up at a Delaware gun shop in 2018 to confiscate the paperwork recording the sale of a gun to Hunter Biden, whose girlfriend Hallie had tossed it into a dumpster. The Secret Service said it had no record of its involvement. I guess, like Sen Leahy says, you just gotta believe in guardian angels.

Well, it's possible that Louis Freeh fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his fedmobile, and an angel FBI agent turned up on the scene to stop his bleeding or he woulda died, It's possible, but we don't know. Seems like right now, there's a lot we just don't know.

Louis Freeh In Context

While we can't be 100% sure that former FBI Director Louis Freeh is the mole who, according to Gal Luft, Hunter called "One Eye", there is in fact evidence from e-amails on Hunter's laptop that Hunter and Freeh engaged in several financial transactions related to their mutual business interests as international fixers. I cited those in yesterday's post.

But this brought me to look more closely at Louis Freeh himself. Freeh was FBI Director from September 1, 1993 to June 25, 2001. According to Wikipedia,

Shortly before and during Freeh's tenure, the FBI was involved in a number of high-profile incidents and internal investigations. Writing about Freeh in 2011, Reuters wrote that Freeh "faced widespread criticism for a series of high-profile blunders" during his tenure as FBI Director.

These included the Waco siege, which took place several months before Freeh became director, but he was involved in the highly controversial investigation, including allegations of a cover-up by the FBI. Wikipedia mentions further,

Freeh was accused of malpractice several times during his time at the FBI. In the case of the Oklahoma City bombing, Freeh failed to hand over 3,000 pages of evidence to Timothy McVeigh's lawyers. Freeh also received backlash for not looking into whether Moscow had recruited someone in the FBI, despite being warned by senior investigator Thomas Kimmel. It would later come out 2 years later in 2001 that Robert Hanssen had been recruited by the Russians to be a spy for them. In 1994 after it was discovered that Aldrich Ames was a spy for the Russians, Freeh was advised to require routine polygraph tests for FBI agents; no action was taken by him.

. . . Attorney general Janet Reno testified that information that could have prevented the September 11 attacks was mishandled by the FBI at the time Freeh was the director of the FBI.

In June 2001, he resigned amid criticism that the FBI needed stronger leadership, particularly after allegations of spying by Robert Hanssen.

However, despite his tarnished reputation, Freeh was apparently able to rely on his connections to build a lucrative post-FBI career. Again according to Wikipedia,

In September 2001, Freeh was appointed to the board of directors of credit card issuer MBNA; he also served as the bank's general counsel, as well as corporate secretary and ethics officer.

It isn't entirely coincidental that MBNA had also earlier hired Hunter Biden:

After graduating from law school in 1996, Biden accepted a consultant position at the bank holding company MBNA, whose employees donated more than $200,000 into Joe Biden's senate campaigns. MBNA's hiring of Biden was controversial because his father had pushed for credit card legislation which was beneficial to the credit card industry and was supported by MBNA during Biden's time at the bank. The legislation made it more difficult to get bankruptcy protection. This led to Byron York of National Review referring to Joe Biden, years later, as "the senator from MBNA" referencing the close relationship between the two.

MBNA was headquartered in the Bidens' home town of Wilmington, DE. Originally Maryland National Bank, MBNA's parent moved its headquarers to Delaware in 1982 to bypass Maryland's restrictions on credit card interest rates, and its subsequent growth as a credit card issuer depended on its ability to negotiate Delaware politics. Thus it had a close connection with the Bidens. (It was acquired by Bank of America in 2006.)

As MBNA grew, it became one of the most profitable companies in the United States, the world's largest independent credit card issuer, and the largest private-sector employer in Delaware.

. . . Historically, many MBNA executives were former employees of the FBI.

But with MBNA no longer employing him as of 2006. according to the Wikipedia link above on Freeh,

In 2007, Freeh formed Freeh Group International Solutions, a consulting and investigative firm headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware with regional offices in Washington, D.C., and New York. Affiliated firms include Freeh Group Europe and the law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP. The latter firm includes Eugene R. Sullivan, a retired federal judge in Washington, D.C., and Eugene R. Sullivan II amongst partners, and Stanley Sporkin as senior counsel. Sporkin is a retired federal judge who earlier served as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement and as general counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency.

In other words, after leaving the FBI with a highly uneven record, especially in counterintelligence, five years after leaving it, Freeh reinvented himself as an international fixer with connections in law enforcement and intelligence, precisely the same line of work the Bidens were engaged in. A vignette from 2015, a year prior to his e-mail exchanges with Hunter recorded on the laptop, provides a glimpse into his lifestyle during this period:

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh would have died within 60 seconds of sustaining a severed artery in a car crash eight months ago in Vermont if not for the life-saving actions of emergency crews, officials revealed Friday.

Current FBI leader James Comey and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made the remarks when questioned about Freeh's medical condition, including a leg mangled in the Aug. 25 wreck in Barnard in central Vermont.

This was the first time that public officials have provided details concerning the serious nature of Freeh's condition after the accident.

Leahy noted that Freeh had a severed artery in a leg, but first responders, along with a retired FBI agent who witnessed the crash, came to Freeh's aid.

. . . "He credits those folks with saving his life," Comey told reporters at the news conference at Champlain College. Comey was in Burlington to tour the college with Leahy.

Freeh was critically injured in the crash. State police believe the former FBI director fell asleep at the wheel on Vermont 12 near his seasonal home in Barnard shortly after noon on Aug. 25.

So wait a moment. Eight months earlier, Freeh was nearly killed while driving a GMC Yukon that apparently also had a retired FBI agent aboard, since he was able to save Freeh's life within a minute of the crash. (Was the Yukon black? Sounds like Freeh still wanted FBI vibes, hoh?) What was going on? Apparently this was kept very, very quiet until Jim Comey, FBI Director at the time, talked about it, along with Sen Leahy. Isn't that odd?

The best we can surmise is that Freeh, Comey, and a US senator are all part of the same club, along, of course, with Hunter and his dad. I have a feeling that Hunter's interactions with that club go beyond what we've seen so far from the laptop, and this is in fact still going on as we speak. But as of 2020,

AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, today announced it has acquired Freeh Group International Solutions LLC (FGIS), a leading global risk management firm, expanding its premier global investigations practice. The transaction, effective immediately, sees FGIS team members joining AlixPartners and is complementary to the firm’s investigations, compliance, and cybersecurity capabilities. The acquisition will add a new AlixPartners office in Wilmington, Delaware. As part of this transaction, Louis J. Freeh will step down as Senior Managing Partner of the affiliated law firm of Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP, and will no longer practice law.

But it's still the Delaware Way.

Who Is :"One Eye"?

Allegations have resurfaced in the past week from Dr Gal Luft, an Israeli specialist in energy and security, who was an advisor to the Chinese energy company CEFC. CEFC, headed by Ye Jianming, paid $4,790,375.25 to Hunter's firm Owasco P.C. over about one year around 2017.

Luft was arrested in Cyprus in February 2023 on what he claims was "a politically motivated extradition request by the US". Luft claims to be in fear for his life if he is returned to the US. Over the past week, Luft made a video that he sent to the New York Post that repeats allegations he had earlier made in March.

These include that CEFC was paying huge sums to Hunter and Joe's brother James ($100,000 and $65,000 a month) in exchange for use of their family name in promoting China’s interests. He also alleged that Hunter had a pet mole that he called "One Eye" within the FBI, who provided tipoffs to CEFC honchos about incoming heat.

Speculation about the identity of "One Eye" immediately centered on former FBI Director Louis Freeh:

REPORT: Hunter Biden colluded with an FBI mole named 'One-Eye' to tip off Chinese business partners about investigation.

Who could this 'One-Eye' be?

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh happens to have one eye. He also happened to donate $100k to Hallie https://t.co/7YEZu7lFqb…

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 23, 2023

In fact, there are numerous potential connections between Freeh and the Bidens, not least via Hunter and Hallie, but also, following his retirement from the FBI, Freeh established his own consulting firm, Freeh Group International Solutions, in Wimington, DE. The Twitter post refers to a donation that was noted in a New York Post story from May 2021:

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden’s grandchildren as he sought to pursue “some very good and profitable matters” with him, newly surfaced emails revealed Thursday.

Freeh apparently made the gift in April 2016 — when Biden was the outgoing vice president — and shortly before he told Biden’s son Hunter, “I would be delighted to do future work with you,” according to the emails.

According to the Collin Rugg tweet, the two grandchildren were Hallie's children from her marriage to Hunter's brother Beau, who passed away in May 2015. Hallie immediately began an intense cocaine-driven affair with Hunter after Beau's death. Freeh kept in contact with Hunter thereafter. Accxording to the same story,

“I also spoke to Dad a few weeks ago and would like to explore with him some future work options,” Freeh wrote on July 8, 2016.

“I believe that working together on these (and other legal) matters would be of value, fun and rewarding.”

In another email to Hunter Biden the following year, Freeh described seeing Joe Biden at church earlier in the day “and he said hi walking back from communion–I didn’t get the chance to return greetings.”

But by June of 2016, he was already working with Hunter on another project. According to this New York Post story from June 2021,

Emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the younger Biden — then working as a counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP — reached out to former FBI Director Louis Freeh in June 2016 about the case of Gabriel Popoviciu, who was accused of acquiring land to build a Bucharest mall at a below-market price, the Daily Mail reported.

In a June 18, 2016, email, Hunter Biden told Freeh — then a partner at the Delaware-based law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan — that he believed Popoviciu was “a good man that’s being very badly treated by a suspect Romanian justice system … Time is of the essence and my client has never balked at bringing whatever team it takes together at whatever cost to obtain justice.”

While Freeh’s initial response, which began “Thanks for your note and for thinking of me,” was noncommittal, he was soon fully invested in Popoviciu’s case.

“I will see my good friend Ron Noble (former SecGen INTERPOL), in NY on Thursday,” Freeh wrote Hunter three days after the initial email, “and most likely he knows this DNA [Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate] prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kobesi, very well. Let me talk to him and see what the possibilities may be to meet with her and to initiate a dialogue which would remediate the situation.”

In a subsequent email, the former FBI head suggested Popoviciu had value to American law enforcement.

“FYI,” Freeh wrote in a July 8 email to Hunter Biden obtained by The Post, “I have had conversations with the head of the FBI’s Criminal Division and there is a sincere Bureau interest in meeting and debriefing Gabriel on other matters he may be willing to discuss.” Freeh did not elaborate on what those “other matters” were.

Later in the email, Freeh told Hunter Biden he would “like to make a small payment to you for this referral-and for your continuing work on this matter. This is a standard practice … We would just need your bank information in order to make a remittance.”

So at least from 2016, there was an ongoing relationship between Hunter and Freeh that involved not just family connections, but business and financial relationships as well. At this point, we don't necessarily know the full extent of these. But this adds further context to a story from this past week:

Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president's son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings.

Weiss's deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter's criminal prosecution.

According to Hines's LinkedIn account, he previously worked as Special Counsel to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh at his private company, Freeh Group International Solutions, a lobbying and 'risk management' consultancy that teamed up with Hunter on overseas business currently under scrutiny by lawmakers.

. . . Freeh and his firm worked closely with Hunter Biden trying to get the US State Department to help limit the prosecution of Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu, who was on the brink of a bribery conviction in 2015.

Freeh proposed setting up a private consultancy with Hunter and Joe Biden when he ended his vice presidential term, offering 'lucrative future work options' including working for overseas clients such as corrupt former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

The full extent of Hunter's connections to key figures in the deep state remains to be seen, but I have the impression that they go well beyond just Freeh. Another factor that strikes me is that the amounts passing to the Bidens from the various foreign sources are turning out to be much larger than had been suggested by fragmentary reports from earlier this year, which adds to the credibiliity of the oveall allegations. A million here, a million there over eight or ten years was too small to seem worth Joe's time. Now we're starting to see $5 million here and $10 million there, whicxh makes at least somewhat more sense.

So The Story's Changed Yet Again!

Nothing new, of course, we're just living in the same alternate universe where there was a desperate race to locate the missing Titan submersible before the oxygen ran out. The latest version of the White House cocaine baggie has morphed from "in the residence library" to "in a cubby in a West Wing holding area", and now to "downstairs in the West Wing near the Situation Room":

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell acknowledged Thursday that contrary to the idea that a random tourist left cocaine in the White House in what officials have described as a “heavily trafficked” area, the cocaine was actually found in a “limited access place” near the Situation Room.

At this point, there's less and less credibility for each update, while the White House press office is fumbling over the Hatch Act. That in turn suggests to me that they're as much in the dark as anyone else. I would surmise the strategy for now is to act confused until it all goes away.

The issue of where it was found is probably the wrong question anyhow. As far as I can tell, Hunter's cocaine use is an open secret. The photo above, which I picked up off a post on as Conservative Inc site, doesn't have a date or event attached to it, but it shows Hunter dressed in black tie just as he's passed some type of uniformed security guard, appearing for all the world to be taking a bump of cocaine on his way into the main event.

Two Twitter posts containing versions of White House balcony video from July 4 portray Joe's and Dr Jill's body language telegraphing that they're fully aware of the situation.

I’m not saying Hunter Biden snorted cocaine at the White House but if he did, I would expect it to look exactly like this. pic.twitter.com/n3VykREfgq

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 5, 2023

As Hunter Biden steps away Joe and Jill look concerned but ignore it in the end. pic.twitter.com/ZwjxcVbVk8

— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) July 5, 2023

Right-wing commentator Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, explains the issue in a nutshell:

There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 5, 2023

He's gone into more detail elsewhere and made the point that "protectees", that is, the president, vice president, and members of their families, are escorted past all checkpoints by Secret Service special agents, in part because the agents carry firearms that wouldn't get past metal detectors. For others, the checkpoints include drug sniffing dogs.

But as Bongino suggests, the pool of likely suspects, assuming family members are the likeliest, expands beyond just Hunter. Vice president Harris and her husband can't be eliminated, and the vice president in particular has something of a cackling, party-girl persona. Joe's daughter Ashley was on the balcony at the July 4 celebration, she's been to rehab for her own addiction, and we don't currently know her whereabouts over the prior weekend.

Others have suggested White House security insiders already know who brought the baggie in, just as both the US Navy and the Royal Navy knew what happened to the Titan submersible the moment it imploded. I'm leaning in that direction myself. But if that's the case, I have two questions.

First, let's assume the news gets out, which I'm not sure will ever happen, but if it does, what happens to the one who's identified? If a celebrity gets busted for this sort of thing, there's usually just a public mea culpa, a promise not to do it again, and a trip to rehab. If it's Ashley, that would probably work. If it's Hunter, well, nothing new, but it might affect his diversion program for the lie on his gun application, which requires him to stay sober, and he could maybe even get jail time -- but since Joe is running the show, probably not. He'll just go back to rehab. What else is new?

If it's the vice president, on the other hand, that's definitely something new. She would almost certainly need to resign in a deal much like Spiro Agnew's -- possession of cocaine on federal property is five years in prison for a first offense, any amount. They'd waive the sentence in exchange for her guilty plea and resignation. That would probably have the greatest impact, but none of the possibilities would affect Joe directly.

The second question is even bigger, though: how do people at that level get their drugs? All of these people have Secret Service protection, at least theoretically. Hunter, as the immediate family of Joe when he was vice president, would have had it from January 2009 to January 20l7, when he was driving fast cars on crack and sometimes wrecking them, cavorting with Russian hookers, and buying drugs in industrial amounts. How did the Secret Service look the other way?

How is the Secret Service looking the other way now? Just the photo and video evidence we see, leaving aside the baggie near the Sit Room, suggests he has a massive cocaine habit, not just a bump now and then. These are significant amounts of narcotics being trafficked into the White House. How has the fix been put in? Someone had to enable Hunter, and irrespecive of one particular baggie, that's happening. The level of corruption in the Secret Service is likely the real hidden story here.

Kevin Morris Is Hunter's Lead Attorney

I don't have a good feeling about this. One of the main narratives we've seen in recent current events has been how Stockton Rush, CEO of Oceangate, brushed aside all counsels of prudence in the design and construction of his Titan submersible, only to succumb with four passengers to what proved to be the predictable outcome. Meanwhile, we're starting to hear of Joe Biden angrily dismissing equivalent warnings of predictable outcomes:

President Joe Biden, who is reportedly “consumed” with his son Hunter’s scandals, allegedly angrily dismisses White House aides who believe Hunter Biden’s controversial history might politically hurt his father.

. . . In recent days, White House aides reportedly tried to speak with Joe Biden about the continual drip drop of damning evidence streaming from Hunter Biden’s foreign business transactions, but NBC News sources report Joe Biden’s response was “outright angry” towards anyone who would challenge him on the subject.

Joe Biden reportedly told one aide, “Hands off my family.”

But at this point, with revelations containing text messages from Hunter claiming to be directly discussing business deals with Joe, both of their cases are joined at the hip. Their legal strategies are, or ought to be, closely coordinated. But now we have a story at Breitbart offhandedly tossing out the following information several paragraphs down:

Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s lead attorney, told CBS News that [former one-term Republican congressman Denver] Riggleman consulted with his team in the past months but will now be a staple on the team.

“He is an invaluable resource and we have made tremendous strides in untangling the massive amount of corruption and disinformation involved in this story,” Morris said.

Let's see if we can tease this out. Hunter appears to have been given a highly favorable deal in his federal tax and firearm cases, but his legal troubles are nowhere near over, and serious allegations of influence peddling, money laundering, and potentially even bribery have been developing against both Hunter and Joe as a result of ongoing House Republican investigations. It seems to me that simple prudence would require that both engage highly competent attorneys in fields like white collar criminal defense and constitutional law at minimum.

But now we hear that Keven Morris is Hunter's lead attorney, which says to me that he must have serious input to Joe's legal strategy as well. But what is Kevin's background? He's a Hollywood entertainment lawyer best known for brokering South Park, which debuted in 1997, 25 years ago. His wife is Gaby Morgerman, whom he married in 1991 before he became an influential Hollywood lawyer, and she, a senior vice president at William Morris, is generally characterized as one of the most powerful people in Hollywood.

In fact, I can't escape the impression that he's mainly successful for being Mr Gaby Morgerman. In recent years, he appears almost to have retired from entertainment law to pursue a literary career; Per the New York Post, he characterized himself in a visit to the set of the My Son Hunter film as "a retired lawyer associated with South Park". I've looked more closely at his literary efforts in this post and concluded that he hasn't established a serious literary career, especially one that would make any sort of money, even as a creative writing professor. In fact, in that post, I concluded he's a dilettante.

A dilettante who's acting as Hunter's lead attorney, with no background in constitutional or white collar criminal law. But let's look at his most recent move, in the Breitbart link above, hiring former one-term Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who also advised the House January 6 committee on "technical matters", to work with Hunter’s legal team on reducing "technical digital exposure" facing the Biden family. According to Wikipedia,

Denver Lee Riggleman III (born March 17, 1970) is an American businessman and former politician from Virginia who served one term as the United States representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district. A former Air Force officer and National Security Agency contractor, Riggleman opened a craft distillery in Virginia in 2014.

. . . In the 2018 elections, Riggleman was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives election for Virginia's 5th congressional district. . . . [In 2020] The Rappahannock County Republican Party criticized Riggleman after he officiated a same-sex wedding between two of his friends, and in September he was censured by party officials who claimed that he had "abandoned party principles" over fiscal and immigration policy.

. . . The local party leaders of the 5th Congressional District Republican Committee chose to determine the 2020 nominee for the fifth district by a convention instead of a primary election.

In doing so, they declined to nominate him for reelection in the 2020 election, and this ended his political career. Although he was no longer in Congress at the time of the January 6, 2021 events, he claims to have worked with the January 6 House committee, although his actual contributions are unclear, and the main effect of the committee's work has been to end the careers of the Republicans who actually served on it. Kevin Morris's connection with Denver Riggleman appears to stem from Morris's connection with the January 6 committee Republicans. According to the New York Post link,

Last year, Morris gave $50,000 to Americans Keeping Country First, a super PAC set up to pay for the defense of Republican members of Congress who voted to impeach or convict President Donald Trump following last year’s Capitol riots, according to the Federal Election Commission. Ten House Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep Adam Kinzinger, were part of that group, and 222 Democrats voted to impeach Trump. Morris gave $2,900 to Kinzinger’s re-election campaign last year [2021] before the congressman announced he was retiring last fall.

Riggleman alienated his Republican base even before the 2020 election and didn't last long enough even to join the likes of Reps Cheney and Kinzinger. The Wikipedia entry indicates that Riggleman has a fascination with Bigfoot, and he has written extensively on QAnon as a conspiracy that destroys families, divides communities, and undermines democracy by spreading a directed stream of algorithmically and group targeted data, or something like that.

In ahort, Denver Riggleman is a flake and a quack, and it sounds like he has Kevin Morris's ear. Although Riggleman isn't an attorney, Morris has added Riggleman to Hunter's legal team. Just as a non-attorney outside observer, I've got to question the legal advice Kevin Morris is giving Hunter. Another quote from the New York Post link says,

Morris is a highly successful lawyer and a self-made businessman, who rose from humble origins in Pennsylvania to launch his own firm, raking in hundreds of millions for his first clients, the creators of “South Park.” Now he’s thrown in his lot with the disgraced, drug-addled son of a president, filming his own documentary about Biden.

“The whole thing is so bizarre,” one Hollywood insider told The Post. “What is a guy like that doing with Hunter Biden?”

Well, for starters, I doubt the "highly successful lawyer" part. I'm convinced he's made his way as Mr Gaby Morgerman, not as Kevin Morris; he's lost interest in his own legal field; his literary career isn't doing well even with his wife to push it along -- but if he's one thing, he's a dilettante, so he's taken up Hunter Biden.

Do they do coke together? I don't think this bodes well for Hunter's future. Kevin Morris is not a serious guy. I even wonder if Abbe Lowell will last much longer as a Hunter lawyer at this rate.