Abuse of Power by the Biden DOJ?

 J. Christian Anderson:

In the Washington D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Va., carjackings have made the news lately. Thieves steal cars at Virginia gas stations and race across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac and into Maryland to relative safety.

The Department of Justice doesn’t seem to be doing anything about enforcing the federal laws prohibiting transport of stolen goods across the Virginia-Maryland state line.

If the carjacker was named James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, things would be very different.

The saga of James O’Keefe’s quite possibly completely legal acquisition of Ashley Biden’s diary, and the resulting DOJ secret seizure of his emails from the Microsoft Office 365 cloud, is disgraceful. The lawyers involved should be ashamed, and perhaps even sanctioned by the bars to which they belong. It is an example of a Justice Department even more politicized than it was under Eric Holder, something few thought possible.

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Through twists and turns, all initiated by the new tenant in Ashley Biden’s old room, the diary came to O’Keefe. Project Veritas paid $40,000 for the diary but ultimately decided not to publish it. An employee of Veritas eventually flew from New York to Florida and dropped it off at a police station.

That would have been the end of it, had it been the New York Times or CNN instead of Project Veritas or James O’Keefe.

The reason the diary is in the news still is that Democrats and lawyers at the Justice Department want to disappear O’Keefe.

Why? O’Keefe has done more damage to the left and the Democrat agenda than most all House Republicans combined over the last decade. He has wrecked ACORN, exposed gangsterism in Democrat campaigns and among union activists, and shown media like NPR and CNN to be handmaidens of crazy.

And so, that wasn’t the end of the story of the President’s daughter’s diary, because the person who had it was named James O’Keefe.

We now know that the Department of Justice secretly seized O’Keefe’s emails from the Microsoft Office 365 cloud.

The secret seizure also included emails having nothing to do with Biden’s daughter, and therefore revealed to the government the scores of other investigations Project Veritas is undertaking.

The confiscation included all contact information from O’Keefe’s Microsoft Office 365 cloud account — including most likely this author’s — as well as all of the affected employees. It also included emails and files from the Microsoft Office 365 account predating the saga with the Biden diary.

All in secret.

The purported federal predicate is the interstate transport of stolen goods — Ashley Biden’s diary.

What we have here is the weight of the federal government coming down on a political opponent of the ruling party who touched on a matter of potential family embarrassment for the President.

Had you told an American two decades ago such a thing would be possible, they would have scoffed.

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The FBI gives the impression that it has gone rogue in the service of a Biden cover-up.  Their actions suggest that the Biden family has something important to hide.  It looks like we need an independent investigation of the DOJ and FBI.