Do New York’s Dan Goldman and Maryland’s Jamie Raskin understand what the “Streisand effect” is?

According to the BBC, in 2003, Barbra Streisand sued an aerial photographer who took photographs of her Malibu, California home and uploaded them online. Prior to that point, hardly anyone had viewed those photographs. Prior to the dismissal of her lawsuit, the website containing the photographs was averaging 420,000 monthly views, which was not an insignificant number in the pre-Facebook dial-up internet days.

Granted, Gal Luft already has an audience on the right side of the political aisle because the Israeli-American dual citizen is now turning whistleblower on the Biden family, alleging he met with the FBI in 2019 to discuss corruption allegations involving Hunter and Jim Biden’s ties with Chinese energy firm CEFC. Luft is described by the New York Post as “well connected in intelligence circles in Washington, D.C., where he ran a think tank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, with former CIA Director James Woolsey and former national security adviser Robert McFarlane as advisers.”

Before he was scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee in February, he was detained in Cyprus on an Interpol arrest warrant involving allegations of weapons trafficking. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, characterized him as a “missing” witness after he skipped bail and fled into hiding.

In a 14-minute recording published by the Post last week, he alleged that Hunter Biden was receiving $100,000 per month from CEFC, while his uncle Jim was receiving $65,000, and that Hunter had a mole within the FBI who allowed him to inform CEFC officials that they were under investigation.

This was released on July 5th. Five days later, Luft was charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act by failing to register as an agent for the Chinese communist regime. Reps. Goldman and Raskin wrote a letter to Comer accusing him of amplifying Mr. Luft’s accusations. This was done to emphasize the point that one does not ask questions about the Bidens and their strange business relationships with foreign corporations and powers.

Barbra would be delighted.

“We are concerned that an official committee of the House of Representatives has been manipulated by an apparent con man who, while a fugitive from justice, attempted to fortify his defense by laundering unfounded and potentially false allegations through Congress,” the representatives wrote in the letter.

“We urge you to immediately initiate an investigation into whether the Committee may have been unwittingly duped by Mr. Luft in furtherance of the [Chinese Communist Party’s] interests as well as any potentially false statements made by Mr. Luft,” the letter continued.

“It appears as if Mr. Luft sought ‘whistleblower’ status from you in an effort to defend himself while a fugitive from justice. Worse yet, this latest episode also raises concerns that Mr. Luft may be manipulating your investigation not only for his own self-interest but perhaps also in furtherance of the [Chinese Communist Party’s] efforts to undermine U.S. security interests and the President of the United States.”

In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Goldman went further in trashing Luft’s reputation before he even faces trial in the United States. (It’s worth noting one of the reasons Mr. Luft says he’s in hiding is because he can’t get a fair trial — or will even be able to raise the Biden name at trial, the same way CEFC official Patrick Ho was barred from uttering it at his New York trial despite the fact the first person he tried to call from jail when he was arrested in 2017 was Hunter Biden.

More on this story via The Western Journal:

Goldman said Luft is “certainly not a legitimate whistleblower. And what he is is an alleged con man, as we said in the letter, who brokered a weapons for oil deal between China and Iran multiple times, who was an unregistered agent advancing the interests of the CCP in the United States — and who very importantly, is indicted on making false statements to the FBI including in the very meeting that he provided information about Hunter Biden to the FBI.” CONTINUE READING…