In one demonstration at Beijing's Tsinghua University earlier this week, students were recorded chanting the slogan "Democracy, rule of law and freedom of speech."

Yet, rather than supporting the brave protesters who are defying the tyranny of their Communist masters, the Biden administration appears reluctant to comment on the turmoil. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan have all avoided commenting on the unrest.

Biden's reticence about commentating on the disturbances in China may be explained by his recent three-hour meeting with Xi at the G20 summit in Indonesia, when the two leaders agreed to de-escalate tensions on contentious issues, such as Taiwan, as well as by a growing body of evidence that he appears to have been seriously politically compromised by lavish deals between "CCP-linked Individuals & Companies" and the Biden family.

Such craven conduct typifies the response of American officialdom to the malign rule of the ayatollahs, which has seen an estimated 500 Iranians killed -- including women and children -- during the regime's brutal repression of anti-government protests, with another 18,000 protesters taken into detention.

The Biden administration's unwillingness, moreover, to lend its support to anti-regime protesters in despotic states such as China and Iran is certainly short-sighted, as it encourages regime officials in the belief that they can act with impunity against their opponents.

How the DOJ's Jack Smith would go about promoting social justice was a question that was answered at least twice in public view, where everyone could see and hear it.

Under Obama, the IRS and the DOJ had illegally targeted conservative nonprofit organizations in order to silence political dissent.... "The Justice Department convened a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner in October 2010 to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits. This meeting was arranged at the direction of Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith," the Committee stated.

Smith had been handpicked to run the DOJ's public integrity section by Lanny Breuer.

The Clinton consigliere, widely disliked, distrusted and hated even by fellow Democrats and lefties over his connections and client list, a man whom no one in D.C. believed had an ounce of integrity, then brought in Jack Smith to do some of his dirty work.

Would Lanny Breuer have picked anyone with integrity to head public integrity?

Public integrity under Obama meant targeting Republicans. It still does under Biden. Much as it did under Clinton. Three corrupt administrations united by their abuses of the DOJ.

To ordinary people, Smith's career, the DOJ, war crimes prosecutor in Yugoslavia and the head of litigation for a hospital chain seem interestingly random. They do have one thing in common.

These were all priority projects of the Clintons.

And the Clintons had been fixated on seizing control of the DOJ and punishing their political enemies.

That is what the DOJ began to do from Hillary's abuse of FBI files to Russiagate.

Washington D.C. may appear small compared to some other major cities, but it's a vast hive of careerists, contractors, consultants, lobbyists and activists all scurrying around the stone and glass buildings, the eateries and shops, whose relationships to each other are as entangled as they are hostile to us. As George Carlin once said, "it's a big club and you ain't in it."

Jack Smith is a lifetime member of the club.

The upper echelons of the administrative state are a network of political alliances by ambitious men and women looking for the next rung to power. They don't work for us. Instead they serve their sponsors and use political connections to navigate the public-private career ladder.