FBI architect, founder, and four-decade dictator J. Edgar Hoover once lamented that “the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.” Leave it to Hunter Biden to prove the cross-dressing G-Man wrong. When it comes to the First Family’s lucrative political empire, anything is possible — which may explain why current FBI Director Christopher Wray appears to be smothering his boss’s secrets before they can give birth to a monster scandal.

For the past month, the Federal Bureau of Insolence has stonewalled Kentucky Republican James Comer’s investigation into allegations that former President Barack Obama’s right hand man held out his upturned palm to shady foreign interests. Comer believes that top FBI brass are concealing a one-page, FBI “informant file” that could unravel Biden, Inc. An undisclosed whistleblower claims to have once clapped eyes on an, as yet unverified, recorded testimony to the bureau accusing the Biden patriarch of accepting $5 million, while vice president, in return for an unspecified political favor. The same organization that shamelessly flogged the spy fantasy novel, the “Steele Dossier,” written by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign hatchet man, Christopher Steele, has suddenly developed a raging case of the scruples. Where, once, no rumor was too implausible to publicly smear former President Donald Trump, the deep state must now be fastidious guardians of the truth to make sure it never escapes.