New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ – Latest News
New chat logs launched by the House Judiciary Committee this week show the extraordinary lengths the FBI went to behind the scenes to close down any dialogue of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer in October 2020 after The New York Post broke the story.
The conversations, withheld by the FBI beneath Director Chris Wray, show that senior management issued an inner “gag order” on the laptop computer.
The FBI had been in possession of the deserted MacE-book Pro for 10 months by that stage, after pc restore store proprietor John Paul Mac Isaac handed it over and warned of the potential crimes and national security considerations he had discovered.
The FBI’s forensic analysts rapidly decided the laptop computer belonged to Hunter, had not been tampered with or altered in any method, and was appropriate for use in court docket.
Sure enough, 4 years later, proof on the laptop computer was cited in tax fraud costs to which Joe Biden’s son pleaded guilty, and the system was exhibited to the Delaware jury that discovered Hunter guilty of gun felonies.
Say ‘no comment’
Yet the chat logs show that senior FBI officers instructed brokers to say “no comment” when requested in regards to the laptop computer during common conferences with social media firms earlier than the 2020 election.
The FBI had spent weeks warning Facebook and Twitter about election interference within the type of Russian disinformation and had informed Twitter to be on guard for a “hack and leak” operation “likely” involving Hunter Biden.
In different phrases, the FBI “prebunked” The Post’s story in order that the social media firms instantly censored it.
The FBI knew The Post had obtained a hard-drive copy of the laptop computer from Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani as a result of it had a covert surveillance warrant on the previous mayor’s iCloud.
On Oct. 14, 2020, the morning the story was printed, an FBI analyst confirmed to Twitter that the laptop computer was actual however his bosses then “admonished” him and lamented in a single message that “he won’t shut up.”
Another message reveals that an FBI legal professional slapped a “gag order” on any dialogue of the laptop computer.
“Please do not discuss Biden matter,” the lawyer tells one FBI worker whose title is redacted.
The legal professional from the FBI’s Office of Counsel is believed to have labored beneath former FBI basic counsel James Baker, who was conveniently parachuted into Twitter (now X) six months earlier than the election.
According to the Twitter information, Baker performed a essential function in censoring The Post.
FBI Agent Elvis Chan at one level within the chat requested a colleague: “Actually, what kind of case is the laptop thing? Corruption? Campaign financing?”
The response is: “CLOSE HOLD.”
“Oh crap,” says Chan.
“OK. It ends here.”
“Need to talk,” replies the legal professional.
“[REDACTED] messed up. We cannot comment.”
Laura Dehmlow, head of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, messages her boss, Section Chief Bradley Benavides, that day: “You guys are tracking the coverage of the laptop right?”
“Indeed,” he replies.
“I would love to know if a copy exists, and was it provided to anyone.”
(Benavides was concerned in an earlier FBI effort to intervene with a Senate investigation into Hunter Biden’s abroad business dealings. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson say Benavides and one other agent ambushed them with a “bogus” defensive briefing in August 2020, on the behest of congressional Democrats. The reality they have been briefed was instantly leaked to The Washington Post, hampering their investigation.)
‘Not fully aware’
In the chat log, James Dennehy, boss of the Intelligence and Surveillance Division of the FBI’s New York Field Office, messaged Dehmlow, “I do know [redacted] briefed you this morning on our NY Post matter. I intend on briefing [redacted] after this election security [secure video teleconference] which is ongoing now.
“I’m doing so because Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office William] Sweeney called John Brown [assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division] this morning and got the impression he was not fully aware of this matter.”
The deliberate silence of FBI senior managers allowed the false narrative to take maintain that the laptop computer was Russian disinformation, and helped presidential candidate Joe Biden skate free of proof in his son’s laptop computer that Joe had lied during the marketing campaign when he repeatedly insisted he knew nothing about Hunter’s abroad business dealings.
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That lie over time of his presidency advanced into “was not involved” in Hunter’s business offers after which “did not profit.”
The FBI coverup was not the one undeserved reward the addled and corrupt former VP obtained to help him to win the presidency from Trump, and even run for a second time period at 81.
The identical Washington press corps that ignored the laptop computer additionally turned a blind eye to Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive deficiencies, benignly accepted his uncommon unavailability, and actively helped the White House cover his decline.
They stated nothing when this newspaper was frozen out and accused of peddling “cheap fakes” for in truth reporting on Joe Biden’s state for 4 years.
Now the White House press is laughably giving itself awards for its “aggressive reporting” on Joe Biden’s descent into senility.
Reporters who confirmed zero curiosity in regards to the state of the president’s mind now are cashing in by writing tell-all books on the scandal.
One of the upcoming books, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” recounts a donors’ reception hosted by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in June 2024, when Biden needed florescent tape caught to the carpet to show him the place to stroll. Joe additionally spoke “haltingly” and needed a teleprompter for what have been speculated to be unscripted remarks.
Hiding indicators of ageing
The e-book reveals that the White House took “extensive steps to cover up the signs of Biden’s aging and contingency planning if Biden chose to step aside or even died in office,” The Hill reported.
At the G7 summit in Italy earlier than his disastrous debate efficiency, a make-up artist was employed to “cover up the physical signs of Biden’s aging . . . Biden consistently made these makeup appointments, but he sometimes canceled the briefings that were to follow.”
In one other e-book, “Uncharted,” Ron Klain, a longtime Biden aide, is reported saying that Biden was “out of it” during debate prep and appeared to suppose he was president of NATO.
A number of weeks later, Klain lied to CNN: “The idea that somehow people weren’t transparent about the state of his health and the state of his acuity I think is belied by the fact that the president does events all the time.”
Loads of people lied about Biden — though by no means fairly as a lot as Biden lied about himself.
Now the media fake it didn’t actually matter, that it’s simply a quirk of historical past to be gossiped about.
But you solely must learn the newest leaked accounts of how close we have been to nuclear Armageddon within the Ukraine battle to see how harmful the coverup was.
A demented commander in chief flirting with World War III was a story that needed to be informed, however as an alternative, leftist propaganda media pretended that “honest Joe” was “sharp as a tack,” and would by no means pardon Hunter.
