The FBI whistleblowers and the Hunter Biden laptop coverup
I remember, when the Hunter Biden laptop first came out shortly before the 2020 election, that I had a moment of thinking it might become a big scandal – which it deserved to be. But almost immediately the news was suppressed and discredited, and the media cooperated, and I thought of course. I knew they had to protect the Bidens at all costs, and if one cost was their integrity, well then, they really had no integrity left by that time anyway.
I also recall hearing that the FBI had received the laptop from the store’s proprietor much earlier (turns out it was in December of 2019), and had supposedly been investigating it. It didn’t surprise me, either, that not only had the investigation gone absolutely nowhere, but that in this case there were no leaks to the public – and in fact the reports that did get out later about the FBI investigation said it concerned whether the laptop’s contents were Russian disinformation. The reason for all of this seemed the same: the FBI was determined to protect Joe and his family.
Therefore this news is utterly unsurprising:
Several FBI whistleblowers say that the agency’s probe into Hunter Biden was internally sabotaged during the 2020 election in order to derail the investigation, after agents wrongfully deemed verified evidence as “disinformation” to ignore.
According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), agents investigating Hunter “opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” adding that his office received “a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers” regarding the investigation.
It’s a bit late and a dollar short for all this whistleblowing, isn’t it? Not that it would have mattered at the time, because all of social media as well as almost all of the MSM (with the exception of a few outlets on the right such as The NY Post) had resolved to shut the scandal down, too, and they would have also shut down news of the FBI shutdown if it had come to them.
FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened in August 2020 the assessment that was later used by the agency, according to the disclosures. One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite some of the details being known to be true at the time.
A whistleblower also said Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting,” according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” The senator said Thibault “ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required” and that FBI officials “subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” according to the disclosures…
The new information comes after Auten was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, including interviewing Igor Danchenko, the alleged main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier in 2017. Congressional sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Auten is the “Supervisory Intel Agent” from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2019 report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse.
By the way, if you look at the Wiki page for “Hunter Biden laptop controversy” and read the first paragraph of the introductory part – a summary that probably constitutes what many people seeking general information would look at and go no further – you could easily still get the idea that the laptop information is bogus and/or suspect. Here’s some of the copy there [the remarks in brackets are mine]:
The Hunter Biden laptop controversy involves a laptop computer that was allegedly [“allegedly”?] dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, by an unidentified person [the owner has a receipt with the signature “Hunter Biden” that has been authenticated] in April 2019 and never collected. The New York Post published a story stating the allegation three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election, and president Donald Trump seized [“Republicans seize!!” is always the big story] on it in an attempt to engineer [“engineer” indicates something contrived; this was certainly real] an “October surprise”. The laptop was of unclear origin [not in the least; it is “disinformation” to say so, and the disinformation was designed to protect the Bidens] and contained emails obtained by Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and other materials relating to Hunter Biden, some of which were later confirmed as authentic [many have been confirmed as authentic and not one of them has been confirmed as inauthentic]. The discovery of the laptop spurred speculation as to whether it supported what became the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, which falsely [there is no indication the “conspiracy” theory is false, and quite a bit that it is true] alleged that the then vice president Joe Biden acted corruptly in Ukraine to protect his son from a corruption investigation by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin [what’s more, that’s not the only type of corruption alleged about Joe Biden in Ukraine; there are allegations that he was on the take as well, through Hunter’s reimbursement].
Just now I did a search for stories on Grassley and the whistleblowers’ allegations about the FBI quashing the laptop story, and aside from news outlets on the right such as the NY Post, Fox, and the Washington Examiner, so far I could only find one regular liberal/left MSM outlet mentioning it. That is CBS News, and it doesn’t surprise me that the story is by Catherine Herridge, a good reporter who used to be at Fox.
FBI carrying on the grand old tradition of J. Edger, the Epstein of his time going back to pre WWII times. Collecting dirt on all sorts of folks in and out of government and applying pressure or relief when necessary including keeping a young Kennedy from getting caught bonking a Kraut spy and having him sent off to be a Navy officer in the Pacific doing a good favor for his daddy Joe. From what I have read the FBI was always power plays and politics and avoiding bad press and sometimes catching criminals with the DC guys taking credit and passing the mistakes down stream.
Searching The Free Dictionary yielded this: “Wikipedia does not currently have an article on mendacity.” I wonder why.
I learned about this with kimberlin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy
This is where all the skulduggery lies
In more naive days I used to think that if Nixon was a democrat of course they’d go after him. These days I know if Nixon was a democrat the media would have covered up for him, even Woodward and Berstein. Especially Woodward and Bernstein.
Nixon was so small fry he got caught doing 1/100th of what jfk and lbj and clinton and obama would expand upon.
Grassley and the Whistleblowers, feh, is no a good bandname.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
A deluded and depraved electorate has elected a Congress as corrupted as they, a Congress that not only refuses to reform a corrupted government but supports and protects that corruption.
Geoffrey Britain–Preach it, brother!
I’ve been pleasantly surprised that CBS has continued to allow Herridge to report.
Until we have honest elections, you can’t prove these criminals were elected by the people.
“A deluded and depraved electorate has elected a Congress as corrupted as they, a Congress that not only refuses to reform a corrupted government but supports and protects that corruption.”
GB is absolutely correct…thanks to Antonio Gramsci & probably the Enlightenment for putting us on this path.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/26/exclusive-in-private-cassidy-hutchinson-joked-about-riot-called-j6-committee-phony-praised-trump-before-changing-story/
Chases Eagles,
“Until we have honest elections, you can’t prove these criminals were elected by the people.”
Point taken. However, of the 70-80 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020, the number of elected RINOs in Congress, far in the majority… reveals a not inconsiderable degree of delusion even in those who voted for Trump.
So those who are deluded, along with those both deluded and depraved are more than sufficient to enable America’s precipitous decline.
Miguel cervantes,
That report reveals Hutchinson to be a particularly loathsome excuse for a human being.
WaPo reports DOJ investigation targeting former Pres. Trump over Jan6 actions: https://mobile.twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/status/1552068856465719296?cxt=HHwWgICwiduZh4orAAAA
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/wash-post-reports-doj-has-active-criminal-probe-into-president-trump/
“a particularly loathsome excuse for a human being”
Don’t forget blackmail!
The bylines are muellers carriers (dawsey barrett leonnig) so unsurprising
Cornhead; sdferr:
See this.
I wrote about those efforts regarding the electors back when they were happening, in December of 2020. See this. It was all out in the open and it was clear what they were doing and why.
Now, that doesn’t mean the Democrats can’t pretend it was something else and get a grand jury to rubber stamp that. After the Flynn case (and even before that), anything is possible.
Primaries are easer to rig. Multiple often unsophisticated candidates to steal votes from. Then what choice do the voters have? Commie or RINO?
Yep
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/here-comes-a-recount-in-colorado
You’re not going to believe this….
(Well, maybe once upon a time you wouldn’t have…but that was then…and this is….)
Lee Smith:
“The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop;
“How a country’s political corruption, institutional decay, and moral decline can be summed up in one sad family saga”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-national-tragedy-of-hunter-bidens-laptop
Opening grafs:
“The recent release of more gigabytes of images and information from Hunter Biden’s laptop adds to the evidence that the all-out elite effort to bury the scandal before the 2020 election wasn’t just to protect Joe Biden, the preferred candidate of the American oligarchy. Sure, the 50-plus senior U.S. intelligence professionals who signed a letter claiming the laptop’s contents were “Russian disinformation” wanted to stop Donald Trump from sending angry tweets at them, but the laptop suggests there was much more at stake.
“The U.S. spy chiefs who signed that infamously misleading letter—including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and James Clapper—had directed America’s foreign intelligence services while Biden was vice president and before that[,] chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They knew what his son Hunter was doing abroad, because it was their job to know what foreign services know about leading U.S. officials and their families, and how it might affect U.S. national security.
“But none of these powerful and experienced men, presumably dedicated to defending the national interest, lifted a finger to stop Hunter Biden—and really, how could they? He was Joe Biden’s son, after all. And by doing nothing about him, the pillars of America’s intelligence community became the curators of the Biden family’s scandal….” [All emphasis mine; Barry M.]
…IOW, “L’etat, c’est moi…”
…and if I have to destroy the country to PROTECT MYSELF AND MY FAMILY, then that’s an easy choice for me to make…
(That is, this is NOT EVEN A CASE OF “…APRES moi, le deluge…”)
So, out from behind the paywall, a link to the Wapo propaganda effort to bolster the DOJ criminal witchhunt against Trump (it’s at archive): https://archive.ph/m55hI
A quote from the tail-end of the article (bolded emphasis mine):
DOJ resources aren’t infinite.
So we have: DOJ Insiders Say Delaware US Attorney’s Office Too Inadequate To Investigate Biden Family Corruption
( https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/27/doj-insiders-say-delaware-us-attorneys-office-too-inadequate-to-investigate-biden-family-corruption/ )
Related:
“Video Used to Charge Jan. 6 Defendant Exonerates Him on Charge of Assaulting Police, Attorney Says;
“After nearly a year in jail, court motion seeks his release”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-video-used-to-charge-jan-6-defendant-exonerates-him-on-charge-of-assaulting-police-attorney-says_4619418.html
Opening grafs:
“Maybe it was the death threat delivered by a fellow law-enforcement officer while he stood shackled in belly chains.
“Perhaps it was being described as a “terrorist” by a federal judge who will preside over his trial.
“It could have been being released on bail by a U.S. magistrate judge in Tennessee, only to be ordered held until trial by a U.S. district judge in Washington D.C.
“Former sheriff’s deputy Ronald Colton McAbee, 28, of Tennessee, has faced a difficult road since being indicted for alleged criminal actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Arguably the most trying situation for McAbee was being denied bail for nearly a year based on video evidence that his attorney now says exonerates him….”
The Mullahs and their ilk may be shouting “Death to America”.
But “Biden” is actually trying to kill her.
File under: Bast**ds.
Democrat voters love it. They support it. They cheer for it.
Evil people loving evil criminals.
Mentiton Timothy Thibault on Facebook and get a 30 day suspension for terrorist activity under the Let’s Not Talk About Eric Ciaramella Act of 1932.