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FBI Buried Hunter Biden Laptop
https://www.theepochtimes.com ^ | Lee Smith November 24, 2020 Updated: November 24, 2020

Posted on 11/24/2020 8:12:08 AM PST by Red Badger

News reports last month claimed that in late 2019 the FBI had opened an investigation of matters related to information found on a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden. Would the bureau continue its probe under a Biden administration? Doubtful. In fact, it’s unlikely there was ever any investigation at all.

In July 2019, after Hunter Biden failed to reclaim his laptop from a computer repair shop in Delaware, the shop owner and his father grew concerned about information they found on the device and reached out to the FBI’s Albuquerque field office. They were turned away. In mid-October the bureau contacted the shop owner and two months later, an Assistant U.S. Attorney from Delaware issued a grand jury subpoena to retrieve it.

Last month, word circulated through Washington that FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich told Trump administration officials about its Hunter Biden investigation. Anonymous Department of Justice officials confirmed its existence to reporters. As further evidence of a serious probe, conservative media pointed to the fact that former Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski was interviewed in late October by six FBI agents.

So doesn’t all that mean it’s a real investigation? It’s worth remembering that in June, 15 FBI agents were sent to Alabama to investigate whether a knot tied like a noose in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage was evidence of a race crime. It wasn’t. One agent with a smartphone would have quickly discerned the truth—that the knot had been there for more than a year—but because race is a third rail in American politics and culture, the FBI was determined to prove they were on the job. The investigation was performative, designed to show that the FBI was taking the matter seriously, even though it wasn’t.

The FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server was also performative. There was never any chance the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate was going to be charged with mishandling classified information—not least because scores of other Obama officials, including the president himself, had communicated with her on what they knew was an unsecure server.

During his three-year tenure, FBI Director Christopher Wray has allegedly made a habit of covering up for Obama administration officials. He kept documents from Rep. Devin Nunes’s (R-Calif.) probe of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Wray also allegedly withheld records from Michael Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell that showed how Obama’s bureau had framed her client, including the notes of an FBI agent documenting Joe Biden’s involvement. It’s improbable that Wray would greenlight an investigation of the former vice president’s son.

The Hunter Biden case appears to fall into the performative category. After the New York Post published damning excerpts from correspondence found on the laptop, the bureau needed to show it was in hot pursuit. But it wasn’t. Otherwise, the FBI would have interviewed Bobulinski, whose name is on correspondence found on the laptop, long before last month’s kabuki show.

So, if there was no real investigation, why did the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware, a state dominated by Joe Biden for nearly half a century, issue a grand jury subpoena for the laptop? As grand jury material, it could be kept under wraps.

The FBI and other agencies have known about Hunter Biden’s relationships with allegedly corrupt foreign entities for quite some time. In 2015, State Department officials warned then Vice President Biden about Hunter taking a seat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, which was under various corruption investigations. Nonetheless, Hunter continued to draw a monthly salary of more than $50,000 from a company whose owner was on Ukraine’s most-wanted list. In January 2016, Obama officials, including a Biden aide, reportedly met with Ukrainian prosecutors and told them to drop their Burisma investigation and allow the FBI to take it over.

If the FBI had really been investigating the Burisma case, Trump wouldn’t have had to ask the Ukrainian president for help investigating potential Biden family corruption in Ukraine because the bureau would have found it. But because the FBI wasn’t investigating the risk to U.S. national security that Hunter Biden’s work for an allegedly corrupt foreign enterprise entailed, House Democrats impeached the president to protect the Bidens. What was the FBI doing instead of its job? When the impeachment process began, the bureau came back around and asked the Delaware computer repair shop owner about the Biden laptop, and when the House was formulating articles of impeachment, it hid the device.

It’s not hard to see why so many want to believe the FBI is really investigating Hunter Biden. It would come as evidence that after the scandals of the last four years in which the FBI played a lead role, U.S. law enforcement authorities are once again enforcing our laws without prejudice or favor.

Instead, the evidence shows that the FBI is one of many institutions that no longer belong to the American public. Rather, its job is to protect and advance the privileges and interests of an increasingly powerful class of elites who draw their wealth and prestige from their relationships with corrupt foreign entities. And that’s why it appears the FBI didn’t investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, but buried it.

Lee Smith is the author of the recently published book, “The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President.”

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.


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1 posted on 11/24/2020 8:12:08 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Any day now.


2 posted on 11/24/2020 8:12:26 AM PST by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: Red Badger

How can you guys OVER THERE support Wray?


3 posted on 11/24/2020 8:13:34 AM PST by JonPreston ( )
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To: Red Badger

Democrat privilege. That’s why the swamp is bottomless. Dems are above the law.


4 posted on 11/24/2020 8:15:41 AM PST by FES0844
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To: Red Badger

bttt


5 posted on 11/24/2020 8:16:28 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave to a Socialist new America.)
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To: Red Badger

The FBI is a useless corrupt political tool.

As for Hannity with his 99%, I call BS.


6 posted on 11/24/2020 8:17:39 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Red Badger

The FBI just has a few bad apples. Ask Sean.


7 posted on 11/24/2020 8:18:38 AM PST by windsorknot (Man Without a Country)
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To: Red Badger

In case Trump has a new book in the works, I sure want to pre-order it.


8 posted on 11/24/2020 8:21:28 AM PST by ryderann
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To: FES0844

Democrat privilege. That’s why the swamp is bottomless. Dems are above the law.

Democrat politicians are by definition CRIMINALS that belong to a DNC Criminal Enterprise and those that vote for them are abetting criminality.


9 posted on 11/24/2020 8:24:55 AM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: JonPreston
"How can you guys OVER THERE support Wray?"

Because the Democrats had 16 years (Clinton & Obama
Obama administrations) to replace middle and upper
management at the FBI as well as being in control of
the vetting and hiring of new FBI agents for their
"correct" political views (leftist/liberalism).

The in-between years of the Bush Administration did
nothing to correct the situation.

10 posted on 11/24/2020 8:25:21 AM PST by StormEye
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To: Red Badger

Corrupt foreign entities owns many people in D.C.

No word from media members.


11 posted on 11/24/2020 8:28:24 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Red Badger

Gosh

Remember how professional and serious those agents were on the FBI tv show?

You knew those guys were looking out for the American people.

I guess now it’s just a bunch of people sitting around an office talking about overtime and their retirements.


12 posted on 11/24/2020 8:30:20 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: JonPreston

The FBI is and has been a deceitful organization. From Ruby Ridge, Georgia bombing, WACO and many more I am sure. I find that when they get involved what ever the situation was they screwed it up. Either on purpose or by design.

When I heard they had control of the laptop I then it was over. Just abetting criminality as usual.


13 posted on 11/24/2020 8:30:44 AM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: brownsfan

Hannity is an idiot.

99% of the FBI is corrupt.


14 posted on 11/24/2020 8:32:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Red Badger
- Alphabet agencies need to be disbanded now.
- Rehire the good (constitutional) agents after full vetting (no cronyism).
- Prosecute and punish the ones guilty of or supporting the treasonous actions of the heads of these agencies.

Otherwise we are become the Nazis...

15 posted on 11/24/2020 8:33:33 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase (Oh boy!)
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To: Red Badger
- Alphabet agencies need to be disbanded now.
- Rehire the good (constitutional) agents after full vetting (no cronyism).
- Prosecute and punish the ones guilty of or supporting the treasonous actions of the heads of these agencies.

Otherwise we are become the Nazis...

16 posted on 11/24/2020 8:33:33 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase (Oh boy!)
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To: Red Badger
The folks who should be really mad at this are the Bernie Bros...this is the second time the FBI suppressed a criminal investigation involving the number one opponent of Sanders in the primaries.
17 posted on 11/24/2020 8:33:37 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: blueunicorn6

They just built last year a new FBI office here that serves Eglin AFB and the surrounding areas.

They don’t even have a sign out front or on the building...................


18 posted on 11/24/2020 8:38:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Vaduz

THEY are owned as well.................


19 posted on 11/24/2020 8:40:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Red Badger

The FBI will hang onto the laptop as a bargaining chip. Nothing need be said. They’ll get a nice fat budget, no questions asked, with no responsibilities. Favors and influence peddling are the coin of the realm with the elites.


20 posted on 11/24/2020 8:46:12 AM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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