Posted on 10/14/2020 7:14:04 PM PDT by Mariner
A cache of emails and other selected data purportedly from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden were published today by the New York Post. Ordinarily a major leak related to a figure involved in a controversy of Presidential importance would be on every front page but the red flags on this one are so prominent that few editors would consent to its being published as-is.
Almost no news outlets have reported the data or its origin as factual, and Facebook and Twitter have both restricted sharing of the Post articles pending further information. Here's why.
When something of this nature comes up, it pays to investigate the sources very closely: It may very well be, as turned out to be the case before, that foreign intelligence services are directly involved. We know that Russia, among others, is actively attempting to influence the election using online influence campaigns and hackery. Any report of a political data leakage let alone one friendly to Trump and related to Ukraine must be considered within that context, and the data understood to be either purposefully released, purposefully edited, or both.
But even supposing no global influence effort existed, the provenance of this so-called leak would be difficult to swallow. So much so that major news organizations have held off coverage, and Facebook and Twitter have both limited the distribution of the NY Post article.
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Maybe it was in the shop because the keys were all sticky.
Sounds like full damage-control mode has gone into effect.
The people who brought you “unnamed sources” and “people familiar with the thinking.”
To be a leftist is to be devoid of irony.
It was left for a service, which was performed. When payment was not rendered the property was liened and reverted to the service provider.
It is no longer Hunter Biden's laptop, hence it is neither "hacked" nor "leaked"
Don’t forget the Kavanaugh accusers, Roy Moore, Gorsuch, and so on!
Somehow stories like this never allow comments. Hmm...
If you shook his hand, count your fingers afterwards.
I agree with all these posters. But I agree with the author that the story ode laptop smells to high heaven.
Sounds plausible to me. Like the Timing of Weiners laptop - and the hiding of the material on it.
In an age where every "journalist" has a Twitter account, and uses it to attack President Trump and retweet The Resistance.
Well, except pieces of canny Democrat Mitt like @KFILE and Alex.
And this Mittweasel, Devin Coldewey...
Like the provenance of Steele’s Russian sources documentation that didn’t exist?
This writer is full of shit.
I suspected FSB/KGB involvement as soon as Steele said that he met his sources (3) in Moscow. Forget the Source/Subsource crap. It was a Putin operation all the way and Hillary/Podesta/WP/Yahoo/ and the Deep State who swallowed it like ExLax and shit it out to a shit-eating mainstream media who dutifully repeated Russian/Hillary disinformation/propaganda for 3 eyars.
Got a lot of Democrat psychopaths so excited that they had to wear DEPENDS during their hearings.
None of it proved to be true and I suspect that more is coming out on how the Russians conned the Democrats up the wahzoo.
If the computer was some elaborate hoax, why did the FBI seize the computer and after examining it not declare it to be a fake? That the FBI has simply buried the computer and said nothing would indicate they are hiding something.
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