Posted on 04/04/2022 6:55:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Spy agency wanted to know if "there's compromising information on that hard drive," Tony Shaffer says.
A retired intelligence officer says a U.S. spy agency asked for his help in fall 2020 to try to acquire a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop contents ahead of the presidential election.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer's account to Just the News was confirmed by three other people who were approached by Shaffer or the agency or were involved in the approach.
They said the agency's interest was to analyze the hard drive contents for any evidence or patterns of how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans or their families.
Shaffer provided details about the approach during an appearance Friday on the Just the News television show on Real America's Voice.
"A three-letter agency came to me and said, 'Hey, we've heard that you have access to a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive. Could we get a copy?'" Shaffer said during the interview. "And I said, like, 'Do you know what's on there? I mean, we're talking about everything from child porn, to, you know, all these these issues regarding the president.'
"And they said, 'We don't care. ... We want to either confirm or refute it. We want to act factual. We don't have a political dog in the fight. What our concern is, is that if there's compromising information on that hard drive, this is before the election, the president could be compromised to the level of owing either China or or Ukraine something. And this is what this three letter agency was concerned about."
A U.S. official directly familiar with the effort confirmed the request to Just the News, saying the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised, and whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans.
The agency abandoned the request when it became apparent there were multiple versions of the hard drive floating around and could not ascertain chain of custody, the official said.
A lawyer for the family of John Paul Mac Issac, the Delaware computer repairman who turned the laptop over to the FBI in late 2019 after Hunter Biden abandoned it at his shop, also confirmed an October 2020 approach from Shaffer. A third party who was approached by Shaffer also confirmed an effort in fall 2020 to get a copy of the laptop for intelligence purposes.
All three declined to identify the spy agency involved. Shaffer, however, has long ties to the Defense Intelligence Agency, which he alleged ran a secret program called Able Danger that had identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta in advance of the attacks.
An intelligence community review confirmed the existence of the Able Danger program targeting transnational terrorists but found no evidence that Atta had been identified prior to the suicide hijackings.
Shaffer said he was still working to get a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop in late October 2020 when he was asked to stand down by an official from the spy agency.
"They were in meetings with me when we were trying to negotiate getting a copy of the hard drive," he said. "And in the end, their leadership said, 'Stop, don't touch it. We don't want to know.'"
Shaffer also laced into a group of 51 national security experts who published a letter before the 2020 election suggesting the laptop had the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign, something that has since been dispelled.
Shaffer said the experts, who included former Director of National Intelligence Jams Clapper and former CIA officials, admitted in the letter that they had no intelligence whatsoever to back up their claims.
"It was a hit piece based on those individuals siding with a political cause and party over their oath of office," he said.
Shaffer said national security experts normally stay out of presidential politics, and he believes the signatories should be barred from ever holding a national security job inside government again. "I do support legislation saying these guys should never hold any official office again," he said.
If they were sincere, most likely the NSA or DIA who had a concern. The CIA seems to be ones ignoring it.
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Try to imagine if instead of Sessions, Trump had selected 9/11 hero Giuliani as his Attorney General. It is agonizing to know that Barr had the laptop, was aware of its contents nine months prior to the election. He knowingly allowed a demented, corrupt, second rate politician who was so vile as to use his own addicted, diseased son to be his bagman to become President of the United States. He also refused to investigate the obvious fraud in the election. Barr should be held accountable. All the lunacy and suffering not just in America but the world followed this perfidy.
China or Ukraine? I think this is very true. Happening at this moment. Americans have been screwed by this false fraud Joe Biden and his fraud admin.
I think the laptop has become a red herring. So what?
It is still not adequate evidence for a conviction. Between plausible deniability and all the real hard evidence beyond the reach of American courts, Biden skates.
And guess what? They are compromised. The result?
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Hunter had been doing this and losing devices since at least 2013.
He also spoke with significant people in Foreign countries guaranteeing his Comms were monitored.
He moved his money in a pattern of a money launderer also attracting attention.
Joe’s brother James was the bag man before Hunter.
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Correction.
It was widely published that the FBI had been given the laptop, but these alleged spooks approached a Retired Lt Colonel instead. Uh huh. Either the FBI had shut out the IC from a legitimate line of inquiry to protect the Bidens; the Lt. Colonel was really the target; or, the whole story is apocryphal.
The Biden crime syndicate must be stopped. Imagine the bucks that Jo Jo and the “doc” must be hauling in with all of the crap Jo Jo is signing every day.
“The agency abandoned the request when it became apparent there were multiple versions of the hard drive floating around and could not ascertain chain of custody”
Right wing conspiracy emerging ?
“Biden calls to put Putin on trial for war crimes over Russia’s actions in Ukraine!”
It will be very interesting re how Putin responds to this in public and in private to Brandon’s enemies in America and around the world.
Hunter’s laptop and its contents will be or is now the first action by Putin and his FSS which replaced the FSB which replaced the KGB.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB RF); (Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ РФ)), tr. Federal’naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnəjə ˈsluʐbə bʲɪzɐˈpasnəstʲɪ rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨɪ]) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union’s KGB.
Its primary responsibilities are within the country and include counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of serious crimes and federal law violations. It is headquartered in Lubyanka Square, Moscow’s center, in the main building of the former KGB. According to the 1995 Federal Law “On the Federal Security Service”,
The director of the FSB is appointed by and directly answerable to the president of Russia.[1]
The immediate predecessor of the FSB was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) of Russia, itself a successor to the KGB: on 3 April 1995, Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a law mandating a reorganization of the FSK, which resulted in the creation of the FSB. In 2003, the FSB’s responsibilities were widened by incorporating the previously independent Border Guard Service and a major part of the abolished Federal Agency of Government Communication and Information (FAPSI).
The three major structural successor components of the former KGB that remain administratively independent of the FSB are the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Protective Service (FSO), and the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation (GUSP).*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service
It may be time for Brandon, Hunter, Jill and the other Biddung criminal family members to run and hide where they can buy sanctuary!
The idea that nobody knew nuffin about Hunter’s activities prior to the laptop exposure is absurd.
And, in that regard, there wasn't any interest in keeping Biden from being compromised to the point of being vulnerable to foreign interests. He was already in it up to his stinking neck, decades before. The interest was in SUPPRESSION and ELECTION TAMPERING.
I wouldn't give any three letter agency the time of day unless I was forced to by court order and hooked up to a lie detector.
They wanted to find it to wipe it clean.
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