Posted on 08/24/2022 7:09:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
The FBI slow-walked its investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop, including telling some bureau employees not to look at the hard drive belonging to President Joe Biden’s son, according to reported whistleblower disclosures made public by a top Senate Republican.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday about the new whistleblower claims, following disclosures made public last month about the bureau allegedly wrongly labeling Hunter Biden evidence as “disinformation” in 2020.
“Whistleblowers have recently contacted my office to share serious concerns about the FBI’s handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Johnson told Horowitz, telling the watchdog that after the FBI obtained the laptop from a Delaware computer shop in late 2019, local FBI leadership told bureau employees that “you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop” and that the FBI is “not going to change the outcome of the election again,” the whistleblowers said.
Johnson said the new whistleblower claims “allege that the FBI did not begin to examine the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop until after the 2020 presidential election — potentially a year after the FBI obtained the laptop in Dec. 2019.”
Johnson said that the new whistleblower allegations should spur the DOJ inspector general to action.
“It is clear to me based on numerous credible whistleblower disclosures that the FBI cannot be trusted with the handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Johnson told Horowitz this week. “I call on you to immediately investigate the FBI’s handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop and begin by obtaining the history of the investigative actions taken by the FBI on Hunter Biden’s laptop which should be available on the FBI’s case management system, Sentinel."
The latest whistleblower allegations come after more emerged in July that the FBI wrongly labeled verified evidence on Biden as “disinformation."
Agents investigating President Joe Biden's son "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," according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Grassley revealed the claim after his office received "a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers" about the investigation. The Republican claimed one of the communications shows "verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation."
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he found the allegations "deeply troubling” when asked about them in early August.
Joe Biden’s campaign and its allies dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation operation in October 2020. Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, a cyberexpert and former Secret Service agent, conducted a review for the Washington Examiner and concluded "the data contained on the hard drive is authentic.”
Grassley and Johnson have demanded the DOJ and FBI launch a full investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop, including the revelation unearthed by the Washington Examiner that Joe Biden apparently unwittingly financed his son’s participation in an escort ring tied to Russia.
SCRBD PDF AT LINK.............................
Freaking grassley. DOJ and FBI are going to investigate themselves? What a stupid joke.
Accessory After-the-Fact...................😒
‘local FBI leadership told bureau employees that “you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop” and that the FBI is “not going to change the outcome of the election again,”’
Well, if doing your job changes the outcome of an election, then the only way not to change the outcome is to not do your job. I believe that’s called “dereliction of duty” for someone like an FBI agent.
The problem is that even if the GOP gets the majority they have not communicated that they will actively investigate and prosecute these cases. So nothing will change, hardly an inspiring campaign to get out their base.
We really didn’t need a whistleblower to tell us that. The FBI has had the laptop for over 2 years, the last I heard they said they didn’t even know where it was.
By NOT doing anything they changed the outcome of the election............................again.................
I'd settle for defunding the perks given to Agency heads, such as the jet that Chris Wray flies around on.
and that the FBI is “not going to change the outcome of the election again,” the whistleblowers said.
Didn’t the FBI just go to a Trump hating judge, that already had to recuse himself from Trump stuff, to get a “general” search warrant for records that were electronically available to the government already? Those records demonstrated criminal activity and misuse by the fbi, in operation Crossfire Hurricane?
Isn’t that illegal search and seizure stuff to alter an election?
They could care less about election fairness.
Yes ...we can't have the FBI & DOJ looking into the Biden families FELONYS!!
They’re hoping to run out the clock
They’re hoping to run out the clock
The FBI’s corrupt - they work for the Democrat Party - that’s disgusting.
Since they've already planned the upcoming election steal in AZ, GA, MI, MN, PA, NV and WI for 2020...
Three years later. Good job whistleblower.
Snowden had balls. These are rats looking for escape hatches and chances to advance, ahead of the red wave.
Did we really need a whistleblower to tell us this? Really?
They need to shut down the entire Counter Espionage Unit at the KGB. All they do is spt on republicans, frame Trump, hide democrat crimes, and leak disinformation to the media. And that’s just on Monday.
No oversight.
No accountability.
KGB SWAT ready to go on anyone they don’t like.
“Let’s go break down some doors in the middle of the night!!!”
Yup. KGB.
We MUST make sure Ron Johnson gets reelected!!!! It’s going to be a very tough battle. All the pro-FIB forces will be trying to take him out.
He’s one of the few good ones!!!
“We can see for ourselves that the Hunter laptop is full of evidence of criminal activity, that they have had it for two years and done nothing with it.”
Not just that. There’s a couple vids Hunter recorded himself. With an under age relative. She’s using her feet on his...member...
For real. Naked.
Child porn.
For real.
Illegal as hell, and it’s on the Hunter laptop.
And incest.
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