1. That's why this letter was addressed to an FBI national security guy.
2. That's why this "urgent matter of national security" was never a problem at any time since the laptop was left at the computer repair shop in 2019 ... until the GOP House seated their oversight committee to look into entrenched corruption like this.
Recently reporters have been connecting classified info to Hunter’s business deals. I suspect this is what they’re worried about. Seems desperate enough.
An oldie but goodie tactic from the days of Bildo Klintoon when the butcher of Waco, attorney general Janet "Johnny" Reno would swoop into the latest controversy to make it an in-house investigation AKA DOJ black hole from which nothing could escape lest it compromise the "ongoing investigation" which would be ongoing as long as necessary to stonewall Congress. Once interest waned, it was just a matter of time until a late Friday afternoon document dump when no one was around to report its non-conclusion.