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.
FBI = enemy domestic
“As for Hannity with his 99%, I call BS.”
He got the 99% right, but not the way he thought that it applied.
Before Trump’s vote was stolen, Bernie’s were. Twice.
The FBI has changed their motto to,
Evidence, FINE BURY IT.
The FBI was corrupted from the get-go by J. Edgar. They concentrated on politically powerless bank robbers and gas station holdup crimes. Higher ups were protected for political support. “I’d rather having him in the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.” — Lyndon Johnson.
Everyone needs to understand the FBI, CIA, ATF, DOJ are completely and totally corrupt, as in no saving them,
Remember Wieners laptop?
The FIB is corrupt and not to be trusted, ever, ever, ever. Do not talk to them without a subpoena, lawyer, and your own recording equipment. Do not cooperate.
They had a chance to right the ship over the last 4 years. They’ve been measured, and found wanting.
We’re on our own.
The conclusion is important enough to repeat: “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.” If that doesn’t shame the FBI into cleaning up their act, one way or another they are doomed. Or we are.
The FBI has become the Stasi.................
Deep State has been identified.
Will they make it?
Trump should publicly dump the whole thing including the photos and let the public see it.
I keep hearing that the vast majority of the agents at the FBI are decent, hardworking, trustworthy Americans. To that I say bullshit! They would have exposed mr Comey and mr Wray a long time ago if they were honorable law enforcement officers!
True...............
Truth.
A very good friend of mine was in the Secret Service for many years. All you have to do to spin him up into an epic rant is to just mention the FBI. The FBI is the premier American criminal organization.
This hasn't been a free country since the 1920s. It's just taken this long for many people to wake up to that fact.
It took a Trump presidency to lure the corrupt individuals into the open.
There is now NO doubt whatsoever that the FBI, CIA, IRS, DOJ, State Dept are as corrupt as the day is long.
Now we know..for certain..no doubt, social media and the mainstream media in this country are nothing more than propaganda machines for the leftist/globalist government.
It’s all out in the open now. The deep state is no longer this super secret tinfoil hat talk...it is indeed real. Folks that come to D.C. better learn the rules of the game if they want to play in their sandbox...or else, they’ll get Trumped.
Disband them all, start anew
Once you can get away with blowing away mothers holding their kid on a cabin stoop, or burning children alive, you can pretty much get away with anything.
The only thing that Hunter Biden ever had to sell was his name.....and Joe took a 10% of the graft.
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