[ April 16, 2024 ]
There is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. This election coup is a vast left-wing conspiracy fact. The entire intelligence community made sure Joe Biden was installed. They decided the 2020 election.
8 Ways Government Shielded Joe Biden From The ‘Laptop From Hell’
By: Margot Cleveland, The Federalist, April 28, 2023
While team Biden lying about ‘Russian disinfo’ is dirty politics, government’s assistance in burying the scandal is election interference.
Story continues below advertisementBiden and his backers lied to Americans that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation.” While that might merely qualify as dirty politics, our government’s assistance in burying the scandal constituted election interference.
Though we don’t yet know the extent of government involvement in the info ops, the evidence already indicates eight potential actions taken to protect Biden from what former President Donald Trump and others have since called the “laptop from hell” and hand him the White House.
1. Feds Seized Laptop, Shushed Mac Isaac
Americans might never have known of the extensive evidence of the Biden-family pay-to-play scandal contained on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop if John Paul Mac Isaac hadn’t copied the hard drive before handing it over to the FBI. Likewise, had Mac Isaac, who owned the Delaware repair shop where Hunter Biden had abandoned the computer, cowered to the alleged threat made by an FBI agent, the scandal would have been buried too.
According to Mac Isaac, in December 2019, two federal agents arrived at his Wilmington store to retrieve the laptop, following the issuance of a subpoena. Attempting to lighten the situation, Mac Isaac claims he quipped, “Hey, lads, I’ll remember to change your names when I write the book.”
Mac Isaac maintains that while one agent, Wilson, continued to walk toward the door, “Agent DeMeo paused and turned to face me.” Mac Isaac alleges the agent replied: “It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things.”
In his later-penned book, “American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth,” the computer repair store owner wrote that the incident left him wondering if he was “being paranoid or had what the agent just told me been a direct threat, or at best a thinly veiled one?”
The FBI’s seizure of the laptop represents the government’s first effort to quiet the Biden family pay-to-play scandal, with the alleged threat to Mac Isaac another early attempt by a government official to protect Joe Biden.
2. FBI Made Laptop Off Limits
Of course, had the FBI seized the laptop for investigative purposes, that would have been a different matter, but the evidence suggests that was not the reason agents removed the computer.
Consider the timing: The FBI was alerted to the existence of the laptop in October 2019, when they were reportedly told that, in addition to pornography, the computer contained information “dealing with foreign interests, a pay-for-play scheme linked to the former administration, [and] lots of foreign money.” The FBI, however, waited two months before obtaining a subpoena for the laptop.
Then, upon seizing the laptop, according to multiple whistleblowers, the “local FBI leadership told employees, ‘You will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop.’” The whistleblowers further alleged 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 December 2019.”
These facts strongly suggest the FBI seized the laptop to protect then-candidate Joe Biden by keeping the contents secret.
3. FBI Presumably Gave Inaccurate Briefing
If, as the whistleblowers claim, the FBI did not review the laptop until after the 2020 presidential election, the government’s pre-election defensive briefings for Biden would have been inaccurate. It is even possible intelligence agencies falsely told Biden the laptop — or possibly the Post’s reporting on it — was Russian disinformation.
The FBI’s alleged failure to review the laptop until after the election would also have prevented the government from advising Biden about the video of Hunter telling a prostitute in 2018 that he believed a group of Russians had stolen another laptop from him. By failing to give Biden complete and accurate defensive briefings, the government gave the campaign “plausible deniability.” The FBI also eliminated the need for Biden to get ahead of the story by “coming clean” on any of the laptop’s scandalous details — something a politician not assisted by the government would do.
4. Government Sources Lied to Media
While the government’s first three assists to the Biden campaign occurred behind the scenes and were more subtle, FBI officials evidently intervened publicly after the New York Post broke its first story on Oct. 14, 2020.
First came the Oct. 15, 2020, “leak” to Russia-collusion hoaxer Ken Dilanian, who ran an “exclusive” at NBC, reporting that “federal investigators are examining whether emails allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and found on a laptop at a Delaware repair shop are linked to a foreign intelligence operation.” The next day, USA Today similarly reported the FBI’s supposed involvement in investigating whether a Russian influence operation was behind the disclosure of the Hunter Biden emails. On Oct. 17, 2020, USA Today reiterated that the “federal authorities” are investigating whether the laptop is “disinformation pushed by Russia.”
Leaking to help a political campaign is bad enough, but worse is that while unnamed government sources told select outlets the FBI was investigating the laptop as a potential “disinformation campaign,” the FBI was doing no such thing. It already knew the laptop was real and not hacked.
5. Other Leaks Pushed ‘Russia Disinfo’ Narrative
The government also helped the Biden campaign build the false Russian-disinformation narrative with other leaks. On Oct. 14, 2020 — the same day as the New York Post’s first Hunter Biden laptop story — the New York Times reported U.S. intelligence analysts “had picked up Russian chatter that stolen Burisma emails” would be released as an “October surprise.” “Burisma, of course, was the Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter nearly $1 million to sit on its board during his father’s final year as vice president.”
According to the Times, “intelligence analysts” feared “the Burisma material would be leaked alongside forged materials in an attempt to hurt Mr. Biden’s candidacy.” The leak and this spin prepared the public to disregard the laptop, or to assume the more damaging documents were “forged.”
The Washington Post pushed similar leaks, with the outlet reporting on Oct. 15, “U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence.” This leak helped bolster the Biden campaign’s claim the laptop was Russian disinformation since Giuliani had provided the hard drive to the Post.
In fact, in responding to the media about the laptop scandal, Andrew Bates, then a Biden campaign spokesman and the director of his “rapid response” team, consistently spun the scandal as one about Giuliani’s supposed connection “to Russian intelligence.” These other government leaks gave the Biden campaign more cover.
6. Government Pressed Social Media to Censor
In addition to leaking false claims to the media, the government interfered in the 2020 election by priming Big Tech companies to censor the laptop story.
Americans first learned of this scandal last August when Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, told Joe Rogan, “The FBI basically came to us, some folks on our team, [saying,] ‘Hey just so you know, you should be on high alert.” According to Zuckerberg, the FBI told Facebook that “we thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election,” and “we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that so just be vigilant.”
Zuckerberg said that, based on the FBI’s warning, Facebook treated the New York Post’s bombshell story as “potentially misinformation, important misinformation.” Then, while Facebook worked to determine the authenticity of the laptop, it “decreased its distribution of the story by making the story rank lower in the news feed.”
While Facebook merely decreased distribution of the explosive reporting, Twitter barred sharing of the story — and it was the government’s warnings of a “hack and leak” operation that prompted the censorship.
As Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, explained in a letter to the Federal Election Commission, “since 2018 he had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security.” And “during these weekly meetings, the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.”
The government’s “prior warnings of a hack-and-leak operation and doubts about the provenance of the materials republished in the N.Y. Post articles,” Roth explained, led its Site Integrity Team to conclude “the materials could have been obtained through hacking,” and thereby block the sharing of the story.
The government’s repeated warnings led, at a minimum, Twitter and Facebook to censor the story. Yet after the story broke, when Facebook asked Laura Dehmlow, the FBI’s section chief for the Foreign Influence Tax Force, about status of the laptop, she refused to comment.
The FBI’s failure to correct the tech companies’ misapprehension that the laptop was either disinformation or part of a hack-and-leak operation contrasts with how the government handled other inquiries. For instance, when asked by Facebook to fact-check information for the platform, Brian Scully, an official with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “responded with an explanation of why the government believed that the report was misinformation violating Facebook’s terms of service.”
7. Potentially More Government Interference
It’s possible the FBI did more behind the scenes to prompt censorship of the laptop story, such as by feeding Twitter false leaks, as the government did with legacy media outlets.
Of particular concern is FBI Agent Elvis Chan’s Oct. 16, 2020, email directing two high-level Twitter executives to monitor their Teleporter messages for two important documents. The content of those documents, transmitted via the FBI’s secure Teleporter system, remains a mystery, but the timing is suspect.
Also disconcerting is the role Jim Baker had in pushing Twitter to censor the story. Baker, who was previously the FBI’s general counsel, worked at Twitter as a deputy general counsel during the relevant time. On the morning of Oct. 14, 2020, after the Post story broke, Baker pushed for Twitter to err on the side of caution by banning the coverage. That same day Baker arranged a phone conversation with Matthew Perry in the FBI’s Office of General Counsel.
Both Chan’s email to Twitter and Baker’s conversation with the FBI Office of General Counsel provided another opportunity for the FBI to interfere in the 2020 election by feeding Twitter fake intel. Of course, the communications could instead be unrelated to the laptop scandal and the timing merely coincidental.
Another potential for government interference came when the 51 former intelligence officials joined together to pen their public statement declaring the laptop story had all the hallmarks of a foreign disinformation campaign. While we now know the Biden campaign’s role in prompting that letter, it is unknown whether any current government officials assisted in the efforts.
8. ‘Twitter Files’ Show Potential Military Connection
Another potential connection between the government and the laptop info ops came from the latest “Twitter Files” released earlier this week. In Andrew Lowenthal’s “Twitter Files 20” thread, he revealed an email referencing the “2020 U.S. Elections Tabletop Exercise,” sent from an individual connected to Harvard Law School to two individuals connected to Harvard’s Intellectual Property in Cyberspace program, as well as a slew of individuals with military email accounts.
Significantly, CCed on the email were individuals from organizations that had participated in the Aspen Institute’s “Tabletop Exercise” that prophetically used a “hack-and-leak” “October Surprise” involving Hunter Biden to game the media’s supposedly “appropriate” response to the release of Biden communications. Thus, this email suggests a connection between the military and some of those who participated in Aspen’s exercise. The timing of the email is also striking: It is dated Oct. 20, 2020 — the day after the 51 former intelligence officials released their deceptive statement framing the laptop as Russian disinformation.
What role, if any, our military had in pushing the hoax remains to be seen. But what is already abundantly clear is that our government helped peddle the Democrats’ info ops on the American public.
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21 Comments
11 months ago
The 2020 election was a very unusual election because the Democrats used the 2 worst candidates in their ranks AND they cheated so much it was beyond obvious. I don’t think people understand what that means. I don’t think people understand what they were really trying to do. People need to think about that for a while because it’s really nasty. in 2020, the crowds supporting Trump were enormous, everywhere. Support for Biden was laughable. On election day the numbers coming in before the big corrections revealed a cheat in progress. From the start, the numbers didn’t match the crowds. The big corrections made it so obvious it is just ridiculous.
IMO, they wanted intervention before Biden was seated so they could accuse President Trump of trying to cling to power like a tyrant. We cans see now that they had everyone in place to make that accusation stick, and prosecute the accused. Think about that.
They’ve been trying to cripple and murder us into submission as fast as they can before we wake up and realize just how hostile and deadly they really are. We are drowning in the reasons we were given the 2nd Amendment. All we have left is our numbers.
They already pulled the trigger. They’re committed to finishing the job. They can’t let us retake power because they are guilty of war against our Republic and mass murder.
The growing revolution could be peaceful if they surrendered their illegitimate power. But that’s not very likely, is it? When we’re bloody enough we’ll either drop to our knees or we’ll use our numbers.
We didn’t get this corrupt in one administration or even in 50 years. They grew over time, and they acted friendly enough so we didn’t realize what was happening.
11 months ago
Reply to
Zeus
Re. your last sentence: Just like Bluto towards Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons.
11 months ago
Reply to
Zeus
And I have. Because in his manner, Trump is almost “I yam what I yam” Popeye-esque.
D
11 months ago
Reply to
Zeus
The TRUTH always has a way of surfacing and even than people are to blind to see and to corrupt to care!
11 months ago
Reply to
Zeus
How many times does Bill Barr have to admit it was a clean election before you admit the obvious?
11 months ago
This article is a roadmap of corruption, the takeover of a country.
Was there a central figure?
Those in positions of power using their authority to silence opposition, to hide criminal activity.
Those who are responsible for hiding criminal activity are a part of the organization.
Similar to the mafia in Sicily, an extensive organization, many hands.
Mike Morrell, former acting CIA director, at the behest of Anthony Blinken, of the Biden Campaign, marshaled fifty former intelligence figures to write the letter indicating the Hunter Laptop information was Russian disinformation, while knowing it was true.
This actually makes them complicit in covering up criminal activity.
Does this make them part of a criminal conspiracy.
It’s all in a day’s work for CIA personnel, who have been active participants in coups, Iran, Venezuela, Chile, and possibly the Euromaiden uprising in Ukraine.
Oliver Stone called the Ukraine revolution a CIA plot.
Was CIA just covering it’s tracks in Ukraine, and possibly other coups and assassinations.
There are indications CIA was involved in the JFK assassination.
Tucker Carlson did a program on this very thing, and now he has been silenced at Fox News. He reported a knowledgeable person about classified JFK documents did say there were CIA connections. RFK jr. praised Tucker Carlson for exposing the CIA’s murder of his uncle, JFK, calling it a coup d’etat (coup), from which our country has never recovered.
RFK jr. Called the Tucker Carlson Fox News report on the JFK assassination or murder by the CIA the most courageous news program in the last sixty years.
RFK jr. has said he believes CIA was behind the JFK assassination and release of recent documents indicated CIA connections.
CIA really has its origins in Office of Strategic Services in WWII.
It’s a highly secretive organization, and unlike FBI, which is charged with investigating crime, is involved in “Strategic Services”, meaning active involvement, but does anyone really know what they’re doing?
11 months ago
CLEARLY TREASON.
This “interference” is an Act of War against the lawful governing of our Republic, and is by definition, TREASON.
The punishment for Treason is DEATH.
If those “in power” do not do their DUTY, it is the Right, and the DUTY, of the American Citizen to mete JUSTICE in their stead.
We must follow our Founders and save our Republic from TYRANTS.
D
11 months ago
Everyone talks about the “Government” interference in the 2020 Election. Don’t forget that the Government at that time was Trump’s administration and Trump’s DNI was John Ratcliffe. The latter was responsible for allowing the subterfuge to take place under his nose. Even though he refuted the phony Intel letter about Hunter’s laptop being Russian disinfo, apparently no one listened to him, he had no clout and he took no AGGRESSIVE actions against the FBI misinformation campaign and their social media collusion and censorship about the laptop that cost Trump the election.
In fact he gave a press conference in Oct. 2020 with the FBI saboteur standing at his side reassuring the public about the “security” of the upcoming Election and he didn’t even mention the Hunter laptop cover-up by the FBI. I don’t understand why no one hasn’t held John Ratcliffe accountable. He was another worthless, spineless appointee by Trump along with his Attorney Generals. All talk…but no real action against the corrupt Deep State.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233H_v2LlAU
11 months ago
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Patriotliz
Individual States RAN THE ELECTION Man . . . . certainly not the President or his team.
Never read the Constitution I suspect . . .
The FBI has been corrupt for decades as has much of the permanent class in DC.
D
11 months ago
Focus on the prize received when one wins the Presidency. That prize is the near total control over the distribution of 4 Trillions of dollars to whomever one’s friends may be. Ultimately, its all about the money and that is the one indelible power that is understood by all of the leaders, members, aiders and abetters and supporters of the organized crime syndicate masquerading as the Democratic Party.
11 months ago
The country is woke and the damage is done. It disturbs me to say that WW111 might bring us back, but it will be too late.
11 months ago
If all of these agencies were as clever and diligent in actually helping this country, we would be in great shape. They’ve chosen to work against the U.S. as they are owned by the CCP and WEF.
D
11 months ago
Basically, this is, altogether, conspiracy to commit treason. When will the traitors be charged, tried and punished? There is no question of their guilt.
D
11 months ago
Spineless voiceless so called Americans LET THEM!
11 months ago
The result of the rigged 2020 national election is that Joe Biden is now sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine, US President. The terrible reality is the Biden is a pseudo “president.”
Joe Biden by willingly allowing schemed election fraud/hoax to occur make it appear that he had “won” the national November 3, 2020 national election is totally unconscionable of him and likewise makes him corrupt unethical .
This is because Biden is such a loser that he had to have the help of others in power who are much more intelligent than him to scheme to have a massive election fraud in order to appear to have “won” the election. With the aid of others in power who are much more in than him.
That despicable and unconscionable rigged November election hoax that Biden took part in reveals that a completely wicked corrupt, unethical politician Joe Biden actually is.
11 months ago
About that crime of election fraud in 2020 November. That massive rigged fake “election” was a criminal affront to the US Constitution.
That awful man ,Joe Biden , was illegally accepted as the official US “President” in spite of the obvious election hoax .For Biden was and is the person backed by evil people in higher up power players ,as George Soros , Nancy Pelosi , Barack Obama and others.
Therefore the decent , good and wise man ,Donald Trump was ,overthrown ,forced out of the Office of the Presidency that he by all legal and ethical rights should have stayed in the Office of the US Presidency .
The Bible does informs its reader “It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgement.”
Proverbs 18 ;5. [K.J.V.]
11 months ago
First, since Joe Biden has entered the White House and is sitting in the chair of the President, in spite that unconscionable election fraud scheme, that mullah president of Iran to act in appeasement to fulfill all Rouhani wants for this Islamic Shiite agenda will easily control Biden. Of course, now Rasis is the President of Iran and controlling Biden,
This is because the ignorant, feeble- minded and weak will be no match for the clever sly and manipulating Muslim tyrants in Iran . For his will use Biden as his useful idiot In other words, Biden will play the stooge and tools for the achievement of all of this short and long term aggressive jihadist goals.
Second, before the November election I had keyboard that “Joe Biden doesn’t belong in the White House, he belongs in a senior citizens retirement community designed for assisted living.
Now after that hoax of an election that reeks of the corruption of voter fraud, which no doubt Biden had his sinister hand in with his scheme to make himself President.
Now after that hoax of an election that reeks of the corruption of voter fraud, which no doubt Biden had his sinister hand in with his scheme to make himself President.
So it’s now better and more appropriate to keyboard the message that “Joe Biden doesn’t belong in the White House, he belongs in prison.”
11 months ago
The FBI did all this while Trump was in the White House and then Trump loyalist Barr was running DOJ. Yeah, riiiight.
Go take your meds.
