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TWITTER FILES: PART 7
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and before The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020
11:09 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604871630613753856
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
In Twitter Files #6, we saw the FBI relentlessly seek to exercise influence over Twitter, including over its content, its users, and its data.
11:11 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604872112795045888
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.
11:13 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604872517927153669
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The story begins in December 2019 when a Delaware computer store owner named John Paul (J.P.) Mac Isaac contacts the FBI about a laptop that Hunter Biden had left with him
On Dec 9, 2019, the FBI issues a subpoena for, and takes, Hunter Biden's laptop.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
11:18 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604873916752703491
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
By Aug 2020, Mac Isaac still had not heard back from the FBI, even though he had discovered evidence of criminal activity. And so he emails Rudy Giuliani, who was under FBI surveillance at the time. In early Oct, Giuliani gives it to @nypost
11:21 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604874457037688832
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Shortly before 7 pm ET on October 13, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, emails JP Mac Isaac.
Hunter and Mesires had just learned from the New York Post that its story about the laptop would be published the next day.
11:22 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604874800710660097
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
At 9:22 pm ET (6:22 PT), FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter.
11:25 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604875478749171712
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The next day, October 14, 2020, The New York Post runs its explosive story revealing the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Every single fact in it was accurate.
11:26 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604875873684926466
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
And yet, within hours, Twitter and other social media companies censor the NY Post article, preventing it from spreading and, more importantly, undermining its credibility in the minds of many Americans.
Why is that? What, exactly, happened?
11:27 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604876064450260994
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
On Dec 2, @mtaibbi described the debate inside Twitter over its decision to censor a wholly accurate article.
Since then, we have discovered new info that points to an organized effort by the intel community to influence Twitter & other platforms
11:32 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604877235579912192
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
First, it's important to understand that Hunter Biden earned tens of millions of dollars in contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government, for which Hunter offered no real work.
Here's an overview by investigative journalist @peterschweizer
11:36 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604878404486017026
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
And yet, during all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation.
This is from a sworn declaration by Roth given in December 2020.
https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7827/7827_08.pdf
11:40 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604879477732831235
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, ‘Hey… you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that.'
11:43 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604880181906116608
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Were the FBI warnings of a Russian hack-and-leak operation relating to Hunter Biden based on any new intel?
No, they weren't
“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in Nov.
11:48 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604881305178497024
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Indeed, Twitter executives repeatedly reported very little Russian activity.
E.g., on Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach & low follower accounts."
11:57 AM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604883686855299072
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
In fact, Twitter debunked false claims by journalists of foreign influence on its platform
"We haven’t seen any evidence to support that claim” by @oneunderscore__ @NBC News of foreign-controlled bots.
“Our review thus far shows a small-scale domestic troll effort…”
12:06 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604885848398254080
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
After FBI asks about a WaPo story on alleged foreign influence in a pro-Trump tweet, Twitter's Roth says, "The article makes a lot of insinuations… but we saw no evidence that that was the case here (and in fact, a lot of strong evidence pointing in the other direction).”
12:11 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604887121700929541
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
It's not the first time that Twitter's Roth has pushed back against the FBI. In January 2020, Roth resisted FBI efforts to get Twitter to share data outside of the normal search warrant process.
12:14 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604888013422485505
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Pressure had been growing:
“We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC [intelligence community] to push us to share more info & change our API policies. They are probing & pushing everywhere they can (including by whispering to congressional staff).”
12:16 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604888429816209409
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren’t finding anything worth reporting.
“[W]e haven’t yet identified activity that we’d typically refer to you (or even flag as interesting in the foreign influence context).”
12:21 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604889734378967041
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Despite Twitter’s pushback, the FBI repeatedly requests information from Twitter that Twitter has already made clear it will not share outside of normal legal channels.
12:24 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604890339235336192
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
Then, in July 2020, the FBI’s Elvis Chan arranges for temporary Top Secret security clearances for Twitter executives so that the FBI can share information about threats to the upcoming elections.
12:25 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604890603468120064
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
On August 11, 2020, the FBI's Chan shares information with Twitter's Roth relating to the Russian hacking organization, APT28, through the FBI's secure, one-way communications channel, Teleporter.
12:26 PM · Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604891014207901696