FBI Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real When New York Post Story Broke, Then Hid Behind Big Tech Censors’ ‘Disinfo’ Smear
By: Jordan Boyd
July 20, 2023
5 min read
The FBI, which had known Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic since 2019, admitted to Twitter that it was real on the day the New York Post published its reporting on the laptop — but then switched its narrative to “no further comment” and refused to acknowledge the laptop’s veracity to any other Big Tech companies ahead of the 2020 election, according to July 17 testimony from Laura Dehmlow, the section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF).
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray obtained by The Federalist, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan outlined how “Dehmlow revealed that the same FBI personnel who were warning social media companies about a potential Russian ‘hack and leak’ operation in the run-up to the 2020 election knew that the laptop belonging to Hunter Biden was not Russian disinformation.” Dehmlow also testified that previous FITF Section Chief Bradley Benavides and his subordinates who were tasked with sniffing out Russian influence “knew that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real.”
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/20/fbi-told-twitter-hunter-biden-laptop-was-real-when-new-york-post-story-broke-then-hid-behind-big-tech-censors-disinfo-smear/
From Jim Jordan's letter, excerpt on what he asking from from Wray:
In light of the new information, please provide to the Committee the following information, which are necessary for the Committee to conduct oversight of the FBI:
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The name of the FBI official affiliated with FITF who, according to Section Chief
Dehmlow’s testimony, responded first to the question from Twitter regarding the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop during the October 2020 FITF-Twitter meeting.
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The name of the FBI official affiliated with FITF who, according to Section Chief
Dehmlow’s testimony, responded second to the question from Twitter regarding the authenticity of the Hunter Biden’s laptop, and said that the FBI had “no further comment” during the October 2020 FITF-Twitter meeting.
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A list of FBI employees who participated in the deliberations following the meeting between FITF and Twitter in October 2020 about how to respond to questions about the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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A list of FBI employees affiliated with FITF who were aware, at any point prior to October 14, 2020, that the FBI was in possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop and/or that the FBI had confirmed the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop.
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The name of the FBI official or officials who decided on October 14, 2020 that FITF
must respond “no comment” when asked by social media companies for additional information regarding the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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All records, notes, and other documents, including but not limited to records retained by Sentinel, of meetings between or among FITF or the San Francisco Field Office and social media companies, including Meta, Twitter, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, and Yahoo, from January 1, 2017, to the present.
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All documents and communications transmitted via Signal between or among FITF or the San Francisco Field Office and social media companies, including Meta, Twitter, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, and Yahoo, from January 1, 2017, to the present.
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All documents and communications sent or received via Teleporter link between or among FITF or the San Francisco Field Office and American social media companies, including Meta, Twitter, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, and Yahoo, from January 1, 2017, to the present.
Please provide this information as soon as possible but no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 3, 2023. In addition, we ask that you make Brady Olson, as well as the FBI employees described in the requests above, available to the Committee for transcribed interviews.
https://www.scribd.com/document/660171560/Jordan-Letter-To-FBI#