Biden's Laptop: It's real, and it's spectacular

[George K]

CBS News: "Credible Whistleblowers."

"Highly credible" whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information about President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, according to letters reviewed by CBS News.
"The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI's receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI's false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation," GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25. "The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter."
Grassley, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the whistleblowers alleged that legitimate streams of information and intelligence about the president's son were characterized as likely disinformation or prematurely shut down leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
CBS News first reported in April that more than 150 financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden's global business affairs were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review. CBS News previously reported the U.S. attorney in Delaware has been investigating potential tax fraud, money laundering and foreign influence peddling.
[...]
A spokesperson for Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss declined to comment on whether he was aware of whistleblower allegations that credible reporting about Hunter Biden was allegedly labeled misinformation by the FBI and whether these allegations had been factored into his probe.
In the correspondence, Grassley cited a 2020 FBI intelligence assessment that was "used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation." He continued, "Based on the allegations, in at least one instance, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation."
In October 2020, one month before the election, "an avenue of derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed" by a senior FBI agent at the bureau's Washington Field office. An earlier letter from Grassley identified the agent as Timothy Thibault.

January is going to be interesting.

[Jolly]

How fast do you think they can get a committee together?

[Jolly]

Secondly, when they do, let's have a hearing, not a kangaroo court.

[George K]

Yeah bad things in the past.

John Paul Mac Isaac said two federal agents came to his Mac Shop in Wilmington, Del. in December 2019 to recoup the laptop following a subpoena, he details in his new book “American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth.”

The repairman, who had volunteered to hand the laptop over to the feds two months earlier, said the alleged threat came after he made a joke, telling them: “Hey, lads, I’ll remember to change your names when I write the book.”

“Agent Wilson kept walking but Agent DeMeo paused and turned to face me,” Paul Mac writes of the encounter.

Isaac said the agent then told him: “It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things.”

The owner said he locked the door after the agents walked out, leaving him to “digest the encounter.”

“Was I being paranoid, or had what the agent just told me been a direct threat, or at best a thinly veiled one?” he writes.

[Mik]

Sounds like a threat to me.

[Jolly]

That's because it is a threat.

[kluurs]

Always enjoyed the threat innuendo from Midnight Run, "the next time I see the two of you...alive... "

[George K]

Welcome to the party, CBS. Better late than never.

Even the NYT acknowledged this about 8 months ago.

Anyone think this is the beginning of a whispering campaign to discredit Biden for 2024?

[jon-nyc]

I think the GOP is overestimating how much the country will care about the failings of the black sheep son in the Biden family who has had no role in the administration.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Biden's Laptop: It's real, and it's spectacular:

I think the GOP is overestimating how much the country will care about the failings of the black sheep son in the Biden family.

As far as your statement goes, I agree. However, it might just be about much more than Hunter's indiscretions.

Might.

[Jolly]

[jon-nyc]

Frum said something like “this will be a repeat of the Clinton investigations where the true parts were uninteresting and the interesting parts were untrue”.

[Jolly]

Frum has become an absolute idiot and I wouldn't put a lot of credence in his prognostications.

[Axtremus]

What will happen to the laptop story if Biden does not seek election?

[jon-nyc]

Giuliani will show up with a host of new laptops from various democrats on the national scene.

[Renauda]

@Jolly

Frum has become an absolute idiot and I wouldn't put a lot of credence in his prognostications.

I don’t believe that to be the case at all. You simply don’t agree with his brand of non-populist conservatism.

[Copper]

The president was/is in the pocket of a foreign government, for cash.

This fact has been well established.

Now, when that fact becomes useful to the right person, it will be put in play.

[Jolly]

@Renauda said in Biden's Laptop: It's real, and it's spectacular:

@Jolly

Frum has become an absolute idiot and I wouldn't put a lot of credence in his prognostications.

I don’t believe that to be the case at all. You simply don’t agree with his brand of non-populist conservatism.

Neoconservative. And no, I'm no neoconservative.

[Renauda]

@Jolly

You say that as if it’s a bad thing. Not sure any more but I’ll take neo-conservatism over today’s pseudo-conservative populism any time.

[George K]

Former DNI Director Ratcliffe.

"I confirmed it was legit."

Ratcliffe said, [relevant remarks begin around 1:55] “The New York Post broke that story, but I was the one that verified it. I was the one that said, no, despite what a lot of former intelligence officials are saying and Democratic officials like Adam Schiff are saying, it’s not Russian disinformation. And, unfortunately, what we’ve seen and some of what’s now been talked about in the Twitter files is that there was a suppression, essentially a disinformation campaign on behalf of Joe Biden that involved many people, and as a result, some of that information was suppressed from the American voters, even though, as you correctly point out, Jason, that, as the voice of the intelligence people — or as the voice of the intelligence community, I said that this was not Russian disinformation and yet, there was a suppression of that truth and amplification of a lie that it was Russian disinformation.”