The FBI warned Twitter of a Hunter Biden “hack-and-leak operations” in weekly meetings before The New York Post dropped the laptop story, Miranda Devine wrote in the publication.
Devine claimed the information came from “a sworn declaration by Twitter’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth.”
THIS is the information I was waiting for. However, I noticed Devine didn’t attach the documents:
The extraordinary revelation for the first time lays bare how the FBI was involved in pre-bunking the story of the laptop, which had been in the bureau’s possession for almost a year.“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” said Roth in a Dec. 21, 2020, declaration to the Federal Election Commission.“I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”Roth’s signed declaration formed part of Twitter’s defense against a complaint by the Tea Party Patriots Foundation that its censorship of The Post was an “in kind” campaign contribution to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign.
Twitter censored The New York Post laptop story on October 14 even though the story proved the information came from a legitimate source.
The New York Post never hid the fact that the publication received the information from Delaware repair store owner John Paul Mac Isaac after Hunter Biden did not pick up the laptop.
Devine also answered an important question: How did the FBI know The New York Post would publish the story? Devine wrote:
Well, the FBI was spying on Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s online cloud, under the pretext of an investigation into alleged foreign agent registration violations, a probe which conveniently was dropped this year.The covert surveillance warrant on Giuliani gave the FBI access to emails in August 2020 from Delaware computer repair store owner John Paul Mac Isaac disclosing information damaging to Joe Biden from the laptop Hunter Biden had abandoned at his store in April 2019.The FBI also had access to my messages with Giuliani in October discussing when The Post would publish the story.The FBI knew that Mac Isaac was a legitimate whistleblower because he had come to the bureau in the fall of 2019 to express national security concerns about evidence on the laptop of payments to the Biden family from Ukraine and China. On Dec. 9, 2019, two agents arrived at his store with a subpoena and took the laptop and a hard-drive copy.We know from FBI whistleblowers who have come forward to Republican members of Congress that rogue FBI employees within the Washington Field Office buried the laptop and other information detrimental to Joe Biden before the 2020 election.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk released some emails through Matt Taibi showing Twitter employees talking about censoring the story and developing a PR spin.
I didn’t see anyone mention the FBI or anything about previous warnings.
Taibbi even said out of the documents he read, he did not find evidence involving the government in the laptop story.
It doesn’t make any sense:
This contradicts Roth’s sworn declaration that the FBI warned of a “hack and leak” operation involving Hunter Biden, as well as Twitter’s lawyers’ response to the FEC in December 2020.Law firm Covington & Burling told the FEC that Twitter “had been warned throughout 2020 by federal law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ undertaken by malign state actors, in which those state actors might hack electronic communications of individuals associated with political campaigns and seek to disseminate the leaked materials. … Reports from the law enforcement agencies even suggested there were rumors that such a hack-and-leak operation would be related to Hunter Biden.”
Musk promised more releases, but we don’t know if that will even happen.
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