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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters the border patrol agents he met warned him about "suspected terrorists are trying to cross into the United States via Mexico." The left went crazy, calling McCarthy a liar or laughing at him. Rep. Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) tweeted that as the chairman of the subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations he never heard of this news.

The takedown of Parler was purportedly based on its unique role in fomenting hate online relating to its alleged outsize role in the events at the Capitol on January 6th.  Having spent a couple days weeding through the DOJ's published arrest reports, I found little mention of Parler, but plenty of alleged criminal conduct referencing Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, in the charging document.

The newly declassified texts from disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok show the agency began investigating President Donald Trump before they opened Crossfire Hurricane. Another set of texts show that the FBI spied on a call between an executive at Fox News and former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos.

A Department of Justice official confirmed the FBI opened a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden and his associates in 2019. It is still active:
A justice department official has confirmed to Sinclair Broadcast Group that the FBI opened up a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden and his associates back in 2019, focused on allegations of money-laundering and that the probe remains active.

Fox News reported that the laptop belonging to Hunter Biden has a link to an FBI money laundering probe:
The FBI’s subpoena of a laptop and hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden came in connection with a money laundering investigation in late 2019, according to documents obtained by Fox News and verified by multiple federal law enforcement officials who reviewed them.

Tuesday, the FBI Assistant Director Jill C. Tyson sent a letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. In the letter, Tyson said the agency had "nothing to add" to Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe's statement dispelling Russian involvement in the "discovery" of  Hunter Biden's laptop.