36. And yet it's inconceivable Baker believed the Hunter Biden emails were either fake or hacked. The had included a picture of the receipt signed by Hunter Biden, and an FBI subpoena showed that the agency had taken possession of the laptop in December 2019.
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37. As for the FBI, it likely would have taken a few *hours* for it to confirm that the laptop had belonged to Hunter Biden. Indeed, it only took a few days for journalist to prove it.
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38. By 10 am, Twitter execs had bought into a wild hack-and-dump story
“The suggestion from experts - which rings true - is there was a hack that happened separately, and they loaded the hacked materials on the laptop that magically appeared at a repair shop in Delaware”
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39. At 3:38 pm that same day, October 14, Baker arranges a phone conversation with Matthew J. Perry in the Office of the General Counsel of the FBI
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40. The influence operation persuaded Twitter execs that the Hunter Biden laptop did *not* come from a whistleblower.
One linked to a Hill article, based on a WaPo article, from Oct 15, which falsely suggested that Giuliani’s leak of the laptop had something to do with Russia.
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41. There is evidence that FBI agents have warned elected officials of foreign influence with the primary goal of leaking the information to the news media. This is a political dirty trick used to create the perception of impropriety.
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42. In 2020, the FBI gave a briefing to Senator Grassley and Johnson, claiming evidence of “Russian interference” into their investigation of Hunter Biden.
The briefing angered the Senators, who say it was done to discredit their investigation.
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43. “The unnecessary FBI briefing provided the Democrats and liberal media the vehicle to spread their false narrative that our work advanced Russian disinformation.”
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44. Notably, then-FBI General Counsel Jim Baker was investigated *twice,* in 2017 and 2019, for leaking information to the news media.
“You’re saying he’s under criminal investigation? That’s why you’re not letting him answer?” Meadows asked.
“Yes”
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45. In the end, the FBI's influence campaign aimed at executives at news media, Twitter, & other social media companies worked: they censored & discredited the Hunter Biden laptop story.
By Dec. 2020, Baker and his colleagues even sent a note of thanks to the FBI for its work.
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46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time.
“I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021.
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47. And the pressure from the FBI on social media platforms continues
In Aug 2022, Twitter execs prepared for a meeting with the FBI, whose goal was “to convince us to produce on more FBI EDRs"
EDRs are an “emergency disclosure request,” a warrantless search.
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In response to the Twitter Files revelation of high-level FBI agents at Twitter, said, “I have concerns about whether the government was running a misinformation operation on We the People.”
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Anyone who reads the Twitter Files, regardless of their political orientation, should share those concerns.
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Wonder if it was from taxpayer dollars, or black ops trafficking bucks?
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Same by any name …. Where do the letter agencies get *any* of their money??
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This is inconceivable!!!! Tax payer money to silence vital information to influence tax payers vote.
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Silence? Are you saying you didn't hear about Hunter's laptop, didn't see the nude pics, videos, drug use & "big guy" email snippets online in Oct 2020? Didn't hear Ron Johnson, Rudy Giuliani & several GOP go on & on about it inc Twitter or watch or hear Fox News, OAN, Newsmax?
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Heres the one and only question. Did the FBI think the story was a foreign operation and were simply wrong, acting in good faith. Or is there some massive conspiracy that the FBI is in cahoots with one political party (16 dems thought it was gop). Ill take former.
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They had the laptop. They knew it was legit & told social media companies to censor the story by blatantly lying to them
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So if you had a child taken, example, out riding her bike, you would be fine is just calling local police to find your child?
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