FBI Knew Hunter Laptop Was Legitimate And Lied

It is now confirmed that the FBI unmistakably knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was legitimate long before the bureau infamously declared the discovery to have “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

It was October 2020, and the pivotal presidential election was winding down. And the agency found time to release a declaration signed by 51 of the country’s leading intelligence officials debunking the laptop’s authenticity.

Now it is revealed that the FBI in no uncertain terms knew the laptop was real and the statement it released was false.

At the top of the list as chief signatory was James Clapper. The 82-year-old’s resume runs the gamut of U.S. intelligence operations, and his signature gave the document credibility. 

Only, he must have known that what he signed was itself “disinformation.”

Just the News revealed Sunday that the FBI validated the laptop’s authenticity long before the 51 signatures were collected to debunk it. In fact, prosecutors expressed their belief that the computer’s contents had not been manipulated.

This revelation came from an IRS investigative memo. Written in Oct. 2020 by IRS Supervisory Criminal Investigative Agent Gary Shapley, it provided a timeline of the agency’s authenticating the laptop as early as Nov. 2019.

The agency by early 2020 was already analyzing its contents, including now-infamous emails sent and received by the first son.

Shapley is currently an FBI whistleblower and has provided evidence to congressional investigators of stonewalling in the Hunter Biden investigation. 

In a transcribed interview released Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee, Shapley told Congress that bureau computer teams analyzed the laptop and found it authentic.

In his words, “The whole discussion was about: Can we rely on this information on the laptop, is it Hunter Biden’s. And their opinion was, it was, and it was not manipulated in any way.”

That did not stop the FBI’s spin machine from putting out the quick word that the laptop bore the hallmarks of bad Russian actors. This came in the days leading up to the November presidential election that went down to the wire between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

With the news that the FBI had prior knowledge that the infamous declaration had no basis in fact, it begs the question: Which government in fact “interfered” with the 2020 presidential election?