"Times Subhead: “The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.'”
"If the midterms give us the Democratic sweep that the media is promising, at least we can look forward to a renewed trust in government. Like when the FBI manipulated social media companies into censoring The New York Post‘s exposé of Hunter Biden’s laptop by insinuating it was “Russian disinformation”—soon followed by 51 former senior intelligence officials signing a letter saying the same thing.
"'It was one of the most baldfaced deceptions ever perpetrated on the American people (not counting the one about Michelle Obama being the pinnacle of feminine beauty). Now, two FBI agents have been charged with lying to Congress to hide the agency’s role in the chicanery. Unless the prosecution is making up its facts, they look pretty guilty to me.
"'As we later found out, the FBI had known the laptop was genuine nearly a year before the Post published its scoop on October 14, 2020. Surprisingly careless for a crack addict, Hunter had left his computer at a repair store, but never picked it up. The shop contacted the FBI, which took possession of the computer and confirmed its authenticity back in 2019. Nearly a year later, the same place gave the computer to the Post.
"''Perhaps anticipating that the public would eventually get wind of the laptop, the FBI had been grooming social media companies throughout 2020, warning them about a coming Russian dump of misinformation before the election. Naturally, when intelligence specialists labeled the laptop “Russian disinformation,” the companies cried “EUREKA!” and shut down any mention of the laptop across their platforms.
"'Not taking any chances, the day the Post‘s bombshell report came out, FBI officials called top executives at social media companies to discuss the story. Whatever they say they said (there are no tape recordings), the G-men sure didn’t make clear that the laptop was not Russian disinformation. As a result, we got unprecedented, sweeping censorship across the digital public square.
"'Twitter, for example, immediately suspended the accounts of the Post and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The next day, it suspended the Official Trump Campaign account. Anyone who tried to tweet the Post‘s story was blocked and informed: “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.” (This was done at the direction of Twitter “Safety” exec Vijaya Gadde—one of our highly skilled, very talented Indian immigrants.)
"'Facebook fiddled with its algorithm so that users could post stories about the laptop to their heart’s content — but no one would see those posts. It also announced that the story would be investigated by the company’s “third-party fact-checking partners” (Rachel Maddow and Hunter’s crack dealer)." . . . More.
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