Miranda Devine’s current New York Post column is “FBI agents who covered up Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 must not get away with it.” It is a reported column bearing on her own work exposing the Biden family business. The column is must reading in full. Here is the third section:
This bizarre conduct by the FBI’s legal department and multiple agents and analysts has to be seen as an election interference operation to protect Joe Biden and help him win the 2020 election. There is no possible innocent explanation.
And yet the people involved have been allowed to evade accountability.
Despite the fact that Donald Trump is back in the White House and his ally Kash Patel is FBI director, there has been little progress on unraveling one of the most egregious abuses of FBI power: coercing social media companies to censor The Post and cover up evidence of Biden corruption before the 2020 election.
It’s the cover-up no one is talking about, drowned out by supposedly tell-all books about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
But Sen. Grassley isn’t letting go. In this case, the Iowa Republican demanded that the FBI remove redactions on the chat log that hid the fact they were investigating Hunter for money laundering back in October 2020.
“I first began investigating the Biden family’s questionable financial conduct in 2019 based on allegations of impropriety and conflicts of interest, “ says Grassley. “So it’s no shock to me the FBI was apparently quietly looking into a money laundering case against Hunter Biden.
“Yet, during the same time period, the FBI provided me and [Wisconsin] Senator [Ron] Johnson a bogus briefing in August 2020 at the behest of Democrats, and later leaked its contents to the partisan media in an effort to falsely label our Biden family investigation as Russian disinformation.”
It was two months before The Post’s story, while Grassley and his Republican colleague Johnson were in the middle of their seminal inquiry into Biden corruption, that they were ambushed with a defensive briefing delivered by the FBI’s then deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division, Bradley Benavides, since retired, and Nikki Floris, currently the intelligence analyst in charge of the Washington Field Office.
Here is the fourth (concluding) section of Devine’s column:
The chat log from Oct. 14, 2020, shows Benavides communicating with his underling, agent Laura Dehmlow, about The Post’s laptop story that day: “You guys are tracking the coverage of the laptop right?” Dehmlow asks.
“Indeed,” he replies. “I would love to know if a copy exists, and was it provided to anyone.”
The FBI clearly had not anticipated that repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac would retain a copy of Hunter’s laptop contents on his hard drive, and then provide a copy to Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who gave it to The Post.
“The real scandal,” says Grassley, “is the way the DOJ and FBI colluded with the media to cover for the Biden family and tried to sweep it all under the rug with a sweetheart plea deal, until Hunter Biden was ultimately pardoned.”
Agent [Elvis] Chan is just one Biden-era official who defied subpoenas issued by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee to testify in 2023 and 2024. Members of Biden’s White House “politburo” who covered up his cognitive decline also defied subpoenas from House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer last year.
They all got away with snubbing their noses at Congress, unlike Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, who were jailed for not complying with congressional subpoenas from Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 committee. It’s time Republicans got equally tough.
Read the whole thing here.
