FBI Office Investigating Hunter Biden’s Twitter Censorship Demands Just Before 2020 Election

Emails were released Saturday in the latest dump “Twitter Files” reveal that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI field office investigating Hunter Biden sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter — so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it “odd.” The weekend’s most important detail came just days after the FBI released a statement describing the FBI’s coverage. “Twitter Files” As “misinformation” Being sold by “conspiracy theorists.”

FBI “some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations,” Stacia, then-Twitter legal officer, stated this in an email to Jim Baker on Nov. 3, 2019, which was sent to him as the then-deputy General Counsel for Twitter. “This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,” Cardille continued, before telling Baker to let her know if he had any other questions.”

Baker was ready in less than an hour. responded Cardille noted it was “odd” The FBI is “searching for violations of our policies.”

Matt Taibbi is an independent journalist published These emails were part of the 50-something Christmas Eve “Twitter Files” He remarked that thread showed “the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.”

Although the thread is not newsworthy, the fact that FBI agents at the Baltimore field office as well as the FBI headquarters ran keyword searches for possible Twitter violations is hugely important because both offices were part of the Hunter Biden investigation.

While the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office is — and was at the time of the 2020 election — handling the investigation into Hunter Biden, reportedly for potential money laundering and tax crimes, there is no separate Delaware FBI field office. The Baltimore FBI field office is responsible for covering all of Delaware and so supported (and continues to support) the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office in its investigation of Hunter Biden.

Multiple FBI whistleblowers have also confirmed that the FBI headquarters was involved in the Hunter Biden probe. In July 2022 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), participated in the investigation. announced That “multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions,” Had claimed that “in August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.”

“The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny,” According to Grassley.

Given the involvement of both Baltimore FBI and FBI headquarters in the investigation of Hunter Biden — and the latter’s attempt to shut down the probe — the revelation that “some folks in the Baltimore field office and at