GOP Sen. FBI-Twitter Warns of Corruption “Tip of the Iceberg”

Sen. Ron Johnson, R.Wis., urged Democrats to join Republicans in investigating threats of being politicized federal law enforcement The latest installments “Twitter Files” revealed that the FBI paid Twitter more than $3.4 million while the bureau was pressuring the social media company and reportedly undermining Johnson’s probe of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

“The corruption revealed in ‘The Twitter Files’ is only the tip of the iceberg—there’s a much larger story that needs to be uncovered and exposed,” Johnson spoke to The Daily Signal.

Wisconsin Republican stated that the House of Representatives’ incoming GOP majority seems likely to be a Republican majority. investigate the FBI He urged Democrats to support these efforts.

“I will do everything I can to assist House chairmen leading these investigations. To find as much truth as possible, however, we need Democrats to put aside partisanship and join our efforts,” Johnson said. “Even though the current deep state favors them, Democrats need to understand the threat that politicized federal law enforcement, national security, and intelligence agencies represent to our freedom and democracy.”

“As ranking member on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, I remain dedicated to delving deeper into these issues and provide the American public information they have a right to know,” He concluded.

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the chief oversight committee of the Senate, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, accused the FBI of acting to discredit their investigation into the financial connections that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has with foreign governments.

On Aug. 6, 2020, Grassley and Johnson met with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force. During the meeting, Johnson and Grassley were able to discuss “information that we already knew and information unconnected to our Biden investigation,” Grassley wrote.

Grassley referred to elements of the meeting as “leaking to the press”. “inaccurate media articles during the course of our investigation which falsely labeled our investigation as advancing Russian disinformation.”

The FBI got its hands on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop all the way back in December 2019, but—according to whistleblowers who spoke to Grassley and Johnson—the bureau failed to investigate the smoking-gun claims that Joe Biden himself was involved in Hunter Biden’s lucrative foreign business deals in China, Ukraine, and other countries.

Worse, there are some political The FBI and other intelligence agencies, according to observers, seem to have a lot of power. “pre-debunked” This story was made public by Twitter and other social networking platforms. “misinformation” Even though the laptop has been found to be the property of the younger Biden.

FBI officials and other intelligence officers had been busy in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election. weekly meetings with Twitter, according to a sworn declaration from the social media company’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth.

“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through these hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” Roth stated, New York Post reported. “I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”

It remains unclear whether the FBI or a separate intelligence agency had brought up Hunter Biden, but the FBI’s possession of the laptop may have influenced this rumor.

Another installment of this issue was published earlier in the month. “Twitter Files,” Published by journalist Michael ShellenbergerThis campaign of influence was spotlighted by.

Although neither Twitter nor the FBI found evidence of a Russian attempt to influence the 2020 presidential election similar to the 2016 effort, the intelligence community pushed Twitter to share more information and change policies based on the threat of a foreign election-interference campaign.

Many ex-FBI agents joined Twitter after leaving the FBI. According to Twitter documents Shellenberger revealed, Twitter had enough Former FBI employees to develop a term for them—“Bu alumn,” for “bureau alumni.”

The FBI’s Elvis Chan arranged for temporary top-secret clearances for Twitter executives, and the FBI paid Twitter $3,415,323 between October 2019 and February 2021, reimbursement for Twitter’s work on “LE-related projects,” This is a likely reference to “law enforcement-related projects.”

The first installment “Twitter Files” revealed Twitter executives had no good reason for censoring and suppressing The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, but the FBI’s pressure helps explain why Twitter decided to double down “in an abundance of caution.”

Although it is impossible to know what would have happened had Twitter not suppressed the Post’s reporting on the contents of the laptop, a Media Research Center poll conducted in the days after the 2020 election found that 36% of self-described Biden voters said they were not aware of the evidence behind claims that Joe Biden was personally involved in his son Hunter’s business deals with China, a claim bolstered by emails found on Hunter’s laptop.

Thirteen percent (4.6%) of these voters said they wouldn’t have voted for Biden if they knew the facts.

Even though this apparent influence campaign helped Democrats’ political prospects, Johnson suggested that all Americans should be concerned about the politicization of law enforcement.

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