{"id":1399255,"date":"2022-03-24T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399255"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:30:01","slug":"exclusive-rep-darrell-issa-hits-twelve-individuals-involved-in-laptop-from-hell-election-interference-with-document-preservation-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-darrell-issa-hits-twelve-individuals-involved-in-laptop-from-hell-election-interference-with-document-preservation-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in &#039;Laptop From Hell&#039; Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-darrell-issa-hits-twelve-individuals-involved-in-laptop-from-hell-election-interference-with-document-preservation-notices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has submitted document preservation notices to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter \u2014 as Republicans in Congress are gearing up to take back majorities and investigate election interference with regard to the suppression of the \u201cLaptop From Hell\u201d series in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Issa is demanding former DNI boss James Clapper, former CIA boss Micheal Hayden, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former CIA head John Brennan, former top CIA aide Nick Shapiro, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal all preserve documents relating to their involvement in suppressing the New York Post\u2019s bombshell expos\u00e9 on the Hunter Biden laptop in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, according to letters obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The news comes as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-dozens-preservation-notices-sent-across-government-setting-stage-gop-investigative-clash-biden-after-midterms\/\">exclusively reported<\/a> Wednesday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced House Republicans had sent dozens of preservation notices across the federal government to agencies and departments throughout Biden administration, ordering them to preserve documents in anticipation of eventual subpoenas from House Republicans after the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The letters from Issa to the various characters begin similarly, demanding the recipient \u201cimmediately initiate document preservation for all materials relating to questions, inquiry, conversation, strategy, and response, from 2020 to current, to the media reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop and\/or its contents that first appeared in the New York Post on October 14, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11681757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/10\/hunter-joe-biden-sunglasses-AP.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, R, and his son Hunter Biden, L, in the village of Sojevo, Kosovo, on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo\/Visar Kryeziu)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The notices state the recipient should \u201c[construe the request] as an instruction to preserve all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that is or may be potentially responsible to this congressional inquiry,\u201d including electronic messages, text messages, or communications on encrypted software sent from official or personal devices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Issa adds in his letters that the information will be \u201cessential for Congress to conduct a comprehensive fact-finding investigation into the actions by technology companies, media organizations, and political allies to suppress information and prevent public awareness of matters involving the Biden Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Issa told Breitbart News in a statement that he is putting those who participated in the effort to suppress the laptop from hell \u201con notice\u201d and that he will be taking up the role of a watchdog when Republicans take a majority in the House in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Tech, the mainstream media and the Democrats\u2019 deep state intelligence community want to either rewrite the history of their collusion \u2013 or erase it entirely. We\u2019re not going to let them do that,\u201d Issa said in a statement to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese letters are putting everyone on notice: real accountability is going to happen. And we won\u2019t rest until the full truth is known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letters come as Republicans anticipate taking back power in Congress, and in the wake of the <em>New York Times<\/em> becoming just the latest legacy outlet to admit that the Laptop and reporting on its contents were authentic and accurate \u2014 despite broad, unsubstantiated, and false claims at the time that the report was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>When the original <em>Post<\/em> stories were <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">reported<\/a> in October 2020, the security state, the media, Big Tech, and the Democratic Party worked in machine-like coordination to suppress the information.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18873994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hunter_Biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18873994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hunter_Biden.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter Biden\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter Biden \u201claptop from hell\u201d photo. (Breitbart News)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Big Tech immediately shut down the ability to share the Post link to the story and suspended accounts attempting to do so \u2014 claiming to be curbing \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five days after the first story was published, Politico obtained and reported on a letter signed by \u201cmore than 50 former senior intelligence officials\u201d claiming the Post\u2019s reporting \u201chas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,\u201d despite zero evidence for the claim, which, evidently, was false.<\/p>\n<p>Now-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki immediately amplified the narrative set by the former spies, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1318382779659411458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1318382779659411458%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D20366669action%3Dedit\">tweeting<\/a> out the Politico story that same day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zRdHxTxVsl\">https:\/\/t.co\/zRdHxTxVsl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1318382779659411458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, when former-President Trump confronted then-candidate Joe Biden about the contents of the report days later at the presidential debate, Biden claimed, \u201cthere are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he\u2019s accusing me of is a Russian plant. \u2026 Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he\u2019s saying is a bunch of garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the election in November of 2020, McLaughlin &#038; Associates released a poll showing that 36% of Biden voters were not aware of the Laptop expos\u00e9 and that \u201c13% of those said they would not have voted for Biden had they known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a shift away from Biden would have meant President Trump would have won the election with 289 electoral votes,\u201d the pollsters concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at ejmorris@breitbart.com or follow her\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaJoNYC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has submitted document preservation notices to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter \u2014 as Republicans in Congress are gearing up to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}