{"id":1629035,"date":"2022-09-01T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629035"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:20:14","slug":"gop-request-to-facebook-turn-over-your-fbi-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-request-to-facebook-turn-over-your-fbi-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Request to Facebook: Turn Over Your FBI Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgop-request-to-facebook-turn-over-your-fbi-conversations%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=1629035&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>In a recent speech that someone wrote for him, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2022\/08\/30\/biden-to-republicans-youre-either-on-the-side-of-the-mob-or-on-the-side-of-the-police-n493419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demanded<\/a> that Republicans support the FBI and be \u201con the side of the police\u201d or be branded as being \u201con the side of the mob.\u201d Apparently, Merrick Garland\u2019s previous demand that people stop criticizing the FBI wasn\u2019t considered a strong enough demand in defiance of the First Amendment. Senate Republicans didn\u2019t spend too much time mulling over these marching orders before delivering a rebuttle. The response wasn\u2019t directed at Biden or even Garland, however. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-senators-demand-facebook-turn-over-fbi-comms-on-hunter-biden-laptop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent their own demand to Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, CEO of Facebook. They want Facebook to turn over records of their conversations with the FBI regarding the government\u2019s false claims that the Hunter Biden laptop story was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d So apparently, the battle lines have been drawn. (Daily Wire)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican senators are demanding that Facebook turn over its communications with the FBI regarding Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people deserve to know whether the FBI used Facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about Hunter Biden,\u201d Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire. Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s admission to podcast host Joe Rogan that Facebook decreased distribution of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election at the bidding of the FBI has sparked a massive backlash.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The senators were specifically asking for \u201call records between and among Facebook, the FBI, the DOJ, and government agency employees that referred to Hunter Biden.\u201d They want Facebook to turn over anything related to the laptop, references to \u201cRussian disinformation,\u201d and investigations into Hunter Biden\u2019s overseas business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear, however, how much actual documentation might exist, if any. During Zuckerberg\u2019s interview when he first revealed what happened, he stated that there was no written or electronic correspondence between the FBI and Facebook. It was all done over the phone. It\u2019s certainly possible that the person or people who received the calls might have documented them in an internal memo, but can Congress simply demand a private corporation\u2019s internal documents? That sounds like something that would have to be handled by the Justice Department as part of an investigation if there are allegations of a crime taking place. Of course, that would hand the matter back to Merrick Garland and it would probably die on the vine once again.<\/p>\n<p>None of this will be getting the FBI out of hot water, however, or at least not in the near future. Consider the fact that all of this is happening while a senior FBI agent was being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/29\/top-agent-exits-fbi-amid-charge-political-bias-und\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walked out the door<\/a>\u201d amid an investigation over alleged political bias. (Washington Times)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A senior FBI official in the bureau\u2019s Washington field office has abruptly resigned after coming under congressional scrutiny for suspected political bias in handling the investigation of Hunter Biden\u2018s computer laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Times learned that Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge, was forced to leave his post, according to two former FBI officials familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau\u2019s elevator on Friday, escorted by two or three \u201cheadquarters-looking types,\u201d according to eyewitness accounts provided to one of the former officials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thibault had been on leave for the better part of a month already. Official statements suggest that he \u201cresigned\u201d from his post at the FBI and that may technically be true. But witnesses describe seeing him being \u201cwalked out\u201d of the building. Others are saying he was \u201cforced to leave his post.\u201d That doesn\u2019t sound like the situation you would encounter if someone was simply turning in their notice to go spend more time with their family.<\/p>\n<p>But if he really was involved in covering up or discrediting the laptop story, would you fire him over that? Doesn\u2019t that make it at least possible that Thibault would be left with some sour grapes and an ax to grind? If he suddenly starts showing up on Fox News and describing anything he may have done along those lines, heads may start rolling. It\u2019s an intriguing possibility, so stay tuned. I think we\u2019re still only in act two of this play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent speech that someone wrote for him, President Joe Biden demanded that Republicans support the FBI and be \u201con the side of the police\u201d or be branded as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629037,"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-1629035","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\/1629035","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}