{"id":1722772,"date":"2022-11-03T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722772"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:52:39","slug":"miranda-devine-how-the-government-hid-the-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-how-the-government-hid-the-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: How the Government Hid the Truth Behind Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmiranda-devine-how-the-government-hid-the-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-laptop%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=1722772&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The more we find out about the collusion that has been going on among the Biden administration, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/25\/republicans-have-an-opportunity-to-force-bidens-hand-on-border-security\/\">security<\/a> agencies and Big Tech, the more alarming it is \u2014 and the more unrepentant they are.<\/p>\n<p>The latest bombshell from The Intercept, based on communications unveiled in the federal lawsuit Missouri v. Biden, shows that the Department of Homeland Security has been having monthly meetings with Facebook and Twitter to pressure them to censor social-media posts about topics such as the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of COVID vaccines, racial justice and US support for the war in Ukraine \u2014 In other words, anything that could be detrimental to public support for the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>We already know that the FBI was involved in efforts to censor and bury information that might have harmed Joe Biden\u2019s candidacy back in 2020, including The Post\u2019s exclusive about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/19\/its-been-two-years-since-51-intelligence-agents-interfered-with-an-election-they-still-wont-apologize\/\">Hunter Biden<\/a>\u2019s laptop in October 2020. That amounted to election interference, which successfully prevented the American people from doing the necessary due diligence on one of the two candidates for president. So successful was the strategy that the Biden administration appears to have expanded it.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies have switched their attention from combating foreign disinformation to censoring the speech of American citizens who dissent from the government-approved narrative. No matter that free speech is protected by the First Amendment; if the Biden administration doesn\u2019t like the speech, they label it \u201cMisinformation, Disinformation and Malformation,\u201d and they are deputizing the FBI and DHS to strong\u00adarm Big Tech to censor it and de-platform serial offenders.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter what brand your politics is, this is Stasi stuff.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter Biden\" class=\"wp-image-24507158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Hunter Biden left his laptop in \u201cThe Mac Shop\u201d in Delaware, beginning the scandal.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">James Keivom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DHS also recommended the use of third-party nonprofit groups as a \u201cclearing house for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda,\u201d The Intercept reported.<br \/>In the spy business, that is what is called a \u201ccutout,\u201d points out John Schindler, a former senior intelligence analyst with the National Security Agency. In other words, using a \u201cdeniable intermediary\u201d legally to spread the White House\u2019s propaganda.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>A perfect example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/23\/lawsuit-reveals-vast-censorship-scheme-by-big-tech-and-the-federal-government\/\">censorship<\/a> regime works is the Hunter Biden laptop.<br \/>Two FBI agents \u2014 Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow \u2014 have been identified in documents uncovered by the Missouri lawsuit as pressuring Facebook to suppress The Post\u2019s accurate and factual reporting.<\/p>\n<p>We know the FBI at the time was spying on Rudy Giuliani\u2019s online cloud with a covert surveillance warrant. Therefore, it had access to his emails in August 2020 from computer-store whistleblower John Paul Mac Isaac and to my text messages discussing when The Post would publish the story. It sure looks as if the FBI deliberately pre-censored a legitimate story for a political aim.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-repairman-says-fbi-threatened-him-to-stay-silent\/\">upcoming book<\/a> by Mac Isaac, the owner of the now-defunct Delaware computer-repair shop where Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop in April 2019, sheds more light on this deep-state election interference.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Isaac, 46, is a patriot, and when he saw wrongdoing on the laptop, he felt it was his duty to bring it to the attention of the authorities. Unfortunately for him, he chose the FBI.<br \/>In \u201cAmerican Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth,\u201d Mac Isaac says that \u201cat almost every step, I was met with skepticism, suspicion and even death threats. I feared for my life, not just in the face of angry strangers but in the face of a hostile FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Disturbing allegations<\/h2>\n<p>His allegations are disturbing. Over the summer of 2019, the more Mac Isaac looked at the laptop, the more convinced he was that there were national security implications, especially in material relating to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>So he enlisted his father, retired Air Force Colonel Steve Mac Isaac, who took a copy of the laptop\u2019s hard drive on an external drive to the FBI\u2019s field office in Albuquerque, NM. He was treated with disdain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-3.jpg\" alt=\"John Paul Mac Isaac\" class=\"wp-image-24507167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mac Isaac felt it was his duty to bring the laptop to the attention of the authorities. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">James Keivom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou better lawyer up and don\u2019t talk to anyone about this,\u201d an FBI agent told him, according to the book.<\/p>\n<p>John Paul Mac Isaac\u2019s next chilling encounter with the FBI was six weeks later, on Nov. 21, 2019, when two agents, Joshua Wilson and Mike Dzielak, from the Baltimore field office went to his home and asked him questions about the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you spoken with anyone else about this? Any other government or law-enforcement agencies?\u201d Then they left without taking the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 9, 2019, the agents arrived at his store with a subpoena and took the laptop and a hard-drive copy.<\/p>\n<p>As he left, Dzielak told Mac Isaac: \u201cIt is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don\u2019t talk about these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg\" alt=\"HUNTER BIDEN\" class=\"wp-image-24507173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1520 1520w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1140 1140w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=760 760w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=380 380w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-42.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The FBI was involved in efforts to censor information like The Post\u2019s exclusive about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter Biden\" class=\"wp-image-24507178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1152 1152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=768 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=384 384w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-35.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop exposed revealing photos of him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mac Isaac felt unsettled. He was not reassured an hour later when Dzielak called him for technical help to access the drive.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop was never seen again.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, just before Christmas, Dzielak phoned him again to ask if Hunter had come in asking for the laptop yet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac.jpg\" alt=\"John Paul Mac Isaac\" class=\"wp-image-24507168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/John-Paul-Mac-Isaac.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>\u201cI feared for my life, not just in the face of angry strangers but in the face of a hostile FBI,\u201d said Mac Isaac. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">James Keivom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mac Isaac told him no but the agent \u201cseemed genuinely surprised, and that worried me.\u201d<br \/>In May, 2020, convinced the FBI had buried the laptop, Mac Isaac and his father tried to contact Republican members of Congress, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, on Aug. 26, 2020, Mac Isaac, found an email address for Rudy Giuliani, then Donald Trump\u2019s attorney, and wrote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tGet Miranda&#8217;s latest take\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tSign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFor almost a year I have been trying to get the contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop to the proper authorities. I first reached out to the FBI and they came and collected it, but I have reason to believe they have destroyed it or buried it in a filing cabinet. After months of waiting for something to come of this, I can only assume that members of the FBI, who are against the President [Trump], have it and it will never be seen again. Luckily, for my protection, I made several copies and I have been trying quietly to bring it to people\u2019s attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for Mac Isaac\u2019s persistence and savvy, Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop never would have seen the light of day, and America would be none the wiser about the FBI\u2019s nefarious role in covering it up.<\/p>\n<p>This year, whistleblowers have come forward to finger various FBI employees engaged in the cover-up. Timothy Thibault, the recently retired assistant special agent in Charge of the FBI\u2019s Washington, DC, field office, was the agency point man to manage Tony Bobulinski, Hunter\u2019s business partner who went to the FBI with evidence of the Biden influence-peddling operation. Thibault allegedly ordered the investigation closed and has refused to cooperate with GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans take back the House and the Senate in next week\u2019s midterm elections, their primary aim should be to investigate the censorship and cover-ups by the FBI, DHS and other federal agencies. It\u2019s not going to be easy, and every American will need to support lawmakers courageous enough to take on the task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more we find out about the collusion that has been going on among the Biden administration, the security agencies and Big Tech,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722772","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=1722772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}