{"id":1762271,"date":"2022-12-04T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762271"},"modified":"2022-12-04T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:50:06","slug":"miranda-devine-whats-missing-from-the-twitter-files-the-truth-about-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-whats-missing-from-the-twitter-files-the-truth-about-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: What\u2019s Missing From the Twitter Files: The Truth About the FBI"},"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\">26<\/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-whats-missing-from-the-twitter-files-the-truth-about-the-fbi%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=1762271&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>Elon Musk half-delivered on his promise to tell all about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/02\/elon-musk-releases-twitters-files-on-censorship-of-post\/\">Twitter\u2019s censorship of The New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a> before the 2020 election. What was missing were details of specific warnings we know the FBI made to Twitter about a Russian \u201chack and leak operation\u201d involving Hunter during their weekly meetings with top executives of the social media giant in the days and weeks before The Post published its exclusive bombshell.<\/p>\n<p>We know that FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan testified Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Biden administration brought by Republican attorneys that he organized those<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/02\/how-the-government-hid-the-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\"> weekly meetings with Twitter and Facebook in San Francisco <\/a>for as many as seven Washington-based FBI agents in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s then-head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth has stated in a sworn declaration that he was told during those meetings to expect \u201chack-and-leak operations\u201d by state actors involving Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter cited its new \u201chacked materials\u201d policy on October 14, 2020, when it locked The Post\u2019s account for two weeks and censored our story revealing an email from Hunter\u2019s Ukrainian benefactor thanking him for meeting with his father, the then-VP, in Washington, DC. The email was not \u201chacked material\u201d; it came from Hunter\u2019s laptop, which was the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-repairman-says-fbi-threatened-him-to-stay-silent\/\">legal possession of Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac<\/a>. The Post published an image of the Dec. 2019 subpoena issued to Mac Isaac for the laptop which Hunter had abandoned at his store eight months earlier.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Musk\u2019s much anticipated \u201cTwitter Files\u201d were delivered more than 90 minutes late Friday, beginning at 6:34 pm and trickling out via a series of linked tweets, or \u201cthread,\u201d for two hours via the account of substack journalist Matt Taibbi. <\/p>\n<p>Taibbi said he had been shown no evidence of the collusion between the FBI and Twitter that we know occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough several sources recalled hearing about a \u2018general\u2019 warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there\u2019s no evidence \u2014 that I\u2019ve seen \u2014 of any government involvement in the laptop story.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__header\">\n\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--prev inline-slideshow__nav--disabled\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span>1<\/span> of <span>3<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--next\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"John Paul Mac Issac Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDelaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac had legal possession of Hunter Biden&#8217;s abandoned laptop in 2020.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">James Keivom<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"393\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=393\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"The \" Twitter Files \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; were released in a thread by journalist Matt Taibbi.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Photo by Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"Elon Musk&#039;s release of Twitter files on the censoship of The Post&#039;s story on Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop was missing information about communication between the company and the FBI.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElon Musk&#8217;s release of Twitter files on the censoship of The Post&#8217;s story on Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was missing information about communication between the company and the FBI.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Tesla\/Handout via REUTERS <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, Taibbi did reveal that the Biden campaign routinely had troublesome tweets deleted during 2020 and that Twitter took \u201cextraordinary steps\u201d to kill The Post story, \u201cremoving links and posting warnings that it may be \u2018unsafe.\u2019 \u201d\u201cThey even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk reveals that a crucial player in Twitter\u2019s censorship of The Post was former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/12\/11\/ig-report-shows-russia-hoax-a-coup-attempt-devine\/\">Russia collusion hoax,<\/a> who had become Twitter\u2019s Deputy General Counsel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/twitter-22-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-22-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Journalist Matt Taibbi said he found no evidence of collusion between Twitter and the FBI.\" class=\"wp-image-24881874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/twitter-22-1-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/twitter-22-1-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/twitter-22-1-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Taibbi said he found no evidence of collusion between Twitter and the FBI.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">mtaibbi\/Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg\" alt=\"Taibbi revealed the Biden campaign had Twitter delete tweets in 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-24881875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1496 1496w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1122 1122w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=748 748w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=374 374w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/whats-missing-from-twitter-files-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Taibbi revealed the Biden campaign had Twitter delete tweets in 2020.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Baker in an undated email urges on the censorship action because \u201ccaution is warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage it is reasonable for us to assume that [the Post had published \u2018hacked material\u2019] and that caution is warranted. \u201cThere are some facts that indicate that the materials may have been hacked while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and\/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access for at least some purposes. We simply need more information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign routinely requested tweets be deleted in 2020. Taibbi published an email in which one twitter executive sent a series of tweet links to a colleague, with the comment: \u2018More to review from the Biden team.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reply came back: \u201cHandled.\u201d It is not known whether Musk has withheld material in Twitter\u2019s records after an intense pressure campaign from President Biden, the White House, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/28\/elon-musk-apple-threatened-to-yank-twitter-from-app-store\/\">threats that Big Tech compatriots Apple and Google <\/a>would banish Twitter from their app store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk half-delivered on his promise to tell all about Twitter\u2019s censorship of The New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story before the<\/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-1762271","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\/1762271","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=1762271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762271\/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=1762271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}