{"id":1787438,"date":"2022-12-27T05:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787438"},"modified":"2022-12-27T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:20:06","slug":"fbi-office-investigating-hunter-biden-sent-twitter-numerous-censorship-requests-right-before-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-office-investigating-hunter-biden-sent-twitter-numerous-censorship-requests-right-before-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Office Investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s Twitter Censorship Demands Just Before 2020 Election"},"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%2Ffbi-office-investigating-hunter-biden-sent-twitter-numerous-censorship-requests-right-before-2020-election%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=1787438&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>Emails were released Saturday in the latest dump \u201cTwitter Files\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701397109796866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reveal<\/a> that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI field office investigating Hunter Biden sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter \u2014 so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it \u201codd.\u201d The weekend&#8217;s most important detail came just days after the FBI released a statement describing the FBI&#8217;s coverage. \u201cTwitter Files\u201d As \u201cmisinformation\u201d Being sold by \u201cconspiracy theorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FBI \u201csome folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations,\u201d Stacia, then-Twitter legal officer, stated this in an email to Jim Baker on Nov. 3, 2019, which was sent to him as the then-deputy General Counsel for Twitter. \u201cThis is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,\u201d Cardille continued, before telling Baker to let her know if he had any other questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baker was ready in less than an hour. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606805465668911105\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded<\/a> Cardille noted it was \u201codd\u201d The FBI is \u201csearching for violations of our policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Taibbi is an independent journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701397109796866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> These emails were part of the 50-something Christmas Eve \u201cTwitter Files\u201d He remarked that thread showed \u201cthe FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government \u2013 from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the thread is not newsworthy, the fact that FBI agents at the Baltimore field office as well as the FBI headquarters ran keyword searches for possible Twitter violations is hugely important because both offices were part of the Hunter Biden investigation.<\/p>\n<p>While the Delaware U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office is \u2014 and was at the time of the 2020 election \u2014 handling the investigation into Hunter Biden, reportedly for potential money laundering and tax crimes, there is no separate Delaware FBI field office. The Baltimore FBI field office is responsible for covering all of Delaware and so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/contact-us\/field-offices\/baltimore\/baltimore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a> (and continues to support) the Delaware U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in its investigation of Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple FBI whistleblowers have also confirmed that the FBI headquarters was involved in the Hunter Biden probe. In July 2022 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), participated in the investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/28\/doj-may-have-obstructed-important-biden-corruption-investigations-out-of-pittsburgh-and-delaware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> That \u201cmultiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions,\u201d Had claimed that \u201cin August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden\u2019s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny,\u201d According to Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>Given the involvement of both Baltimore FBI and FBI headquarters in the investigation of Hunter Biden \u2014 and the latter\u2019s attempt to shut down the probe \u2014 the revelation that \u201csome folks in the Baltimore field office and at<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the bureau\u2019s own former general counsel calls the FBI\u2019s conduct &#8216;odd,&#8217; it\u2019s clear who&#8217;s discrediting the agency: It isn\u2019t conspiracy theorists \u2014 it\u2019s the FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1897998,"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":"FBI Office Investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s Twitter Censorship Demands Just Before 2020 Election","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6962,3652,4239,3706,6371,4201,3728,5591,6919,3822,4055,3719,5660,4253],"class_list":["post-1787438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-the","tag-3652","tag-before","tag-bidens","tag-censorship","tag-demands","tag-election","tag-fbi","tag-federalist","tag-hunter","tag-investigating","tag-just","tag-office","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI Office Investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s Twitter Censorship Demands Just Before 2020 Election","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787438","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}