{"id":1790620,"date":"2022-12-30T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790620"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:19:55","slug":"gop-sen-warns-fbi-twitter-files-corruption-is-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sen-warns-fbi-twitter-files-corruption-is-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. FBI-Twitter Warns of Corruption \u201cTip of the Iceberg\u201d"},"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\">20<\/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-sen-warns-fbi-twitter-files-corruption-is-tip-of-the-iceberg%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=1790620&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><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ron-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson, R.Wis., urged Democrats to join Republicans in investigating threats of being politicized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/category\/topics-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal law enforcement<\/a> The latest installments \u201cTwitter Files\u201d revealed that the FBI paid Twitter more than $3.4 million while the bureau was pressuring the social media company and reportedly undermining Johnson\u2019s probe of Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe corruption revealed in \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/12\/06\/twitter-files-why-they-matter-and-whats-next-for-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Twitter Files<\/a>\u2019 is only the tip of the iceberg\u2014there\u2019s a much larger story that needs to be uncovered and exposed,\u201d Johnson spoke to The Daily Signal.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Republican stated that the House of Representatives&#8217; incoming GOP majority seems likely to be a Republican majority. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/12\/20\/fbis-orwellian-suppression-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigate the FBI<\/a> He urged Democrats to support these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will do everything I can to assist House chairmen leading these investigations. To find as much truth as possible, however, we need Democrats to put aside partisanship and join our efforts,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0\u201cEven though the current deep state favors them, Democrats need to understand the threat that politicized federal law enforcement, national security, and intelligence agencies represent to our freedom and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs ranking member on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, I remain dedicated to delving deeper into these issues and provide the American public information they have a right to know,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the chief oversight committee of the Senate, did not respond to The Daily Signal\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, accused the FBI of acting to discredit their investigation into the financial connections that President Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, has with foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_johnson_to_fbi_-_august_2020_briefing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aug. 6, 2020<\/a>, Grassley and Johnson met with the FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force. During the meeting, Johnson and Grassley were able to discuss \u201cinformation that we already knew and information unconnected to our Biden investigation,\u201d Grassley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley referred to elements of the meeting as &#8220;leaking to the press&#8221;. \u201cinaccurate media articles during the course of our investigation which falsely labeled our investigation as advancing Russian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI got its hands on Hunter Biden\u2019s abandoned laptop all the way back in December 2019, but\u2014according to whistleblowers who spoke to Grassley and Johnson\u2014the bureau failed to investigate the smoking-gun claims that Joe Biden himself was involved in Hunter Biden\u2019s lucrative foreign business deals in China, Ukraine, and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, there are some political The FBI and other intelligence agencies, according to observers, seem to have a lot of power. \u201cpre-debunked\u201d This story was made public by Twitter and other social networking platforms. \u201cmisinformation\u201d Even though the laptop has been found to be the property of the younger Biden.<\/p>\n<p>FBI officials and other intelligence officers had been busy in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/12\/03\/elon-musk-exposes-inside-story-twitters-crackdown-hunter-biden-laptop-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weekly meetings with Twitter<\/a>, according to a sworn declaration from the social media company\u2019s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through these hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,\u201d Roth stated,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/04\/fbi-warned-twitter-of-hunter-biden-hack-before-censoring-the-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post reported<\/a>. \u201cI also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether the FBI or a separate intelligence agency had brought up Hunter Biden, but the FBI\u2019s possession of the laptop may have influenced this rumor.<\/p>\n<p>Another installment of this issue was published earlier in the month. \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d Published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604871630613753856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">journalist Michael Shellenberger<\/a>This campaign of influence was spotlighted by.<\/p>\n<p>Although neither Twitter nor the FBI found evidence of a Russian attempt to influence the 2020 presidential election similar to the 2016 effort, the intelligence community pushed Twitter to share more information and change policies based on the threat of a foreign election-interference campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Many ex-FBI agents joined Twitter after leaving the FBI. According to Twitter documents Shellenberger revealed, Twitter had enough Former FBI employees to develop a term for them\u2014\u201cBu alumn,\u201d for \u201cbureau alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s Elvis Chan arranged for temporary top-secret clearances for Twitter executives, and the FBI paid Twitter $3,415,323 between October 2019 and February 2021, reimbursement for Twitter\u2019s work on \u201cLE-related projects,\u201d This is a likely reference to \u201claw enforcement-related projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first installment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/12\/03\/elon-musk-exposes-inside-story-twitters-crackdown-hunter-biden-laptop-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cTwitter Files\u201d revealed<\/a>\u00a0Twitter executives had no good reason for censoring and suppressing The New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story, but the FBI\u2019s pressure helps explain why Twitter decided to double down \u201cin an abundance of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although it is impossible to know what would have happened had Twitter not suppressed the Post\u2019s reporting on the contents of the laptop, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nb-staff\/2020\/11\/09\/fact-big-media-and-big-tech-stole-2020-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media Research Center poll<\/a>\u00a0conducted in the days after the 2020 election found that 36% of self-described Biden voters said they were not aware of the evidence behind claims that Joe Biden was personally involved in his son Hunter\u2019s business deals with China, a claim bolstered by emails found on Hunter\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen percent (4.6%) of these voters said they wouldn&#8217;t have voted for Biden if they knew the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Even though this apparent influence campaign helped Democrats\u2019 political prospects, Johnson suggested that all Americans should be concerned about the politicization of law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><em>You have an opinion on this article? Please email to share your thoughts.\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:letters@DailySignal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letters@DailySignal.com<\/a>\u00a0and we\u2019ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular \u201cWe Hear You\u201d feature. Include the article&#8217;s URL or headline, as well as your name and the address of your town or state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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