{"id":1977946,"date":"2023-07-19T20:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T00:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-agents-barred-from-accessing-the-laptop\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T00:40:44","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-agents-barred-from-accessing-the-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-agents-barred-from-accessing-the-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents denied access to Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop during investigation."},"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\">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%2Fhunter-biden-investigation-agents-barred-from-accessing-the-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=1977946&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--><h2>Investigators \u200dDenied Access \u2062to\u2064 Hunter Biden&#8217;s Laptop,\u200b Hindering \u2063Criminal Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Investigators working on Hunter Biden&#8217;s\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-trump-hail-mary-to-stop-potential-indictment\/\" title=\"Georgia Supreme Court unanimously denies Trump's attempt to halt potential indictment.\">criminal \u2064case<\/a> have testified that \u2063they were denied\u200b access to crucial \u200binformation found on \u2062his\u200d infamous\u2063 laptop by \u200dprosecutors. This obstruction\u200c has severely\u200b limited \u200dtheir \u2064ability to further\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-agents-barred-from-accessing-the-laptop\/\" title=\"Agents denied access to Hunter Biden's laptop during investigation.\">investigate potential\u200b crimes committed<\/a> \u2062by the \u2062president&#8217;s \u2063son.<\/p>\n<p>During a \u200dhearing before \u2064the \u2063House Oversight Committee,\u200b Internal \u2062Revenue Service supervisory agent Gary \u2064Shapley, \u2064one of\u2062 the\u200c whistleblowers, revealed \u2063that IRS \u2064special agent\u2063 Joe Ziegler,\u2064 the other whistleblower, had \u200brequested access to the laptop during a meeting with \u200dinvestigators. \u200dHowever,\u2062 they were informed\u200c that \u2064they would\u2064 not \u2064be granted access as part \u2062of \u2064their investigation \u2062into Biden.<\/p>\n<h3>White \u2062House\u200c Launches Program\u200c to Address\u2064 Cybersecurity Risks<\/h3>\n<p>Shapley, \u2064who\u200b was Ziegler&#8217;s \u2062superior, recounted \u200bhow\u200d Ziegler raised \u200dconcerns about the\u2064 lack\u200d of access\u2062 to the laptop&#8217;s \u200dinformation.\u2062 In response,\u2062 federal \u200bprosecutor Lesley Wolf, who was \u2064involved \u2064in the Hunter Biden investigation, stated that the decision\u2064 not \u2063to provide access \u2063was\u200d made\u200d by\u2064 the prosecutors \u200dthemselves.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u200c Shapley&#8217;s testimony, the authenticity of Biden&#8217;s laptop had \u2063been \u200bconfirmed \u2064back in\u2063 2019. However,\u200b the \u2064Department\u200b of \u2063Justice continued \u200cto hinder\u2063 the investigation. \u2063For\u200c instance, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsj-reporter-arrested-in-russia-has-pre-trial-detention-extended-by-three-months\/\" title=\"Russian court extends pre-trial detention of WSJ reporter for three months.\">investigators requested<\/a> a search warrant for then-President\u2064 Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-reportedly-unhappy-living-in-70000-square-foot-house\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Reportedly Unhappy Living In 70,000-Square-Foot House\">guest house<\/a>, where Hunter \u200bBiden\u2064 had \u200bbeen\u2063 staying, they were denied. Wolf \u200dbelieved that\u2064 executing \u2062the search\u2063 warrant would \u200dcreate negative optics.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley\u200d expressed his frustration, \u200cstating, &#8220;With the circumstances \u2062of the\u200d probable cause \u200dbeing\u200c achieved \u2063and \u2064knowing \u200dthat this \u200bwas there,\u2063 I\u2063 don&#8217;t\u200c know\u2063 how \u200bshe could \u200chave not allowed us to execute the search warrant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, any attempts\u2064 to\u2063 question or\u200b pursue\u2063 leads involving Joe Biden were strongly discouraged. \u2062Ziegler\u200c revealed\u200b in \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-brian-stelter-cuts-off-bari-weiss-asks-whos-stopping-the-conversation\/\" title=\"WATCH: Brian Stelter Cuts Off Bari Weiss, Asks \u2018Who\u2019s Stopping The Conversation?\u2019\">pre-recorded interview<\/a> with CBS\u2063 News that\u200b whenever they wanted\u2063 to \u2064ask questions\u2063 related \u200dto\u2064 the president,\u2064 they \u2062were met\u2062 with\u200c responses\u2064 like, &#8220;That&#8217;s going\u2063 to take too\u200b much approvals. \u2063We can&#8217;t\u2062 ask \u2063those questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly,\u200c when\u2063 investigators \u200bdiscovered text\u2063 messages \u200dsent by Hunter \u2062Biden to a Chinese business associate, \u2062where he \u2064mentioned \u2063his father&#8217;s\u2063 presence to pressure \u2063the associate into sending him\u200c money, \u2063they \u200cwere \u200cprohibited \u200cfrom using\u2062 location \u200cdata \u200dto \u200bverify if \u200bthe elder \u200bBiden was indeed with Hunter\u200c when\u2064 those\u200d messages were sent.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley \u2064emphasized the importance of\u200d following up\u2062 on the\u2064 location data, \u2064but unfortunately, \u200cthe \u200dprosecutors did\u2064 not support this line of\u2063 inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to\u2064 read\u200b more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>agent Joshua Wilson had possession of the laptop, but was instructed by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office not to pursue any further actions. This obstruction hindered the investigators&#8217; efforts to uncover potential illegal activities involving Hunter Biden, leaving crucial information untapped and raising concerns about the integrity of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1977946","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=1977946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}