{"id":2038337,"date":"2023-09-20T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-congress-should-ask-the-fbi-agent-involved-in-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T08:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:01:05","slug":"what-congress-should-ask-the-fbi-agent-involved-in-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-congress-should-ask-the-fbi-agent-involved-in-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress must question the FBI agent involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwhat-congress-should-ask-the-fbi-agent-involved-in-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story%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=2038337&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>On\u2064 Friday, the\u2063 House Judiciary Committee\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/house.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0275399506e2bdd8fe2012b77&#038;id=616bf1ad5f&#038;e=a24cb219e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subpoenaed<\/a> Elvis Chan, the lead FBI agent\u200d involved in mass \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-president-condemns-censorship-of-president-trump\/\" title=\"Mexico President condemns censorship of President Trump\">social media censorship<\/a>, to appear for a September 21,\u2062 2023 deposition. Last week\u2019s subpoena followed Chan\u2019s failure to \u2064appear for a scheduled voluntary interview to face\u200c questioning about the federal government\u2019s role in burying the Hunter Biden laptop story in the month before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>While that scandal is much bigger than Chan, he is first in line to untangling the\u200c truth about how the government interfered in\u200c the 2020 election by running an info op to \u2063convince\u200b voters\u200b the Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was Russian disinformation. Given Chan\u2019s testimony in the civil lawsuit brought by Missouri and Louisiana and \u2063several individual plaintiffs in <em>Missouri v. Biden, <\/em>as well as \u200csince-uncovered \u2063documents from\u200c Facebook, the importance of questioning Chan cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>What Chan Said<\/h2>\n<p>In <em>Missouri v. \u2062Biden<\/em>, the plaintiffs sued the Biden administration\u200d and numerous agencies and government officials, including \u2062the FBI\u200b and Chan. They alleged the federal defendants violated the First Amendment by, among other\u200b things, coercing \u200band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-congress-should-ask-the-fbi-agent-involved-in-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/\" title=\"Congress must question the FBI agent involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.\">significantly encouraging \u201csocial-media platforms<\/a>\u200c to censor disfavored [speech].\u201d After \u200dfiling suit, the plaintiffs filed a motion for a preliminary injunction and then obtained an order allowing for expedited discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the district court has entered a preliminary injunction barring several federal agencies from coercing tech \u200bgiants into censoring speech. The Fifth Circuit \u2063Court of Appeals narrowed the injunction but upheld many \u200bof the lower court\u2019s legal conclusions. The\u2064 Supreme Court is\u200c currently considering the Biden administration\u2019s motion for a stay of the injunction.<\/p>\n<p>What matters to the House\u2019s subpoena of Chan is what the expedited discovery \u2062in <em>Missouri v. Biden <\/em>uncovered. It included the plaintiffs\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/04\/did-fbis-censorship-liaison-hide-colleagues-connection-to-the-hunter-biden-scandal\/\">deposition<\/a> \u2063of\u2063 Chan. In his deposition, Chan testified he was one \u200bof the \u201cprimary\u201d FBI agents \u200bwho communicated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-reject-democratic-pressure-to-disinvite-rfk-jr-from-testifying-on-censorship\/\" title=\"House Republicans refuse to bow to Democratic pressure, stand firm on RFK Jr.'s testimony on censorship.\">social media \u200ccompanies<\/a> about so-called \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, \u201cDuring the \u200c2020 election cycle, \u2063Chan <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/04\/did-fbis-censorship-liaison-hide-colleagues-connection-to-the-hunter-biden-scandal\/\">coordinated<\/a> meetings between the FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and \u2062at least seven of the major tech \u2063giants, including \u2064Meta\/Facebook, Twitter,\u2063 Google\/YouTube, Yahoo!\/Verizon Media, and Microsoft\/LinkedIn,\u201d with meetings occurring weekly as the election neared.<\/p>\n<h2>FBI Played Social Media Companies<\/h2>\n<p>While the government had no reason to believe\u200d a hack-and-leak\u2063 operation was\u2062 in the works, several of the FBI agents\u2062 involved in warning the social media companies knew Hunter Biden had abandoned his laptop at a computer\u2062 repair store and that the material on the laptop was genuine. That includes Chan, Demhlow, and at least three \u200bother individuals connected to the FBI\u2019s FITF.<\/p>\n<h2>Was Chan Telling the \u2064Truth?<\/h2>\n<p>Last month, \u2062House Judiciary \u2063Chair Jim Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1688553368694734848\">revealed<\/a> his committee had obtained internal documents from Facebook that call into question Chan\u2019s testimony. \u201cI spoke with SSA Elvis Chan \u200b(FBI San Francisco) on 15 October 2020, \u200cas a follow up to the call with\u200d the Foreign Influence\u2064 Task Force on 14 October,\u201d one Facebook document read, contradicting Chan\u2019s claim that he knew of no other inquiries from social media companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked \u2063SSA Chan whether there\u200d was any update or change. . . as \u200bto whether the FBI saw any evidence suggesting foreign sponsorship or direction of the leak of information related to Hunter Biden as published in the New\u2064 York Post story,\u201d Facebook\u2019s memorandum continued. According to Facebook\u2019s internal document, Chan stated \u201cthat he was up to speed on the current state \u200cof the matter within the FBI and \u200cthat there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection or direction of the leak.\u201d\u200d Chan further assured Facebook \u201cthat the FBI would be\u200c in contact if any additional information on this was developed through further \u200binvestigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What the House Should Ask\u200d Chan<\/h2>\n<p>The House should explore these inconsistencies with Chan and further quiz him on both Dehmlow\u2019s\u200d testimony\u200b and the Facebook documents. Chan \u2063should also be quizzed on with whom else he discussed the potential for a\u200d hack-and-leak operation.<\/p>\n<p>We know from\u2062 Chan\u2019s <em>Missouri v. Biden <\/em>deposition that\u200c he had served as the supervisor \u2062for the Russia-adept cyber squad that investigated the DNC server hack before \u2064the San Francisco office handed it \u200dto FBI headquarters.\u200c Chan testified in that deposition that he would have discussed national security cyber-investigations involving\u200c Russian matters with Sean Newell, a deputy chief\u200d at the DOJ National Security Division who had also worked on the DNC hack. Chan should be pushed further on whether Newell or anyone else who worked on the \u2064DNC hack had \u200braised the issue of\u2064 a 2020 \u2063hack-and-release repeat.<\/p>\n<p>If so, the question then\u200c becomes whether they knew of the \u2062existence and authenticity of the Biden laptop. That question proves significant because it appears the hack-and-leak \u2063narrative was peddled to the social media companies to prime them to censor the laptop story. So, knowing who knew the\u200b laptop story was accurate but still fed the hack-and-leak hysteria will point to\u200b the players responsible\u2064 for \u200cinterfering in \u2063the 2020 election \u2064by silencing the truthful reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop story.<\/p>\n<p>Chan may refuse to testify, however, even pursuant to a subpoena, \u2062or the \u2062Department of Justice may direct Chan not\u200d to\u2064 submit to congressional questioning, forcing Republicans to enforce the subpoena in court. We\u2019ll know\u200b tomorrow if either scenario plays out or if \u2062Chan comes clean with what he knows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"> <\/p>\n<h2> How does FBI agent Elvis Chan&#8217;s testimony and cooperation in the ongoing Missouri v. Biden case shed light \u2062on \u2062the \u2062government&#8217;s interference\u200b in the 2020 election and its \u200bability to manipulate public opinion through social media\u200b censorship<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Foreign\u200d sponsorship\u2063 or direction of the leak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This revelation from Facebook raises serious questions\u200b about the \u2064truthfulness of Chan&#8217;s testimony. If he indeed had knowledge of other inquiries from social media companies and failed to disclose it during his deposition, it would be a clear case of perjury. The House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s subpoena of Chan is therefore crucial in uncovering the truth behind the government&#8217;s involvement in censoring \u200cthe Hunter Biden laptop story.<\/p>\n<h2>The Importance of Questioning Chan<\/h2>\n<p>The testimony and\u2063 documents uncovered in <em>Missouri v. Biden<\/em> \u2062 have already shed light on the\u200b extent of the FBI&#8217;s coordination with social\u2063 media companies during the 2020 election. It\u2063 has revealed that Chan played a significant role in meetings between the FBI \u200dand major tech giants, discussing so-called \u2064&#8221;disinformation&#8221; during the election\u2064 cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it has become apparent that some FBI \u200dagents involved in these \u2062meetings were aware of the \u2064authenticity of the Hunter Biden \u2064laptop and yet\u200c still pushed the \u2064narrative \u2063that it \u200cwas Russian disinformation. Chan, being one of the &#8220;primary&#8221; FBI agents involved,\u200d may hold crucial information\u200b about this \u2064misinformation \u200ccampaign.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dimplications of this campaign go\u2064 beyond the \u200dHunter Biden laptop scandal. \u200bIt \u2063raises concerns\u2062 about the government&#8217;s interference in the 2020 election and its ability \u2063to\u200c manipulate public opinion through \u200csocial media censorship.\u200d Chan&#8217;s testimony and cooperation are therefore essential in unraveling the truth and \u2064holding accountable\u200d those responsible for such actions.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>The subpoena of\u200b FBI agent Elvis Chan by the House Judiciary Committee marks an important step in investigating the government&#8217;s role \u2062in \u2064mass social media\u2063 censorship during \u2064the 2020 election. Chan&#8217;s involvement in coordinating meetings between the FBI and tech\u200c giants, as \u200cwell as his testimony in \u200bthe \u2062ongoing <em>Missouri v. \u2062Biden<\/em> case, make him \u2063a key witness in uncovering the \u200btruth.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation of internal documents from \u200dFacebook, \u2064contradicting Chan&#8217;s \u2064claim of no other inquiries\u2064 from social media companies, raises doubts\u2064 about his credibility. The upcoming\u200c deposition provides an opportunity \u2062to \u200baddress these\u200c doubts and ascertain the extent of the government&#8217;s interference in\u2062 the \u2064election.<\/p>\n<p>It\u200d is crucial that the House Judiciary Committee conducts a thorough and fair questioning of Chan to ensure \u200daccountability and transparency. The American \u200bpeople\u2062 deserve \u200bto know the truth behind the government&#8217;s actions, and Chan&#8217;s testimony may provide significant insights into\u2062 the mass social media\u200b censorship \u2062that occurred in the lead-up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Elvis Chan, the FBI agent responsible for mass social media censorship, to testify on September 21, 2023. This comes after Chan failed to attend a voluntary interview regarding the government&#8217;s involvement in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":2038338,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/2038337","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=2038337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}