{"id":2645328,"date":"2026-08-15T06:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-secretly-branded-biden-corruption-critics-as-russian-mouthpieces\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:20:58","slug":"fbi-secretly-branded-biden-corruption-critics-as-russian-mouthpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-secretly-branded-biden-corruption-critics-as-russian-mouthpieces\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Secretly Branded Biden Corruption Critics as Russian Mouthpieces"},"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%2Ffbi-secretly-branded-biden-corruption-critics-as-russian-mouthpieces%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=2645328&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>Declassified documents reveal that the FBI secretly designated journalists, senior Trump management officials, and members of Congress as conduits of Russian disinformation through an operation called \u201cRound River.\u201d This operation aimed to portray negative data about joe Biden, corruption, Ukraine, and related topics as Russian propaganda, often labeling certain individuals and groups as perpetrators or targets. The documents, released by a White House Openness Task Force led by journalist John Solomon, include slide decks and spreadsheets detailing the operation\u2019s scope and personnel involved.The FBI classified some figures, such as Republicans and certain media outlets, as instruments of Russian disinformation, while considering democrats as victims. Key figures like Bill barr, mike Pompeo, and others were smeared as part of this alleged disinformation campaign. the operation involved briefings to Congress suggesting they were being manipulated by Russian efforts, and highlighted concerns about Biden\u2019s connections to Ukraine and Ukraine-related investments.The documents also mention attempts by FBI officials to downplay threats and control narratives, and suggest a coordinated effort to discredit concerns about Ukraine and Biden.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The FBI secretly labeled journalists, senior Trump administration officials and members of Congress as conduits of Russian disinformation, newly declassified documents show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">An FBI operation codenamed \u201cRound River\u201d worked to paint derogatory information about former President Joe Biden, corruption and Ukraine supplied by confidential human sources as Russian disinformation. The so-called \u201cUkraine narrative\u201d included information about the Biden family and Burisma, Hunter Biden, Ukraine interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">A White House Transparency Task Force helmed by journalist John Solomon declassified two document sets on Wednesday night: A <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/1072907320\/DELTA-Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slide deck<\/a> describing the Round River operation from Trump\u2019s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and a <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/1072906257\/Round-River-Spreadsheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spreadsheet<\/a> of persons of interest in the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The FBI\u2019s distinction between \u201cconduits\u201d of Russian disinformation and \u201ctargets\u201d of Russian disinformation is clear. The bureau classified Republicans as the perpetrators and Democrats as the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Former Attorney General Bill Barr, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Rep. Jim Jordan, former Rep. Devin Nunes, One America News Network correspondent Chanel Rion and Solomon were among the individuals the FBI smeared as instruments of a Russian psyop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The FBI deemed Democratic powerbroker George Soros, former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs\u00a0Victoria Nuland, former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as targets of the supposed psyop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Solomon extracted the documents from FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) \u2013 Russia, which ran Operation Round River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">A senior FBI official on that task force said that she was \u201cbasically running a shadow government inside the FBI right now\u201d in September 2020, according to documents declassified in tangent with Trump\u2019s primetime presidential address about election security in July. That official, Deputy Assistant Director for the Counterintelligence Division Nikki Floris moved to quickly retract a tip about Chinese election interference before it could move up the intelligence community hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cAAAAAAAH SNAPS!!!! Well done [REDACTED] THANK YOU for handling!!!\u201d she wrote after the Albany field office\u00a0that received the tip retracted it before investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">One of the tactics the task force used to discredit concerns about Biden and Ukraine was to give defensive briefings to Congress, informing lawmakers that they were being used as tools of Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">In August 2020, as Senate Republicans were putting their final touches on a report about Hunter Biden\u2019s financial connections to foreign governments, Floris and other FBI officials gave them a behind-the-scenes briefing alleging their work was \u201ca target of Russian disinformation,\u201d per <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/meeting\/house\/115294\/documents\/HHRG-118-FD00-20230209-SD022.pdf\"><u><span class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__textUnderline\">a Senate letter<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Senate investigators \u2014 Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson \u2014 said in the letter the FBI had not provided any evidence. They said they suspected the sole purpose of the briefing was for the unsubstantiated claim to be leaked to the media. Indeed it was <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/rudy-giuliani-fbi-warning-russia\/2021\/04\/29\/5db90f96-a84e-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html\"><u><span class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__textUnderline\">eventually leaked to the Washington Post<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cBecause there was no substance to the briefing \u2026 I suspected that the briefing was being given to be used at some future date for the purpose that it is now being used: to offer the biased media an opportunity to falsely accuse me of being a tool of Russia,\u201d Johnson told the paper in response to the leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The ODNI slide deck includes some of the derogatory information that the FBI\u2019s confidential human sources (CHS) flagged about the Biden family and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">A Russian Intelligence Officer (RIO) said that Ukrainian oil tycoon and politician Mykola Zlochevsky was using Hunter Biden to insinuate himself into the powerful family as part of a \u201clong-term operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Another confidential human source flagged concerns about the Bidens\u2019 investment in Burisma Holdings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cBurisma Holdings owns thirteen companies, which are used to pay dividends on investments through fake consulting contracts,\u201d the CHS told the FBI, the slide deck shows. \u201cThe contracts are paid to US investors and funneled through Latvia and the energy sector of Ukraine. Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, have money invested into Burisma. Their money was passed through a shell company in Latvia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The extent to which the FBI probed these leads is not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Office of Joe and Jill Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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