'The Enemy Within': Facts Show It Was The FBI, Not Russia That Tried To 'Rig' At Least Two Presidential Elections

By Roberta Elliot | Tuesday, 30 August 2022 10:25 AM
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'The Enemy Within': Facts Show It Was The FBI, Not Russia That Tried To 'Rig' At Least Two Presidential Elections

In 2016, the FBI Director James Comey let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information; simultaneously, they gave legitimacy to a rumor that Trump & Russia were colluding. In 2020, the FBI worked to suppress the Hunter Biden Laptop story. In two elections, the FBI effectively worked to change public opinion to influence election results. It failed in 2016; it did in 2020.

The FBI on Friday did not deny it cautioned Facebook of the imminent "dump" of "Russian propaganda" before the story of Hunter Biden's laptop broke in the 2020 election cycle.

The agency nonetheless attempted to distance itself from the Facebook actions the bureau fueled. NBC News reported the FBI admitted the bureau did provide "companies with 'foreign threat indicators' to help protect their platforms and customers, but that it 'cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.'"

"The FBI routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats," the bureau explained to NBC News.

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On Thursday, Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed the FBI cautioned Facebook of an imminent "dump" of "Russian propaganda" soon before the Hunter Biden "laptop from hell" story broke, driving the story to be shared on the platform to a less "meaningful" degree.

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"The FBI, I think, came to us — some folks on our team and was like, 'Hey, um, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert. There was the — we thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election," Zuckerberg clarified to Joe Rogan. "We have it on notice that there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that. So just be vigilant.'"

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"We just kind of thought, Hey look, if the FBI, which, you know, I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it's a very professional law enforcement," Zuckerberg went on. "They come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something. Then I wanna take that seriously."

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When pressed by Rogan, Zuckerberg acknowledged the story was authentic. "Yeah. I mean, it sucks. I mean, it turned out after the fact, I mean the fact-checkers looked into it, no one could say it was false, right. So basically it had this period where it was getting less distribution."

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While the FBI was communicating with Facebook, the FBI's leadership forbade agents from investigating Hunter Biden's laptop until after the 2020 election was decided, according to whistleblowers that came forward to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). The whistleblowers said the FBI did not want to probe the laptop because it was afraid public disclosure would alter the outcome of the 2020 election:

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"After the FBI obtained the Hunter Biden laptop from the Wilmington, DE computer shop, these whistleblowers stated that local FBI leadership told employees, 'you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop' and that the FBI is 'not going to change the outcome of the election again.' Further, these whistleblowers allege that the FBI did not begin to examine the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop until after the 2020 presidential election—potentially a year after the FBI obtained the laptop in December 2019."

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