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FBI agent lied under oath about knowledge of Hunter Biden laptop, talks with Facebook, document reveals
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A San Francisco-based FBI special agent lied under oath about discussions
he had with big tech companies that suppressed The Post’s reporting on the
contents of first son Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive before the 2020
election, according to an internal Facebook document.
Elvis Chan made false statements about his communications with Facebook
over the bombshell October 2020 reports that revealed Hunter involved his
dad Joe in business deals with foreign nationals, internal communications
obtained by the House Judiciary Committee show.
A Facebook employee said in an Oct. 15, 2020, message that he had spoken
with Chan, who said he was “up to speed” on the FBI’s probe of Hunter’s
laptop and “that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign
connection or direction of the leak.”
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In sworn testimony on Nov. 29, 2022, Chan said he had “no internal
knowledge of that investigation” into the laptop’s contents.
@Jim_Jordan / Twitter
Chan had shared the information during a “follow up” phone call with the
employee following a conversation the day before between the FBI’s Foreign
Influence Task Force and Facebook officials, during which the bureau
declined to comment on whether the laptop was “real.”
But in sworn testimony on Nov. 29, 2022, Chan said he had “no internal
knowledge of that investigation” and twice claimed he never communicated
with Facebook beyond the one conference call with the FBI task force.
That deposition was part of a lawsuit filed against the Biden
administration by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, which
charged the White House colluded with tech giants to unlawfully suppress
free speech.
The task force’s section chief, Laura Dehmlow, told the House Judiciary
Committee in July that on an earlier phone call with Twitter officials on
Oct. 14, 2022, an FBI agent confirmed the laptop was authentic “before
another participant jumped in and said no further comment.”
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0&quality=75&strip=all
A Facebook employee in an Oct. 15, 2020, message said he had spoken with
Chan and that the agent said he was “up to speed” on the FBI’s probe of
Hunter’s laptop.
@Jim_Jordan / Twitter
Chan also denied having discussed the laptop with any Twitter officials.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called Chan’s testimony
“COMPLETELY FALSE” and said the agent had served as “the main conduit
between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech.”
“Of course, there was ‘no evidence’ of ‘any foreign connection.’ The
laptop was real, and the FBI knew it,” Jordan said. “Is there any wonder
why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to
interview Agent Chan?”
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The task force’s section chief, Laura Dehmlow, told the House Judiciary
Committee in July that an FBI agent confirmed the laptop was authentic on
an Oct. 14, 2020, phone call with Twitter.
The Cipher Brief
The bureau had verified the authenticity of the materials on Hunter’s
abandoned laptop nearly a year earlier, in November 2019, an IRS
investigator tasked with the case testified in May to the House Ways and
Means Committee.
Fed ‘Fibs’
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) flagged at least two times FBI Special Agent
Elvis Chan appears to have lied in his testimony.
Chan’s claim: “I was confident that I was not a party to any meeting with
social-media companies where Hunter Biden was discussed outside of [Oct.
14, 2020 with Facebook].”
The truth: Facebook official, internal message, Oct. 15, 2020: “I spoke
with SSA Elvis Chan (FBI San Francisco) on 15 October 2020, as a follow up
to the call with the [FBI] Foreign Influence Task Force on 14 October. I
asked SSA Chan whether there was any update or change since the discussion
on 14 October 2020 as to 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 York Post story on 14 October.”
Chan’s claim: On Hunter Biden laptop, Nov. 29, 2022: “I only found out
through news media. I had no internal knowledge of that investigation[.]”
The truth: Facebook official, internal message, Oct. 15, 2020: “SSA Chan
advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within
the FBI and that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign
connection or direction of the leak.”
Facebook reduced the reach of The Post’s laptop reporting at the time,
citing its misinformation policy. Twitter blocked attempts to share the
story under the site’s rules governing “hacked materials.”
Five days later, 51 former intelligence officials circulated a letter to
discredit the reporting — at the prompting of then-Biden campaign adviser
Antony Blinken — saying the leaked emails had “all the classic earmarks of
a Russian information operation.”
While Chan may have committed perjury in the civil case, such offenses are
rarely prosecuted unless they are deemed to be part of an attempt to
corrupt the judicial system.
The FBI special agent’s testimony was also undercut last year by the so-
called “Twitter Files,” a series of reports on internal records from the
social media company that revealed a pattern of coordinated suppression of
The Post.
Chan sent 10 documents — the contents of which are still unknown — to
former Twitter head of trust and safety Yoel Roth the night before the
first laptop story was published.
He also arranged “temporary Top Secret security clearances” for Roth and
other Twitter executives for briefs on foreign threats to the 2020
election — despite admitting in his deposition that the FBI was not aware
of any meddling.
“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing
intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” Chan said, apparently
referencing Russian state actors’ hack of internal emails from the
Democratic National Committee before the election.
Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker, who formerly served as FBI
general counsel from 2014 to 2017, also pushed Roth to block access to The
Post’s reports, claiming “the materials may have been hacked.”
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
biden-laptop-talks-with-facebook/
A San Francisco-based FBI special agent lied under oath about discussions
he had with big tech companies that suppressed The Post’s reporting on the
contents of first son Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive before the 2020
election, according to an internal Facebook document.
Elvis Chan made false statements about his communications with Facebook
over the bombshell October 2020 reports that revealed Hunter involved his
dad Joe in business deals with foreign nationals, internal communications
obtained by the House Judiciary Committee show.
A Facebook employee said in an Oct. 15, 2020, message that he had spoken
with Chan, who said he was “up to speed” on the FBI’s probe of Hunter’s
laptop and “that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign
connection or direction of the leak.”
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000020205021.jpg?resize=900,70
9&quality=75&strip=all
In sworn testimony on Nov. 29, 2022, Chan said he had “no internal
knowledge of that investigation” into the laptop’s contents.
@Jim_Jordan / Twitter
Chan had shared the information during a “follow up” phone call with the
employee following a conversation the day before between the FBI’s Foreign
Influence Task Force and Facebook officials, during which the bureau
declined to comment on whether the laptop was “real.”
But in sworn testimony on Nov. 29, 2022, Chan said he had “no internal
knowledge of that investigation” and twice claimed he never communicated
with Facebook beyond the one conference call with the FBI task force.
That deposition was part of a lawsuit filed against the Biden
administration by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, which
charged the White House colluded with tech giants to unlawfully suppress
free speech.
The task force’s section chief, Laura Dehmlow, told the House Judiciary
Committee in July that on an earlier phone call with Twitter officials on
Oct. 14, 2022, an FBI agent confirmed the laptop was authentic “before
another participant jumped in and said no further comment.”
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000020205020.jpg?resize=878,15
0&quality=75&strip=all
A Facebook employee in an Oct. 15, 2020, message said he had spoken with
Chan and that the agent said he was “up to speed” on the FBI’s probe of
Hunter’s laptop.
@Jim_Jordan / Twitter
Chan also denied having discussed the laptop with any Twitter officials.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called Chan’s testimony
“COMPLETELY FALSE” and said the agent had served as “the main conduit
between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech.”
“Of course, there was ‘no evidence’ of ‘any foreign connection.’ The
laptop was real, and the FBI knew it,” Jordan said. “Is there any wonder
why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to
interview Agent Chan?”
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000020205969.jpg?resize=1017,1
024&quality=75&strip=all
The task force’s section chief, Laura Dehmlow, told the House Judiciary
Committee in July that an FBI agent confirmed the laptop was authentic on
an Oct. 14, 2020, phone call with Twitter.
The Cipher Brief
The bureau had verified the authenticity of the materials on Hunter’s
abandoned laptop nearly a year earlier, in November 2019, an IRS
investigator tasked with the case testified in May to the House Ways and
Means Committee.
Fed ‘Fibs’
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) flagged at least two times FBI Special Agent
Elvis Chan appears to have lied in his testimony.
Chan’s claim: “I was confident that I was not a party to any meeting with
social-media companies where Hunter Biden was discussed outside of [Oct.
14, 2020 with Facebook].”
The truth: Facebook official, internal message, Oct. 15, 2020: “I spoke
with SSA Elvis Chan (FBI San Francisco) on 15 October 2020, as a follow up
to the call with the [FBI] Foreign Influence Task Force on 14 October. I
asked SSA Chan whether there was any update or change since the discussion
on 14 October 2020 as to 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 York Post story on 14 October.”
Chan’s claim: On Hunter Biden laptop, Nov. 29, 2022: “I only found out
through news media. I had no internal knowledge of that investigation[.]”
The truth: Facebook official, internal message, Oct. 15, 2020: “SSA Chan
advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within
the FBI and that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign
connection or direction of the leak.”
Facebook reduced the reach of The Post’s laptop reporting at the time,
citing its misinformation policy. Twitter blocked attempts to share the
story under the site’s rules governing “hacked materials.”
Five days later, 51 former intelligence officials circulated a letter to
discredit the reporting — at the prompting of then-Biden campaign adviser
Antony Blinken — saying the leaked emails had “all the classic earmarks of
a Russian information operation.”
While Chan may have committed perjury in the civil case, such offenses are
rarely prosecuted unless they are deemed to be part of an attempt to
corrupt the judicial system.
The FBI special agent’s testimony was also undercut last year by the so-
called “Twitter Files,” a series of reports on internal records from the
social media company that revealed a pattern of coordinated suppression of
The Post.
Chan sent 10 documents — the contents of which are still unknown — to
former Twitter head of trust and safety Yoel Roth the night before the
first laptop story was published.
He also arranged “temporary Top Secret security clearances” for Roth and
other Twitter executives for briefs on foreign threats to the 2020
election — despite admitting in his deposition that the FBI was not aware
of any meddling.
“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing
intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” Chan said, apparently
referencing Russian state actors’ hack of internal emails from the
Democratic National Committee before the election.
Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker, who formerly served as FBI
general counsel from 2014 to 2017, also pushed Roth to block access to The
Post’s reports, claiming “the materials may have been hacked.”
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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