The FBI authenticated that the Hunter Biden laptop was owned by the president’s son months before 51 intelligence experts, the media, and Joe Biden claimed without evidence that it was Russian disinformation.
The FBI also expressed confidence the contents of the laptop had not been manipulated, according to a contemporaneous IRS investigative memo.
A memo penned by IRS Supervisory Criminal Investigative Agent Gary Shapley, now a whistleblower, provided a chronology of how the FBI validated the Hunter Biden Laptop was real as early as November 2019.
“We have no reason to believe there is anything fabricated nefariously on the computer and or hard drive,” the contemporaneous memo stated.
“There are emails and other items that corroborate the items on the laptop and hard drive.”
In a transcribed interview released Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee, Shapley told Congress that after extensive analysis by FBI computer teams, federal prosecutors personally expressed confidence that the laptop was Hunter Biden’s
“The whole discussion was about: Can we rely on this information on the laptop? Is it Hunter Biden’s? And their opinion was, it was, and it was not manipulated in any way,” Shapley testified.
A congressional lawyer then asked: “It was reliable evidence?”
The agent replied: “That is correct.”
You can read Agent Shapley’s memo here:
As Just The News reported:
The memo and testimony corroborate reporting dating to 2020 by Just the News, which hired computer and handwriting experts to confirm that the laptop’s data was authentic and that Hunter Biden signed the receipt at the Delaware computer shop where it was taken for repairs and was abandoned.
Just the News also corroborated specific emails on the laptop with former business partners and others who had separate copies of the content, and government officials confirmed they, too, had corroborated the laptop as belonging to Hunter Biden.
The IRS memo and testimony also provide the most damning evidence yet that an extensive campaign in fall 2020 to dismiss the laptop as disinformation by news media, intelligence experts led by ex-acting CIA Director Mike Morell, Big Tech, and Joe Biden himself had no basis in fact or evidence.
For a while, Hunter Biden himself also called into question the laptop, saying he wasn’t sure he dropped it off at the shop.
But the FBI, according to Shapley’s memo, had taken extensive effort a year earlier to corroborate that Hunter Biden – who agents described by the codename “Sportsman” — had in fact, dropped off the laptop at the shop operated by repairman John Paul Mac Isaac.
“Financial records show Sportsman was around Wilmington DE shop at a cigar shop on the same day,” the memo states.
“Other intelligence shows Sportsman was in the area. Computershop calls Sportsman to tell him to bring in an external hard drive to put recovered data onto.
“Sportsman returned to the shop with the external hard drive,” the memo also states. “Phone records show a shop called Sportsman, and Sportsman called the shop around this time.
According to Shapley, it didn’t take long for federal agents to corroborate the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden and contained evidence of crimes.
“The FBI verified its authenticity in November of 2019 by matching the device number against Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID,” he explained.
“When the FBI took possession of the device in December 2019, they notified the IRS that it likely contained evidence of tax crimes,” Shapley also stated, noting the IRS drafted the search warrant to take formal possession of the device.
As The Daily Fetched reported in May, evidence emerged that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in helping solicited cosigners for the infamous letter claiming the explosive Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation,” according to a report from the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The letter was signed by 51 former intelligence officials, which threw shade on the truth of the laptop contents, and claimed it had “all the classic earmarks of Russian disinformation.”
The report states:
“One signer of the statement, former CIA analyst David Cariens, disclosed to the Committees that a CIA employee affiliated with the agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (‘PCRB’) informed him of the existence of the statement and asked if he would sign it. The Committees have requested additional material from the CIA, which has ignored the request to date.”
In a written statement, Cariens said the CIA, or at least one CIA employee, “may have helped in the effort to solicit signatures for the statement,” according to the report.
READ: Harvard Abruptly Shuts Down ‘Disinformation’ Research Project Led by Hunter Biden Laptop Skeptic
More information the agencies have compromising information on the Biden’s. This is not weaponization but rather corruption.
I’d say it’s equally “weaponized” and being used like “muscle” in a Mafia to strong arm anyone who steps out of line.
If this started with Biden, that means Obama was in on it.
It spirals out of control after that.
The sheer volume of people who are involved would have to be in excess of a million conspirators, and it is indeed looking as such.
Feel free to disagree, you probably don’t.. but I hold no grudges either way. I felt like explaining..
The same info is exposed and verified over and over and nobody gets punished. Ever.
Good to see the truth finally dribbling out. But absolutely nothing will be done about it. Hunter and Joe, nor the 51, will never be indicted.
Lying Biden and the Demoncrats! What did you expect? They should all be charged and Jailed.
Remove their security clearances and remove their government pensions