7th release of Twitter internal emails show FBI pressured the company to discredit Hunter Biden laptop story

If you've been following the first six releases of internal emails by Twatter employees before Musk bought the platform you know that Twatter's top attorney, Jim Baker, had previously been General Counsel for the FBI.

You may also know that the FBI was exchanging dozens of emails every day with Twatter "security chief" (and apparently total pedophile) Yoel Roth, planting the idea that the FBI had top-secret information that "Russia" was going to pull some sort of "hack and dump" operation just a couple of weeks before the presidential election to help the sitting president win re-election.

Just kidding--you likely know almost nothing about any of this, because the only thing the Mainstream Media has said about Twitter at ALL since Musk bought it is that Musk is an evil, rich meanie for firing all those faaabulous, virtuous people who were keeping you safe from seeing anything the Dems didn't want you to read.

And if you're a Democrat you don't WANT to know any of this-- because it proves, beyond doubt, that the FBI was pressuring Twatter and other social-media giants to delete true information that would have cost the Democrats votes.  In fact I suspect a significant percentage of Democrats see nothing at all wrong with the FBI pressuring media companies to spike the NY Post's story reporting that an abandoned laptop belonging to Hunter Biden contained thousands of emails showing the biden family was being paid millions by China.

I haven't seen a single liberal who considers the FBI pressuring Twatter to spike the laptop story to be in any way a limitation of free speech at the request of the government--since it helped the Democrats win the "presidency."  And it's pointless to ask Democrats how they'd feel if the roles were reversed and the Trump administration had pressured social-media giants to delete stories about GOP wrongdoing, cuz they simply reject the entire idea that the FBI helped the Democrats.  Dat just un-possible, citizen.

Now in the 7th release of Twatter emails we see even more direct evidence that the FBI--which had had possession of Hunter Biden's laptop since December 9th of 2019, and knew the damning emails it contained--devised an elaborate plan to neutralize that explosive revelation:  That plan was to claim the story about the laptop was all "Russian disinformation." Or that the emails supposedly on it were "hacked" (which wouldn't at all detract from their accuracy).  Or both.  Or something, anything, to protect the Democrat nominee for president, in an election just ten months away.

In other words, the FBI repeatedly, deliberately lied to help the Democrats win the presidency in 2020.  There it is, in one sentence.

[Just to refresh your memory, the emails on the laptop show that the biden family received huge payments from China, via various companies formed by Hunter.]

TWITTER FILES, part 7  -- posted by Michael Shellenberger
    Dec 19, 2022
[see also https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128?s=20&t=wWOBReiY21kHb8JRq5ng7Q

•  August, 2019:  A person claiming to be Hunter Biden drops off a laptop at a repair shop in Delaware.
•  September, 2019:  In recovering the laptop's hard drive the shop owner discovers thousands of emails, photos and other evidence suggesting serious criminal activity.  But believing the owner is the son of a powerful politician (and possible Democrat nominee for president), he simply recovers the data and calls a # Hunter left on the repair order to tell him he can pick it up.
• November, 2019:  Despite repeated calls, no one has picked up the laptop.  Knowing the laptop showed serious corruption, and believing the FBI was honest, the shop owner tells the FBI about the laptop.
• December 9th, 2019:  The FBI obtains a warrant allowing agents to seize the laptop.  Hours later agents enter the repair shop and take it.
• Jan 1 to October, 2020:  The FBI begins a daily campaign to warn Twatter "security minders" that after "colluding" to help Trump win the presidency in 2016, "foreign agents" were again trying to influence the 2020 presidential election to help Trump win.  Since virtually everyone working at Twatter is a leftist, they're eager to cooperate with the FBI demand to "safeguard our election."     No one bothers to ask why Russia would want to help the strongly pro-America Trump instead of the anti-military, pro-open-borders, pro-Obamacare biden--cuz all duh good pipo "knew" duh Russians conspired to help Trump win in 2016, so of course they'd back their candidate again in 2020, eh?
• August, 2020:  FBI agent Elvis Chan emails Twitter, "Does anyone there have a top-secret clearance?"  When someone mentions Jim Baker, Chan responds, "I don't know how I forgot him" — an odd claim, given Chan's job is to monitor Twitter, so he'd know all the former and current FBI agents working there.  Also, Chan had worked with Baker while the latter was still with the FBI.  Odd...
• Mid-Sept, 2020:  FBI agent Chan and Twatter security chief Yoel Roth set up an encrypted messaging network so FBI agents can communicate with their Twatter contacts without the contents being discoverable.  Nuthin' suspicious about that, eh?
  
• Sept 15, 2020:  the FBI’s Laura Dehmlow, who heads up the Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan, ask to give a classified briefing to Jim Baker, without any other Twitter staff present.
• September, 2020:  With the election just two months away a woman named Vivian Schiller organized what was called an "exercise" at the Aspen Institute.  The "exercise" involved a hypothetical "hack-and-dump" operation involving...wait for it...Hunter Biden. The goal was to suggest to the Mainstream Media and social media how they should cover such a TOTALLY hypothetical (and of course false) story to keep the "foreign actors" from "influencing our election"--which was now just two months away.
• The organizer of this "exercise"--Vivian Schiller--was a former CEO of National Public Radio, former "head of news" at Twitter and former general manager at the NY Times.  So total liberal Democrat.  Attendees included Twatter security chief Yoel Roth, and Fakebook's head of security, and "national security reporters" for the NY Times and Washington Post.
• October 13, 2020:  The New York Post calls Hunter to tell him they'll be publishing a story about his abandoned laptop the next day, asking if he wants to comment.
• October 13:  Less than 3 hours later emails show the FBI is talking with Twatter execs again, explicitly warning them that a big piece of "Russian disinformation" is about to drop, and that Twatter needs to "be vigilant" and do whatever they can to thwart the dangerous "Russian plot to influence our election."
• October 14:  The Post publishes the bombshell story  revealing the business dealings of former VP--and Dem presidential nominee--Joe Biden’s adult son.  Every detail in the story is accurate, but within hours Twatter "security" locks the Post's Twatter account so no one can link to the story via Twatter.  Twatter "security minders" then proceed to delete user tweets referring to the Post's true story.  Cuz we can't have malicious people tryin' ta influence our elections, eh?
• Within hours of Twatter locking the Post's account--making it impossible for users to link to the paper's article--other social media companies also begin deleting their references to the Post's story, further preventing it from spreading.   And significantly, because the story was deleted so fast, voters are more likely to think the story must not have been true--because no one imagines social media would delete all references to a totally true story.  Cuz that would require a huge conspiracy.  And such a thing is just unimaginable to most Americans.  
  

And the FBI didn't just pressure Twatter: In a televised interview Fakebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the FBI warned his company to "be on the alert" for what agents said was "a Russian hack-and-leak operation." "We thought there had been a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election," said Zuckerberg, "and that there was about to be some kind of dump similar to that."

Notice how the lie--the propaganda--of collusion in 2016 made it easy for Zuckerberg to believe the same thing was happening four years later.

It's important to understand that Hunter Biden was paid not just hundreds of thousands of dollars, but *tens of millions* of dollars through contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government.  There is no record of Hunter doing any actual work for those businesses, which suggests he was selling access. 

• Oct 14th:  Shortly after the NY Post publishes the Hunter Biden laptop story, Baker repeatedly insists to other Twatter execs, on internal email, that the damning emails the Post reportedly found on Biden's laptop were either fake or were "hacked" (illegally copied) or both--in which case Twitter policy demanded that the company delete any tweets spreading the story.  But the FBI had seized the laptop in December of the prior year, so it had to have known within a couple of weeks that the material was authentic.  So either the FBI lied to Baker in claiming the materials were faked, or Baker is lying.
• By 10 am Twitter execs were on-board with the wild hack-and-dump story. 
  
• October 14, 3:38 pm:  Baker arranges a phone conversation between Twatter execs and Matthew J. Perry in the Office of the General Counsel of the FBI, the thrust of which was that the Hunter Biden laptop was an elaborate fake.  The original Narrative--the cover story--was that someone had loaded "a" laptop, with fake emails and photos, and dropped it off at the repair shop in Delaware.
  

Because of the clever campaign by the FBI, Twitter and other social media companies worked fast to remove and discredit the Post's totally accurate story about Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop.  The Mainstream Media quickly followed suit.

Of course leftists who ran Twatter were eager to do anything to help the Democrat party, but it's also interesting that the FBI actually used taxpayer funds to pay Twitter $3.5 million for "staff time" helping the agency.

In early 2021 a Baker associate emailed “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 [from the FBI] since October 2019!”

Note the detail of than number: $3,415,323.  Sounds like someone was actually keeping track of the lucrative income stream, eh?

Democrats: "Nah, dis all jus' made up!  Duh FBI wuz investigatin' 'disinformation,' so why would it need to pay to compel cooperation in that investigation?  SEE?"