Andrew McCarthy
NY Post, Dec. 5, 2022
“Did the FBI actually say the Biden evidence was Russian disinformation? It clearly came pretty damn close.”
STOP looking for a smoking gun. That’s not how this game works. Just as it did in 2016, the Democratic Party colluded during the 2020 presidential campaign with FBI leadership, its like-minded transnational-progressives in the loose-lipped community of current and former national-security officials and the media. The objective in 2020, as in 2016, was to try to drag a weak, deeply compromised Democratic candidate across the finish line.
The scheme worked in 2020 where it failed in 2016. A big part of the difference was Democrats and their collaborators put major 2020 emphasis on social-media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, which had served Donald Trump well in 2016.
The result was the systematic suppression of the Biden family corruption scandal: the staggering millions of dollars that are now known to have been poured into the Biden coffers from agents of such authoritarian, anti-American regimes as China and Russia and such corrupt ones as Ukraine. Joe Biden is in it up to his neck, although the media Democrat complex continues branding the scandal as “the Hunter Biden probe.”
That is why the social-media platforms disappeared the New York Post’s explosive reporting about Hunter’s “Laptop from Hell,” to borrow the title of the essential book on the subject by The Post’s Miranda Devine.
Just don’t look for a smoking gun. We’re not going to see an FBI document that says, “Tell Twitter the Biden evidence is Russian disinformation.” When the new Chief Twit, Elon Musk, released the so-called Twitter Files over the weekend, Matt Taibbi’s consequent thread of reporting observed there’s no evidence of a specific warning to socialmedia platforms that the Biden information was sourced to Russia or hacked. As Devine countered, however, there is significant evidence of FBI collusion in the scheme.
But it is not necessary for FBI officials to issue specific warnings to convey the message a story should be killed.
In these schemes, there are sophisticated actors in each camp, including former government officials in media and social media. When government officials do their nod-and-a-wink routine, these execs get the hint. The higher-ups at Twitter and Facebook knew the FBI wasn’t holding regular preelection meetings with them idly. They would also have understood that when briefing private parties the FBI can’t accuse people of specific criminal misconduct. So it keeps things “general.” That, along with its perceived authority, allows it to get its accusatory message across but later deny it did so. … SOURCE