You wanted to know why the FBI ignored it. I told you. Piss and moan all you want, the fact is a laptop that’s been out of a person’s possession for months or years, passed around apparently every influential GOP in NYC, has a legally useless possession chain. Stuff on there could come from anybody.
How is that different from the Steele “dossier?”
Yeah. Chain of custody is broken.
What you wrote is simply not true. The FBI convicted a former business partner of Hunter and Archer of fraud. The fraud conviction for Archer has been reinstated.
The FBI has their computers! Would emails stored on those computers and different servers not authenticate the emails on the abandoned computer? In any fraud investigation the FBI or any investigating agency including your local police will obtain records from servers, cloud storage, and computers and cellular phones as well as banks and other financial organizations. They had to do this or the Judge that sentenced the defendant would ask where it was. This is a clearly established practice and required proof.
The former FBI defendant has corroborated the scheme as he sits in jail and Hunter got a pass. That is also corroboration.
Furthermore, the GOP committee in the Senate led by Johnson has also obtained records that corroborate the scheme and likely much of what is on the abandoned computer.
Hunter emailed and communicated with government employees at the state department. Records of those communications would be easily authenticated by the FBI and compared to the emails and text messages saved on the abandoned computer.
Investigative journalist and Rudy G also have presented clear evidence of the scheme in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
That is how investigations work. In this case, it is pretty obvious that 1) there was no investigation, they sat on it and 2) they purposely withheld information from the President during the impeachment that was directly relevant.
There is clear evidence and this is a very simple investigation that would take a few months at most. They have had the harddrive for 10 months. Did they attempt to do or review any of what I wrote above? Apparently not.
Did Barr know about this? His silence is perplexing and this has dropped squarely on him like a nuclear bomb. I would like to think there is no way he knew about this during the impeachment process as he was highly scornful of it from start to finish.
Did Wray withhold this from DOJ and Barr?
I know why and doubt many of us would disagree that this is further partisanship on the part of the swamp. However, these are critical questions that must be answered because they clearly show the double standard many of us are so angry about.