Hunter Biden and the Deep State | The Free Press

This kind of deep state is a paranoid fiction. But a more nuanced version of this concept call it the national security state does in fact exist. It is the secret part of our government and it includes entrenched bureaucrats at our intelligence agencies, the FBI, and the military. Because its actions and policies are often highly classified, it often acts with little real oversight or accountability. 

Since Trump s emergence on the national scene in 2016, elements of this deep state have used their power to advance the interests of his political opposition. 

And the latest news from Congress on Hunter Biden further fuels the perception that powerful parts of the government undermined Trump s presidency. 

Last Thursday, House Republicans dropped another bombshell. This one was about the infamous laptop that Biden abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware that became grist for a series of scoops before the 2020 election from the New York Post. 

You ll recall that those scoops weren t as big a news story as was the fact that Facebook and Twitter banned users from sharing the story on the theory that it was the fruit of Kremlin fakery intended to sway the presidential election. It turns out that the FBI officials who warned social media companies that the laptop story might be part of a Russian scheme to mislead voters themselves knew that the laptop was real. And they knew so as early as December of 2019. 

But instead of clarifying that the FBI had verified its contents, the bureau instead allowed a falsehood about its provenance to linger. Savor the irony. In an effort to counter Russian disinformation, the FBI actively allowed American disinformation to spread. 

Put simply, after the FBI conditioned social media companies to believe that the laptop was the product of a hack-and-dump operation, the Bureau stopped its information sharing, allowing social media companies to conclude that the New York Post story was Russian disinformation, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, wrote to FBI director Chris Wray. 

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A long, sordid story.