Emails released on Saturday as part of the latest dump of the "Twitter Files" reveal that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI field office investigating Hunter Biden sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter - so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it "odd."
The FBI has some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations," then-Twitter legal executive Stacia Cardille stressed in a Nov. 3, 2020, email to Jim Baker, the then-deputy general counsel for Twitter.
- "This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days," Cardille continued, before telling Baker to let her know if he had any other questions."
The FBI ran keyword searches for supposed Twitter violations
- The Baltimore FBI field office covers all of Delaware for the bureau and thus supported (and continues to support) the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office in its investigation of Hunter Biden
- FBI headquarters entangled itself in the Hunter Biden probe
- In July 2022, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced that "multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions," had claimed that "in August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden's activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down."
The FBI’s Response
- The FBI issued a statement claiming that the correspondence between Twitter and the FBI was “an example of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.”
- This contradicts the fact that the FBI has actively sought out people and speech to censor for the benefit of their politician of choice.
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