FBI disinformation in response to Twitter disclosures

 Newsbusters:

Locked and loaded Thursday morning on the Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co., Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell told fill-in host David Asman that the FBI “knowingly” lied and peddled “disinformation” in a statement smearing the Twitter Files with it having been “none of [their] damn” business to suppress the New York Post’s Hunter Biden reporting.

Asman explained in the lead-in that the FBI responded to the Twitter Files by insisting they give “critical information to the private sector...to allow them to protect themselves” and that it’s “unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation for the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
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If Congress wanted to “do its job,” Bozell replied, they’d investigate Twitter and “look at that statement...because that was classic disinformation.”

Bozell then noted the importance of the FBI’s role in suppressing the spread of the original Post story in having allowed the media to steal the 2020 election:

That was knowingly — they told another lie they had been participating in this. Let’s go back. We need to understand the importance of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden is the reason Joe Biden won for the simple reason that had the Hunter Biden story been told — we have proven it — that in the seven swing states where there was — where the — where the election was close, 54 percent of president Biden's supporters new nothing about Hunter Biden and when we told them about Hunter Biden, 9. 4 percent said they would not have voted for Biden, Donald Trump would have won Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Michigan — would have won every single state, 311 electoral votes.

He added that, since the FBI had the laptop, they and their leftist allies “knew how strong this was, so before it came out, they did everything in their power to discredit it.”

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“So, for them to come out now and say, well, we just gave information out there on disinformation, first, it’s none of your damn job to be doing that. And number two, that — that’s not what you’re doing,” he said.

When Asman noted that “it’s certainly not” the FBI’s “job to be paying Twitter $3.5 million for the work that they’re doing,” Bozell called it out for what it was: “bribery.”

Asked to close out by elaborating on the liberal media’s “culpability...in all of this,” Bozell stated the reality that other outlets could have gone to the Post to examine the hard drive for themselves and they would have found it legitimate.

Instead, outlets such as The New York Times waited “two years before they said, yeah, you know, everything is true there.”

Bozell concluded with the reality that, if these news outlets “were serious about journalism, serious about getting to the truth,” they would all “look at this and we’ve shown you study after study where they refused to cover it” with the same now largely happening with the Twitter Files.
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I think those responsible for ignoring this important story were motivated by irrational Trump hatred and favoritism toward the Democrats.  It was indeed them who were pushing disinformation to help elect the worst President in history.  To wait two years to admit they were wrong certainly does not cure the damage they have done to the country by helping Biden get elected.

See, also:

The FBI Paid Twitter to Censor Conservative Free Speech