According to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), FBI special agent Elvis Chan made “false statements in testimony about the FBI’s role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.”
“FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan is the main conduit between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech,” Jordan said.
“Agent Chan was in the meeting between the FBI and Facebook on Oct. 14, 2020—the day the @nypost published its story on the Hunter Biden laptop.”
FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan is the main conduit between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech.
Agent Chan was in the meeting between the FBI and Facebook on Oct. 14, 2020—the day the @nypost published its story on the Hunter Biden laptop.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
“Chan first testified about the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting where Dehmlow said ‘no comment’ when Facebook asked if the Hunter Biden laptop was real,” Jordan said.
Chan first testified about the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting where Dehmlow said “no comment” when Facebook asked if the Hunter Biden laptop was real. pic.twitter.com/CrzfQn2znk
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
“Chan was then asked if the FBI had any meetings with companies, other than the Facebook meeting, about the Hunter Biden story? Chan responds that he is ‘confident’ that he was not part of any meetings with Big Tech about Hunter Biden,” Jordan said.
“Chan was asked again if, other than the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting, he was ‘aware of any communications between anyone at Facebook and anyone at the FBI related to the Hunter Biden laptop story?’ He answered: ‘No.'”
Chan was asked again if, other than the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting, he was “aware of any communications between anyone at Facebook and anyone at the FBI related to the Hunter Biden laptop story?”
He answered: “No.” pic.twitter.com/bwHXU9DjpC
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
“COMPLETELY FALSE. The Committee has recently obtained an internal Facebook document PROVING that Agent Chan had a secret “follow up” call with Facebook about the Hunter Biden laptop story on October 15, just one day after the @nypost story and the first Facebook meeting!” Jordan commented.
“Those weren’t Agent Chan’s only inconsistent statements. Agent Chan also claimed in the deposition that he had ‘no internal knowledge of [the FBI’s] investigation’ involving Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Those weren’t Agent Chan’s only inconsistent statements. Agent Chan also claimed in the deposition that he had “no internal knowledge of [the FBI’s] investigation” involving Hunter Biden’s laptop. pic.twitter.com/eGf4gfx3wW
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
“But the Facebook employee, an ex-FBI agent, wrote—the day after the story broke—that ‘Chan advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within the FBI.’ Chan also told FB that ‘there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection…of the leaks,'” Jordan said.
Of course, there was “no evidence” of “any foreign connection.”
The laptop was real, and the FBI knew it.
The FBI had the laptop since December 2019.https://t.co/OGvmv44njE
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
The New York Post reports:
That deposition was part of a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, which charged the White House colluded with tech giants to unlawfully suppress free speech.
The task force’s section chief, Laura Dehmlow, told the House Judiciary Committee in July that on an earlier phone call with Twitter officials on Oct. 14, 2022, an FBI agent confirmed the laptop was authentic “before another participant jumped in and said no further comment.”
Chan also denied having discussed the laptop with any Twitter officials.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called Chan’s testimony “COMPLETELY FALSE” and said the agent had served as “the main conduit between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech.”
“Of course, there was ‘no evidence’ of ‘any foreign connection.’ The laptop was real, and the FBI knew it,” Jordan said. “Is there any wonder why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to interview Agent Chan?”
The bureau had verified the authenticity of the materials on Hunter’s abandoned laptop nearly a year earlier, in November 2019, an IRS investigator tasked with the case testified in May to the House Ways and Means Committee.
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