FBI’s Hunter Biden Laptop Censorship Scheme Was Part Of Larger Partisan Operation, New Documents Suggest
Operation “Round River” framed Republicans as “conduits” of Russian disinformation and Democrats as “targets”
In 2023, as part of the Twitter Files, I reported on a plan by FBI officials to spread disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop as part of a scheme to censor and suppress information about the Biden family’s influence peddling. The files showed the FBI’s former General Counsel, who became Deputy General Counsel at Twitter in the spring of 2020, successfully persuading his colleagues to censor the New York Post article about the laptop under the pretext that it could be Russian disinformation.
Now, the White House has released documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) showing that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force-Russia (FITF-R) in December 2019, one month after an FBI field office took possession of the hard drives from Hunter Biden’s laptop, “unofficially formed a group of analysts who utilized internal systems to gather any all derogatory information previously reported by confidential human sources (CHSs) on Joseph Biden, corruption, and other Ukraine related-topics (known as, the ‘Ukraine Narrative,’) including Burisma, Hunter Biden, Mykolva Zlochevskay, Ukraine Interference in 2016 US Presidential election to red flag the reporting as Russian disinformation.” (Bolded text in the original document.)
