As the 2020 presidential campaign drew to a close, big tech firms worked to suppress discussion of incriminating material found on Hunter Biden's laptop.
Earlier this month, Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan pointed to witness testimony as evidence that this censorship stemmed from the FBI's efforts to protect the Biden family.
As the Daily Caller reported, Jordan posted a Twitter thread regarding FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan, who served as "the primary conduit between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and social media platforms."
THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 4. FBI LIED ABOUT MEETING WITH BIG TECH REGARDING NY POST’S HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY
Internal FB docs reveal that an FBI Special Agent made false statements in testimony about the FBI’s role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
🧵 Thread:
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
Jordan noted that current FITF Section Chief Laura Dehmlow told the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government last month that she and Chan met with Facebook and Twitter executives on October 14, 2020 to discuss the laptop story.
When Twitter asked if the laptop was real, an FBI agent said “yes.” But a second FBI agent—a lawyer—jumped in, cut him off, and said, “no further comment.”
Read the transcript for yourself: pic.twitter.com/2GxBWVOk7v
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
"Did Dehmlow know that the FBI had the laptop and it was real? Yes. Did other key members of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force know? Yes. The FBI knew the laptop was real and yet decided it would say 'no comment,'" Jordan wrote.
Yet when Chan testified this past fall as part of a lawsuit filed by Republican Attorneys General from Missouri and Louisiana, he said he said he was "confident" about not having participated in any laptop-related meetings with other tech companies.
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. pic.twitter.com/yMKnExtKMm
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
Jordan noted how Chan reiterated that position when asked if he was "aware of any communications between anyone at Facebook and anyone at the FBI related to the Hunter Biden laptop story?"
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
However, Jordan declared that his committee has "obtained an internal Facebook document PROVING that Agent Chan had a secret 'follow up' call with Facebook."
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! pic.twitter.com/fPkUQzDIy4
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
Jordan argued that the discrepancies explain "why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to interview Agent Chan."
Is there any wonder why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to interview Agent Chan?
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
