(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the same day the New York Post published its bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Oct. 14, 2020, FBI officials held a meeting with Twitter and Facebook—with agents refusing the confirm the laptop’s authenticity, which resulted in Twitter blocking the story from being shared and Facebook deamplifying it.
One of the FBI agents involved in this scandal, Elvis Chan, was deposed last October for the landmark Missouri v. Biden censorship case. There, he said that he had no further contact with social media companies about the Hunter Biden laptop after that Oct. 14, 2020, meeting.
But this is false, according to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who on Monday released the latest batch of Facebook Files—a trove of internal records showing the company’s censorship decisions. The latest files include an email from a Facebook employee—who was also a former FBI agent—about a “follow-up” meeting he had with Chan the next day on Oct. 15, 2020.
“I spoke with SSA Elvis Chan (FBI San Francisco) on 15 October 2020, as a follow-up to the call with the Foreign Influence Task Foce on 14 October. I asked SSA Chan whether there was any update or change since the discussion on 14 October 2020 as to whether the FBI saw any evidence suggesting foreign sponsorship or direction of the leak information related to Hunter Biden,” states the email from the Facebook employee, whose name is redacted.
“SSA Chan advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within the FBI and that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection or direction of the leak.”
Jordan noted that Chan’s remark about being “up to speed” on the Hunter Biden matter also undermines his earlier testimony that he had “no internal knowledge of [the FBI’s Hunter Biden laptop] investigation.”
Jordan’s disclosure follows another major revelation about the Hunter Biden social media censorship last month, when testimony from FBI official Laura Dehmlow was made public—showing that the bureau knew the laptop was authentic at the time it was cautioning social media about Russian disinformation.
“Somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real. And one of the FBI folks who was on the call did confirm that ‘yes, it was,’ before another participant jumped in and said, ‘No further comment,’” Dehmlow told the Judiciary Committee last month, according to Jordan.
“Of course, there was ‘no evidence’ of ‘any foreign connection,'” Jordan said Monday about his recent disclosures. “The laptop was real, and the FBI knew it.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
