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FBI’s Unethical Conduct Cannot Go Unpunished

FBI’s Unethical Conduct Cannot Go Unpunished

The motto of the FBI is Fidelity. Bravery. Integrity. These words are displayed on the FBI seal.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Fidelity can be traced back to the Latin fidēlis, meaning “faithful, loyal, trustworthy.”. Integrity is defined as having firm adherence to a code of especially moral values. Some synonyms of fidelity are trustability, trustiness, and trustworthiness. Honesty, goodness, and correctness are common words associated with integrity.

Fidelity. Trustability. Trustiness. Trustworthiness. Integrity. Honesty. Goodness. Correctness. These words should always describe an FBI agent as well as FBI leadership. These men and women should always keep their honor clean. It’s alarming and disappointing these words no longer describe the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to an August 2022 Rasmussen Reports survey[1], fifty percent (50%) of voters have a favorable impression of the FBI, including 26% who have a Very Favorable view of the bureau. Forty-six percent (46%) now view the FBI unfavorably, including 29% who have a Very Unfavorable impression of the bureau.

The FBI has lost the support of nearly half the nation because it has been unfaithful to the American people. It has proven to be untrustworthy. It has been dishonest with the country in such a despicable and cowardly way, at the worst possible time – just weeks before the 2020 presidential election between then President Donald Trump and the challenger, former Vice president Joe Biden. It was the FBI’s sin of omission that quite possibly tipped the scales in favor of Joe Biden.  

Democrats bemoan the relentless interest in Hunter Biden’s laptop as nothing more than the GOP’s effort to hurt President Joe Biden as retribution for the twice impeached, twice acquitted former president, Donald J. Trump. They say there’s no connection between Hunter’s misdeeds, indiscretions, and criminality, to his father Joe Biden. They make such assertions in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary. Yet they persist in their denial. When it comes to the 2020 election, the Democrats scoff at even the slightest suggestion Joe Biden didn’t win fair and square.

When the October 14, 2020 edition of the New York Post was published, if contained an article based on emails recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop. One of the emails purported that then Vice president Joe Biden had a meeting with a Burisma advisor Vadym Pozharskyi. Soon thereafter, the liberal press closed ranks and attacked the New York Post’s article as false. The “deep state” jumped in and produced a letter signed by 51 national security experts claiming the Hunter Biden laptop content had all the earmarks of a Russian “misinformation” campaign. The FBI pressured social media to censor the New York Post article. Twitter and Facebook were all too willing to cooperate. On October 22, 2020 Joe Biden stood on a debate stage and announced that the story was false and it was a Russian hoax. We now know otherwise, but the FBI knew otherwise all along! And so did Joe Biden!

In November 2019 the FBI went to computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac’s home and made a forensic copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI left the original devices behind with Isaac. The FBI has the technology to rapidly authenticate the forensic copy it made of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive. Absolutely nothing would have prevented the authenticity process to take more than 30 days. Consequently, it’s safe to say the FBI knew in December 2019 the laptop and hard drive content was indeed Hunter Biden’s.

In December 2019 the FBI returned and confiscated the Hunter Biden laptop along with the recovered data from the hard drive. Isaac claims the FBI told him that if Hunter Biden returned to the repair shop to pick up his devices, to tell Hunter the laptop was in storage. Isaac was then to notify the FBI through a text message that Hunter Biden wanted to pick up his devices, and the FBI would bring the laptop and recovered hard drive back to the shop.

By coming back for the devices, and telling Isaac what to do if Hunter came back for his property, the FBI’s instructions and confiscation of the devices confirms they knew the content and hardware belonged to Hunter Biden.

The FBI knew beyond a shadow of doubt the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, and not part of an elaborate Russian operation to harm the Biden campaign. The FBI knew the New York Post article was accurate, and the liberal press, the 51 national security experts, and social media platforms were all wrong to be censoring the truth.

The laptop and content recovered from the hard drive is 100% Hunter Biden’s, and the emails recovered would be harmful to the Biden campaign if the truth were to be told. The FBI knew all of this, yet it participated in the censorship of the truth to protect the Biden campaign. FBI agents even told social media platforms, in advance of the October 14, 2020 New York Post article, to be on the lookout for “misinformation” about Hunter Biden that would be detrimental to the Biden campaign for President of the United States! It is mind-numbing to debate this reality with the liberal democrat who insists there is nothing to see here. Their denial or desperation runs deep! 

The moment pushback against the New York Post article began, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had a moral duty to hold a press conference and set the record straight. The FBI had a responsibility to ensure a fair election by not allowing the false narrative of a Russian misinformation operation to take hold and spread like a wildfire through the minds of voters. The FBI had no right or legal justification to withhold the truth from the American people. The FBI’s sin of omission[2] possibly cost Donald J. Trump the election. Clearly that was the goal, and in that regard, the FBI succeeded.

Nearing three years later and nobody has been criminally charged at the FBI for allowing one of the biggest hoaxes in American political history to unfold. Words cannot describe the depth of deception the FBI has deployed to deceive the United States of America.

The FBI purposely allowed the American people to believe a fabricated story about a true story. The FBI’s sin of omission helped Joe Biden and harmed Donald Trump.

The FBI lacks Fidelity.

The FBI lacks Bravery.

The FBI lacks Integrity.

Fidelity. Trustability. Trustiness. Trustworthiness. Integrity. Honesty. Goodness. Correctness. None of these words describe today’s FBI.


[1] ‘Biden’s Gestapo’? Trump Raid Hurts Voter Trust in FBI, August 18, 2022, https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/public_surveys/biden_s_gestapo_trump_raid_hurts_voter_trust_in_fbi

 [2] In Christianity, a sin of omission is a sin committed by willingly not performing a certain action. The theology behind a sin of omission derives from James 4:17, which teaches “Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.” Its opposite is the sin of commission, i.e., a sin resulting from an action performed.

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