Embarrassing moment FBI cyber chief admits
to not knowing what the agency has done
with Hunter Biden's seized laptop - as
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz whips out
a copy of the hard drive and has it admitted
into Congress as evidence
Posted By: Ribicon, 3/29/2022 5:35:19 PM
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) got into a heated spat over the whereabouts of Hunter Biden's laptop during a House Judiciary hearing on oversight of the FBI's Cyber Division on Tuesday. The Republican firebrand used his allotted time to grill the division's assistant director Bryan Vorndran, who repeatedly told Gaetz he didn't have any information on where the hard drive belonging to President Joe Biden's son is currently located.(Snip)'You are the assistant director of FBI cyber. I want to know where Hunter Biden's laptop is. Where is it?' he pressed. The FBI official replied, 'Sir, I don't know that answer.' Gaetz called Vorndran's claim 'astonishing.'
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That brings us to some testimony from the FBI's assistant director for cybersecurity who told Congress's Rep. Matt Gaetz that he had no idea where Hunter Biden's laptop, entrusted to FBI custody, actually is:
According to the Post Millennial:
"Who has it?" Gaetz asked.
"I don’t know who has it," said [FBI Assistant Director for the Cyber Division Bryan] Vorndran.
"What now you're telling me right here is that as the Assistant Director of FBI Cyber, you don't know where this is, after it was turned over to you three years ago?" Gaetz said.
"Yes, sir. That's an accurate statement," Vorndran responded.
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Matt Gaetz whipping it out would not be a welcome thing under normal circumstances, but we're living in interesting times and the FBI continues to reveal itself for what it is. Good thing the computer repairman made multiple copies of those hard drives or they'd have been "lost" by now.