Incoming GOP Chairman Sends Warning Shot To All Twitter Employees Tied To Hunter Biden Laptop Controversy | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Daniel Chaitin.

    House Republicans will work to bring in "every" single employee involved in efforts to restrict the spread of reporting about the Hunter Biden laptop ahead of the 2020 election, an incoming chairman for a powerful committee vowed on Friday.

    Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who is currently the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, made the declaration Friday night following the publication of internal Twitter communications about how to handle a New York Post story about the contents of the laptop believed to have belonged to President Joe Biden's son, including details about Hunter's business dealings, drug use, and sex life. The temporary suppression of the story has led to claims of improper election influence by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

    "In January, Jason, when I take your old position as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, I can promise you this: Every employee at Twitter who was involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story will have an opportunity to come before Congress and explain their actions to the American people," Comer told Jason Chaffetz, a former congressman who was guest-hosting in place of Fox News' Sean Hannity.

    "This was a huge story," he added. Comer then went a bit further, saying, "This story's just beginning ... because we're going to have every single person at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible."

    The string of Twitter messages were published Friday evening with the blessing of CEO Elon Musk by journalist Matt Taibbi, who said the decision to crack down on the reporting "was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role."

    Among the other officials revealed to have been involved in discussions about the decision to limit the reach of the story under the site's "hacked materials" policy was Twitter's deputy general counsel, former top FBI lawyer James Baker. The disclosure led Yoel Roth, Twitter's former Sr. Director, Head of Trust & Safety, to raise concerns about the potential for harm posed to those whose identities were revealed.

    Some of the messages showed deliberations within Twitter as to how to respond to requests from the "Biden team" (likely the presidential campaign of Joe Biden, Hunter's father) and the "DNC" (likely the Democratic National Committee), apparently asking to delete certain tweets.

    Taibbi stressed that he has seen no evidence of "any government involvement in the laptop story," though he noted several sources who recalled hearing about a "general" warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks. The journalist also said "both parties" had the ability to request that certain posts be reviewed and deleted. "For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored," Taibbi tweeted, adding that the system appeared to be skewed in favor of the Democrats.

    During the interview, Comer explained how Republicans have already made moves to prepare for taking over the House in the next term.

    "We knew that the [Democratic] National Committee was communicating with Twitter. We knew the Biden campaign was communicating with Twitter," Comer said. "That's why, in April of this year, we, on the House Oversight Committee, requested that Twitter preserve all documents and correspondence between Twitter executives and the [Democratic] National Committee and the Biden campaign with respect to the Hunter Biden laptop story."

poll#147

Do you consider Election Integrity an issue of some real importance, or just another conspiracy theory interfering with Democratic Socialist political hegemony?

  No, complete access to everyone voting, even in a willy nilly manner, is more important than getting it right by limiting access to those that would commit Voter Fraud.

  Yes, the most inalienable right of real citizens of this Democratic Republic is the Right to Vote, and that right shall remain sacrosanct for perpetuity.

  Again, I don't vote and I don't care.

730 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#128

Where do you stand on the wanton censorship by Big Tech Platforms, while retaining their Section 230 carveout indemnifying them for Slander /Defamation lawsuits and Copyright infringements?

  Big Tech Platforms have the right to Censor all speech providing they voluntarily relinquish their Section 230 Carveout.

  Big Tech Platforms DO NOT have the right to Censor any speech, while retaining multiple indemnifications by virtue of the Section 230 Carveout.

  I know nothing of this 230 talk, but "I do love me some social media".

476 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

674 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?