(Daily Caller) A lawsuit from the America First Legal Foundation (AFL) produced documents Wednesday showing the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) worked to discredit the New York Post’s reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
AFL shared images from the documents Wednesday on X, including an internal CISA email thread from Oct. 14, 2020, when the New York Post first reported on Hunter Biden’s laptop contents and social media platforms censored the story.
/1🚨EXPLOSIVE DOCS — new docs obtained from our lawsuit against DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) indicate the federal gov’t immediately participated in an effort to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story the same day of the @nypost’s reporting: pic.twitter.com/L9bcuWbu5z
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) October 25, 2023
CISA officials appeared to schedule a meeting Oct. 14 surrounding the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s relationship with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.
Hunter Biden was paid more than $80,000 per month as a Burisma board member despite having no experience in the energy sector or Ukrainian affairs, according to bank records released in August by the House Oversight Committee.
EXPLOSIVE: Government censors at CISA linked the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story to a “QAnon Conspiracy Theory” and a “convoluted web of falsehoods” about Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a lawsuit by @America1stLegal reveals @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/oG84UX589M
— James Lynch (@jameslynch32) October 25, 2023
In addition, a CISA official appeared to link the New York Post’s Hunter Biden’s laptop coverage to a “QAnon Conspiracy Theory” and a barrage of supposedly false information being spread about Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election, an Oct. 22, 2020, document shows.
“Driving the news: Recent reports about what was purported to be Hunter Biden’s computer hard drive have sparked renewed activity from Q, with more concrete ideas to latch onto,” a CISA document shared by America First Legal reads. “On the day the New York Post reported on the alleged hard drive, Q posted 16 times, per GroupSense.”
The CISA employee also linked the Hunter Biden laptop story to “the Pizzagate conspiracy theory” and a “convoluted web of falsehoods being spread to undermine Joe Biden,” AFL found. The organization obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records related to the government’s attempt to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
CISA’s apparent pressure on social media platforms to censor speech online is part of the landmark Missouri vs. Biden First Amendment lawsuit to be heard by the Supreme Court. At the same time, the Supreme Court paused an injunction from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals preventing the Biden administration from coercing social media companies into censoring speech online.
