How does the FBI 'lose' a laptop like Hunter Biden's?

[mystery-ak]

March 30, 2022
How does the FBI 'lose' a laptop like Hunter Biden's?
By Monica Showalter

Some things don't make sense.
 
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.

    "How are Americans supposed to trust that you can protect us from the next Colonial pipeline if it seems you can’t locate a laptop that was given to you three years ago from the First Family, potentially creating vulnerabilities for our country?" Gaetz asked.

    "Sir, it's not in the purview of my investigative responsibilities," Vorndran said.

    "But that is shocking that you wouldn’t, as the Assistant Director of Cyber, know whether or not there are international business deals, kickbacks, shakedowns, that are on this laptop that would make the First Family suspect to some sort of compromise," said Gaetz.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/how_does_the_fbi_lose_a_laptop_like_hunter_bidens.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

'FBI Cyber Chief can't find Hunter Biden's laptop"  (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1508842680830382089

[Cyber Liberty]

How does the FBI 'lose' a laptop like Hunter Biden's?

Deliberately.  Duh.

[Fishrrman]

"How does the FBI 'lose' a laptop like Hunter Biden's?"

Very carefully.
So that:
1. No one knows where it is (well, almost "no one")
but
2. It can still be "found" if circumstances require.

[Smokin Joe]

Accidentally on purpose...that's how.

I have long been of the impression that these fruitless and extensive investigations were only for the purpose of finding and losing evidence and locating witnesses for the purpose of intimidating them or setting up the 'accidents'.

"There is no evidence which exists..." (Janet Reno)

[Kamaji]

Accidentally on purpose...that's how.

I have long been of the impression that these fruitless and extensive investigations were only for the purpose of finding and losing evidence and locating witnesses for the purpose of intimidating them or setting up the 'accidents'.

"There is no evidence which exists..." (Janet Reno)

[sneakypete]

Accidentally on purpose...that's how.

I have long been of the impression that these fruitless and extensive investigations were only for the purpose of finding and losing evidence and locating witnesses for the purpose of intimidating them or setting up the 'accidents'.

"There is no evidence which exists..." (Janet Reno)

@Smokin Joe

Yup! The best defense is a good offense,and what can be a sweeter deal than investigating yourselves?

[catfish1957]

@Smokin Joe

Yup! The best defense is a good offense,and what can be a sweeter deal than investigating yourselves?

I do understand copies exist, which is why I was asking the IT experts here yesterday how forensically enforceable that copy may be in court.   Gaetz loaded the thing in the congressional record.  Hope they enlist an army to parse every single word of the SOB.