DOJ indicts FBI informant to protect Biden By Editorial Board - The Washington Times - Friday, February 23, 2024
OPINION:
Lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a crime — but only if the fib interferes with the Democratic Party’s agenda. Consider the case of Alexander Smirnov, a paid FBI informant who was indicted last week.
Federal prosecutors say Mr. Smirnov was “actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections” and promoting “a new false narrative” about President Biden and his son Hunter. If that’s a crime, why was Christopher Steele not arrested for peddling a dossier filled with nothing but fabrications — paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign — with the intention of hobbling then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016?
Mr. Steele peddled his bundle of deceit to every government official and reporter willing to take his call, doing incalculable damage. Mr. Smirnov, by contrast, spoke only to his FBI handler, which had no impact because the feds have never done anything about Biden family corruption.
By now, the Department of Justice’s game has become familiar. This new indictment was dropped with the intention of generating headlines like NBC’s “Former FBI informant received false information about Bidens from Russian intel officials.” Because so many voters on the left don’t read past the headlines, this tidies up Mr. Biden’s reputation as November approaches.
The same trick was used in the last election campaign, when 50 former intelligence officials — including five CIA directors — asserted that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of Russian disinformation.” This was a lie.
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