I was reading up on the Hunter Biden laptop thing. The laptop repairman (John Paul Mac Isaac) who turned in the laptop claimed that an FBI agent threatened him to stay silent.
Some details: Mac Isaac said he was threatened by the agents after he cracked a joke. He said, "Hey, lads, I'll remember to change your names when I write the book". He told the New York Post that one FBI agent, by the name of DeMeo, responded to him and said: "It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don t talk about these things."
See link for more details:
https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/hunter-biden-laptop-repairman-says-fbi-threatened-him-to-stay-silent/Of course, I realize that Mac Isaac could have made this up. But assuming he was telling the truth, then I would say the FBI certainly did threaten him. Maybe not directly, but in a veiled, round-about way. DeMeo was essentially saying stuff might happen to him if he didn't keep his mouth shut.
Assuming this exchange did happen, what does it say about US' top-level law enforcement agency? And why didn't the FBI challenge the repairman's accusation? If he made this up, they could sue for defamation. And it's stupid to argue that the agent did not make a direct threat. Everybody can tell the agent threatened the repairman in an indirect way. It just cannot be proven in court. Which makes it even worse, because it means that the FBI has a lot of practice in how to threaten people without breaking the law.
I bet the FBI probably considers itself very intelligent for being able to threaten people without breaking the law. However, this is clever in the short-term but incredibly stupid in the long-term. People who they have threatened will continue to believe they have been threatened by the FBI, despite that there is no legal grounds to sue them. They know deep down in their hearts what happened. They know that they have been threatened by the FBI. And some of them come forward, much like the repairman did, and this really damages the FBI's reputation and it severely diminishes their image in people's eyes. In fact, someone who hates the FBI could in theory reach out to this repairman and recruit him.
Like I said, the FBI is actually incredibly stupid. Creating enemies out of people like that and they don't even realize it. Not only that, we can actually learn from this encounter that the highest law enforcement agency in the land, is morally bankrupt. Instead of investigating whether Hunter Biden really did anything bad like they should, they are trying to cover it up by threatening a whistleblower. This, is the FBI, everybody.
While we are on the FBI: I was talking to someone about Jan 6th. I said that people who stormed the capitol were found to be FBI agents according to certain sources. And then she asked for proof. She asked what were the sources that say that? It's a fair question. I can see why she would ask it; I mean, we want our news and information to come from reliable sources and we cannot accuse people without having real proof. But I wish to point something out, something that I am sure many people already have an inkling about, and that is this: the intelligence communities (the FBI, CIA, or the CSIS in my country) engage in a lot of covert operations. They hide any trails that might lead back to them. They cover their tracks. They engage in false flag attacks. They put sleeper agents in various spaces. They stage sting operations that are almost indistinguishable from entrapment. They employ nefarious, asymmetrical tactics. And you can bet that they are smart enough to scrub the place clean once they have done their deed. In other words, just because there is no proof, it doesn't mean they didn't do it. I know this is a very unsatisfactory basis to go on, but such is the nature of the subject we are dealing with. I am not trying to prove any wrongdoing. I simply do not have any proof. But I want to tell the regular Americans that they need to do something that is very alien to their nature, and that is they need to be a little on guard, a little suspicious, with respect to their government. Especially when it comes to the feds.