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Sid Miller

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BOMBSHELL: 14 FBI InformantsrCoand Then THIS Happened
Newly declassified intelligence documents released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force have exposed what may be one of the
most brazen cover-ups in modern FBI history: a secret operation,
codenamed rCLRound River,rCY that was used to bury credible evidence of
Biden family corruption in Ukraine while simultaneously smearing
prominent conservatives, including a sitting attorney general and
secretary of state, as conduits for Russian disinformation.
According to the documents, the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies received derogatory information about Joe Biden from no fewer than 14
separate informants in the years leading up to the 2020 election. Rather
than pursuing that evidence through a legitimate investigation, a task
force of FBI analysts moved instead to discredit it, labeling the
material and the people exposing it as tools of a Kremlin influence
campaign. The operation reportedly began around December 2019, embedded
inside the FBIrCOs Foreign Influence Task Force, the same Russia-focused
unit at FBI headquarters that played a central role in some of the
bureaurCOs most controversial actions over the past decade.
The scope of who was targeted by this operation is staggering. Among
those the FBI formally designated as disinformation rCLconduitsrCY were
former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo, two of the most senior officials in the prior Trump
administration. The list did not stop there. Sitting United States
senators, including Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson, and Lindsey Graham,
along with House committee chairmen Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan, were all
swept into the same disinformation designation, even as they were
actively conducting legitimate congressional oversight into whether the corruption allegations against the Biden family held merit.
Journalists were reportedly caught up in the same dragnet. Reporters who
had published stories examining Hunter BidenrCOs business dealings with
the Ukrainian energy company Burisma found themselves labeled by their
own government as unwitting or witting vehicles for foreign propaganda,
simply for doing their jobs and reporting on matters of obvious public interest during a presidential election.
A spreadsheet recovered from intelligence agency files and made public
as part of this release reportedly organized more than six dozen
prominent organizations and individuals connected to the Biden Ukraine
scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
The spreadsheet divided these figures along unmistakably political
lines. Democrats and their allies were categorized as innocent rCLtargetsrCY of Russian disinformation. Conservatives investigating or reporting on
the Biden family were categorized as rCLconduitsrCY spreading it. The politicization could not be more transparent.
Perhaps most disturbing is what the documents reveal about how far the
bureau was willing to go to protect the operationrCOs credibility.
According to the declassified files, FBI personnel involved in Round
River altered the confidential human source files of at least three long-serving informants, inserting language designed to suggest those informants themselves were perpetrators of Russian disinformation rather
than credible sources providing derogatory information about the Biden
family. In other words, rather than simply ignoring inconvenient
evidence, the bureau allegedly took affirmative steps to discredit the
very informants who had brought that evidence forward in good faith.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed key details of the operation in a
formal letter sent to the White House Government Transparency Task
Force. Patel disclosed that the bureau has identified at least 14
informants who provided derogatory information on the Biden family, and confirmed that the unit responsible for the Round River operation has
since been terminated, with an internal investigation now underway into whether the program was deliberately used to shield Joe Biden from accountability during his 2020 presidential campaign.
A 2025 summary of the operation compiled by the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence is similarly damning. That summary reportedly acknowledges that the Round River team never actually corroborated any
of the specific allegations tied to what analysts internally referred to
as the rCLUkraine narrative.rCY In plain terms, the FBI did not disprove the corruption allegations against the Biden family. It simply relabeled
credible reporting as foreign disinformation without ever completing the investigative work necessary to reach that conclusion, then used that mislabeling to justify sidelining the people trying to expose it.
Among the evidence reportedly targeted for suppression under Round River
was material from Hunter BidenrCOs own laptop, the same laptop that dozens
of former intelligence officials infamously and falsely dismissed as
bearing the hallmarks of a Russian influence operation in a public
letter ahead of the 2020 election. That letter, signed by more than
fifty former intelligence community officials, was later used by
Democrats, the Biden campaign, and much of the legacy media to justify censoring reporting on the laptoprCOs contents in the critical weeks
before Americans went to the polls. The new documents suggest that
letter did not emerge from a genuine, good faith intelligence
assessment. It emerged from an environment inside the FBI itself where
the bureau had already made up its mind to treat true and damaging
information about Biden as fake.
The parallels to the Russia collusion hoax of 2016 are impossible to
ignore, and conservative commentators wasted no time pointing them out.
In that earlier scandal, known as Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI pursued unsubstantiated and ultimately debunked claims that President Trump and
his campaign had conspired with the Russian government, despite having evidence in its own possession that undercut the theory from the start.
Round River appears to be a mirror image of that scandal, except in this
case, the bureaurCOs own evidence pointed toward legitimate corruption concerns involving the sitting vice presidentrCOs family, and the FBI
moved to suppress it rather than pursue it.
Documents released earlier this month added yet another disturbing layer
to this pattern. Those files revealed a separate 2017 investigation, reportedly codenamed rCLOxferd Comma,rCY examining whether then newly
elected President Trump might have been acting as a Russian asset when
he fired former FBI Director James Comey, despite the bureaurCOs own
internal evidence showing no meaningful collusion with the Kremlin at
the time. Taken together with Round River, the picture that emerges is
of an FBI counterintelligence apparatus that spent years selectively
applying the rCLRussian disinformationrCY label based not on evidence, but
on whether the information in question helped or hurt the Democratic
PartyrCOs political fortunes.
Senators Grassley and Johnson, both of whom were named as targets in the
Round River spreadsheet, have long maintained that the FBIrCOs so called defensive briefings, meetings in which bureau officials warned lawmakers
they might be receiving Russian disinformation, were never actually
about protecting them. Both senators have said for years that they
believed those briefings were a deliberate tactic meant to discourage
them from continuing their investigations into Burisma and the Biden familyrCOs financial dealings in Ukraine. The newly declassified files
appear to validate exactly what they have been saying for years, even as
they were mocked and dismissed by much of the media establishment at the
time.
The operation reportedly reached even further into the machinery of
federal law enforcement. Then Attorney General Bill Barr had assigned a
U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh to formally investigate the Burisma related allegations swirling around Hunter Biden. According to the documents,
the Round River teamrCOs efforts to discredit the underlying evidence
undercut that investigation before it ever had a chance to run its full course, effectively neutering a legitimate Justice Department inquiry
through a parallel, secretive intelligence community effort operating
with an entirely different agenda.
For years, anyone who raised questions about Hunter BidenrCOs foreign
business dealings, or who suggested the Biden family might have
compromised itself through lucrative arrangements with foreign nationals
in Ukraine and elsewhere, was branded a conspiracy theorist, dismissed
by cable news anchors, and in many cases actively suppressed by social
media platforms working in coordination with government officials. These
newly declassified documents suggest that the skepticism conservatives expressed at the time was not paranoia. It was, in fact, an accurate
read of a coordinated effort by elements within the federal government
to protect a political favorite from scrutiny during the most
consequential election of his career.
It is worth pausing to consider the sheer number of institutions that
failed the American public in this episode. The FBI failed by burying
credible informant reporting rather than investigating it. The
intelligence community failed by lending its credibility to a letter
smearing legitimate reporting as Russian disinformation. And the legacy
media failed by uncritically amplifying that letter and refusing to
seriously examine the Hunter Biden laptop story until well after the
2020 election had already been decided.
The White House Government Transparency Task Force deserves credit for
pushing this material into public view. Declassification efforts like
this one are exactly what voters were promised when they elected an administration committed to draining the kind of institutional rot that
has plagued federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies for the
better part of a decade. Without this kind of aggressive transparency
push, documents like the Round River files would likely have remained
buried indefinitely, protected by an FBI bureaucracy that has shown time
and again it prefers secrecy over accountability.
Kash PatelrCOs decision to terminate the unit responsible for Round River
and open an internal investigation is a necessary first step, but it
should not be the last. Lawmakers who were themselves targeted in this operation, including Grassley, Johnson, Graham, Nunes, and Jordan, are
well positioned to demand further hearings and additional
declassification of related materials. The American people deserve a
full accounting of exactly who authorized this operation, who approved
the alteration of informant files, and why it took more than five years
for the truth to come out.
Mickey McNamar Eaves
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Thanks, Sid, for this info.
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Steve Reed
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This will only be revealed by mainstream media if arrests are made at
the highest levels. Hurry up!
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Bill Winters
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Begs the question, if the individual (Biden), the one who either signed
or authorized the signature on a pile of pardons, was part of and a beneficiary of the criminal activity of those he pardoned, would that
fact nullify those pardons?
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Jeff Stonecrest
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All this is old news to those of us paying attention. The question now
is what will be done about it?
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Tracy Merz
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When I see cuffs
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Nancy Anderson
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how about get Bill Barr to testify about this under oath
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Vicki Siau Bingham
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Surprised there wasnrCOt a fire in the records room
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Jonathan Nori
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Is the evidence in the room with us?
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Shawn Henning
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Department of Justice should be placed under the Judicial Branch. No
more direct executive control. Oh go ahead and nominate and appoint
heads of departments, but they then get confirmed by Legislative branch
and report directly to Judicial branch.
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