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The FBI Skipped the Investigation and Went Straight to the Cover-Up

In December 2019, the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force — Russia, known internally as FITF-R, launched an operation code-named "Round River." Its stated purpose was to assess foreign influence threats related to the Biden-Ukraine scandal. Its actual purpose, according to documents released by the White House Transparency Task Force and a declassified ODNI assessment under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, was to collect every scrap of derogatory information about Joe Biden from confidential human sources — and bury it.

The operation ran through the 2020 presidential election and possibly into 2021. And according to the ODNI report, "the Round River team did not corroborate any of the allegations of the 'Ukraine Narrative.'" Not because they investigated and came up empty. Because they never investigated at all.

Round River catalogued approximately 70 persons connected to the Ukraine-related impeachment and Biden scandal. It sorted them into two categories: "targets" and "conduits." Democrats — Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Hunter Biden, John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, even Paul Pelosi — were classified as "targets," meaning victims of disinformation. Republicans — Rudy Giuliani, then-Attorney General Bill Barr, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, Representatives Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes — were classified as "conduits." Spreaders of disinformation.

The FBI wasn't running a counterintelligence assessment. It was running a political sorting exercise — labeling who was on the right team and who needed to be discredited.

The timing matters. This operation launched during the same window that 51 intelligence officials signed that now-infamous letter dismissing the Biden laptop as Russian disinformation. An administration official told The Federalist: "This operation didn't seem to care about whether the information that was being uttered or spread was true. They were simply interested in stopping its spread."

Meanwhile, the confidential human sources the FBI was supposedly protecting had been reporting genuinely alarming information for years. A CHS report from December 2015 described a Russian intelligence officer who said Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky "is using his relationship with Hunter Biden to get closer to the Americans." The intelligence officer, per the report, "referred to the relationship between Zlochevsky and Biden as a long-term operation/long penetration."

A February 2019 CHS report detailed a scheme involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Chris Heinz-Kerry, noting that "Burisma Holdings owns thirteen companies, which are used to pay dividends on investments through fake consulting contracts" and that the Bidens' investment "was passed through a shell company in Latvia."

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed in a letter to the White House Transparency Task Force that "Round River identified at least 53 Confidential Human Sources whose identities were potentially known to foreign intelligence and under hostile control." Of those 53 sources, "at least 14 of these CHSs reported derogatory information on Joe Biden." Patel added: "At my direction, this FBI will take the unprecedented step of providing you with the source reporting from all 53 sources so you can finally see the facts."

Some will argue this was standard counterintelligence practice — protecting elected officials from foreign influence campaigns. Interesting framing for an operation that classified sitting U.S. senators and the Attorney General as disinformation "conduits" while treating George Soros and Tom Steier as disinformation "victims." Standard counterintelligence work doesn't typically sort Americans into heroes and villains based on which party they belong to.

The FBI had 14 confidential sources flagging Biden-linked corruption. They had CHS reports describing shell companies in Latvia, fake consulting contracts through Burisma's thirteen subsidiaries, and a Russian intelligence officer calling the Biden-Burisma relationship a "long penetration." They had years of source reporting sitting in their own files.

They didn't investigate any of it. They launched an operation to make sure nobody else could, either.

That's not a failure of process. That's the process working exactly as designed.

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