Johnson, in a letter (pdf) to Wray over the weekend, said a whistleblower contacted his committee on Sept. 24 about the laptop that was left at his business, saying he turned it over to the FBI. Johnson said that his staff immediately asked if the agency could either confirm or deny details to validate the claim about emails by the former vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, but he said that the FBI wouldn’t confirm or deny the information found on the device.
“I have a responsibility to validate and verify the contents of any information produced to my committee,” Johnson said in his letter. “The committee must know if it receives information that could be fraudulent or not accurate.”
He mentioned that the information could be related to a foreign election interference campaign, saying that if that is the case, a defensive briefing is necessary. Johnson added that if the whistleblower provided false information, it could be a crime.
Johnson appeared to be referring to the laptop that was purportedly taken to a computer repair shop before its contents were turned over to the N.Y. Post, which published emails and photos pertaining to Hunter Biden. A copy of the hard drive was first sent to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who told The Epoch Times that the device contains about 800 of Biden’s photos, alleging that some of them contain illegal acts.
“For these reasons, the committee must know whether the FBI has assessed the validity of materials the whistleblower has provided, and what, if any, actions the FBI has taken since obtaining this information,” Johnson said in the letter.
He also included a series of questions that the FBI should answer about the laptop, including whether the agency has material from the device, how they acquired it if they did indeed obtain the laptop, if the records on the hard drive have been altered or are genuine, whether the records were authored by Hunter Biden, or if the laptop was hacked in some way.
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