Senator Ron Johnson had complained several times about the FBI delivering false information to the Senate regarding the investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop, prior to the 2020 election. Today, the Dept of Justice arrested two senior FBI officials for making false statements to congress. [Indictment pdf HERE]
DOJ Press Release – WASHINGTON – Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris, 46, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Bradley Benavides, 56, of Aiken, South Carolina, surrendered today on arrest warrants issued after a criminal complaint charged them with lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
[…] “This morning two former FBI members of the now dissolved Foreign Influence Task Force, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody – charged with allegedly lying to Congress in 2023 on matters regarding investigations related to the 2020 election. One of these individuals is on record privately claiming to be ‘running a shadow government’ during the 2020 election,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “As we’ve said repeatedly: weaponization will never be tolerated at this FBI. We have already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump – and anyone who abuses their position of public trust will be held accountable.”
Floris and Benavides each were charged with making false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2). The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force, or FITF, which led the FBI’s efforts to secure the 2020 election from foreign malign influence.
[…] Floris and Benavides each were charged with making false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2). The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force, or FITF, which led the FBI’s efforts to secure the 2020 election from foreign malign influence.
Evidence shows that Floris discussed the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden routinely for more than a year both within the FITF and with others in the FBI. Contrary to his assertion that he learned of the Hunter Biden laptop from Wikipedia, Benavides regularly discussed the laptop with FBI officials in the leadup to the 2020 election.
Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FIFT Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election.
In the leadup to the 2020 election, the FBI had several investigations into Hunter Biden in which the FITF participated. In 2023, the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary interviewed both defendants about FITF’s role in the Hunter Biden investigations. Each defendant was warned that lying to Congress is a crime.
Floris and Benavides testified that the FITF was not involved in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden. For example, Floris told the Judiciary Committee that she was involved in no discussions about Hunter Biden while she was at the FITF. Benavides testified that he only learned of the FBI’s possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop from reading a Wikipedia article in 2023.
According to an affidavit submitted in support of the criminal complaint against Floris and Benavides, documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their Congressional testimony. {Source}
This is a nice start. Now, I want to see the arrest Conga line of treasonous turds. I don’t want a couple of scalps and call it good. I want as many as they can nail to the wall.
I believe our Native Americans would help in that endeavor. They’re experienced…… Taking away their land was like taking away their liberty and freedom just like the British tried to take ours and now the Demons crats trying to do the same thing.
Maybe fake Pocahontas Warren should run as well.
FBI line dancing right out the door
My son is very good at Line Dancing….He calls it Drill Team Dance!
Wait!! What? Kash Petal is doing something. This is great news. More please.
Uh oh. Auto-Pen slipped up on its pardons.
So, those two were not part of the 99.9% that Hannity use to flap his gums about.
Election interference by keeping it under the radar?
Bradley Bevis and Nikki Butthead.
Cash, let us know WHEN the Firing Squad for TREASON is put together, All of Us Veterans are very good shots!
You Vets deserve first dibs. All I ask is for sloppy seconds.
I think about our service men and women every time I drive by Dover Air Force Base where they have a banner across the walkway which reads;
ALL GAVE SOME…..BUT SOME GAVE ALL!
Gets me every time.
if tried in DC, will walk
Let see all those treasonist SOB swing not just a couple of nobody Jimmy the loser comey , rae, Brenner, clapper, there are so many other traders
Wray did the same thing, but on a bigger scale, and he’s still walking free. I guess be happy for the little things. Of course, this feels a little like bread and circus. <shrug>
Why were they allowed to surrender? Why weren’t they arrested at home handcuffed and perp walked in???
I assume this was part of the FBI’s playing-dumb program enabling the media and the 51 former intelligence officials to lie about the laptop to help Biden win the 2020 election. (I’ll never forget that horrible hack Christiane Amanpour snidely assuring viewers she’d been told by the FBI the laptop wasn’t verified and there was nothing to the story.)
I’m sorry but our own FBI meddling in our election is a thousand times worse than anything Russia ever did.
What about the rest of her so called shadow government ?
Seditious treason it seems to me , it’s a rather common occurrence these days
Oops.
Nail red handed.
I would like to see some personal, public prostration, along the lines of what any good carrying Marxist would be doing, being paraded in the limelight of defrauding the State after getting caught red hand.
As matter of fact EO the whole mess.
The simplistically simple of an act, for all who don’t come forward as of right now. Presidential Pardons await.
Otherwise, the full subjective weight of the Constitution is on their heads, as only a hard Marists would impose.
And truly beg of forgiveness for even imagine what their so-called noble attempt to scrap and tread on our Constitution.