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.
She’s been the Senator from hell for as long as I can recall. I wouldn’t wish her on anyone.
Here in Washington State the tribes are in bed with the democrats.
No doubt corrupt, like many in the Uniparty in Washington, D.C.
They should just get a copy of the FBI internal phone directory and start going down the list, name by name. Pretty much the entire top several ranks of career FBI had to be in on it – either the crimes themselves or the cover ups afterward.
Lisa PAGE and Peter Strzok—what’s the latest?
As many as WTP can nail to the wall!
” 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.”
Right. So you arrest 2 people, clowns? Held accountable? Pish posh….whoopdedo!
There were thousands of people involved back then, and twice as many now, involved in a coup. Straight up sedition and treason.
But you arrest these 2 nobodys? None of the hundreds s of FBLie traitors were arrested for doing all the things they did to PDJT, nor stealing an election. But these 2 morons?
Ka$h is a joke.
InDeed, a C0UP-C0NSPIRACY dragnet to include Cumey and devil Wray !
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.
A LOT MORE!!!
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.
Rank and Vile
Election interference by keeping it under the radar?
What is it about women with three names? Check it out….
Bradley Bevis and Nikki Butthead.
Lol.
0.o
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.
Hell, I’ll even bring my own ammo…..
if tried in DC, will walk
Apparently, lying to congress, isn’t a crime if you are a Dem, only if you are not a Dem.
Ask cup holder….he’s been in contempt forever; walking the streets….
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
I told my wife that I’d be ready to die after I see BO and his wife Mike swinging from a tree
You will live long and prosper, Remington.
Vir Cotto to Morden: “I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike – as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave . . . like this.”
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???
Yes.
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.
The CIA is currently taking over the government of Virginia from their base in Langley.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that the first election stolen (other than the old democratic machines areas: ie Chicago, New-York, Hard-core Union districts) was Fairfax County. Same MO, stopped the voting, nobody knows what’s happening, drag it on till “presto” Oliver North the leading candidate somehow loses!
And now it happens all the time! They just suck! that’s why people hate bureaucrats!
The CIA does not serve “we the people,” but serves exclusively the banking families that founded the “Federal Reserve”—a private bank that is neither a reserve nor federal—and primarily those banking families with major interests in the oil and pharmaceutical industries.
Do your own research; you’ll be surprised.
What about the rest of her so called shadow government ?
Seditious treason it seems to me , it’s a rather common occurrence these days
It would be a shame if the email of a person who brags about running a shadow government would expose everyone else involved in the shadow government.
Oops.
Nailed 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 handed
As matter of fact EO the whole mess.
The simplistically simple of an act is to EO the whole mess by saying, 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.
Lots of us would like to see public castration.
Let’s hope these two squeal enough to get some of the higher-ups in trouble.
I care as to what the contents were on Hunter’s laptop. The Republicans in congress had the chance to nail sleepy Joe and Hunter on the pay-to-play corruption and nothing got accomplished. The evidence was certainly there. The Biden family got away with million$. That is a travesty of justice for sure.
But the Weiner laptop–that’s a whole ‘nother kettle of fish!
They are merely low-level agents. The real culprits, safe and sound, are the masterminds much higher up.
But those people, even if they are charged, will never be convicted.
Think of the EpSTEIN cases.
Everyone has files on everyone else. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.
So $10 says they both plead guilty and a liberal DC judge give them probation only.
That’s a low-confidence bet. Like you don’t really believe it. Here, I’ll help, $10,000 says they both plead guilty and a liberal DC judge gives them probation only.
2 FBI agents arrested.
Great. Only 4,998 to go.
These are low-hanging fruit. Where are the indictments against the 51 letter writers, including Brennan, Clapper, and the rest???
Finger tap for me, sledge hammer for thee
Who was instructing them?
If they knew they were facing 20 year prison terms they’d start telling like a common criminal.
Sgt. Joe Friday needs to lay out the facts
Judges need to be made to fetch a switch as well
And something should be done about the swelled up purple Q-tips with nose rings in higher education
Living next door to Wisconsin in the hellscape of Minnesota, I often hear news stories (mostly from Christian radio stations) discussing the amazing things Senator Johnson is doing or has done.
I know it was not that long ago Ron said he was going to retire, but instead remained and ran for office again.
Senator Johnson is not in the limelight and does not seek the limelight, but he most definitely is MAGA.
Sen. Johnson has done great things exposing the Covid vax dangers.
The FBI can easily be disband and new agency created with EXPERIENCE AND INTEGRITY. FBI adopts most of it cases from other agencies and locals that have made the case. FBI just walks it thru Federal Courts.
Since when is lying to congress a crime. it’s done everyday.
Prosecutor with no imagination could easily Trump up those charges..
Wait a week after and drop more charges. 1st lawyers estimate to represent doubles in price. Pre trial confinement also pushes the price northward. Not even trying here. Spit
Beginning with Comey on down, prison is too good for each of them. Clean out those institutions that only knew how to do one thing, lie to cover their backsides.
Don’t forget to throw away the key when you guys are done with them
Feminists for the last 60 years: Things will be so much better with women in positions of power.
Guess Nikki didn’t get the memo.
I’m sure you’ve taken note of the all WOMEN/MOTHERS who have murdered their children recently. Hormones made them do it. The “feminists” screech about a female president and how the world would be so much better off. Why on God’s green earth would we hand over the codes to the US Nuclear Arsenal to someone whose hormones are uncontrolled? It’s nonsense.
No one is happier than Mike Davis who has been saying since May 2025 there were 200 indictments coming. He was on the War Room pretending that two perps indicted = the death of the deep state.
All this squawking about the Epstein Files, where is the uproar over the Hunter Biden and Anthony Weiner laptops??
Epstein wasn’t on Team Demoncrat.
Surprise 2028: Pratt for President.
Low Hanging Fruit. When I see Strzok, Page, Brennan, Clapper, et., al frog-marched in handcuffs at the 4:00 a.m. raids, I’llget excited.
I believe there is a reason that the big guys are not being frog marched.
There are actions being taken to put the illegal voters and their complicit states on notice regarding illegal voter’s ballots .
This is extremely time sensitive.
Any high-profile arrests would have the effect of eclipsing that illegal ballot effort.
Perp-walking the bigs on everybody’s lists can wait until after the election, then justice can be done with great satisfaction.
The criminal complaint against former FBI officials Floris and Benavides marks a major escalation in the politicized fallout of the 2020 election, but the timing raises serious red flags. Filed just one and a half weeks before the 2026 midterm elections, prosecutors allege the pair lied during 2023 congressional interviews regarding the now-shuttered Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and its involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop probe.
The roots of this deception stretch back to August 2020, when the pair personally delivered defensive briefings to Senators Johnson and Grassley to frame Hunter Biden intelligence as potential foreign disinformation. This perfectly laid the groundwork for the infamous October 2020 letter signed by over 50 former intelligence officials. Running under Politico’s headline “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, letters say,” this narrative provided Joe Biden with a crucial talking point to shut down the topic during the presidential debates—even though internal communications prove the FBI had already verified the laptop’s authenticity as early as November 2019.
The critical anomaly in this case is the choice of legal vehicle for their initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh on October 23, 2026. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro utilized a criminal complaint signed by Judge Sharbaugh to secure a rapid arrest based only on probable cause, bypassing a Grand Jury entirely to deliver a political headline. However, it remains highly doubtful that these headlines are massive enough to actually benefit the GOP at this late stage, as early voting is already well underway and the public has long since hardened its partisan views on the laptop saga. With the elections immediately ahead, further substantive movement in the courtroom is highly unlikely before the votes are cast. Assuming a D.C. Grand Jury ultimately approves a formal indictment later this fall, the case is virtually guaranteed to trigger a fierce counteroffensive from the defense, specifically a Motion to Dismiss based on vindictive and selective prosecution.
Why the delay, and why bypass the Grand Jury initially? Legal analysts note that D.C. grand juries under the current administration have increasingly resisted voting for indictments in highly charged political cases. By utilizing the complaint framework first, the DOJ avoided immediate grand jury friction while locking in the arrests. Ultimately, even if a Democratic-appointed judge allows the case to move forward, the prosecution faces an uphill battle in Washington, D.C. In this overwhelmingly blue jurisdiction, the defense will rely heavily on a sympathetic local jury. History shows that secure convictions in political D.C. trials are rare; during the Durham probe, defendants like Michael Sussmann walked away with swift acquittals from D.C. juries, proving that in this venue, securing a “guilty” verdict requires overcoming intense political gravity
Bill Barr could have cleared up the whole Laptop controversy with a simple statement. He remained silent.
He remained
silentcomplicit.Is that related to the:
– laptop
– 2020 election
– collusion investigation
– elbow rubbing with cohorts
I do not know
Love thy neighbors
These are the actual criminals and traitors
There should already be 100s in jail…C’mon Patel get off your ass!
Looks like very low hanging fruit to me. Prosecute them, no doubt, but what about Obama et al?
Seems to me that James Comey……who also lied to Congress and Chris Wray….who also lied to Congress should be right there with these two pieces of $#!t………
AND LET’S HOPE THAT THESE TWO ARE MADE HUGE EXAMPLES OF…PUT THEM THROUGH THE FRICKING RINGER!
AND I HOPE THE SAME FOR EVERY SINGLE OTHER TRAITOR OF THIS COUNTRY……INCLUDING HIGHER UPS!
BUT THOSE PEOPLE….CLINTON, OBAMA, BRENNAN, CLAPPER….AND EVEN THE BRAINDEAD PUPPET AMD MANY OTHERS……DESERVE SPECIAL TREATMENT!
A ONE WAY FLIGHT TO GITMO……..AND THEY WON’T BE HANGING AROUND THERE FOR LONG!
i want to see the arrest conga prosecute her and she have to pay her corruption,
The pride that cometh before a fall.
NAKASONE??
https://www.nakasonegroup.com/
This in itself sounds illegal. What kinda coordination is going on here?
Quote :
“Until we deal with this mess, it doesn’t matter who we make president”
SD
Still wondering why Andrew Bailey left the FBI. I had high hopes for him. I think the remaining 3% of pretending I had left went with him.
This is just another “lack of candor”. No big deal.
Show-pony trial, then a strongly worded letter will be placed in their files, after a suspended sentence, if that. Pensions stay intact.
Congress won’t really be too upset. They lie all the time . . .
some notes about setting/tempering expectations:
this was a filed complaint AND ARREST WARRANT. Not trivial.
Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh sworn in by BOASBERG is NOT a presidential selected judge. He is APPOINTED by other circuit (DC) judges to “help with the workload”. Also not trivial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_judges_in_the_United_States
Judge Sharbaugh is an openly “fill in the perversion here” something.
God Bless America
adding: same judge (sharbaugh) approved a search warrant (but no arrest warrant) for the infamous mooslem somali fraudster, aka, jackwagon, aka, ilhan omar, aka, “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
set expectations for that case accordingly.
God Bless America
Treason is the Reason for the Seizin’
was this a tit for tat for the dutch treat that landed on jared’s doorstep this week…god only knows….
bet they still keep their pensions…
I do not read the New York Times.
If the this news matter is ever covered by the New York Time, I would appreciate it if someone would someone would provide a url or a NYT date, section and page reference.
It took way too long…
This looks small but i bet there are many doing this and taking one down now should make the others think again
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/fbi-arrests-cia-contractor-accused-leaking-top-secret/
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