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Feds examining whether alleged Hunter Biden emails are linked to a foreign intel operation

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WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are examining whether emails 
allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden and his son Hunter 
and found on a laptop at a Delaware repair shop are linked to a 
foreign intelligence operation, two people familiar with the 
matter told NBC News.

The FBI seized the laptop and a hard drive through a grand jury 
subpoena. The subpoena was later published by the New York Post. 
The bureau has declined to comment.

The Post has published a series of stories based on emails the 
conservative tabloid said it obtained from President Donald 
Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The first story highlighted 
what it called a “smoking gun email” that suggested a meeting 
between Biden and a representative of a Ukrainian company that 
once paid Hunter Biden. The Biden campaign says there is no 
evidence the meeting happened, and the story was greeted with 
widespread skepticism.

George Mesires, attorney for Hunter Biden, said in a statement, 
“We have no idea where this came from, and certainly cannot 
credit anything that Rudy Giuliani provided to the New York 
Post, but what I do know for certain is that this purported 
meeting never happened.”

“The New York Post never asked the Biden campaign about the 
critical elements of this story,” Biden campaign spokesman 
Andrew Bates said. “They certainly never raised that Rudy 
Giuliani — whose discredited conspiracy theories and alliance 
with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely 
reported — claimed to have such materials.”

Bates added, “We have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules 
from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, 
ever took place."

Questions have swirled around the Post’s account of how it 
obtained the emails and other materials. The newspaper said they 
were found on a laptop left in a Delaware repair shop in April 
2019 and never claimed. The repair shop owner then took it upon 
himself to access the private material, the Post said.

The Post said the shop owner, who has been identified as Mac 
Isaac, called the FBI, and also called a Giuliani associate. The 
shop owner said he believed the laptop was among equipment left 
by Hunter Biden, because a sticker on the laptop bore the name 
of the Beau Biden Foundation, a charity named after his late 
brother.

“Before turning over the gear, the shop owner says, he made a 
copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy 
Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello,” the Post said. “Steve 
Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about 
the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani 
provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.”

It remains unclear whether the emails cited by the Post are 
authentic or have been doctored.

Giuliani, who acknowledged helping bring the material to light, 
has in the past sought to unearth information damaging to Biden 
with the help of a man identified by the U.S. government as a 
Russian intelligence officer.

Questions about the provenance of the emails have led Facebook 
and Twitter to limit sharing of the story, prompting fierce 
criticism from Republicans.

In an interview published by the Daily Beast, Issac, the repair 
shop owner, did not answer key questions.

“Throughout the interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth 
from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the 
files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the FBI that 
contacted him,” the Beast wrote. NBC News has reached out to 
Isaac but has not heard back.

The Post published a grand jury subpoena for the laptop and hard 
drive. The subpoena had been issued by a federal prosecutor who 
already had the serial numbers of the devices when they were 
ordered to be handed over in early December 2019, indicating 
federal law enforcement was aware of the specific devices they 
want to examine.

“Other material extracted from the computer,” the Post said, 
“includes a raunchy, 12-minute video that appears to show 
Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems, 
smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified 
woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.”

Many commentators have said it is hard to believe that Hunter 
Biden would abandon a Mac laptop full of incriminating 
information at a repair shop.

Some have speculated that the material could have been hacked 
from Hunter Biden’s accounts and put on the laptop as a cover 
story to offer a plausible explanation of how the material 
became public.

In January, it was reported that Burisma’s networks had been 
breached by Russian hackers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/feds-
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