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| DC federal judge tosses case against FBI officials accused of lying about Hunter Biden laptop |
| 2026-11-03 |
| [NYP] WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate judge dismissed charges Monday against two FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about Hunter Biden’s laptop, saying the case "cannot be described as anything other than weaponization" of the Justice Department. The ruling by Judge Zia Faruqui followed a two-day probable cause hearing last week in the case of Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, formerly of the FBI’s now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force. Two entire days of courtroom hearing was it ? Prosecutors claimed the duo downplayed what they knew about the bureau’s Hunter Biden probes when they sat for interviews with the House Judiciary Committee in 2023, with Benavides telling the committee he’d learned of the particulars on Wikipedia. The Department of Justice said in a statement on X that it "disagrees with the Magistrate’s decision, which remarkably appears to suggest that high-ranking government officials are immune from accountability for making materially false statements to Congress." "We are evaluating all options but cannot comment further on an ongoing criminal investigation," the DOJ added. "The Department’s actions will continue to be guided by the facts, the evidence, and the law — not politics." That didn't take long. |
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