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Judge tears apart DOJ in Hunter Biden laptop case: 'Why are we here?’
What happened
AlterNet reports that a preliminary hearing on October 27, 2026, for former FBI agents Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides turned into a test of whether the Justice Department had established probable cause for accusing them of misleading Congress about the FBI’s possession of a laptop attributed to Hunter Biden. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui repeatedly pressed prosecutors on why they proceeded by criminal complaint instead of presenting the evidence to a grand jury.
The government’s witness, FBI Special Agent Bryan Witt, acknowledged that he did not know what Senate Judiciary…
The skinny
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