As I previously detailed, The New York Times reported those lies in its Dec. 11, 2020, article, “Material from Giuliani Spurred a Separate Justice Depart. Pursuit of Hunter Biden” — just a week after Americans first learned of the investigation of the now-president’s son. The Times’ reporting was “replete with falsehoods and deceptive narratives,” but “Americans just didn’t know it at the time.”

However, earlier this year, thanks to “whistleblower revelations and statements by former Attorney General William Barr,” the country learned that the Times’ claims — that evidence implicating the Bidens was derived from Giuliani — were false. Rather, a separate investigation had uncovered reporting from a “highly credible” FBI confidential human source (CHS) implicating Hunter and Joe Biden in a bribery scandal.

Now the FOIA-produced emails reveal even more: The FBI lies, laundered through The New York Times, were fed directly to Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss.

[Interesting, but I’m not sure how impactful this is. The FBI and the IRS had both opened investigations into Hunter in 2018, well before the NY story. Even if the FBI sent over the NYT’s misinformation to Weiss to hoodwink him, the IRS agents working with him would have known better. The chain of evidence on the laptop alone (which the FBI had almost a year before the New York Post revealed it) would have informed Weiss that the NYT story was nonsense. As US Attorney, Weiss wouldn’t have relied solely on the NYT to find out the status of both investigations, or at least one would hope not. In the end, Weiss didn’t demur on felony charges because he thought the laptop came from Giuliani; he demurred because other US Attorneys refused to cooperate on such charges, and Weiss was too pusillanimous to push back. — Ed]