Miranda Devine: FBI agents finally face accountability after trying to smother the Hunter Biden corruption scandal
Two of the FBI agents most closely identified with the FBI’s politicized operation to smother the Hunter Biden corruption scandal are facing their first taste of accountability.Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides were charged Friday with allegedly lying to Congress about Hunter Biden’s laptop.“I don’t have any knowledge of said laptop,” Floris testified to the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 when asked about Hunter Biden’s MacBook, which the FBI seized in December 2019.Yet she had been intimately involved in every aspect of the FBI’s handling of the laptop from the start, prosecutors allege in stunning detail.Floris had been the deputy assistant director of the FBI and “functional head” of the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force, which ran a covert operation before the 2020 election called “Round River,” specifically to collect all derogatory reports about Hunter Biden from FBI informants and falsely flag them as “Russian disinformation.”Benavides was the Section Chief of FITF, and he and Floris were “active participants in regularly classified briefings they hosted for the FBI agents and prosecutors on the Hunter Biden case, prosecutors allege.Yet Benavides also professed ignorance when he testified to the House Judiciary Committee, claiming he only became aware of the FBI’s possession and investigation of Hunter’s laptop because he read a “Wikipedia article” while preparing his testimony.Prosecutors allege the pair requested frequent briefings from the Hunter Biden case team.After The Post broke the story about the laptop in October 2020, they convened multiple meetings to handle the fallout, even writing talking points for FBI Director Chris Wray.Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on ‘Pod Force One.’ Subscribe here!In August 2020, Floris and Benavides were the FBI agents who conducted a bogus “defensive briefin...