A lot of the material on there - likely even the vast majority of it - was Hunter Biden's data. But the hard drive had obviously been tampered with. And I don't mean in the spy sense of tampering. I mean that the contents of the hard drive had been circulating amongst Republican operatives and someone took the time to organize some of the materials into folders that Hunter obviously didn't create. The chain of custody for the data was non-existent. So it's impossible to say that the laptop was actually his when it could have also been an iCloud hack transplanted onto a computer and taken into a blind man's repair shop.
Mac Isaac, the blind computer repairman who supposedly received several laptops from Biden, said those copies weren't true to what he downloaded when his lawyer gave CBS a copy.
CBS ought to reconsider who they hire as experts, as they didn't get an image of the hard drive: just a drive with files copied from another source or sources.
No one outside the FBI can tell if there was any tampering with the laptop as none of them have seen the laptop. MacIsaac didn't image the hard drive: he just copied files over to another drive.
It remains that if Hunter Biden had any reason to believe there was significant tampering, he would have said so. There's no getting around that. He's in a position to know.
He knows what's been published from it, just as we do. If there were stuff on it that was tampered with to be more incriminating, the NYP would have used it.
You make a lot of claims you can't support. How do you know BIden knows what's been published from it?
I agree with you NYPost would have published anything incriminating if it was there for them to find, but that's not the only tampering which could have taken place. For example, if that specific laptop had never belonged to Hunter Biden, it's tampering even if none of the files loaded onto it were tampered with.
Uh buddy, the laptop was compromised: https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/08/the-laptop-everyone-knows-as-hunter-bidens-appears-to-have-been-deleted-starting-february-15-2019/
Hard to tell from that how it was compromised. Hunter Biden hasn't ever disputed anything published from the NYP's copy, as far as I've seen.
A lot of the material on there - likely even the vast majority of it - was Hunter Biden's data. But the hard drive had obviously been tampered with. And I don't mean in the spy sense of tampering. I mean that the contents of the hard drive had been circulating amongst Republican operatives and someone took the time to organize some of the materials into folders that Hunter obviously didn't create. The chain of custody for the data was non-existent. So it's impossible to say that the laptop was actually his when it could have also been an iCloud hack transplanted onto a computer and taken into a blind man's repair shop.
The person who would best know whether any substantial tampering occurred has never alleged that. It seems highly unlikely he wouldn't if it occurred.
Mac Isaac, the blind computer repairman who supposedly received several laptops from Biden, said those copies weren't true to what he downloaded when his lawyer gave CBS a copy.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-data-analysis/
CBS ought to reconsider who they hire as experts, as they didn't get an image of the hard drive: just a drive with files copied from another source or sources.
This doesn't conflict with what I said. It's highly unlikely there was any substantial tampering.
No one outside the FBI can tell if there was any tampering with the laptop as none of them have seen the laptop. MacIsaac didn't image the hard drive: he just copied files over to another drive.
It remains that if Hunter Biden had any reason to believe there was significant tampering, he would have said so. There's no getting around that. He's in a position to know.
How is he in a position to know? He doesn't have the laptop, either. The FBI does.
He knows what's been published from it, just as we do. If there were stuff on it that was tampered with to be more incriminating, the NYP would have used it.
You make a lot of claims you can't support. How do you know BIden knows what's been published from it?
I agree with you NYPost would have published anything incriminating if it was there for them to find, but that's not the only tampering which could have taken place. For example, if that specific laptop had never belonged to Hunter Biden, it's tampering even if none of the files loaded onto it were tampered with.
And you saying the stuff they did use didn't come from tampering?