SHORT THREAD: This fake Biden-Burisma scandal today might actually be a fascinating example of the FBI learning an important lesson from 2016: They appear to have avoided stumbling back into the mistakes of the Weiner laptop.
1) If we believe the NY Post and that the suspicious laptop is in possession of the FBI—and given the NYP, that's a big *if*—then the bureau got it in the midst of the impeachment scandal last year. That likely set off alarm bells inside the bureau.
2) The FBI surely looked at it fast, to avoid the 2016 problem w/ Weiner's laptop, when it accidentally sat around for weeks without action. Assuming they looked at it, they said *nothing*—didn't report finding it, didn't report investigating it, didn't say it was credible or not
3) Instead, there was no public Comey-style statement, either one way or another. And by now they've surely satisfied themselves there was no wrongdoing. And, finding no wrongdoing, they again said nothing. That's the way the FBI is supposed to work...
4) And that's how the FBI has traditionally worked until Comey made himself judge and jury in 2016. The fact that it took Giuliani and Bannon to launder this fake scandal into public view is—let's hope—says that the FBI learned from 2016 and is back to normal operations.
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