(10-21-2020, 12:32 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(10-20-2020, 09:24 PM)mikesez Wrote: The feds don't play around with child porn.  The arrests are immediate.  If they had a reliable chain of custody for that hard drive, and there was child porn on it, arrests would have been made long ago.
Either
There is no hint of CP on that computer
Or
They have no idea who added what data to it. 
Either way, it's a weaker story than you think.

You're wrong and in denial. 

The arrests are not immediate. They have to apply for search warrants for the devices, court orders for the service provides, and subsequent search warrants for the information given to them from the providers. Then they have to apply for more search warrants for any and all accounts found related to the stuff they find on the computer. You're simply uninformed about this stuff.

As for your one or the other, why then would Giuliani also provide it to the Delaware State Police and the FBI if it didn't have it on there? FBI can determine exactly when and where it was uploaded to the hard drive. Certain things can make it more difficult, but they can conclusively determine if it was uploaded before or after it was given to the computer repair shop.

A government investigator does not need a warrant to look at things that the owner of the property has already voluntarily provided to them.  The story goes that the laptop was forfeited to the repair shop, then the repair shop voluntarily gave it to the FBI.  Is that story not true? Why would a warrant be needed if that story was true?
Now, they may want to access Hunter Biden's apple account to corroborate what they're finding on the hard drive, and yes that would take some time and a warrant.  But I'm pretty sure reputable cloud services employ AI-sniffers to flag possible child pornography so that can be voluntarily turned over to law enforcement, sometimes without alerting the offending user

Regardless - these hypotheticals have very little to do with the election.  Even if you showed that it was more likely than not that Hunter deliberately kept revealing nude photos of a 14 year old relative on his computer, you'd still have to show reason to believe Joe knew about it and didn't report, before anyone should care.

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