More than two years after the New York Post broke the news of crack addict-turned-first son Hunter Biden’s laptop, CBS News reported that the laptop is authentic — just days after the second election day in which it might have made a difference.
CBS said it commissioned experts at a Minneapolis-based firm called Computer Forensics Services to evaluate the hard drive. It used a variety of digital techniques, but in the end, it leaned heavily on a common-sense judgment that was available to even non-technical viewers of the laptop: “Just the sheer volume of what we’re dealing with it would be difficult, if not impossible, to fabricate,” Sean Lanterman, the company’s incident response director, told CBS.
The report was by CBS’s Catherine Herridge. Before the 2020 election, the network’s Lesley Stahl sat down with then-President Donald Trump, who asked her why she wasn’t covering the laptop. Stahl rebuked him: “Because it can’t be verified.”
