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Auten was a key player in two explosive investigations that infuriated both Donald Trump and Patel. “Mr. Auten worked on two major investigations that angered Mr. Trump and Mr. Patel, including the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential election. He was also involved in analyzing the information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, a discovery that roiled the 2020 presidential campaign,” The Times confirmed.
The FBI’s so-called Russia probe has since unraveled, exposed as a smear campaign rooted in opposition research funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. The infamous Steele dossier—cooked up by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele—has been widely debunked. Yet, it served as a foundation for secret surveillance warrants, dragging the country through years of political chaos.
Auten’s fingerprints were also found on the Hunter Biden laptop saga, which the FBI allegedly sat on for nearly a year before the 2020 election. The data on the hard drive, which included messages and financial records that raised serious ethical concerns about the Biden family, was ignored by federal law enforcement even as the media declared it “Russian disinformation.”
Despite mounting evidence, the agency failed to pursue charges or public inquiry into the content of the laptop, much of which directly implicated then-candidate Joe Biden. Meanwhile, former Hunter associate Devon Archer, who had partnered in multiple foreign ventures with the Bidens, faced legal action. In a twist of fate, Donald Trump later issued Archer a pardon.
The New York Post broke the laptop story in the final weeks of the 2020 election. What followed was a full-blown information blackout. Big Tech censored the story, locked out the Post’s Twitter account, and the mainstream media eagerly parroted the narrative that the laptop was Kremlin fiction.
In a revealing twist, the Biden administration last year abruptly shuttered a national security advisory panel housed within the Department of Homeland Security after a legal challenge unearthed more political rot. That panel—known as the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group—was quietly created in September 2023 to advise on intelligence policy.
In November, America First Legal and former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell filed suit against the group, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and the department itself, citing violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
Under FACA, advisory bodies must be ideologically diverse and free of outside influence. But the lawsuit made it clear: “The Experts Group’s members are political allies of the Biden Administration. Most members have applauded the Administration’s decisions and fervidly condemned former President Trump’s America First approach to foreign policy.”
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“They have overwhelmingly donated to President Biden or other Democrats. Defendant Mayorkas selected members that are agreeable, not balanced,” the suit read.
Making matters worse, several members of that DHS group had signed a 2020 letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was likely “Russian disinformation”—a narrative that’s now collapsed under its own weight.
The suspension of Brian Auten signals more than internal accountability—it may be the first public sign that the deep state is starting to sweat. As evidence mounts, it’s becoming clear that the real threat to democracy wasn’t foreign interference, but the politically motivated weaponization of federal power right here at home.
He needs to be fired, and lose his pension