Two former senior FBI officials who helped lead the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) during the 2020 election have been charged with lying to Congress about what they knew and their involvement in investigations into Hunter Biden’s laptop. The case, brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia under Jeanine Pirro, has revived long-standing questions about how the FBI handled the laptop story in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaig