Round River Exposed: FBI Rebranded Reports on Bidens as Russian Propaganda

Freshly declassified documents by the White House Government Transparency Task Force detail the secret counter intelligence FBI Operation Round River. Beginning around December 2019, analysts with the Foreign Influence Task Force Russia pulled together earlier reports from confidential sources about the Biden family’s links to Burisma, Hunter Biden, Mykola Zlochevsky, and the rest of the Ukraine situation. Then they stamped that material as Russian disinformation. A 2025 ODNI summary says the team did it without first checking whether any of those claims were even true. In some cases they even went back and changed the source files to match the new label.The records show at least 14 confidential human sources gave the FBI derogatory information on Joe Biden. A spreadsheet from the intelligence files split people into two groups. Republicans like Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson, Lindsey Graham, Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan got listed as “conduits” of Russian disinformation. Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros got listed as “targets.” And the Foreign Influence Task Force signed off on those labels.FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed in a letter to the task force that he shut down the Foreign Influence Task Force after he took over. He said the bureau is now investigating what that task force did, including whether it used the Round River work to zero in only on the Biden-related sources. Patel also noted they found at least 53 relevant sources overall and are getting ready to release the reporting from all of them. An operation that adds more fuel to the fire of an outright illegitimate use of government power that shielded one side from scrutiny ahead of the debacle known as the 2020 election.This report merely scratches the surface on the frozen tip of the iceberg. The USAID/Burisma/FBI/CIA/Congress rabbit hole opens up a whole new can of earthworms. But that will be explored in a further Bowne Report.And per usual. We have always been at the right place but at the wrong time here at the Bowne Report. So please take a second and subscribe and/or engage with me on X @NewsBowne. Because at some point it becomes the right time. Eventually. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bownereport.substack.com/subscribe