 Now, sometimes that target country is the United States. Most often in the Cold War, it was Europe. But the fact is the tactic is an old one, a tried and true one, and it's been successful in the past. But in this case, it was not true. It was not true. In fact, the New York Times found that these are authenticated. The Washington Post writes thousands of emails reportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies, say two security experts said.