The 51 Intelligence Community signatories to an October 2020 letter painting stories about Hunter Biden emails as Russian disinformation are seeking cover.
In the weeks leading up to the 2020 general election, reporting by the New York Post about a Delaware shop owner receiving a Hunter Biden laptop containing details of business dealings with foreign governments was discredited.
Emails about Biden family financial dealings with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and a Chinese tycoon tied to the communist government were dismissed as efforts by Russia to influence another U.S. election.
Jim Clapper, Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta and John Brennan were the first four to sign the infamous attempt to sidetrack devastating claims against the Democratic Party presidential candidate weeks before Election Day.
“There are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement. Such an operation would be consistent with Russian objectives, as outlined publicly and recently by the Intelligence Community, to create political chaos in the United States and to deepen political divisions here but also to undermine the candidacy of former Vice President Biden and thereby help the candidacy of President Trump.”
Politico claimed that a top aide to former CIA Director John Brennan provided them a copy of the letter, noting the IC leaders who signed the letter worked for the past four presidents, including Trump.
“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” screamed the Politico headline that put a nail in the coffin in which the Hunter Biden laptop story was buried before Election Day 2020.
Neither Politico or any leading mainstream news outlet at the time remind readers that Brennan had been caught lying to Congress more than once. He swore to Congress in 2011 that “scores of drones strikes abroad had not killed a single noncombatant” despite his agency and the White House receiving notices of many civilian casualties.
In 2014, Brennan, as CIA director, lied emphatically when he claimed the CIA had not illegally accessed computers of U.S. Senate staffers exploring a CIA role in torturing detainees. He apologized after a CIA Inspector General’s report was released, according to a National Review report.
Jim Clapper was such a liar that a Democrat demanded he stop making excuses for “lying to the American people about mass surveillance.”
Liars will probably tell more lies, but opponents of then-President Donald Trump ran with their words as if they were Gospel truth.
Since then, both the Washington Post and New York Times acknowledged experts hired by them verified many of the emails contained on the Hunter Biden laptop.
That election is over so there is no way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. That does not mean the players will all go scot-free.
Republicans gained control of Congress during the 2022 election, and committee members are using their subpoena power to begin investigations that Democrats stonewalled since the 2020 election.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan from Ohio is among the most aggressive Republican committee chairs.
“We’ve actually done several,” Jordan said Thursday about issuing subpoenas. “I think maybe more than … I think the rest of the Congress combined.”
Rep. Jordan has issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into Department of Justice agents allegedly using terrorism charges to pursue parents expressing outrage during board of education meetings.
Five big tech company CEOs have received Judiciary Committee subpoenas to understand their part in alleged collusion to suppress free speech, according to a Daily Wire report.
It is unclear if subpoenas will be needed to compel testimony from the 51 IC members who signed the letter belittling the Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop. The congressman has corresponded with them,
Jordan during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Committee event in Washington, D.C, took aim at security clearances the signees may still hold, which he described as a lucrative arrangement.
“I would bet every one of those 51 former intel officials who signed that letter — that now-famous letter,” Jordan said. “I would bet every one of them still has a security clearance. Why?”
“I think it’s for their personal benefit,” Jordan continued. “I think that that’s something that has value, and frankly they probably make money off the idea that they can get information. And many of them are contributors on various TV networks. So, why should they have a security clearance? That’s maybe one of the things we propose as legislation to help remedy some of the problems.”
The idea of a Republican Congress willing to imprison IC members may have prompted a recent claim by Clapper that Politico deliberately misrepresented the message from the 51 signers.
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