At least one active CIA official may have been involved in getting signatures from former intelligence officials for the letter by 51 ex-intelligence officials that was used to fool the public into dismissing a New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop as likely “Russian disinformation,” according to a report by two House committees investigating the forces behind the letter’s creation and distribution.
The 64-page report shows how Tony Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state but at the time acting as a top campaign aide for presidential candidate Biden, recruited ex-Acting CIA Director Mike Morell to generate the letter with the goal of creating a “talking point” to help Biden during the last presidential campaign in October 2020.
According to the report, “One signer of the statement, former CIA analyst David Cariens, disclosed to the Committees that a CIA employee affiliated with the agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) informed him of the existence of the statement and asked if he would sign it.”
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The interim report, “The Hunter Biden Statement: How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters,” concluded what millions of conservatives had already suspected: “The public statement by 51 former intelligence officials was a political operation to help elect Vice President Biden in the 2020 presidential election.”
It was released Wednesday by the GOP-led House Committee on the Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Among the other key findings in the document are:
- “The Biden campaign took active measures to discredit the allegations about Hunter Biden by exploiting the national security credentials of former intelligence officials”;
- “Blinken’s outreach to Morell was the impetus for the public statement,” with the goal of creating a debate “talking point” to counter a New York Post story about the laptop. Biden ended up citing the letter in the last presidential debate and actually distorting it: After Trump cited the “laptop from hell” as evidence of Biden’s corruption, Biden responded: “There are 54 national intelligence folks who said what he is accusing me of is a Russia plant,” i.e., foreign disinformation to manipulate America’s election – effectively fibbing further to expand the political deception [see the 7:00 mark of the YouTube video excerpt of the debate below];
- Morell “rejected wholesale” the statement by then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, the “top intelligence official in the United States,” that “Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign”;
- “The Biden campaign coordinated dissemination of the statement to members of the media,” with Morell tasking Nick Shapiro, his former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor at the CIA, to pitch the skewed assessment of the laptop’s origins to the media. Ultimately, Politico reporter Natasha Bertrand took the bait and her October 19, 2020 story ran under the erroneous headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” That headline, like Biden’s debate line, actually distorted the letter’s contents by making the “Russia disinfo” claim definitive.
- The CIA has ignored requests by the House subcommittee for more information about the possible involvement of an active employee in the letter. The committees wrote to the CIA requesting documents March 21 with a deadline of April 4, but never received a response. “Secretary Blinken provided none of the documents that Committee requested. … Notably, the Biden Administration has declined to cooperate with the oversight to date,” it states.
- Although many of the ex-intelligence officials who participated in the creation and circulation of the letter testified to House investigators that they did not actually claim that the Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation” – only that they thought there was a good chance it could be – they showed no interest at the time in correcting distorted claims about it, e.g., when Politico’s (planted) story with the false headline came out.
Laptop from hell
The so-called “laptop from hell” shows Hunter Biden smoking crack and consorting with prostitutes, creepily recorded on film by the then-wayward son of Obama’s VP, Joe Biden. But the most explosive information in the laptop were emails from Hunter revealing that “Hunter Biden was to receive $10 million annually for three years from CEFC Energy for ‘introductions alone,’ presumably meaning to his father and other influential U.S. officials,” as WND reported in September 2021.
It was left to Tucker Carlson to go big with the story as one of the few major broadcast media players to expose the bombshell contents of the laptop. Tucker conducted an interview on Fox News with one-time Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski, who exposed Biden’s lucrative deal with the CCP-connected energy conglomerate and confirmed the deal’s “very special condition: that ’10 percent’ of the profits would be ‘held by H [Hunter] for the big guy,'” as WND reported last month, quoting RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. Bobulinski made clear to Carlson that the “big guy” was Joe Biden.
Later it would be revealed the FBI worked directly with Twitter and other social media companies to keep the laptop story squelched, essentially “pre-debunking” the laptop story as “Russian disinformation” prior to the New York Post publishing its blockbuster stories on Hunter’s laptop, to limit its reach. Those stories were then blocked or restricted by various social media companies, including Twitter.
A Media Research Center poll “found that nearly one-third of voters who chose Joe Biden were not aware of the evidence linking the former vice president to corrupt financial dealings with China and other nations through his son. Had they known, according to the survey, President Trump would have won at least 289 Electoral College votes,” WND reported.
‘The more former intelligence officials the better’
A book by a Politico reporter ultimately confirmed the authenticity of the laptop but only well after the propaganda damage had already been done in undermining Trump’s bid for re-election.
Just the News reported regarding the House document: “In at least some instances Morell’s own solicitations expressly referenced the Biden campaign’s intent to use the letter. An Oct. 19, 2020, email that Morell sent to former CIA Director John Brennan explicitly noted the partisan nature of the effort.
“Morell told Brennan he was ‘trying to give the campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue,'” JTN reported.
The news site reported: “An Oct. 18 email to former CIA senior intelligence officer Kristin Wood also included explicit mention of the statement’s partisan purpose. Morell stated that ‘I have control of the document. The more former intelligence officials the better. Campaign will be thrilled.'”
‘Potentially shocking’ revelation of CIA connection
On page 32 of the House report, it describes the circumstances surrounding how another signer, former CIA official Cariens, became involved in the pro-Biden project.
According to a written statement provided to the Committees by former CIA official … Cariens, the CIA – or at least an employee of the CIA – may have helped in the effort to solicit signatures for the statement. Cariens explained that he spoke with the PCRB [Prepublication Classification Review Board] in October 2020 regarding the review of his memoir and during that call the CIA employee ‘asked’ him if he would sign the statement.”
A CIA spokesperson told Just the News that the role of CIA’s PCRB “is to review materials submitted by current and former officers to determine if the materials contain any classified information.”
Cariens testified, “When the person in charge of reviewing [his] book called to say it was approved with no changes, I was told about the draft letter. The person asked me if I would be willing to sign….”
The House report states: “Cariens’s revelation is potentially shocking. As he recounted, a CIA employee informed him about the statement, the CIA employee read the text of the statement to him, and the CIA employee asked Cariens if he would like to join….Indeed, even Morell testified that such an action by a CIA employee would be ‘inappropriate.'”
On page 28 of the report, a portion of the House investigators’ interview with Morell is reprinted in which he is asked: “Would you organize such a letter today knowing what you know now?”
Morell’s reply again evinces the Russia fixation that Democrats used for years to undermine Trump’s presidency: “I would have to write it differently because we now know the emails are authentic, right? So you couldn’t say anymore we don’t know whether it’s information or disinformation. But I still have suspicions about a Russian role in these emails getting to The New York Post.”
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