The House Judiciary Committee released information on Tuesday showing that CIA contractors colluded with the Biden campaign in 2020 to smear Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In October 2020, just days before the presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials signed and published a letter baselessly denouncing that the contents of Hunter’s “Hell Notebook” had “all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation.” .
This is a lie. They both knew it was a lie. The fake news media picked up the story anyway. Fake news even used it to attack President Trump during the debate.
As Christina Leila reported earlier, the House Judiciary Committee released the details on Tuesday.
● Senior CIA officials, including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were informed of Hunter Biden’s statement before it was approved and released. With several former senior intelligence officials signing on to the statement, the PCRB sent the draft statement to then-CIA chief operating officer (COO) Andrew Makridis, who said he then informed then-CIA Commissioner Haspel or then-Deputy Commissioner Vaughn Frederick Bishop, a statement will be released soon. Senior CIA leadership had the opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA’s process of reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement received appropriate scrutiny.
● Some of the signatories of the Hunter Biden statement, including Michael Morell, had active contracts with the CIA at the time it was released. Throughout the committee’s investigation, the signatories claimed they had been given no classified information when claiming that the allegations surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the hallmarks” of Russian disinformation.
However, at least two of the signatories—Morrell and former CIA Inspector General David Buckley—were on the CIA payroll as contractors when the statement was issued. Due to alleged operational issues, the CIA refused to declassify the entire list of active contract signatories. Additionally, some of the signatories of Hunter Biden’s statement had special “green cards” into the CIA at the time of the statement, giving them access to CIA secure facilities.
● After Hunter Biden’s statement was released, CIA employees internally expressed concerns about the politicized content of the statement, admitting that it “does not help the CIA in the long run.” At least one employee discovered it”[i]”It will be interesting to see what was submitted and approved,” he said in a discussion of media talking points related to the statement submitted by its co-author, former senior intelligence agency official Mark Polymeropoulos.
Discussing Polimeropoulos’ talking points, another CIA official said: “It appears [Polymeropoulos] Actively engage in campaign support for Biden and may disclose confidential information in his efforts. The CIA’s internal review board, known as the Pre-Publication Classification Review Board (PCRB), determined that Polimeropoulos’ talking points contained classified information that had to be removed before publication.
“The new information contained in this report, based on new testimony and declassified documents, shows the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community. In the final days before the 2020 presidential election, 51 intelligence community officials scrambled to draft and use their official Title released a statement, presumably to convey professional information not available to other Americans. The statement was conceived after a conversation with a senior Biden campaign official and was explicitly intended to provide the Biden campaign with talking points. , to discredit politically damaging accusations that some of the signatories of the statement were on the CIA payroll at the time, as contractors and others had special access to CIA facilities. Before the committee learned of his contract with the CIA) also acknowledged that “it would be inappropriate for a current staff officer or contractor to participate in the political process,” the House Judiciary Committee said.
This is the judiciary report published on X on Tuesday.
“We knew the hasty statement by 51 former intelligence officials was a political ploy between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community. Now, with this interim report, we reveal how the highest-level CIA officials knew about the statement ,and…
— House Judiciary Republicans (@JudiciaryGOP) June 25, 2024
However, the CIA is not the only agency deceiving and manipulating the American public in the 2020 election.
The House Ways and Means Committee released their interview with Gary Shapley, Jr. on May 26, 2023, in June 2023.
In the report, the committee included the following key points:
In October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop had a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden that may contain incriminating evidence. The FBI verified its authenticity in November 2019 by matching the device number to Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID.
Here is a screenshot from page 12 of the report:
The FBI and the intelligence community learned in November 2019 that Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic and contained evidence of hundreds of international crimes, including that of his father, Joe Biden.
They knew this in November 2019!
Chris Wray and the FBI said nothing!
Then, in the second presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden and hack journalist Kristen Welker teamed up to take on President Donald Trump.
At one point, Joe Biden interrupted Welker’s planned response to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal from hell. Joe Biden told viewers that 50 intelligence leaders signed a letter calling the laptop “Russian propaganda.”
Intel leaders lied. They know it’s a lie. Joe Biden knows this is a lie. The media knows this is a lie.
The Biden campaign and current Secretary of State Tony Blinken organized this big lie.
This laptop is real and every Intel “expert” who signed this letter knows it is real!
Sixty dishonest intelligence officials (nine declined to be named) lied to the American public about Hunter Biden’s laptop being part of a Russian disinformation operation.
These 60 individuals should be exposed, subpoenaed, and imprisoned for spreading such outrageous political lies to sway the presidential election.
Both the FBI and CIA must be held accountable for their dangerous and lawless actions.
Justice must be served!
