According to Straight Arrow News, a recent report jointly issued by three Republican-led House committees alleges that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conspired with the Biden presidential campaign to deceive American voters mere weeks before the 2020 election.
The purported scandal is centered around the infamous laptop of Hunter Biden.
In the month leading up to the 2020 election, the New York Post published a report on documents and emails discovered on a laptop allegedly abandoned by Hunter Biden. The hard drive was subsequently handed over to Rudy Giuliani, who was serving as personal attorney to then-President Donald Trump.
The Post's report shed light on emails that seemingly linked Joe Biden to his son Hunter's business transactions with Ukrainian gas company Burisma during Biden's vice presidency in 2014. The publication referred to it as President Bidens international influence-peddling scheme.
In an attempt to undermine the credibility of the laptop story, fifty-one CIA intelligence officials signed a letter labeling the entire incident as Russian disinformation. The dissemination of the story was further hindered by Big Tech, which blocked the link from being shared on most social media platforms.
The letter from the intelligence officials read, We write to say that the arrival on the U.S. political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Bidens son Hunter, much of it related to his serving on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation. The letter also suggested that Russia would go to any lengths to ensure Trump's victory in the election and discredit Biden.
Despite initial doubts, it was later confirmed that Hunter Bidens laptop and its contents were authentic. The laptop was even presented as evidence in his recent gun trial, which led to his federal conviction for lying on documents about his drug addiction to procure a firearm.
The newly released House report accuses Gina Haspel, the then-CIA Director, of having prior knowledge of the statement before its approval and publication. The report alleges that Antony Blinken, who was serving as President Bidens top campaign official and is now Secretary of State, contacted former CIA Director Michael Morell to provide talking points to the Biden campaign to discredit politically damaging allegations.
Morell testified that it was Blinkens call that spurred him to draft the letter and secure the signatures of the other 50 intelligence officials.
Five of the signatures on the letter were from former CIA directors, and 41 of the 51 signatories were ex-CIA members. All of them were contractors with the agency and on its payroll.
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan commented on the report, stating, We knew that the rushed statement from the 51 former intelligence officials was a political maneuver between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community. Now with this interim report, we reveal how officials at the highest levels of the CIA were aware of the statement and CIA employees knew that several of the so-called former officials were on active contract with the CIA. The report underscores the risks posed by a weaponized federal government.
In response to the report, the CIA told Fox News, CIA officers, as a condition of their employment, are required to sign a secrecy agreement that includes a lifelong obligation to submit any and all intelligence-related materials to CIAs pre-publication review board before they are published. That process was followed in this case These former officers were not speaking for CIA.
The potential impact of the CIA letter on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, had it not been published, remains a matter of speculation.
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