“We knew that the rushed statement from the 51 former intelligence officials was a political maneuver between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan states.
Several signatories of the 2020 letter by 51 former intelligence officials claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian “disinformation” were active contractors for the CIA, according to a new government report.
A joint 31-page report by the House Judiciary Committee, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released Tuesday concluded that top-level CIA officials were aware of the letter beforehand and CIA employees knew that several of the so-called former officials were on active contract with the CIA.
“The October 19, 2020, statement on Hunter Biden’s laptop signed by 51 former senior intelligence community officials served to interfere in the American electoral system in the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election,” the report states.
“The highest officials within the CIA were aware of the statement prior to its publication. CIA’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Andrew Makridis testified that he informed Director Gina Haspel or Deputy Director Vaughn Frederick Bishop about its impending release.”
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“This sequence of events suggests that senior CIA leadership had ample opportunity to assess the validity of the statement’s claims. Furthermore, the COO’s office appeared to signal approval of the statement in a move that departed from standard Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) protocols.”
The report continues:
Additionally, some of the statement’s signatories were on active contract with the CIA at the time they issued the statement to discredit damaging allegations about Biden family influence peddling. Despite claiming they lacked access to classified information at the time, at least two signatories—Michael Morell and former CIA Inspector General David Buckley—were actively working for the CIA as contractors. This revelation raises concerns that these officials may have abused their positions to expedite the statement’s approval and may have been earning taxpayer dollars while they did it.
Furthermore, officials within the CIA recognized at the time that the Hunter Biden statement was political and would hurt the Agency. The signatories’ decision to leverage their former intelligence community titles to promote a narrative about foreign election interference improperly embroiled the Agency in domestic politics. This report underscores the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community.
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John Solomon Drops a Bomb — Several of the 51 Intel Offers who Said Hunters Laptop was “Russian Disinformation” were… Wait for it…
Active CIA Contractors..
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a statement said the report “underscores the risks posed by a weaponized federal government.”
“We knew that the rushed statement from the 51 former intelligence officials was a political maneuver between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community,” Jordan wrote. “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.”
The letter gave Big Tech companies the justification to mass-censor any online posts or stories reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop in the days leading up to the 2020 election.
It was later revealed that the Biden campaign was directly responsible for quarterbacking the letter in what turned out to be one of the most consequential government disinformation campaigns ever conducted during an election.
The 51 so-called former officials have not only refused to retract their thoroughly debunked claim that the Hunter laptop story was Russian disinformation, they’ve actually doubled down!
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court in a pivotal 6-3 decision Wednesday struck down a lower court’s injunction preventing the federal government from pressuring Big Tech companies to suppress free speech.
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