The CIA Vault: Hunter Biden's Laptop
Former CIA boss testified that the story was discredited to help Joe Biden win.
A Congressional report alleges that Secretary of State Antony Blinken orchestrated the intelligence letter that dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as having "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." Blinken did this while he was Biden’s senior campaign advisor. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell testified before Congress, saying that they did this to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election. Senators Johnson and Grassley allege Blinken lied to Congress about Hunter Biden. Blinken has denied the allegations.
Jordan and Turner notified Blinken that they conducted a transcribed interview with Morell, who signed onto the letter.
"In his transcribed interview, Morell testified that on or around October 17, 2020 you reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story," they wrote. Blinken, at the time, was a senior adviser to the Biden campaign.
"According to Morell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morell's reaction to the Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement," they wrote.
Morell testified that the Biden campaign "helped to strategize about the public release of the statement.”
Congress intends to investigate further. The Bidens have been involved in politics for decades and that’s plenty of time to capitalize on all that power. Regardless, now is not a good time to be a Biden.
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