New Testimony Reveals Secretary Blinken and Biden Campaign Behind the Infamous Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Laptop

April 20, 2023

Chairmen Jordan and Turner Demand Documents and Communications from Blinken

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New testimony by Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and one of the 51 signatories of the “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails,” revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then senior advisor to the Biden campaign, was the impetus of the public statement signed in October 2020 that falsely implied the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden was the product of Russian disinformation. In response, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) just sent a letter to Secretary Blinken demanding documents and communications related to the Committees’ investigation.

BACKGROUND:

On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published a report detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now-President Joe Biden, for personal gain with the apparent awareness of President Biden. The article reported on several emails found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that he had abandoned in a Delaware computer shop. The contents of the emails cast doubt on President Biden’s previous denials of speaking to his son about his international business dealings.
 
Within five days of the article, on October 19, 2020, 51 former intelligence officials released a public statement attempting to discredit the contents of the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden, stating that the story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” News publications immediately ran with the statement, with Politico publishing a story with the conclusive headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former officials say.” During the final presidential debate on October 22, then-Vice President Biden cited the public statement to rebut President Trump’s criticism of the Biden family business dealings.

NEW INFORMATION: 

The Committees recently conducted a transcribed interview with Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the CIA and one of the 51 signatories of the public statement. In his transcribed interview, Morell testified that on or around October 17, 2020, Blinken served as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign and reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story. 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.  
 
That same day, October 17, Blinken also emailed Morell an article published in USA Today alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a “disinformation campaign.”  The very bottom of the email he sent to Morell included the signature block of Andrew Bates, then-director of rapid response for the Biden campaign.
 
Morell testified that his communication with Blinken was one of a few communications he had with the Biden campaign, explaining that he also received a call from Steve Ricchetti, Chairman of the Biden campaign, following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing the statement.  Morell also explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement. Morell further explained that one of his two goals in releasing the statement was to help then-Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist him in winning the election.
 
Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election. Although the statement’s signatories have an unquestioned right to free speech and free association—which we do not dispute—their reference to their national security credentials lent weight to the story and suggested access to specialized information unavailable to other Americans. This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy.

Read the full letter to Secretary Blinken here. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-testimony-reveals-secretary-blinken-and-biden-campaign-behind-infamous  

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I POSTED THIS ITEM TO THE BENEFIT OF MY FRIENDS WHO STILL BELIEVE THE SPIES STORY... I CANNOT ARGUE WITH THEM ANY MORE, BECAUSE "THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW" AND "TRUMP IS A HORRIBLE PERSON".... AND BELIEVE EVERY STORY BY THE LEGACY NEWS MEDIA....

THE LATEST FURPHY IS THAT "TRUMP DID NOT SAY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILES OF THE CRASH IN DC..." HE DID  — AFTER BLASTING THE DEI DIRECTIVE OF THE FAA IN REGARD TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS EMPLOYMENT...

IS THIS A REAL DOCUMENT?.... IF IT IS, I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE... I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE....

 

 

MEANWHILE, IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE AIR CONTROLLERS IN WASHINGTON DC WERE UNDERSTAFFED, BUT THE MILITARY CHOPPER WAS FLYING TOO HIGH... LOOKING AT THE FLIGHT PATHS, THE AMERICAN AIRLINE PLANE HAD PRIORITY FOR LANDING, BUT THE CHOPPER VEERED RIGHT TO "FOLLOW THE RIVER" AS NON-COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFTS HAVE TO DO IN MOST PLACES, EVEN SYDNEY HARBOUR... THE PILOTS OF THE CHOPPER WOULD HAVE SEEN THE ONCOMING PLANE.

COMMUNICATING ON A DIFFERENT COM FREQUENCY, THE CHOPPER DID NOT GET THE COM BETWEEN THE PLANE AND THE TOWER. HAVING TO SWITCH FREQUENCY, THE AIR TRAFIC CONTROLLER ADVISED THE CHOPPER TO GET OUT OF THE WAY... NO RESPONSE. CRASH.... 

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BLINKEN SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS, FOR DECEIVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE....

 

Donald Trump Revokes Security Clearances of 51 CIA Officers Who Got It Wrong About Hunter Biden Laptop—and So Much Else

By John Kiriakou

 

Disinformation artists have repeatedly misled the public in order to demonize American enemies and support more war

President Donald Trump on his first day in office revoked the security clearances of all 51 former CIA officers who had signed an open letter in 2020 claiming that the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop “carried all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

The revocation hits some of the biggest names in the “former CIA talking head” industry, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, and a host of others.

Many of these misguided intelligence dinosaurs no longer have active clearances, so Trump’s move is largely symbolic in their cases. But others are still very active, either as intelligence community contractors or as sole practitioners doing classified work for the Agency. They will no longer be able to do that, and that’s a good thing for the country.

As an aside, I know every single one of the signatories. Some are intellectually brilliant. Some are idiots. Some were terrific managers. Some were vindictive power-hungry dopes. But they all bill themselves in the letter as “individuals who devoted significant portions of our lives to national security.” They go on to say that they are also “individuals who see Russia as one of our nation’s primary adversaries. All of us have an understanding of the wide range of Russian overt and covert activities that undermine US national security, with some of us knowing Russian behavior intimately…A few of us worked against Russian information operations in the United States in the last several years.”

That all sounds pretty impressive. But the fact of the matter is that these brilliant and (self)important thinkers were 100 percent wrong, wrong, wrong about the Hunter Biden laptop. Not only did the Russians have literally nothing to do with the documentary evidence of Hunter Biden’s drug-fueled debauchery laid bare in living color on the laptop’s hard drive, these CIA experts showed the world just how little they know about Russian information campaigns after all.

Think of it this way. The signatories of the letter represent well over 1,000 cumulative years of CIA experience, much of it on Russia. How, then, did they come to this completely wrong conclusion? Well, they got it wrong the same way they allowed the worst intelligence failure in American history to take place on September 11, 2001. They got it wrong the same way they missed the collapse of the Soviet Union, and before that the way they missed every major world event from the Berlin War to the Suez Crisis to the Vietnam War to the ouster of the Shah of Iran, and Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.

I would posit that the problem at the CIA is actually quite simple. It’s groupthink. All the smartest people get into a room, talk about an issue, and end up agreeing on everything. There’s no intellectual pushback. After all, it’s better for your career if everybody’s wrong, rather than if you were the only one in the room who was wrong.

With that said, perhaps I’m giving the letter’s signatories too much credit. Perhaps they knew that the Russians had nothing to do with the Hunter Biden laptop, but they put out the lie anyway to try to frighten the American voter with the prospect of an uncontrolled Russian bear roughshod over American democracy and to push voters away from the Republican party.

We’ll probably never know the truth. And I would note that the signatories couch their language in a very CIA-like way. They point out that they never said the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian disinformation operation. They said that it “bore all the hallmarks of” a Russian disinformation operation. When I was at the CIA, we were actually trained to write that way. We almost never came down solidly on one side of an issue or another. That way, you’re less likely to be wrong.

There’s an even more important issue at play here, too. Just as a matter of ethics and transparency, nobody who has a CIA security clearance should be on TV, on the radio, or in the papers telling people what to believe. I don’t care if the final product has been cleared by the CIA’s Publications Review Board, as the signatories claim.

I, for one, am tired of hearing the likes of John Brennan, whom I have known personally, disliked, and distrusted for 35 years, telling me what I should and should not believe. My mind revolts every time I see Brennan on MSNBC saying (figuratively), “Well, if you had access to the information that I have access to, you would believe…”

Sorry, but that’s nothing more than CIA propaganda. It was illegal to propagandize the American people until Barrack Obama legalized it in 2013 when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act.

It should still be illegal. Governments that propagandize their own people are not democracies. The signatories may want us to believe they are patriots. They may even believe that they’re patriots. But they’re dangerous. And Donald Trump was right to take away the security clearances that they have used as weapons against the truth.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/31/donald-trump-revokes-security-clearances-of-51-cia-officers-who-got-it-wrong-about-hunter-biden-laptop-and-so-much-else/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

CBS News has agreed to provide the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with the unedited version of a controversial interview with former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The broadcast is at the center of US President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit alleging that the network deceptively edited footage to benefit Harris in the run-up to the 2024 election.

The scandal erupted in October when CBS aired two versions of the interview with Harris. A preview version that aired on ‘Face the Nation’ included a question about the Middle East conflict, to which Harris gave a long and convoluted answer. The other full-length version shown on ‘60 Minutes’ featured a much clearer and more concise answer.

Just days ahead of the election, Trump lodged a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS, calling the interview “word salad” and accusing the network of “deceitful, deceptive manipulation of news.” The action also claims that CBS tried “to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party.”

On Wednesday, as part of the legal proceedings, the FCC, under Trump appointee Brendan Carr, sent a letter to CBS requesting the “full, unedited transcript and camera feeds” of the Harris interview.

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https://www.rt.com/news/612050-cbs-unedited-version-harris-interview/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.