A former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency reveals current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was the driving force behind a since-debunked October 2020 letter signed by 51 national security figures claiming damaging revelations about the Biden family were concocted and planted by the Russian government.
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that Blinken, then senior advisor to Democrat nominee Joe Biden's campaign, was behind the “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” that he and 50 other high-level national security figures signed, which falsely claimed an abandoned laptop computer belonging to Biden's adult son Hunter, containing evidence of Hunter's drug use, engagement with prostitutes and possible illegal foreign business deals by the Biden family, was the product of “Russian disinformation.”
The laptop and its contents revealed in a New York Post story in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, threatened to derail Biden's bid. Media figures blasted the Post, claiming the story was planted by the Russian government. That claim has since been debunked and the contents of the laptop proven accurate.
In response, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, now demand Blinken turn over documents and communications related to the Committee's investigation of the matter.
The Committee reports:
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.
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