A CIA official helped wrangle signatories to an October 2020 letter of 51 former federal intelligence officials discrediting information from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer as Russian disinformation, according to a new congressional report.
At the time, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said that Hunter‘s laptop was “not part of a Russian disinformation campaign” and that the FBI and the intelligence community knew the information from the computer was authentic.
The congressional report also said that on Oct.18, 2020, former Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper emailed Mr. Morell about his plan to become a signatory and suggested adding a key phrase to the letter, which Mr. Morrell ultimately included. “I have one editorial suggestion for the letter: I think it would strengthen the verbiage if you say this has all the classic earmarks of a Soviet/Russian information operation rather than the ‘feel’ of a Russian operation,” he wrote.
During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Morrell said that his Oct. 17 call with Antony Blinken, who was then a top campaign adviser and now serves as secretary of state, had “absolutely” triggered him to draft the letter. “There were two intents. One intent was to share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue; and, two, it was [to] help Vice PresidentMr. Blinken disputed that account. He said he was not behind the letter that Republicans now say helped tip the political scales toward Mr.“One of the great benefits of this job is that I don’t do politics, don’t engage in it,” he said recently on Fox News.
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