Former top intelligence officials who sought to undermine the Hunter Biden laptop case as part of Russian propaganda four years ago continue to be obstinate about their willingness to overuse their protection status to interfere in elections.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released the records of interviews with several of the 51 leaders who signed the notorious 2020 letter to Politico, saying the computer had” all the typical pledges of a Russian data activity.” Former CIA Director James Clapper, past acting director Michael Morell, former acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nick Rasmussen, and former CIA national Nick Shapiro are just a few people who spoke to us. All of whom expressed no worries about signing the text.
” I do n’t have regrets about signing the statement, given what was known at the time”, Rasmussen told lawmakers. ” I regret that the speech has drawn a democratic stir, and I regret that that is the case.”
John Brennan, who served as head of the CIA under President Barack Obama’s next name, said he only regrets that the notorious email “has fueled the anger that wants to create this uproar over it.”
In May of last year, Brennan told lawmakers,” What the media has done to utilize it for their own purposes or command or whatever, is up to them.” ” I did this as a personal citizen”.
With all the” with all the information available to you today,” former Utah representative Chris Stewart, R- Utah, who resigned in September after his wife suffered a stroke.
” You still do n’t regret it”? Stewart requested this in May of last year.
” No”, Clapper said.
Other than the letter from the more than 50 original officials, the letter even contradicted statements made by the then-current director of national intelligence that refuted allegations of Russian interference. Afterwards, Hunter Biden would be found guilty of murder and the laptop may be put in the laptop’s official possession.
Joe Biden’s use of the email to avoid flimsy allegations of corruption was captured in a video released on Thursday by House Republicans, which they aired following the transcript release. The film also included images of the Judiciary Committee’s meeting with Morell speaking that a phone call from Antony Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state who was a senior consultant to the plan,” triggered” the open letter to Politico.
” There were two intents”, Morell said of the letter. One of our goals was to inform Americans of the role that Russia was playing in this regard, and the other was to support Vice President Biden.
Following the discovery that several of the letter’s signatories were being paid by the CIA, the Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government  released the transcripts. At the time the letter was published, House investigators claimed that both Morell and former Inspector General David Buckley were both on agency payroll. On January 6, Buckley served as a lead investigator for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee.
Jeremy Bash, who was previously married to CNN’s Thursday- night debate moderator, Dana Bash, was also a signatory named in the House report Tuesday as an “independent contractor” at the time of the letter.
While signing the letter along with a statement to the New York Post, Morell denied the claims that he worked for the CIA. ” If you write that, you would ]be ] wrong”, Morell said. However, a House source gave The Federalist access to the CIA document that details Morell’s organization’s involvement on Tuesday night.
The House Judiciary Committee spokesman Russell Dye told The Federalist,” The evidence in our report speaks for itself and it seems that the spy who lied is continuing to do so.”
RealClear Investigative Reporter Paul Sperry covered Clapper’s attempts to use the deep state against Republicans on Wednesday during the previous two presidential elections.
” On Oct. 7, 2016– just two days before the presidential debate between Trump and Clinton – Clapper issued the unprecedented intelligence advisory with Obama’s personal blessing”, Sperry reported. It appeared to give cred to what the Clinton camp was allegedly telling the media:” Trump was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a covert backchannel to steal the election.”
The former intelligence officials ‘ claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was a tool of Kremlin interference would continue to undermine the first half of Trump’s presidency in the wake of the Russia collusion hoax.
” In hindsight, Clapper’s well- timed pseudo- intelligence in 2016 and 2020 helped Clinton and Biden make the case against Trump as a potentially Kremlin- compromised figure, charges that crippled his presidency and later arguably denied him reelection”, Sperry wrote, adding post- election surveys revealed nearly half of Democrat voters in swing states were oblivious to Biden’s own scandals. ” Joe Biden was elected president because Clapper and his intelligence colleagues prevented millions of voters from finding out about the damning contents on Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Clapper said.
