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Mike Morell was the former acting CIA director, serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2013-13: he retired from the CIA in September 2013
Morell was asked by Antony Blinken, then a senior campaign official, to help rally former intel chiefs to say Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation
Morell recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee and said he coordinated a letter because he wanted to help Joe Biden's electoral chances
A retired CIA leader coordinated a letter from former intelligence chiefs claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation because he wanted to help Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
Mike Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that he was asked by Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State - who at the time was a senior member of the Biden campaign - to help discredit the laptop reporting.
Morell was a former acting CIA director, serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2012 to 2013. He retired from the CIA in September 2013.
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, is currently investigating Hunter Biden's laptop, as well as the Biden family businesses.
Morell 'recently' conducted a transcribed interview with Jordan's team and was asked about the Biden campaign's response to the laptop.
The laptop, which had been left in a Delaware repair store, was touted by Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, as providing evidence of supposed corruption among the Biden family.
The Biden campaign said the efforts to publicize the contents of the laptop bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The laptop included explicit photos of the troubled Hunter Biden naked, with prostitutes, and taking drugs, as well as multiple emails and texts between the 53-year-old and his father.
Morell said that he was asked by Blinken to rally former intelligence chiefs to agree that the laptop looked like a smear campaign.
He carried out 'a little bit of my own research,' and then reached out to retired CIA senior operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos for assistance in compiling the letter.
The letter was ultimately signed by 51 former intelligence officials, including himself and four other former CIA directors, including John Brennan and Leon Panetta.
The letter was published by Politico five days after The New York Post first reported on the contents of the laptop.
The headline for Politico's story, on October 19, 2020, was: 'Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former officials say.'
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
And again.
It's really amazing how another one of these threads keeps popping up when I point out that Gym edited the transcript to exclude the part where Morell completely destroys his narrative.
House Dems Publish Transcript Rebutting Jim Jordan’s Claim That Blinken Was Behind Security Officials’ Letter on Hunter Biden Laptop
originally posted by: Antimony
a reply to: putnam6
So we have all seen the photos and all the incriminating stuff. How it it Russian propaganda? Is everything on the laptop(s) fake? Is that what they are trying to say? Because I don't really believe that it is all fake.
originally posted by: Justoneman
originally posted by: Antimony
a reply to: putnam6
So we have all seen the photos and all the incriminating stuff. How it it Russian propaganda? Is everything on the laptop(s) fake? Is that what they are trying to say? Because I don't really believe that it is all fake.
WHERE IS THE INCRIMINATING STUFF?
I am open to actual facts if you actually have some to share.
originally posted by: Justoneman
originally posted by: Antimony
a reply to: putnam6
So we have all seen the photos and all the incriminating stuff. How it it Russian propaganda? Is everything on the laptop(s) fake? Is that what they are trying to say? Because I don't really believe that it is all fake.
WHERE IS THE INCRIMINATING STUFF?
I am open to actual facts if you actually have some to share.
originally posted by: putnam6
Thus it can't be his laptop and Russian disinformation at the same time.
"Well, our problem is we have a compliant, a complicit, and corrupt mainstream media — a bunch of radical leftist themselves. They'll continue to cover up for the Bidens," Johnson said. "He's their guy. They installed him as president, a guy who ran his campaign from the basement.
"And so until the mainstream media becomes unbiased, until they hold both sides equally accountable, the vast majority of the American public would be pretty well ignorant of exactly all of this corruption. And so there won't be the public pressure to really provide true accountability.
"So right now, ... one of our biggest problems in this country is the compliant and corrupt radical left media."
originally posted by: putnam6
Pretty sure we all are against foreign interference unless it's from Freeborn and Old Carpy.
originally posted by: Antimony
originally posted by: Justoneman
originally posted by: Antimony
a reply to: putnam6
So we have all seen the photos and all the incriminating stuff. How it it Russian propaganda? Is everything on the laptop(s) fake? Is that what they are trying to say? Because I don't really believe that it is all fake.
WHERE IS THE INCRIMINATING STUFF?
I am open to actual facts if you actually have some to share.
www.cbsnews.com...
The appearance of impropriety is impropriety and that should not be more true than when it concerns the president of the United States. 10% for the "big guy". And are you saying that the photo and video of hunter smoking crack is faked or is it just not a crime to smoke crack and not incriminating to pose for pictures while smoking crack?
Democrats spent 7 years trying to get Trump. Let Republicans have our moment.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: putnam6
Actually, it can be. It was determined that changes were made to the hard drive after it was no longer in Hunter's possession.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
There's fresh scrutiny on Hunter Biden, the president's son, as he is under investigation. Part of that investigation appears to center on emails that showed up on a notorious laptop that was publicized before the 2020 election and then dismissed by much of the news media. Many of these emails have now been authenticated. NPR's David Folkenflik joins us now
originally posted by: iamthevirus
originally posted by: putnam6
Pretty sure we all are against foreign interference unless it's from Freeborn and Old Carpy.
Don't you worry about them, I am part of the task force that has been assigned to root out foreign agents who interfere with the American way of life by disseminating misinformation, Orwellian doublethink/doublespeak and an overall general disdain for the United States.
Those happen t be two of the names on my list...
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: putnam6
Actually it can be. It was determined that changes were made to the hard drive after it was no longer in Hunter's possession.