Jan 21, 2025 · In the closing weeks of the 2020 Presidential campaign, at least 51 former intelligence officials coordinated with the Biden campaign to issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President ...

Jun 25, 2024 · The report reveals new information detailing how the highest levels of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” by 51 former intelligence officials prior to its approval and publication. The report reveals important new ...

Some of the ex-intelligence officials who signed the infamous letter casting doubt on the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop archive were paid contractors with the agency at the time,...

Jan 21, 2025 · Republicans have argued that the letter was evidence of a deep-state collusion between the CIA and the Biden campaign to cover up other materials on the laptop that they believe show improper ...

The 51 former intelligence officials’ Hunter Biden statement was a blatant political operation from the start. It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence …

Hunter Biden and then Vice President Joe Biden in 2009. On October 14, 2020, the Hunter Biden laptop controversy began when the New York Post published a story about a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden that had been abandoned at a Delaware computer shop in 2019. [1] Five days later, a group of 51 former senior intelligence officials, who had served in four different administrations ...

Jan 20, 2025 · President-elect Donald Trump, on Day 1, plans to suspend security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting tied to Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of...

Jan 21, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his administration will move to revoke the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.”. The action is an early indication of the president’s determination to exact retribution on ...

Feb 24, 2024 · Former U.S. spies warned in 2020 that the Hunter Biden scandal had Russian fingerprints. They feel vindicated now. The Justice Department said this week that informant Alexander Smirnov...

On October 17, 2020, Biden campaign advisor—now Secretary of State—Antony Blinken contacted former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Acting Director Michael Morell to discuss the Post’s reporting.