Kevin McCarthy Drops the Hammer on 51 Former Intel Officials Who Signed Hunter Biden Letter
By Nick Arama | Aug 07, 2022 10:00 AM ET
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told the NY Post that the House would be asking people in the intelligence agencies to spill what they knew about Hunter Biden and when. If they don’t come in voluntarily he said, they’d be subpoenaed.
“They should come in and talk to us,” McCarthy said in an exclusive sitdown with The Post. “You’d want to ask these individuals what did they know and when.
“People can come in and talk to us and answer the questions. If that’s not the case there are times we will use the subpoena as well,” he added.
51 former intelligence agency officials — including James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, former CIA Director, both under Barack Obama — signed a letter claiming that Hunter’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” They also said this looked like an effort to “influence how Americans vote in this election.” They had no evidence to support that claim, but they put it out there anyway, themselves influencing the election. As we previously reported, President Donald Trump hired attorneys who are pursuing a variety of actions against the signatories of the letter.
The NY Post reached out to all those people in March to ask them to justify themselves. Most ignored the Post inquiry, although some tried to spin like James Clapper.
“Yes, I stand by the statement made AT THE TIME. … I think sounding such a cautionary note AT THE TIME was appropriate,” Clapper said.
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