Mike Waltz Teases ‘Consequences’ For Former Intel Officials Who Signed Hunter Biden Disinformation LetterHenry Rodgers
Chief National Correspondent
January 15, 2025 1:15 PM ET
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Incoming national security advisor Mike Waltz said there “should be consequences” for former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop disinformation letter, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller.
Waltz, whose job will be to assist President Donald Trump and coordinate matters of national security and foreign policy within the administration, said he is not going to “get ahead” of their “kind of week one policies.” He did affirm that “the signers of that letter did great damage to the trust of the American people and our law enforcement, our intelligence agencies.”
Waltz reiterated that former intelligence officials, including the 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed the letter — which asserted without evidence that the materials contained within Hunter Biden’s laptop were the product of Russian disinformation — caused “real damage to our national security and to our institutions.” But he stopped short of confirming that they would revoke these individuals’ security clearances, which often help intelligence officials pursue high-profile media or consulting careers after leaving the federal government.
“I mean, they basically said, ‘We have high level clearances.’ So, that means the American people can’t see what they know. Journalists can’t independently check what they know. So, essentially, they were saying, ‘Trust us.’ And I believe they horribly violated that trust,” Waltz told the Caller.
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