Exclusive: Republicans Question Former Spy About CIA’s Potential Role in Casting ‘Laptop from Hell’ as Russian DisinfoWendell Husebø 6 Mar 2024
Top Republicans demanded former Central Intelligence Agency Chief Operating Officer Andrew Makridis provide information about the spy agency’s potential role in casting Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” as Russian disinformation via a Politico report that cited 51 former intelligence community officials, according to a letter exclusively obtained by Breitbart News.
Makridis retired from the CIA at the end of 2022. He served four years as COO, the number three position at the CIA. He is now a senior adviser at Beacon Global Strategies, a firm that advises on national security issues.
The establishment media used the now-discredited Politico story to push a false and misleading narrative about the origins of Hunter’s laptop. President Joe Biden also cited the article in a 2020 debate as a defense against former President Donald Trump’s probing questions about the Biden business.
Seventy-one percent of Americans believe accurate reporting of Hunter’s “Laptop from Hell” could have altered the 2020 presidential election, according to polling.
It took the establishment media more than a year to admit the story was false. In January, Biden’s Justice Department finally confirmed in court filings that the laptop was real.
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