Trump CIA chief knew about infamous letter dismissing Biden laptop as propaganda before publication: report
The Hatch Act forbids most spy agency employees from engaging in partisan political activities
By Emma Colton Fox News
Published June 26, 2024 12:34pm EDT
Active Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractors "colluded" with the Biden campaign when releasing a statement dismissing Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, and the then-CIA chief was in the loop before the statement's release, according to a joint report released by three House panels.
"We knew that the rushed statement from the 51 former intelligence officials was a political maneuver between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community. Now with this interim report, we reveal how officials at the highest levels of the CIA were aware of the statement and CIA employees knew that several of the so-called former officials were on active contract with the CIA. The report underscores the risks posed by a weaponized federal government," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a press release Tuesday.
The House Judiciary Committee, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report Tuesday titled, "The Intelligence Community 51: How CIA Contractors Colluded with The Biden Campaign to Mislead American Voters."
The report found that active CIA contractors "coordinated" with the Biden campaign just weeks ahead of the 2020 election "to discredit serious allegations about Biden family influence peddling" connected to Hunter’s laptop when 51 alleged former intelligence officials released a statement dismissing the laptop.
The former intelligence officials released a statement on Oct. 19, 2020, discounting the laptop as having "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," in a bid to discredit the New York Post’s bombshell report on the laptop at the time.
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