(Congress Report) – The current chairman presiding over the House Intelligence Committee has revealed that his probe into a letter that was written and signed by ex-intelligence officials to discredit reports concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop is a key component for exposing how President Joe Biden “lied” in order to sway the outcome of the election in his favor.
Jerry Dunleavy, writing for the Washington Examiner, said, “Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), who took up the gavel early this year, has been running the joint investigation with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.”
“The duo has unearthed a host of new details about the letter, which was signed by more than 50 former intelligence officials, including that former acting CIA Director Mike Morell was ‘triggered’ to arrange its writing by now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discredit the New York Post’s reporting on the abandoned laptop hard drive, and that the goal of the letter was to give Joe Biden a ‘talking point’ to deploy against now-former President Donald Trump in their final presidential debate,” Dunleavy continued.
“The problem that we’re trying to address is that people who were formerly in the government used their position as if they had present knowledge of something that they had no access to, and it was received by the media and even used by this president in a debate as evidence to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop,” Turner asserted in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “As a matter of fact, of course, the president of the United States now [Joe Biden], when he was in the debate running for this office, knew the Hunter Biden laptop was real. So he stood in that debate and lied to the American public, knowingly.”
The letter put together by ex-intelligence officials came together quickly and at a very important point in the presidential election, helping to build a baseless narrative that claimed the stories being published in the media about Hunter Biden’s now infamous laptop were nothing more than a disinformation campaign launched by Russia to interfere in the race and sway the outcome toward Trump.
Then-candidate Joe Biden made mention of the laptop during a presidential debate with Trump on Oct. 22, 2020 after the former president brought up the subject.
“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage,” Joe Biden remarked during the debate.
Trump immediately responded by stating, “You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax?”
Biden fired off, “That’s exactly what we’re told.”
Trump then shot back with, “Here we go again with Russia.”
“Turner and Jordan said Morell received a call from then-Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti after the presidential debate to thank him for ‘putting the statement out.’ Ricchetti now works in the Biden White House,” the piece noted.
A report released in May by the House Intelligence Committee — led by Turner — and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government — headed up by Jordan — said that “contemporaneous documents show that some of the signatories adopted Politico’s framing that the laptop was Russian disinformation.”
Morell got a call from Jeremy Bash, who served as the former chief of staff at both the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, who then handed the phone to Ricchetti. Bash, who slapped his own John Hancock down on the laptop letter — who was chosen by Biden to serve as part of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in August of 2022 — made an appearance on television where he claimed that the laptop was a bogus story and was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
“This looks like Russian intelligence, this walks like Russian intelligence, this talks like Russian intelligence. This effort by Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post and Steve Bannon to cook up supposed dirt on Joe Biden looks like a classic Russian playbook disinformation campaign,” Bash proclaimed during an interview with MSNBC on Oct. 19, 2020, referring to them as “mysteriously created emails — probably hacked through a Russian intelligence operation.”
Last year, the Washington Examiner hired Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, an expert in cyber forensics and a former agent for the Secret Service, to do an examination of the laptop. He concluded, “My analysis revealed there is a 100% certainty that Robert Hunter Biden was the only person responsible for the activity on this hard drive and all of its stored data,” and that ‘the hard drive is authentic.'”
“Those who signed that letter knew that they were doing a political act, knew that they were politically using the credentials of their government positions to try to persuade the American public in a manner in which they had no knowledge of the substance at all,” Turner declared during his conversation with the Washington Examiner.
He then added, “It is wrong, and exposing it, one, will have an impact on those who view their professional positions more politically, but two, the next time this happens, maybe people will have less willingness to lie to the American public inside a letter, because they know that they’re going to be called in and put in a deposition and have to admit that they know nothing about which they stated in that letter.”
Both Turner and Jordan told CIA Director William Burns back in May that they “have received evidence that the CIA, or at least an employee of the CIA, may have helped to solicit signatories for the statement about Hunter Biden.” The two GOP members then spoke with the Biden CIA chief, saying that, “if accurate, this information raises fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA in helping to falsely discredit allegations about the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election.”
The thing that most people want to know at this point is whether or not those involved in the laptop letter who knowingly lied about its authenticity will ever face consequences for their actions.
Turner was asked that very question and responded, “in this investigation, we’ll have to see where it goes.”
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Old fool lies almost daily. Ruined our Nation.
It’s like everything else with the Biden’s, they get off scott free. This country needs to stop being so stupid and strip this bastard of his title. And please don’t replace him with Kameltoe.
My guess is not only the Biden’s BUT republicans as well. The Bushes I believe are one of the top corrupt families ever in politics. I’m thinking we didn’t get to where we are in America just bkz of the demonRats….the Republicans were complicit for many years. The UNIPARTY is strong and now almost unstoppable, But we may still have a chance IF we can get 70 million republicans (half of which I would say are true conservatives) to stand together, use common sense and inconvenience themselves for a year maybe 2. STOP BUYING anything that is not Absolutely necessary. Then only use Small Businesses. The only way we win is to hit them where it hurts and that’s in their pockets. But, are people willing to make a sacrifice? It’s pay now or Pay forever because they will eventually come for all of us. They start with the easy most vulnerable and work their way up to the target group – The Middle Class or should I say the top or Upper Middle Class. Yep those folks who don’t care about paying $4.00 a gallon for gas or $5.00 for a doz. eggs etc will also be targeted and it’s not going to be that much in the future. So much is going on that people aren’t aware of because they believe what they’re fed by the MSM and don’t want to consider some of the below the radar actions being taken by this administration. It’s sad, but, IF we don’t get a couple big talking heads to get the people to take action we’re probably done as the Free country America.
Those responsible for the lies and deception perpetrated on the American people are guilty of treason. These traitors should be tried in a military tribunal and if convicted suffer the consequence. Because of these traitors president “Poop in his pants” was able to steal an election and ruin our once great country. We are now the laughing stock of the world. President Putin does not have to attack us. He has Biden, the democrats, d.o.j. Incl the f.b.I. Doing it for him . Not to mention over 6 million illegals chipping away at our sovereignty and sucking dry our resources.
Tim H. Excellent comment! Our country is hurting horribly and it started on Jan. 2021 when this asinine started his executive orders erasing all of President Trumps policies. Biden went against all of his so called “promises” when he was running for president. Shutting down the Keystone pipeline was the most dangerous move to take. He’s an evil dictator, and the biggest son of a bitch that we have ever had as president. I have no sympathy for this asswipe what so ever. Biden doesn’t care for America or any of the citizens here. I don’t give a f about his ass either.
DANG
Boy am I glad I did not vote for him.
However , the task at hand, is to get him out sooner rather than later.
Why are you surprised biden lied? Marine Bob
I’m not sure anyone who knows what slo joe is could be surprised. I think it’s more like we Hoped he would be more of a centrist, but, deep down we knew what was coming. The very fact he was placed into the oval office said it all….could be nothing more than a downward spiral for our country.
The fact that this feeble minded old man was able to get into the white house shows where the power lies. It’s the abc agencies and global organizations. The corruption is beyond belief. I don’t know that it can be dismantled – I mean the Deep State. Conservatives are not very smart or I should say unified? To do what it takes to get common sense and reasonable people together to do the right things for America it’ll take ALL of US 70 Million conservatives to say ENOUGH and how can we get everyone on board? No One wants to say it, but, I have said it before (since 08) a MASSIVE STOP SPENDING MONEY because You are feeding the beast. It’s Pay now folks or PAY later! Do people really think that by electing a republican president be it DJT or DeSantis anything much will change?? H E L L NO it won’t. People inconveniene yourselves for a year or 2…yep Buy Nothing that is not absolutely necessary and then ONLY buy from Small Businesses. We dying a slow death Rust never stops Unless you start anew. No one wants to hear this or make sacrifices BUT Imagine IF we all stood together how Crazy things would become. Once the Big Money folks start to hurt That’s when and ONLY THEN will the people of this country get their voices heard and the right changes made. And I’m not too sure it isn’t already too late to effect any good change. But, I’m doing my small part for years by boycotting Disney (since 97) my daughter has seen the inside of a movie theater perhaps 10 times in her 35 years of life. She is a conservative today surrounded by friends who were brought up by so-called conservative parents, but, are flaming libs on the bandwagon of the progressives who are taking down this country. My friends say how did you manage to raise conservatives? I can’t really say much-I mean is my reply telling them my opinion going to change anything other than make them defensive when or if I were to answer them? NO I just loose them as friends. But, that’s part of the problem. People can’t take responsibility and yet we expect our elected officials to do so? humm
Democratic way of life involves lying, cheating, manipulate, misleading, and hiding behind closed doors. Don’t you see this? The father of all liars, Lucifer, is a good example of this. Hell is the only place where all of them need to be. They all will ultimately have to pay the price for what they’ve done, which can resulted in deadly consequences. Old slow sleepy Joe will have his day, but it won’t be rosy in the whirlpool bath; rather, it will be in a massive lake of fire. Bye-Bye..