Mike Morell can’t clean up this ‘dirty’ letter that was meant to secure Biden’s 2020 win


Now we all know that the CIA conspired with former appearing director Mike Morell and the Biden marketing campaign to supply a letter falsely claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop computer have been Russian disinformation — and solicited signatures from at the very least one former intelligence official.

However there may be far more to come back from the Home Intelligence and Judiciary committees on the origins of that “Soiled 51” letter cooked up by 5 former CIA administrators and 46 fellow spooks to discredit The Submit’s reporting on the laptop computer.

John Brennan, the Obama-era CIA chief, admitted to Home investigators in a four-hour closed-door deposition final week that the letter was “political.”

James Clapper, the previous director of nationwide intelligence, is slated to look subsequent week.

Brennan and Clapper additionally have been concerned within the Hillary Clinton marketing campaign’s Russia hoax in opposition to Donald Trump and have lied to Congress beforehand with out sanction, however it’s unlikely the brand new breed of Republicans conducting these investigations might be as lenient as their predecessors. 

Why does the letter matter? As a result of it was essential to saving Biden’s pores and skin to disclaim that he had met together with his son Hunter’s Ukrainian paymaster Vadym Pozharskyi whereas he was VP, as The Submit reported on Oct. 14, 2020, citing proof from the laptop computer.

The Biden marketing campaign knew that the laptop computer was a critical political legal responsibility.


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The CIA performed a job making an attempt to dismiss Hunter Biden’s laptop computer fiasco as Russian disinformation.
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James Clapper, the previous director of nationwide intelligence, was additionally concerned within the Hillary Clinton marketing campaign’s Russia hoax in opposition to Donald Trump.
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Regardless of their finest efforts, with the assistance of the FBI, Huge Tech and a complicit media, to bury it, right here was The Submit with the story on its entrance web page three weeks earlier than the election.

The letter was a home disinformation operation by the CIA to deceive the American folks and assist Joe Biden win the 2020 election. 

No shock that final week, Democrats on the committees ran interference for the 51 deceitful spooks, issuing a dissenting assertion to fight the bulk report. 


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The letter was a disinformation operation by the CIA to assist Joe Biden win the 2020 election. 

Each sentence is fake or deceptive so right here goes a partial fact-check:

  • Dems: Former CIA director Michael Morell drafted the letter as a result of he had critical considerations in regards to the Russians apparently as soon as once more interfering in our elections. NOPE. Morell testified to the committees that he had no intention of drafting the assertion till then-Biden marketing campaign adviser Antony Blinken, now secretary of state, known as him on Oct. 17, 2020, to debate The Submit’s story and later emailed him a USA Right now article alleging the FBI was “doubtlessly” investigating if it was Russian disinformation. Morell testified that Blinken’s name “completely” triggered his determination to draft the letter. Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos, who helped concoct the letter, testified to the committees: “Morell mentioned that to me, that somebody from form of the Biden world had requested for” the letter. Morell admitted the letter was designed to “assist Vice President Biden” within the upcoming presidential debate by giving him a “speaking level to push again on [President] Trump on this situation.” Why did he need to give candidate Biden a speaking level? “As a result of I needed him to win the election.” Morell hoped to be chosen by Biden as CIA director. 
  • Dems: Morell testified that he was the only particular person in touch with the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Evaluation Board (PCRB) about getting the letter authorised. If others engaged on the letter had contacted the PCRB, he would have recognized. RED HERRING. No one mentioned “others engaged on the letter” had contacted the PCRB. Former CIA analyst David Cariens instructed the committees {that a} CIA worker from the PCRB had contacted him about his personal memoir and, through the name, had solicited his signature for Morell’s letter. Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo mentioned final week that “If there was one [active duty CIA employee involved], there are prone to be others too . . . That’s politics contained in the intelligence neighborhood in essentially the most indecent, irresponsible method, and is actually harmful for our democracy.”
  • Dems: Cariens says he heard in regards to the letter by way of a telephone name with the PCRB. However there may be substantial cause to query Cariens’ recollection of what occurred. For instance, Polymeropoulos testified that, primarily based on his “70 or 80” interactions with the PCRB, he has by no means recognized them to speak something by way of telephone. DECEPTIVE: Cariens has not withdrawn his testimony, and there’s no cause to query his recollection. “When the particular person in command of reviewing the guide known as to say it was authorised with no adjustments, I used to be instructed in regards to the draft letter,” he instructed the committees. “The particular person requested me if I might be keen to signal.” Polymeropoulos was Morell’s keen confederate, so he isn’t neutral.
  • Dems: Former CIA officer Kristin Wooden produced the e-mail by which Cariens agreed to hitch the letter. Cariens acquired the identical e-mail as each different signatory and signed on eight minutes later. His response says nothing in regards to the PCRB. IRRELEVANT: Even when Cariens additionally was approached by others to signal the letter, that doesn’t negate the truth that a serving CIA worker requested him to signal it first. Morell additionally instructed Wooden, who was serving to garner signatures: “The extra former intelligence officers the higher. Marketing campaign might be thrilled.”

Each a type of 51 intelligence officers knew the laptop computer was actual and was not Russian disinformation.

Brennan and others within the CIA should even have recognized about Hunter’s dangerous conduct abroad whereas his father was VP.

They certainly knew the FBI had had his laptop computer since December 2019. 

Joe Biden knew, too

Not simply the 51, however Joe Biden knew he was mendacity to the American public. He knew it was his son’s laptop computer and he knew The Submit was reporting the reality.

That’s why he went into hiding the day we revealed and despatched out his marketing campaign spokespeople to lie on his behalf.

On the morning of Oct. 19, 2020, whereas Morell was gathering signatures, and whereas the CIA was vetting the letter, then-Director of Nationwide Intelligence John Ratcliffe made a public declaration that The Submit’s story was not Russian disinformation. 

He rebuked Adam Schiff, then- chair of the Home Intelligence Committee, who had been everywhere in the media for days claiming that the intelligence neighborhood believes that Hunter Biden’s laptop computer is a Kremlin plot.


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John Brennan, the Obama-era CIA chief, admitted to Home investigators that the letter was “political.”
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Folks speculate the CIA knew about Hunter’s dangerous conduct abroad whereas his father was VP.
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“Let me be clear,” Ratcliffe mentioned. “The intelligence neighborhood doesn’t consider that as a result of there’s no intelligence that helps that.”

Inside 24 hours the Division of Justice and the FBI confirmed his declaration. 

The subsequent day Morell wrote an e-mail to his co-signatories to congratulate them for efficiently getting the letter revealed. 

“I simply need to thank everybody for signing the letter on the Hunter Biden emails,” he wrote. “I feel that is crucial election since 1860 and 1864 when the very existence of the nation was on the poll. Now, it’s our democracy and the Structure which can be on the poll. All of us, in fact, took an oath to ‘protect, defend, and defend’ the Structure. I feel all of you probably did that yesterday by signing this letter.” 

This was essentially the most harmful delusion of all.