Posted on 04/21/2023 6:44:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is being investigated by the Committee on the Judiciary and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for his prominent role in persuading 51 former intelligence officials to falsely discredit the “New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop as supposed Russian disinformation” during the 2020 Presidential election. The intelligence assessment led to a nearly blanket censorship of investigative stories exposing the alleged corruption of President Joe Biden and his family and kept the truth hidden from the American people before the election, according to a letter released Thursday night by the committees and obtained by SaraACarter.com.
During the campaign, Blinken was a senior campaign advisor to then former Vice President Joe Biden and recruited the direct assistance of then former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Michael Morell, who was one of the 51 signatories of the public statement. Biden used this false letter signed by former senior intelligence officials, including five former heads of the CIA, from both parties, on October 22, 2020 to disparage President Donald Trump During the final presidential debate.
Biden used the intelligence assessment that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation against President Trump during the campaign. Despite legitimate calls by Trump to have the FBI investigate Biden’s deeply concerning family business ties with China and Ukraine, as well as other allegations contained in the laptop that did belong to his son Hunter Biden, the Biden campaign used its connections within the intelligence apparatus to cover up the evidence, the truth and keep it from the American people.
Biden used the assessment signed by the intelligence officials to target Trump during the campaign’s last debate.
“They have said this has all the characteristics—four—five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani,” said Biden during the debate and reiterated in Jordan’s letter to Blinken.
The committees letter was sent to Blinken on Thursday and it contains transcribed parts of a recent interview the lawmakers had with Morell.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is being investigated by the Committee on the Judiciary and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for his prominent role in persuading 51 former intelligence officials to falsely discredit the “New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop as supposed Russian disinformation” during the 2020 Presidential election. The intelligence assessment led to a nearly blanket censorship of investigative stories exposing the alleged corruption of President Joe Biden and his family and kept the truth hidden from the American people before the election, according to a letter released Thursday night by the committees and obtained by SaraACarter.com.
During the campaign, Blinken was a senior campaign advisor to then former Vice President Joe Biden and recruited the direct assistance of then former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Michael Morell, who was one of the 51 signatories of the public statement. Biden used this false letter signed by former senior intelligence officials, including five former heads of the CIA, from both parties, on October 22, 2020 to disparage President Donald Trump During the final presidential debate.
Biden used the intelligence assessment that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation against President Trump during the campaign. Despite legitimate calls by Trump to have the FBI investigate Biden’s deeply concerning family business ties with China and Ukraine, as well as other allegations contained in the laptop that did belong to his son Hunter Biden, the Biden campaign used its connections within the intelligence apparatus to cover up the evidence, the truth and keep it from the American people.
Biden used the assessment signed by the intelligence officials to target Trump during the campaign’s last debate.
“They have said this has all the characteristics—four—five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani,” said Biden during the debate and reiterated in Jordan’s letter to Blinken.
The committees letter was sent to Blinken on Thursday and it contains transcribed parts of a recent interview the lawmakers had with Morell.
“Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election,” the letter signed by Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, stated. “Although the statement’s signatories have an unquestioned right to free speech and free association—which we do not dispute—their reference to their national security credentials lent weight to the story and suggested access to specialized information unavailable to other Americans. This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy.”
Jordan is demanding that Blinken respond to a series of questions involving his direct role in recruiting the intelligence officials and his communications with Morell and others at the time of the campaign, to include all records.
1. Identify all people with whom you communicated about the inception, drafting, editing, signing, publishing, or promotion of the “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” dated October 19, 2020, during the period October 14, 2020, to November 24, 2020; and
2. Produce all documents and communications referring or relating to the “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” dated October 19, 2020, sent or received between October 14, 2020, and November 24, 2020.
A senior GOP aide told me earlier this evening that the information provided by Morell to the committees reveal the extent the Biden campaign went to lie to the American people, while at the same time targeting a legitimate media story in the act of election interference
Former CIA chief Morell stated during his testimony to the lawmakers that he worked with Blinken in the hopes that then Vice President Biden would be elected to the presidency and not former President Trump.
“The Biden campaign and Anthony Blinken put together the bogus Hunter Biden letter and then used it during debates to ‘prove’ that the Hunter Biden story was fake. Have American voters ever been more blatantly lied to?” stated the Senior GOP Aide.
The transcribed interview with Morell is stunning. According to sources who spoke with this reporter, Morell frequently had spoken both publicly and privately against former President Trump and according to one source, “his actions don’t surprise me in the least. It’s disgusting how someone of his stature and Blinken’s have trashed the American people and the Constitution.”
FROM THE LETTER:
“In his transcribed interview, Morell testified that on or around October 17, 2020, you reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story.8 At the time you served as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign. According to Morell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morell’s reaction to the Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement.9 Morell testified:
Q: But, prior to [Secretary Blinken’s] call, you – you did not have any intent to write this statement?
A: I did not. Q: Okay. So his call triggered – A: It did, yes. Q: – that intent in you?
A: Yes. Absolutely.10
That same day, October 17, you also emailed Morell an article published in USA Today alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a “disinformation campaign.”11 The very bottom of the email you sent to Morell included the signature block of Andrew Bates, then-director of rapid response for the Biden campaign.12
Morell testified that his communication with you was one of a few communications he had with the Biden campaign, explaining that he also received a call from Steve Ricchetti, Chairman of the Biden campaign, following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing the statement.13 He testified:
After the debate – I think it was after the debate – in fact, I’m pretty sure it was after the debate – I got a phone call from Jeremy Bash, who I work with at Beacon and who is active politically. And Jeremy said: Do you have a minute to talk to Steve Ricchetti?
I said: Of course.
He was the head of the Biden campaign at the time. And Jeremy got him on the line, and Steve thanked me for putting the statement out. And that was the extent of the conversation.”
Yet another example of Blinken giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
So Michael Morrell is adopting the “I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS” defense.
PATHETIC
I kind of figured something like this was the reason Blinkey got the gig FJB gave him.
the FACT that accountability is zero,
means the treason, and lies,
and destruction of the country
will continue and grow - as they planned.
Amazing that these losers are will to sell out their country for a job and a million dollar speaking tour after retirement.
None of this testimony will amount to anything.
Biden commits crimes right in front of us, brags about it, and has no consequences.
Trump does absolutely nothing wrong and gets the first post-presidential indictment in America’s history.
There's that big word again. INVESTIGATED. Which means absolutely nothing will happen after the "INVESTIGATION" is finished.
Prove me wrong.
Is fighting war where you spend lots of expensive bombs blowing creaters in vacant desert only to have it filled back in again by shifting sands an example of the broken glass fallacy in economics?
Morell is too smart to not know exactly what he was being asked to do. His willing participation in an election interference scheme is cause for serious accountability. But Morell has figured out that his “cooperation” will get him off the hook with no more than a little embarrassment.
Everything is a political game to these people.
Time to repeal the 17th Amendment and eliminate the Senior Executive Service via a Convention of States
Our Founding Father’s were not stupid
“Yeah, and what you gonna do about it?”
- the Democratic Party Platform since 2009
And this guy not only isn’t taking a dirt nap, but he’s not even in prison for life, and incredulously, he still has a job with a security clearance??? Total WTF moment.
Yeah what ever happened to the Durham investigation? Remember, BOMBSHELL, BOOM, TICK TOCK...
Antony Blinken founded WestExec Advisors in 2017... their address in on a secure rout near the White House. John Brennan and a bunch of Obama officials joined it later.
Lock him up. And Hunter too.
Acts as Obama’s shadow gov
The FBI had the laptop. They knew it was real. They sat on it and released nothing. They then put out the false narrative to their sycophants in the media that it was Russian disinformation as they knew Rudi Guilliani had a copy and would release it. The FBI lied and lied and lied and covered up the truth. The Biden campaign then coordinated the letter from former Intelligence officials to say it looked like Russian disinformation.
If truth bit Biden and his ilk in the ass, it would give them rabies.
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