Biden’s Pick for Intelligence Board Signed Infamous Hunter Biden Laptop Letter

One of President Joe Biden’s choices for the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board signed the infamous letter claiming that stories about a laptop computer said to belong to Biden’s son was part of a “Russian information operation.”

Jeremy Bash has been a chief of staff for both the CIA and the Department of Defense. While in those positions during the Obama administration, he advised Leon Panetta. Panetta, an Obama appointee, also signed the Oct. 19, 2020, missive, which claimed that stories about Hunter Biden’s computer “has all the classic earmarks” of a Russian operation, even as the officials admitted that they didn’t know if emails from the computer were genuine.

“We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,” Bash, Panetta, and dozens of other former intelligence and defense officials wrote.

The letter was published by Politico under the headline “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say” after the Post reported on the contents of the emails, which have since been accepted as genuine by broad swaths of the media.

Bash was one of six appointments President Biden announced on Aug. 26. Both he and Blair Effron were tapped for the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, an independent entity that “exists exclusively to assist the President by providing the President with an independent source of advice on the effectiveness with which the Intelligence Community is meeting the nation’s intelligence needs and the vigor and insight with which the community plans for the future,” according to the White House.

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