{"id":1918138,"date":"2023-04-22T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deep-state-connection-ex-cia-chief-says-blinken-spurred-bid-to-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:01:07","slug":"deep-state-connection-ex-cia-chief-says-blinken-spurred-bid-to-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deep-state-connection-ex-cia-chief-says-blinken-spurred-bid-to-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep State Connection: Ex-CIA Chief Says Blinken Spurred Bid To Discredit Hunter Biden Laptop Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeep-state-connection-ex-cia-chief-says-blinken-spurred-bid-to-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1918138&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a bombshell revelation, the former head of the CIA, Mike Morell, confessed that he had been asked by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a senior member of the Biden 2020 presidential campaign, to help discredit the story of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop computer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morell, who served as CIA director at various times between 2010-2013, told the House Judiciary Committee, headed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), that he coordinated a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that claimed The New York Post\u2019s disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden \u2014 which CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/18\/media\/new-york-post-hunter-biden-reliable\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a> as a \u201cdubious story\u201d \u2014 \u00a0had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d That letter, titled, \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former officials say,\u201d was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO<\/a> only days after news of the laptop was reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jordan joined Michael Turner, the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, to issue a letter to Blinken on Thursday asking for communications he had conducted with Morell regarding the laptop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBased on Morell\u2019s 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,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAlthough the statement\u2019s signatories have an unquestioned right to free speech and free association \u2014 which we do not dispute \u2014 their reference to their national security credentials lent weight to the story and suggested access to specialized information unavailable to other Americans,\u201d they continued. \u201cThis concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens\u2019 informed participation in our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his October 22 debate with former President Trump, Biden used the letter after Trump called Hunter Biden\u2019s computer \u201cthe laptop from hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLook, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he\u2019s accusing me of is a Russian plan,\u201d Biden snapped. \u201cThey have said that this has all the characteristics \u2014 four\u2013 five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he\u2019s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou mean, the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax?\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1681913061093000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1nSUp7X_GMxrPR-OuaxTA7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the debate, Steve Ricchetti, chairman of the Biden campaign, called Morell to thank him for helping coordinate the letter, The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11997959\/Ex-CIA-chief-spills-got-spies-write-false-Hunter-Biden-laptop-letter-help-Biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bombshell revelation, the former head of the CIA, Mike Morell, confessed that he had been asked by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a senior member of the Biden 2020 presidential campaign, to help discredit the story of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop computer. 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