{"id":1923239,"date":"2023-05-03T03:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-letter-characterizing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-disinformation-wasnt-my-idea\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T03:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:42:22","slug":"blinken-letter-characterizing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-disinformation-wasnt-my-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-letter-characterizing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-disinformation-wasnt-my-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken: Letter Characterizing Hunter Biden Laptop as \u2018Disinformation\u2019 Wasn\u2019t My Idea"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fblinken-letter-characterizing-hunter-biden-laptop-as-disinformation-wasnt-my-idea%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=1923239&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--><div>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the 2020 letter from former intelligence officers that falsely dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as misinformation was not his idea, seemingly contradicting testimony from a former top CIA official, Michael Morell, who told Congress he organized the letter after taking a phone call from Blinken.\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;With regard to that letter, I didn\u2019t\u2014wasn\u2019t my idea, didn\u2019t ask for it, didn\u2019t solicit it. And I think the testimony that the former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morell, put forward confirms that,&#8221; Blinken <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/01\/antony-blinken-spies-who-lie-letter-wasnt-my-idea-didnt-ask-for-it-still-refuses-to-call-hunter-laptop-real\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Fox News on Monday. The dismissal comes after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-campaign-prompted-false-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinformation\/\"><span>Morell<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2023-04-20-jdj-mt-to-blinken-re-public-statement-on-hunter-biden-emails_0.pdf\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> the House Judiciary Committee in April that he organized the October 2020 letter after talking with Blinken, who then served on the Biden campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Asked whether he &#8220;accept[s] that the laptop is not Russian disinformation,&#8221; Blinken deflected and said he is focused on other matters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Morell said the Biden campaign worked with the former intelligence officials to plan the letter&#8217;s release. It was eventually published by <em>Politico<\/em> on Oct. 17, 2020, in an article titled, &#8220;Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Morell <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-campaign-prompted-false-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinformation\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> the House committee that Blinken contacted him on Oct. 17, 2020, to discuss the <em>New York Post<\/em>&#8216;s reporting on the contents of Biden\u2019s laptop. He added that Blinken sent him an article that said the FBI was investigating whether the laptop was part of a &#8220;disinformation campaign.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/span><span>Morell said Blinken\u2019s outreach &#8220;triggered&#8221; him to create a letter that dismissed the release of the emails as a probable Russian disinformation campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Several outlets, including the <em>New York Times<\/em>, have now confirmed the laptop belonged to Biden and that the contents are real.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>House Republicans last month sent a letter to Blinken in which they argued the Biden campaign &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blinken is also under fire over accusations that he committed perjury when he denied emailing Hunter Biden. Republican senator Ron Johnson (Wis.) said that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/01\/antony-blinken-spies-who-lie-letter-wasnt-my-idea-didnt-ask-for-it-still-refuses-to-call-hunter-laptop-real\/\"><span>while<\/span><\/a><span> Blinken claimed in a 2020 deposition that he never emailed the president&#8217;s son, emails on Biden&#8217;s laptop <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/25\/hunter-biden-told-burisma-colleague-of-blinken-meet-emails\/\"><span>show<\/span><\/a><span> he did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the 2020 letter from former intelligence officers that falsely dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as misinformation was not his idea, seemingly contradicting testimony from a former top CIA official, Michael Morell, who told Congress he organized the letter after taking a phone call from Blinken. &#8220;With regard to that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1923240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9899,3620,4636,24757,3822,6766,6880,4509,4862],"class_list":["post-1923239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-disinformation","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-characterizing","tag-hunter","tag-idea","tag-laptop","tag-letter","tag-wasnt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}