{"id":1925418,"date":"2023-05-06T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-spy-behind-discredited-hunter-biden-letter-said-he-wanted-to-provide-biden-campaign-with-a-debate-talking-point\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T04:45:00","slug":"ex-spy-behind-discredited-hunter-biden-letter-said-he-wanted-to-provide-biden-campaign-with-a-debate-talking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-spy-behind-discredited-hunter-biden-letter-said-he-wanted-to-provide-biden-campaign-with-a-debate-talking-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Former spy wanted to give Biden campaign a debate topic with discredited Hunter Biden letter."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fex-spy-behind-discredited-hunter-biden-letter-said-he-wanted-to-provide-biden-campaign-with-a-debate-talking-point%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=1925418&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--><h2>Former CIA Official Admits to Using Discredited Letter as a &#8220;Talking Point&#8221; in Biden-Trump Debate<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>A former CIA official, Michael Morell, has admitted to using a discredited letter claiming that Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was Russian disinformation as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/martinez-we-have-2-4-hour-lines-due-to-new-mexico-lockdown\/\" title=\"Martinez: 'We Have 2-4 Hour Lines' Due to New Mexico Lockdown\">talking point<\/a>&#8221; in the 2020 debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Morell laid out the strategy in an email to former CIA director John Brennan, asking him to sign on to the letter with dozens of other former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s CIA Pick Was President Of Think Tank That Took Millions From Chinese Communist Party-Tied Entities: Report\">intelligence officials<\/a>. The letter portrayed the release of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop as a Russian intelligence operation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Debate<\/h3>\n<p>During the debate, Joe Biden cited the letter, saying, &#8220;There are 50 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-if-youre-looking-for-election-rigging-look-no-further-than-media-treatment-of-hunter-biden-saga\/\" title=\"FNC's Carlson: 'If You're Looking for Election Rigging, Look No Further' Than Media Treatment of Hunter Biden Saga\">national intelligence folks<\/a> who said that what he&#8217;s accusing me of is a Russian plant.&#8221; Republicans have questioned whether Morell colluded with the Biden campaign on the letter.<\/p>\n<h3>The Aftermath<\/h3>\n<p>Morell told Congress last month that he wrote the letter after a conversation with then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken, now the secretary of state. Morell said he wrote the letter to help Biden defeat Trump. Blinken claims he did not ask Morell to write the letter, but Morell suggested in his congressional interview that he may have had other conversations with the Biden campaign before the letter was published.<\/p>\n<h3>The Signatories<\/h3>\n<p>Morell recruited 50 former intelligence officials in all to sign the letter, including Brennan and four other former CIA directors. Many of the signatories work at Morell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-spy-behind-discredited-hunter-biden-letter-said-he-wanted-to-provide-biden-campaign-with-a-debate-talking-point\/\" title=\"Former spy wanted to give Biden campaign a debate topic with discredited Hunter Biden letter.\">intelligence consulting firm<\/a>, Beacon Global Strategies. One of those is former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash, whom Biden appointed last year to the President&#8217;s Intelligence Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The use of the discredited letter as a &#8220;talking point&#8221; in the debate raises questions about the integrity of the election process. It remains to be seen whether any further action will be taken in response to these revelations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former CIA official behind the discredited letter that claimed Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was Russian disinformation told associates he wanted it used as a &#8220;talking point&#8221; in Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 debate against Donald Trump. Michael Morell, the former acting director of the CIA, laid out the strategy in an Oct. 19, 2020, email to former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1925419,"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":[3620,4087,3896,10319,3822,4509,6893,18211],"class_list":["post-1925418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-debate","tag-discredited","tag-hunter","tag-letter","tag-spy","tag-topic"],"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\/1925418","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}