{"id":1928504,"date":"2023-05-11T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T04:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-laptop-letter-signers-embraced-russian-disinfo-politico-headline-emails-show\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T00:31:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T04:31:44","slug":"hunter-biden-laptop-letter-signers-embraced-russian-disinfo-politico-headline-emails-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-laptop-letter-signers-embraced-russian-disinfo-politico-headline-emails-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Emails reveal signers of Hunter Biden laptop letter accepted &#8216;Russian disinformation.&#8217;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-laptop-letter-signers-embraced-russian-disinfo-politico-headline-emails-show%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=1928504&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>Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Signers Embraced &#8220;Russian Disinfo&#8221; Narrative<\/h2>\n<p>A group of 51 ex-intelligence officials signed a letter in October 2020, which aimed to give Joe Biden a &#8220;talking point&#8221; to use at the debate with President Donald Trump. The letter contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation. The letter signers embraced Politico\u2019s headline alleging the emails belonging to President Joe Biden\u2019s son were \u201cRussian disinfo\u201d while the letter\u2019s co-author and main organizer said the outlet did a \u201cnice job&#8221; with its story.<\/p>\n<h3>Eleven Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Signers Visited Biden White House<\/h3>\n<p>The Politico report about the letter was published Oct. 19 and titled \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.\u201d While several letter writers and signers have since tried to distinguish the nuance of their document from the headline that gave Biden a critical boost in shutting down questions about the salacious contents of his son&#8217;s abandoned laptop, a new report by the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed that certain intelligence officials were content with adopting the narrative.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report added, &#8220;Notwithstanding these recent protestations, there is no evidence that the statement\u2019s signers attempted to correct Politico\u2019s misleading headline.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-top-biden-epa-nominee-may-have-violated-key-ethics-pledge-watchdogs-say\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Top Biden EPA Nominee May Have \u2018Violated\u2019 Key Ethics Pledge, Watchdogs Say\">newly unearthed email<\/a>, Thomas Fingar, a former deputy director of national intelligence for analysis who signed the letter, shared a link to the \u201cPolitico story\u201d in an Oct. 20 email to his colleagues at Stanford University the day after it was published.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Biden pointed to the laptop letter during the Oct. 22 debate after Trump brought up the &#8220;laptop from hell.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Obama acting CIA director Mike Morell, who co-authored the laptop letter with former senior CIA operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos, sent a newly unearthed email the day after the Politico story published, telling the letter signers he thought that \u201cPolitico did a nice job getting out the story of our letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Morell also testified to House Republicans that \u201cthe statement clearly says that we\u2019re not saying this is disinformation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Polymeropoulos testified to congressional investigators that Joe Biden had \u201cmischaracterized\u201d the laptop letter by calling \u201cit disinformation.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another key letter signatory was Nick Shapiro, a former senior adviser to Brennan. Politico has said Shapiro provided them with the letter, and he was quoted in their article: \u201cThe real power here &#8230; is the number of former, working-level IC officers who want the American people to know that once again the Russians are interfering.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Morell told House investigators this year that getting the letter to the media \u201cwas entirely Nick Shapiro\u2019s responsibility.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The ex-CIA chief also told Shapiro to tell reporters on background that Morell was &#8220;struck by the fact&#8221; that &#8220;all&#8221; of the intelligence officials he had spoken to &#8220;thought Russia is involved here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another one of the letter signatories was Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff at the CIA and the Pentagon, who was picked by Joe Biden to be part of the President\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board in August last year. The GOP report said that Bash\u2019s \u201cassertions about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and emails were unambiguous and did not include nuanced caveats.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new GOP report said, \u201cIf these intelligence officials were concerned about Politico\u2019s misrepresentation of their public statement, there has been no contemporaneous indication of such a concern.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-laptop-letter-signers-embraced-russian-disinfo-politico-headline-emails-show\/\" title=\"Politico: Emails reveal signers of Hunter Biden laptop letter accepted 'Russian disinformation.'\">letter signers&#8217; embrace<\/a> of the &#8220;Russian disinfo&#8221; narrative contributed to the baseless claims that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-laptop-letter-organizer-thought-blinken-wanted-russia-claims-made-public\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden investigation: Laptop letter organizer thought Blinken wanted Russia claims made public\">narrative happily seized<\/a> upon by Biden\u2019s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-laptop-letter-signers-will-fully-cooperate-with-gop-investigation-lawyer-says\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden laptop letter signers will \u2018fully cooperate\u2019 with GOP investigation, lawyer says\">laptop letter signers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden laptop letter signers embraced Politico\u2019s headline alleging the emails belonging to President Joe Biden\u2019s son were \u201cRussian disinfo\u201d while the letter\u2019s co-author and main organizer said the outlet did a \u201cnice job&#8221; with its story. The 51 ex-intelligence officials quickly signed the October 2020 laptop letter, which was published on Oct. 19 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1928505,"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":[538],"tags":[9899,20220,3620,8602,3822,6880,4509,12387,5937,3965,21813],"class_list":["post-1928504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-disinformation","tag-accepted","tag-biden","tag-emails","tag-hunter","tag-laptop","tag-letter","tag-politico","tag-reveal","tag-russian","tag-signers"],"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\/1928504","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}