{"id":1928629,"date":"2023-05-11T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cia-official-drafted-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-to-give-biden-campaign-a-talking-point-emails\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T03:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T07:43:19","slug":"former-cia-official-drafted-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-to-give-biden-campaign-a-talking-point-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cia-official-drafted-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-to-give-biden-campaign-a-talking-point-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA Official Wrote Hunter Biden Laptop Letter for Biden Campaign: Emails."},"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%2Fformer-cia-official-drafted-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-to-give-biden-campaign-a-talking-point-emails%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=1928629&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 Director Drafted Hunter Biden Laptop Letter as a &#8220;Talking Point&#8221; for Joe Biden&#8217;s Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-group-of-senate-republicans-demand-answers-from-cdc-dhs-on-reopening-schools\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Group Of Senate Republicans Demand Answers From CDC, DHS On Reopening Schools\">recently released emails<\/a>, Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, drafted the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter to give Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign a &#8220;talking point&#8221; to use against then-President Donald Trump during a debate. Morell reached out to John Brennan, another former CIA director, to ask if he would add his name to the letter. The letter claimed that the files on the laptop had &#8220;all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.&#8221; However, neither the letter nor former State Department official Michael Carpenter provided any proof to back up these claims.<\/p>\n<h3>Senior Biden Campaign Officials Triggered the Letter<\/h3>\n<p>Morell began collecting signatures after receiving messages from senior Biden campaign officials, including current Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates. Blinken&#8217;s call &#8220;triggered&#8221; the letter, according to Morell. Bates sent a news article that cited Carpenter as claiming that the Post story was &#8220;a Russian disinformation operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Letter Morphed from Op-Ed to Letter<\/h3>\n<p>Initial plans were to publish an op-ed, but it morphed into the letter, according to Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA officer who drafted the letter. Morell edited the letter after Polymeropoulos drafted it. Morell investigated the Post story by reading it and carrying out some searches on the internet, but he did not talk to any people as part of that investigation.<\/p>\n<h3>Director of National Intelligence Disagrees with Claims<\/h3>\n<p>John Ratcliffe, director of <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<\/a> at the time, publicly stated that &#8220;Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.&#8221; John Paul Mac Isaac, a Delaware computer store owner, has said that Hunter Biden dropped the computer off at his shop and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-blocked-hunter-laptop-story-after-intelligence-officials-shared-hack-rumors\/\" title=\"Twitter Blocked Hunter Laptop Story After Intelligence Officials Shared Hack \u2018Rumors\u2019\">released documents showing<\/a> that the FBI sought the files as well as Hunter Biden&#8217;s signature on a paper. Many media outlets have said that they&#8217;ve authenticated the computer and its contents.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The Hunter Biden laptop letter was drafted as a &#8220;talking point&#8221; for Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, but it has been met with skepticism due to the lack of evidence to support the claims made in the letter. The controversy surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-theres-a-reason-you-probably-havent-heard-about-these-new-hunter-biden-stories\/\" title=\"ANALYSIS: There\u2019s A Reason You Probably Haven\u2019t Heard About These New Hunter Biden Stories\">laptop continues<\/a> to be a topic of discussion in political circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former acting director of the CIA who drafted the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter wanted to give Joe Biden\u2019s campaign a \u201ctalking point\u201d to use in a debate against then-President Donald Trump, according to emails released on May 10. \u201cTrying to give the campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1928630,"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":[543],"tags":[3620,4087,8602,7899,3822,6880,4509,4808,9461],"class_list":["post-1928629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-emails","tag-ex-cia","tag-hunter","tag-laptop","tag-letter","tag-official","tag-wrote"],"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\/1928629","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}