{"id":1928647,"date":"2023-05-11T04:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T08:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/active-cia-employee-asked-intel-veteran-if-he-would-sign-hunter-biden-letter-report\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T04:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T08:14:55","slug":"active-cia-employee-asked-intel-veteran-if-he-would-sign-hunter-biden-letter-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/active-cia-employee-asked-intel-veteran-if-he-would-sign-hunter-biden-letter-report\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA employee asked intel veteran to sign Hunter Biden letter."},"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\">20<\/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%2Factive-cia-employee-asked-intel-veteran-if-he-would-sign-hunter-biden-letter-report%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=1928647&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>CIA Employee Allegedly Helped Discredit Hunter Biden Laptop Story<\/h2>\n<p>A new report suggests that a CIA employee may have helped gather the signature of at least one former intelligence official for the letter used to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 election. The letter went public on October 19, 2020, with the signatures of 51 intelligence veterans, saying the laptop\u2019s alleged contents have \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Retired CIA Analyst Speaks Out<\/h3>\n<p>David Cariens, a retired CIA analyst, told congressional investigators in a written statement that an active CIA employee involved in reviewing his memoir \u201casked\u201d if he would sign the letter in October 2020, which he agreed to do after hearing the letter\u2019s contents. Cariens&#8217; admission appears in a staff memo released by Republicans who lead the House Judiciary Committee, its Weaponization panel, and the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Accuse GOP of &#8220;Cherrypicking&#8221; Report<\/h3>\n<p>House Democrats accused their GOP colleagues of releasing a \u201ccherrypicked\u201d report, stating there \u201cis substantial reason to question Mr. Cariens\u2019 recollection of what happened, given the evidence and testimony on hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Former Intelligence Officials Concede Inappropriateness<\/h3>\n<p>Multiple former intelligence officials involved in spearheading the letter conceded that an active CIA official recruiting signatures would be improper, as shown in their testimony to congressional investigators. Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA official who helped draft the letter, said such an action would be \u201cunprofessional,\u201d while Michael Morell said it would be \u201cinappropriate\u201d for a current employee to get involved in the political process.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation Continues<\/h3>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to the CIA, seeking comment on the report, as well as the specific allegations that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/active-cia-employee-asked-intel-veteran-if-he-would-sign-hunter-biden-letter-report\/\" title=\"CIA employee asked intel veteran to sign Hunter Biden letter.\">active employee solicited<\/a> at least one signature. The agency responded, but did not address the allegation about the PCRB official. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-garcetti-more-likely-than-not-knew-about-top-staffers-alleged-sexual-harassment-senate-report-finds\/\" title=\"Eric Garcetti \u2018More Likely Than Not\u2019 Knew About Top Staffer\u2019s Alleged Sexual Harassment, Senate Report Finds\">staff report released<\/a> on Wednesday said the CIA has \u201cfailed\u201d to respond to a request to produce documents. The memo also noted that investigators have sought to follow up with Cariens for additional information as some details, including the exact timing of his contact with PCRB, remain unclear.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The laptop, which Hunter Biden allegedly abandoned at a repair shop in Delaware and was later seized by the FBI, became a subject of interest in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign when the New York Post began reporting on details of the younger Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gravy-train-keeps-rolling-for-second-stepdaughter-ella-emhoff\/\" title=\"Gravy Train Keeps Rolling for Second Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff\">shady business dealings<\/a> and personal life that it contained.<\/li>\n<li>Over the past couple years, many of the contents of the laptop have been analyzed and shown to be authentic, which has galvanized Republicans who believe there was a coordinated effort involving Big Tech and government agents to suppress damaging information about the Bidens.<\/li>\n<li>Federal investigators have been looking into Hunter Biden for years. After Biden\u2019s lawyers met with Department of Justice officials late last month, sources told The Washington Post that potential charges for tax- and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-democrat-senator-dashes-his-partys-push-for-gun-control-by-opposing-recently-passed-house-bills\/\" title=\"Top Democrat Senator Dashes His Party\u2019s Push For Gun Control By Opposing Recently Passed House Bills\">gun-related crimes<\/a> may soon follow from Delaware\u2019s U.S. Attorney David Weiss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0CIA employee may have helped gather the signature of at least one former intelligence official for the letter used to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 election. David Cariens, a retired CIA analyst, told congressional investigators in a written statement that an active CIA employee involved in reviewing his memoir \u201casked\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1928648,"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":[541],"tags":[3620,7362,4317,3822,7526,4509,4723,4958],"class_list":["post-1928647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-biden","tag-cia","tag-employee","tag-hunter","tag-intel","tag-letter","tag-sign","tag-veteran"],"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\/1928647","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}