{"id":1932781,"date":"2023-05-17T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-investigators-turn-up-heat-on-cia-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:28:21","slug":"gop-investigators-turn-up-heat-on-cia-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-investigators-turn-up-heat-on-cia-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Investigators Turn Up Heat On CIA Over Hunter Biden Laptop 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\">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%2Fgop-investigators-turn-up-heat-on-cia-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter%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=1932781&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--><p>House Republicans issued a subpoena threat to the CIA, escalating their investigation into a letter used to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Committees \u201cmay resort to compulsory process\u201d if the intelligence agency does not fully comply with a prior documents request, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) wrote to CIA Director William Burns on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP investigators, who are following up on last week\u2019s staff report that revealed an active CIA employee may have helped gather the signature of at least one former intelligence official, set a May 30 deadline for the records to be produced \u201cin unredacted form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The laptop letter, which ultimately boasted the signatures of 51 intelligence veterans, warned the \u201carrival\u201d of a laptop full of emails purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d Then-candidate Joe Biden, Hunter\u2019s father, used the statement to cast doubt on the laptop story during a debate against former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan and Turner said the CIA made a \u201cminimal production\u201d of documents on May 9 in response to their March request for records concerning the laptop letter. They also said the CIA \u201cadmitted\u201d that it did not perform a complete search and afterward \u201ccommitted\u201d to conducting various sweeps for relevant information.<\/p>\n<p>Besides looking for CIA phone records and communications from October 2020 with any of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the letter, the chairmen wrote that the agency pledged to search for all documents related to the approval of retired CIA analyst David Cariens\u2019 memoir by the agency\u2019s Pre-Publication Classification Review Board (PCRB), the very same team that reviewed the letter before it got published.<\/p>\n<p>Cariens 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\u00a0hearing the letter\u2019s contents, per the staff report. Multiple former intelligence officials involved in spearheading the letter, including former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, conceded that an active CIA official recruiting signatures would be improper.<\/p>\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 They published a bullet-point list that noted\u00a0Cariens received the same invitation email from a former CIA official as other signatories and concluded that\u00a0Republicans \u201care making expansive claims that CIA \u2018promoted\u2019 the letter without hearing Cariens\u2019 testimony or taking any steps to corroborate or refute the single email they received from the witness directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to the CIA for comment on the new letter from Jordan and Turner. The agency did release a statement last week but did not address the allegation about the PCRB official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of CIA\u2019s Pre-Publication Review Board is to review materials submitted by current and former officers to determine if the materials contain any classified information,\u201d a CIA spokesperson said. \u201cIn the case of the referenced letter, it was submitted to the PCRB in October 2020 and was reviewed only for classification, as is standard practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans issued a subpoena threat to the CIA, escalating their investigation into a letter used to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 presidential election. 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