From the New York Post: "How CIA interference with the ‘Spies Who Lie’ letter made Biden the president." An excerpt:
The letter claiming the laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation” was instigated by Biden’s campaign adviser Antony Blinken (now secretary of state) in a phone call to Mike Morell, a former acting CIA director, five days after The Post began reporting damaging material from the laptop in October 2020.
Morell would testify that Blinken’s call prompted him to write the letter and organize 50 colleagues to sign it.
Five former CIA directors — Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, John McLaughlin (acting) and Morell (acting) — signed, as well as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Forty-one of the 51 signatories were ex-CIA.
The Dirty 51 letter, as it came to be known, was timed to appear two days later, on the eve of the final presidential debate, to maximize its benefit to Biden by giving him a “talking point to push back on [President] Trump on this issue,” as Morell put it in an email obtained by the committee.
Sure enough, Biden used the letter in the debate to claim the laptop was a “Russian plant” and “garbage,” and kill the issue.
CIA should be disbanded.
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