A pair of Russiagate all-stars will testify before the House Weaponization Committee this month over signing the infamous 2020 letter in which former intelligence officials claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was an instrument of Kremlin disinformation.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan will sit for transcribed interviews after House Republicans revealed Secretary of State Antony Blinken was behind the operation to discredit the laptop. Brennan will testify next week on May 11 and Clapper will appear before lawmakers on May 17, according to a source familiar with arrangements.
Weeks before the 2020 election, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter published in Politico that smeared blockbuster stories sourced to an abandoned Delaware laptop as a Russian interference campaign. Emails recovered from the laptop hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden implicate President Joe Biden in global influence peddling schemes that appear to be at the center of Hunter’s potentially criminal enterprises.
“If we are right,” they wrote, “this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”
Former Vice President Biden exploited the fabricated narrative on the presidential debate stage, using the letter to dismiss the allegations of corruption that surfaced from the computer. Biden perpetuated the claim of Kremlin interference despite the FBI, the Department of Justice, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo debunking the popular Democrat talking point before the
