Twitter files journalist Matt Taibbi writes about the inspiration and origin of the letter, signed by 50 intelligence officers, claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story showed “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Begin with allegations made in a letter to SecState Blinken written by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan.
In that letter … you’ll see three snippets of dialogue from questioning of [former CIA Deputy Director Michael] Morell, who appears to have organized the open letter. In the first snippet, he explains that the idea originated with a call from Blinken, then of the Biden campaign, and that absent that call, Morell wouldn’t have done what he did…
If we go by the usual measuring stick of American scandal, the Watergate story, this potentially meets or exceed that, on almost every level. Does it reach into the current White House? Check. Was it a craven attempt to subvert the electoral process? Check again. Did a presidential candidate engineer a massive public deception? Yes, resoundingly. Did it involve intelligence agencies? Yes, and these weren’t amateurs like Nixon’s plumbers. These were 50 of the most powerful people in the intelligence world — including five former heads or acting heads of the Agency in Morell, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and John McLaughlin — conspiring to meddle in domestic politics on a grand scale.
My source for the quote is a Scott Johnson column at Power Line. What is alleged is indeed world-class election meddling.
Of course the 50 would respond something like “We never said it was actual Russian info, we only said it looked exactly like Russian info. Which assessment we stand behind; it did and it does.”
Their clear intent, however, was to give the pro-Democrat media a plausible excuse not to report the story before the election. In this they were successful.
