THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 51: HOW CIA CONTRACTORS COLLUDED WITH THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN TO MISLEAD AMERICAN VOTERS

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Executive Summary​

The Committee on the Judiciary, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have revealed how, in
the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials coordinated
with the Biden campaign to discredit serious allegations about Biden family influence peddling.1
In issuing a public statement using their official titles, these former intelligence officials sought
to cast an explosive New York Post story and Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop as “Russian
disinformation.”2 President Biden even cited to the statement in a televised debate with President
Trump shortly before the election to accuse President Trump of leveling false accusations.3 As a
result, the explosive allegations about Biden family misconduct were buried and millions of
Americans cast their votes for president without a full set of facts.

The 51 former intelligence officials’ Hunter Biden statement was a blatant political
operation from the start. It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now
Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Director Michael Morell. The Committees’ investigation revealed that without this outreach from
Blinken, Morell would not have written the statement.4 Indeed, Morell told the Committees that
the Blinken phone call “triggered” his intent to write the statement.5 The statement’s drafters
were open about the goal of the project: “[W]e think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this
week’s debate”6 and “we want to give the [Vice President] a talking point to use in response.”7

The details as revealed by the Committees to date are concerning enough, but as the
Committees have continued to investigate the origins of the Hunter Biden statement, new
information has come to light. Through newly obtained internal CIA emails and testimonial
evidence, the Committees have uncovered more information on the extent to which the
intelligence community was involved in the statement. Specifically, the evidence shows:

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[BPPLEE]

Executive Summary​

The Committee on the Judiciary, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have revealed how, in
the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials coordinated
with the Biden campaign to discredit serious allegations about Biden family influence peddling.1
In issuing a public statement using their official titles, these former intelligence officials sought
to cast an explosive New York Post story and Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop as “Russian
disinformation.”2 President Biden even cited to the statement in a televised debate with President
Trump shortly before the election to accuse President Trump of leveling false accusations.3 As a
result, the explosive allegations about Biden family misconduct were buried and millions of
Americans cast their votes for president without a full set of facts.

The 51 former intelligence officials’ Hunter Biden statement was a blatant political
operation from the start. It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now
Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Director Michael Morell. The Committees’ investigation revealed that without this outreach from
Blinken, Morell would not have written the statement.4 Indeed, Morell told the Committees that
the Blinken phone call “triggered” his intent to write the statement.5 The statement’s drafters
were open about the goal of the project: “[W]e think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this
week’s debate”6 and “we want to give the [Vice President] a talking point to use in response.”7

The details as revealed by the Committees to date are concerning enough, but as the
Committees have continued to investigate the origins of the Hunter Biden statement, new
information has come to light. Through newly obtained internal CIA emails and testimonial
evidence, the Committees have uncovered more information on the extent to which the
intelligence community was involved in the statement. Specifically, the evidence shows:

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-06-25%20The%20Intelligence%20Community%2051%20-%20How%20CIA%20Contractors%20Colluded%20with%20the%20Biden%20Campaign%20to%20Mislead%20American%20Voters.pdf

Someone needs to be investigating who paid for the statement and if it was listed as a campaign contribution. If it wasn’t they are guilty of the same crime as Trump. The media who published the story made campaign contributions too.

 

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• High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel,
were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and
publication.8 Because several former senior intelligence officials signed the statement,
the PCRB sent the draft statement to the CIA’s then-Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Andrew Makridis, who said he subsequently informed then-Director Haspel or then-
Deputy Director Vaughn Frederick Bishop that the statement would be published soon.9
Senior CIA leadership had an opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA’s process for
reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement was
properly vetted.10

• Some of the statement’s signatories, including Michael Morell, were on active
contract with the CIA at the time of the Hunter Biden statement’s publication.11
Throughout the course of the Committees’ investigation, the signatories claimed to not
have had access to any classified information when asserting that the allegations
surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the hallmarks” of Russian disinformation.12
However, at the time of the statement’s publication, at least two signatories—Morell and
former CIA Inspector General David Buckley—were on the CIA’s payroll as contractors.
Due to purported operational concerns, the CIA declined to declassify the entire universe
of signatories who were on active contract. In addition, some signatories to the Hunter
Biden statement also had special “Green Card” access to the CIA at the time of the
statement’s publication, allowing them to gain entry to secure CIA facilities.

• After publication of the Hunter Biden statement, CIA employees internally
expressed concern about the statement’s politicized content, acknowledging it was
not “helpful to the Agency in the long run.”13 At least one employee found it
“nteresting to see what was submitted and approved” when discussing media talking
points that the statement’s co-author, former Senior Intelligence Service Officer Marc
Polymeropoulos, submitted related to the statement.14 When discussing Polymeropoulos’s
talking points, another CIA official stated, “It appears [Polymeropoulos] is actively
involved in a pro-Biden campaign and may be disclosing classified information in his
efforts.”15 The CIA’s internal review board, known as the Prepublication Classification
Review Board (PCRB), determined that Polymeropoulos’s talking points contained
classified information that had to be removed prior to publication.16

The new information included in this report, based on new testimony and declassified
documents, shows the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community. In the waning
days before the 2020 presidential election, 51 intelligence community officials rushed to draft
and release a statement using their official titles, presumably to convey access to specialized
information unavailable to other Americans. The statement was conceived following a
conversation with a senior Biden campaign official and designed explicitly to provide talking
points to the Biden campaign to discredit politically damaging allegations. Some of the
signatories of the statement were on the CIA payroll at the time as contractors and others had
special access to CIA facilities. Even Michael Morell—before the Committees learned of his
contract with the CIA—acknowledged, “It’s inappropriate for a currently serving staff officer or
contractor to be involved in the political process.”17

The infamous Hunter Biden statement had all the hallmarks of an intelligence community
influence operation. But rather than carrying it out against our adversaries on foreign soil, this
operation was directed at the American people and our democratic processes. It is impossible to
know for certain how events would have played out differently if these 51 intelligence
community officials never sought to influence the 2020 election. All the Committees may do
now is present the facts as known to inform legislative reforms to protect our democratic ideals
and prevent future abuse of the intelligence community for partisan political benefit.

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[DaisyDay]

The laptop story has always been reeking of halibut. The story does have all the earmarks of a disinformation campaign. It is especially suspicious since disgraced lawyer Giuliani spent a lot of time over in Ukraine trying to get them to start a phony investigation. How fortuitous that the laptops and drives just happened to fall into the lap of a blind computer repairman who took it upon himself to peruse private data and just happened to pass a copy on to aforementioned disgraced, now disbarred in NY, lawyer Giuliani!!

 

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Table of Contents​

Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 1
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 4
I. The CIA, at its highest levels, was aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its
approval and publication. ..................................................................................................... 5
A. Then-CIA Director Haspel instituted a review process ensuring she would have seen the
Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval. ............................................................................. 5
B. The CIA alerted the Office of the Director of National Intelligence about the draft of the
Hunter Biden statement. .............................................................................................................. 8
C. The CIA’s Office of Chief Operating Officer informed the PCRB that it could approve
the Hunter Biden statement. ...................................................................................................... 10
II. Some of the signatories of the Hunter Biden statement were on active CIA contracts at the
time of the statement. ......................................................................................................... 14
A. The signatories of the Hunter Biden statement claimed to not access classified
information in the course of drafting the statement. ................................................................. 14
B. Several signatories of the Hunter Biden statement had active contracts with the CIA on
the statement’s publication date. ............................................................................................... 16
III. Officials inside the CIA recognized that the Hunter Biden statement was political. ......... 21
Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 30

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[DaisyDay]

Should these 51 concerned citizens be worried about retribution should the would be dictator for a day Donald regain office?

 

[Vambram]

Should these 51 concerned citizens be worried about retribution should the would be dictator for a day Donald regain office?

Concerned citizens??? Gimme a break. They all had top secret security clearance and I am sure that many of them knew that they were being dishonest.

 

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Conclusion​

The October 19, 2020, statement on Hunter Biden’s laptop signed by 51 former senior
intelligence community officials served to interfere in the American electoral system in the final
weeks before the 2020 presidential election. The highest officials within the CIA were aware of
the statement prior to its publication. Signatories of the statement—including lead architect,
former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, and former CIA Inspector General David
Buckley—were on active contract with the CIA at the time the statement was drafted, reviewed,
and ultimately published. This revelation raises the concern that these officials abused the access
of their positions to curate, promote, and receive expedited approval of the statement. Indeed, the
PCRB continuously requested quick decisions from officials within the CIA and partners at
ODNI about the status of publication of the statement. This occurred after Morell specifically
requested an expedited review process and during a time when he had contracting status and was
under consideration to be named President Biden’s CIA Director.

The signatories’ choice to leverage the authority of their former intelligence community
titles to peddle a narrative about foreign election interference inappropriately embroiled the
Agency in the domestic political process. The poor judgment displayed by the signatories and the
CIA’s executive suite—those who could have prevented the Agency from being entangled in a
false and domestically politicized narrative of Russian interference—is as relevant today as it
was four years ago. To date, there are no clear or transparent rules to prevent intelligence
contractors from leveraging their access to the CIA for political purposes.

Seasoned CIA officials like Morell and Polymeropoulos were able to subvert the process
to spread disinformation in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election because the
CIA lacked meaningful safeguards to prevent this from happening. Unless and until the CIA
makes substantial reforms to its own oversight processes surrounding public statements and
contractor behavior, these problems could persist.

Without rigorous oversight of the intelligence community—and without proper
safeguards to prevent the weaponization of privileged access within the intelligence
community—rogue actors like Morell and Polymeropoulos are likely to continue engaging in
political work under the guise of responsible action. As a result, the Committees will continue
oversight to prevent individuals from using the authority of the federal government for their own
partisan desires.

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[wing2000]

Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

aka the Subcommittee to re-elect Donald Trump.

What a bunch of paranoid marlarky.

 

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aka the Subcommittee to re-elect Donald Trump.

What a bunch of paranoid marlarky.

In absence of a refutation for a single piece of evidence in the report, an ad hominem fallacy seems like a valid alternative to defend this attack on Demoracy?

 

[BPPLEE]

Concerned citizens??? Gimme a break. They all had top secret security clearance and I am sure that many of them knew that they were being dishonest.

They knew exactly what they were doing

 

[BPPLEE]

Should these 51 concerned citizens be worried about retribution should the would be dictator for a day Donald regain office?

They should be prosecuted under the same statute as Donald Trump.

 

[Larniavc]

Executive Summary​

The Committee on the Judiciary, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have revealed how, in
the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials coordinated
with the Biden campaign to discredit serious allegations about Biden family influence peddling.1
In issuing a public statement using their official titles, these former intelligence officials sought
to cast an explosive New York Post story and Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop as “Russian
disinformation.”2 President Biden even cited to the statement in a televised debate with President
Trump shortly before the election to accuse President Trump of leveling false accusations.3 As a
result, the explosive allegations about Biden family misconduct were buried and millions of
Americans cast their votes for president without a full set of facts.

The 51 former intelligence officials’ Hunter Biden statement was a blatant political
operation from the start. It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now
Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Director Michael Morell. The Committees’ investigation revealed that without this outreach from
Blinken, Morell would not have written the statement.4 Indeed, Morell told the Committees that
the Blinken phone call “triggered” his intent to write the statement.5 The statement’s drafters
were open about the goal of the project: “[W]e think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this
week’s debate”6 and “we want to give the [Vice President] a talking point to use in response.”7

The details as revealed by the Committees to date are concerning enough, but as the
Committees have continued to investigate the origins of the Hunter Biden statement, new
information has come to light. Through newly obtained internal CIA emails and testimonial
evidence, the Committees have uncovered more information on the extent to which the
intelligence community was involved in the statement. Specifically, the evidence shows:

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-06-25%20The%20Intelligence%20Community%2051%20-%20How%20CIA%20Contractors%20Colluded%20with%20the%20Biden%20Campaign%20to%20Mislead%20American%20Voters.pdf

Isn’t this exactly the kind of thing US Presidents are now free to do with impunity?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Jim Jordan Blasted For Pushing ‘Dumber’ Conspiracy Theory About Hunter Biden​

 

[hislegacy]

Should these 51 concerned citizens be worried about retribution should the would be dictator for a day Donald regain office?

Now they are just concerned citizens? What happen to them be 51 former intelligence officers?

I have to sit down, that spin got me a little dizzy

 

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Jim Jordan Blasted For Pushing ‘Dumber’ Conspiracy Theory About Hunter Biden​

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[NxNW]

Concerned citizens??? Gimme a break. They all had top secret security clearance and I am sure that many of them knew that they were being dishonest.

None of them were dishonest.

 

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None of them were dishonest.

How would you better describe rushing to put forth disinformation to influence an election?

 

[NxNW]

How would you better describe rushing to put forth disinformation to influence an election?

There was no disinformation put forth. It wasn't even misinformation.

 

[DaisyDay]

How would you better describe rushing to put forth disinformation to influence an election?

I call that the Laptop From Hell story.

Now they are just concerned citizens? What happen to them be 51 former intelligence officers?

No, you're right, they are more than just concerned citizens - although they are that - they are 51 concerned former intelligence officers who understand what foreign propaganda looks like. Note they said that it all the appearance of fakery not that it absolutely was.

I have to sit down, that spin got me a little dizzy

They should be prosecuted under the same statute as Donald Trump.

So they should be concerned. Which same statute - filing false business records in the state of New York, obstruction of justice, obstruction of an official proceeding or stealing government papers and refusing to relinquish them?