On October 19, 2020, five days before the election, 51 former intelligence officials signed a public letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had 'all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.' Politico ran the headline 'Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo.' The letter was used by Biden in the presidential debate. Congressional investigations later revealed some signatories were on CIA payroll when they signed. The FBI had authenticated the laptop in 2019, a year before the letter. No Russian connection was ever found.
51 former intelligence officials signed a letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop 'Russian disinformation' — it was not
“We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious.”
📄 The Receipts
⚖️ The Record, Side by Side
What they said vs. what the evidence shows
“We simply wanted to point out that this has the classic hallmarks of a Russian information operation. We were not saying the laptop was disinformation.”
— James Clapper (Letter signatory / Former DNI) · Apr 2023
🙈 They Laughed At Us
“We simply wanted to point out that this has the classic hallmarks of a Russian information operation. We were not saying the laptop was disinformation.”
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Confirmed: They Were Right
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