A former top CIA official who helped organize the October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter testified he thought now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken wanted the baseless claims of Russian involvement in the saga made public.
Mike Morell, a former acting CIA director under President Barack Obama, said in a recent transcribed interview with congressional investigators that it was his “guess” that Blinken called him to talk about the Hunter Biden laptop because the future secretary of state wanted it “out” in public that “the Russians were somehow involved” in the saga.“He asked me a specific question here. You know, he’ll have to tell you what his intent was, right, in asking me,” Morell said.
The bombshell revelations came in a letter sent to Blinken on Thursday by Rep. Jim Jordan , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Mike Turner , chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, as well as in a competing press release by House Democrats. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel refused to answer questions about the Blinken controversy on Friday, saying, “It is not a State Department issue, and I don’t really have a comment on this from the State Department.”
A House Judiciary Committee Democrats spokesman claimed Jordan had “released cherry-picked excerpts of a transcribed interview” in an effort to “smear” Blinken. The Democrats said that “no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Morell was also asked if Blinken said that “the campaign could use some help on this” and whether Blinken asked him, “Could you cook up something that we could use?”Jordan and Turner further wrote that the same day of the Blinken-Morell call, Blinken “also emailed Morell an article” published in USA Today the same day that alleged the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a “disinformation campaign.
The congressional letter said Morell received a call from then-Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti after the Oct. 22 presidential debate to thank him for"putting the statement out." Ricchetti is now a counselor to President Joe Biden.
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