Democrat spin doctors are having a really rough week. The CIA just got caught with their hand in the 2020 election cookie jar. Progressives on the House oversight and judiciary committees put their heads together in an attempt to give their followers some talking points. They didn’t do a real good job of it. Everything they claim is easy to debunk and only makes them look guiltier in the long run.
Democrat disinformation disaster
By way of background, 51 Democrat friendly members of the CIA “conspired” with former acting director Mike Morell and Antony Blinken “to produce a letter falsely claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation.” At the time, Blinky was working for Joe Biden’s campaign. They knew the emails were totally authentic, which is why they were so anxious to make them look bogus.
It appears that at least one active CIA staffer was involved in the illegal domestic counter-intelligence operation to discredit the laptop. Another goal of the clandestine project was to ensure Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 election. That’s also supposed to be illegal.
Morell came in and testified voluntarily to Congress. Democrats came unglued and instantly started scrambling to cover the damage. The whole CIA disinformation effort started when Antony Blinken called his spooky friend and begged for help. The Democrat answer to that is: that former CIA director Michael Morell “drafted the letter because he had serious concerns about the Russians apparently once again interfering in our elections.”
Mike Morell has unapologetically told us his letter was to get Biden elected. Everyone involved, including Blinken, must come to Congress to be put under oath. pic.twitter.com/0wUwK5tocz
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) May 11, 2023
New York Post marks that one “NOPE.” Morell, they explain, “testified to the committees that he had no intention of drafting the statement until then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken, now secretary of state, called him on Oct. 17, 2020, to discuss The Post’s story and later emailed him a USA Today article.” That article alleged “the FBI was ‘potentially‘ investigating if it was Russian disinformation.” Why not help that investigation along a little, especially since it would be chasing it’s own tail. “Morell testified that Blinken’s call ‘absolutely‘ triggered his decision to draft the letter.”
Not only that, Morell told former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos, who helped draft the letter, “that someone from kind of the Biden world had asked for” their help. He also admitted the letter was designed to “help Vice President Biden” in the upcoming presidential debate by giving him a “talking point to push back on [President] Trump on this issue.”
Why did he do it? “Because I wanted him to win the election.” They knew the laptop story would come up in the debate and wanted to be ready to head it off at the pass. The Democrat ambush worked beautifully and Trump was left shaking his head and declaring “Russia, Russia, Russia.” Morell was hoping to become Joe’s new CIA director.
PCRB involvement
The next false claim that the Democrat public relations team throws on the table is that “Morell testified that he was the sole person in contact with the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Review Board about getting the letter approved.” He also noted that “If others working on the letter had contacted the PCRB, he would have known.” That, the Post declares, is a “RED HERRING.”
Nobody said anyone else contacted them. What has been said is that at least one member of that board was soliciting signatures for the election rigging letter. “Former CIA analyst David Cariens told the committees that a CIA employee from the PCRB had contacted him about his own memoir and, during the call, had solicited his signature for Morell’s letter.” Not only did he sign, he talked his wife into signing too.
The Democrat spin doctors punch back that “there is substantial reason to question Cariens’ recollection of” hearing about the letter in a phone call. That’s deceptive misdirection.
John Solomon has uncovered a NEW email from Tony Blinken to Mike Morell in Oct of 2020, which suggested that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation by sending him a fake news article from USA Today. The entire basis for the letter.
We now have it in writing! ? pic.twitter.com/I3fWrGpszL
— TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) May 10, 2023
“Cariens has not withdrawn his testimony,” and there is no reason to question his recollection that “when the person in charge of reviewing the book called to say it was approved with no changes, I was told about the draft letter. The person asked me if I would be willing to sign.”
“But… but… but…” Democrats stammer back. “Former CIA officer Kristin Wood produced the email in which Cariens agreed to join the letter. Cariens received the same email as every other signatory and signed on eight minutes later.” So what. He was expecting that email from his earlier conversation. “Even if Cariens also was approached by others to sign the letter, that does not negate the fact that a serving CIA employee asked him to sign it first.”
The worst part of the whole thing is while the Democrat spooks were running around crafting a plan to rig a presidential election, official Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe “made a public declaration that The Post’s story was not Russian disinformation.” He was pushing back on disinformation put out by Adam Schiff, then- chair of the House Intelligence Committee. “Let me be clear,” Ratcliffe confirmed, “the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there’s no intelligence that supports that.” Within 24 hours “the Department of Justice and the FBI confirmed his declaration.” The CIA ignored it and cheerfully helped rig the election for Biden.
