On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent an open letter to the 51 former intelligence officials who previously signed a public statement decrying the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The Post’s report found the laptop included e-mails showing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now-President Joe Biden, for personal gain with the apparent awareness of President Biden.
The officials, which include former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden, and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, citing their collective “experience” and the notion that they knew “Russian behavior intimately,” claimed the report had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian influence operation” in an attempt to discredit the Post’s reporting.
Over four years later, we now know that both the laptop and the information it contained belonged to Hunter Biden and was not a Russian influence operation.
To that end, Graham asked one question: “In your letter, you claimed that the laptop story was ‘Russia trying to influence how Americans vote.’ I ask you to respond publicly to one simple question: if you knew then what you know now about the laptop, would you still have signed the October 19, 2020 letter?”
Read the full letter HERE.
