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Government Corruption

'Spies Who Lie' leader, cosigners were CIA contractors

2024-06-26

[NYPOST] Some of the 51 "Spies Who Lie" were active CIA contractors when they claimed files from first son Hunter Biden’s laptop had "the classic earmarks" of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election — a fact that was uneasily noted inside the agency at the time, new records acquired by The Post show.

Former CIA acting director Michael Morell, who previously told Congress he organized the Oct. 19, 2020, letter to give Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
a "talking point" against then-President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
ahead of a debate, was a contractor at the time, the agency informed Congress.

Ex-agency inspector general David Buckley also was a contractor at the time of the letter, according to an interim report from two House committees investigating the matter, and records suggest that at least two other letter-signers may also have had active contracts at the time.

The terms of the contracts and compensation were not immediately clear.

Morell flatly denied he was a contractor when contacted by The Post, writing Tuesday in an email, "If you write that, you would [be] wrong."

Morell doubled down in a second email, writing that "I can’t" speculate on why he was listed as a contractor and insisting: "It’s wrong."

A congressional source provided The Post with the CIA’s document outing Morell as a contractor after his denial.

Robert Dugas, CIA deputy general counsel for litigation and investigations, shared the information in an April 25 letter.

"I write to provide an UNCLASSIFIED document related to your ... letters seeking information," Dugas told politicians, along with a five-name chart that listed Morell and Buckley as contractors as the date of the letter.

"The evidence in our report speaks for itself and it seems that the spy who lied is continuing to do so," Russell Dye, front man for the House Judiciary Committee, fired back Tuesday evening.

The five-name table identifying Morell as a contractor specified that former CIA Director John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
and fellow letter-signers Nick Rasmussen and Marc Polymeropoulos had no such arrangement.

The laptop-denying letter — which notably only described signers as "former" intelligence operatives — was controversial within the CIA, internal records indicate.

"This frustrates me. I don’t think it is helpful to the Agency in the long run," a CIA official whose identity was redacted wrote on Oct. 20, 2020 — the day after the letter was distributed to Politico — with a link to the outlet’s story.

No doubt a common sentiment in certain quiet corners of our readership. Our sympathies, guys.

Posted by:Fred

#1 My question would be if this was a CIA sponsored disinformation operation. They should not be seeking to influence an American election at all. Disinforming us is why the CIA needs to be shut down. If ever there was a case for putting together some re-education camps, the CIA folks would be my recommended internees.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-06-26 10:07

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