Assuming a Pub wins, s/he needs to clean house at the CIA & FBI.
"House investigators revealed last year the partisan truth: It was the Biden campaign that ginned up the letter.............But
the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees this week released a second report that exposes the lengths to which this cabal went to craft their own disinformation campaign."
IOW, the 51 went beyond what the Biden campaign asked to make their letter appear even better.
It turns out
this know-nothingness was deliberate—making the letter even more scandalous. The new House report says that
at least two signatories were CIA contractors at the time of the statement, while others retained access to classified material. All it would have taken was one call or briefing to ascertain that the laptop
wasn’t part of a Russian campaign. The federal government certainly knew it. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had been in possession of the Hunter laptop since 2019, while Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, on the same day as the statement, said that the laptop was “not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
Instead,
these “professionals” with access to the truth purposely kept themselves in the dark—so as to retain their ability to engage in wild (and false) speculation in aid of a political campaign."
Great work again by Strassel.