The Intelligence Community 51 How Cia Contractors Colluded With The Biden Campaign To Mislead American Voters Us House Of Representatives by U.s. House Of Representatives instant download after payment.

The October 19, 2020, statement on Hunter Biden’s laptop signed by 51 former senior intelligence community officials served to interfere in the American electoral system in the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election. The highest officials within the CIA were aware of the statement prior to its publication. Signatories of the statement—including lead architect, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, and former CIA Inspector General David Buckley—were on active contract with the CIA at the time the statement was drafted, reviewed, and ultimately published. This revelation raises the concern that these officials abused the access of their positions to curate, promote, and receive expedited approval of the statement. Indeed, the PCRB continuously requested quick decisions from officials within the CIA and partners at ODNI about the status of publication of the statement. This occurred after Morell specifically requested an expedited review process and during a time when he had contracting status and was under consideration to be named President Biden’s CIA Director.

The signatories’ choice to leverage the authority of their former intelligence community titles to peddle a narrative about foreign election interference inappropriately embroiled the Agency in the domestic political process. The poor judgment displayed by the signatories and the CIA’s executive suite—those who could have prevented the Agency from being entangled in a false and domestically politicized narrative of Russian interference—is as relevant today as it was four years ago. To date, there are no clear or transparent rules to prevent intelligence contractors from leveraging their access to the CIA for political purposes.

Seasoned CIA officials like Morell and Polymeropoulos were able to subvert the process to spread disinformation in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election because the CIA lacked meaningful safeguards to prevent this from happening. Unless and until the

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