Have you heard that the Biden campaign orchestrated the lying letter of the Deep State 51 that then-candidate Biden found so useful in the 2020 presidential campaign? I called it “The dirtiest trick.” It seems to be something of a secret. Matt Taibbi observes: “An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization.”
Taibbi writes at his Racket News site:
It transpires that the infamous incident before the 2020 election in which 50 former intelligence officials signed an open letter declared a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden’s laptop to have the “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was, allegedly at least, instigated at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign. This at least is the allegation in a letter to Secretary of State Anthony [sic] Blinken released by Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.
In that letter, which is not easy to find, you’ll see three snippets of dialogue from questioning of Morell, who appears to have organized the open letter. In the first snippet, he explains that the idea originated with a call from Blinken, then of the Biden campaign, and that absent that call, Morell wouldn’t have done what he did…
By any marker, this is an enormous news story. If we go by the usual measuring stick of American scandal, the Watergate story, this potentially meets or exceed that, on almost every level. Does it reach into the current White House? Check. Was it a craven attempt to subvert the electoral process? Check again. Did a presidential candidate engineer a massive public deception? Yes, resoundingly. Did it involve intelligence agencies? Yes, and these weren’t amateurs like Nixon’s plumbers. These were 50 of the most powerful people in the intelligence world — including five former heads or acting heads of the Agency in Morell, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and John McLaughlin — conspiring to meddle in domestic politics on a grand scale.
I don’t agree with everything Taibbi has to say. However, Taibbi is a thoughtful observer and his comments are all worth reading here. See also Michael Goodwin’s New York Post column “Bidens’ corrupt web unraveling before our eyes.”
My own two comments: Morell didn’t get the job for which he was selling his soul (again). And he had no compunction about throwing Antony Blinken under the big bus that is rolling down the road. What an absolutely disgusting crew.
NOTE: I carelessly misread Taibbi’s reference to the letter to Blinken. Taibbi to the contrary notwithstanding, that letter is easy to find. I linked to the relevant press release in my “Dirtiest trick” post last week. The press release links to the PDF of the letter posted online here. I found it in a few seconds last week.
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