Named and Shamed: The 51 Intel Officials Who Lied About the Hunter Biden Laptop Emails

Remember back to the Fall of 2020, right as the original Hunter Biden laptop story broke in the New York Post and Twitter interfered in the election by shutting down the distribution of the story and disabling the Post’s Twitter account? Just hours after the Post report, which turned out to be entirely true and accurate, other media sources began circulating a letter allegedly signed by 51 intelligence officials, both current and retired, allegedly from both parties, who called the Hunter Biden laptop and the information contained therein a sophisticated Russia disinformation campaign.

Joe Biden even said so on the debate stage calling the allegations “utter garbage” and referring to the intelligence officials, none of whom had actually seen or examined the laptop, as proof that the story was made up and planted by Russia.

Thankfully, during one of the New York Post’s multiple victory laptops in the past week, the paper named and shamed these 51 intel officials for their role in the big lie of killing this story which could’ve potentially derailed Joe Biden’s entire 2020 candidacy:

They are the supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation.

But the 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election.

The officials, including CNN pundit and professional fabricator James Clapper — a man who was nearly charged for perjury for lying to Congress — signed a letter saying that the laptop “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. “We do not know if the emails .?.?. are genuine or not,” the letter said. They’re just “suspicious.” Why? Because they hurt Biden’s campaign, that’s evidence enough.

If we’ve learned anything from the Russia collusion hoax and attempt to take down Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy and presidency, it’s that the intelligence community is anything but “nonpartisan.” It’s very partisan and very left-leaning in the way it controls the narrative and attempts to usurp control over the electorate and keep big-government bureaucrat-friendly politicians in charge.

So who were the disgraced and shamed intel analysts and officials? Here’s the list of people who shouldn’t have a job informing the public about anything or ever appear on cable news again:

1. Mike Hayden, former CIA director, now analyst for CNN
2. Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, now CNN pundit
3. Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary
4. John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
5. Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University
6. Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank
7. John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University
8. Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University
9. Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems
10. Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at University of New Mexico
11. Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
12. Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director
13. Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director
14. John Moseman, former CIA chief of staf
15. Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group
16. Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
17. Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff
18. Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel
19. David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager
20. Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis
21. Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer
22. Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer
23. John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer
24. David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer
25. Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard
26. David Buckley, former CIA inspector general
27. Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
28. Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer
29. James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence office
30. David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst
31. Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer
32. Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer
33. Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst
34. Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer
35. Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer:
36. Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer
37. Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer
38. Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC
39. Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis
40. Ron Marks, former CIA officer
41. Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum
42. Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico
43. Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer
44. Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director
45. John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer
46. Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs
47. Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues
48. Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director
49. David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman
50. Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
51. Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis

When asked for comment, some of them said they would need additional information to determine if the emails and laptop contents, now authenticated, were truly authnetic. Others said that it seemed plausible at the time that the laptop was Russian disinformation so they signed the letter. Still, others cling to their belief that the laptop and emails, though real, are still a Russian disinformation plot.

Perhaps the most alarming part of the list is seeing where these individuals all work and their circle of influence. Some within the government, some retired, some in big defense companies, some working as cable news analysts, and some in academia. All pillars of influence within the intelligence community and influential in the media. They all decided, as part of groupthink and pure hatred of Donald Trump, to sign a letter saying Hunter Biden’s laptop, filled with damning evidence against the entire corrupt Biden family, was Russian disinformation purely to help put Joe Biden in the White House.

The danger here is that the media colluded with the Biden campaign, coupled with the intelligence community and big tech, to squash a story that would harm the Democratic candidate. It’s the most basic and deceptive threat to democracy and it happened as the voting public stood by watching.

The question now is when will President Biden answer for his role in lying directly to the American people about the contents of his son’s laptop and his own level of corruption?