On 9/20/2024 8:16 AM, John Smyth wrote:
> 'How a circle of spies, Blinken covered up Biden scandals'
>
> <https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/opinion/how-a-circle-of-spies-blinken-covered-up-biden-scandals-miranda-devines-new-book-exclusive/>
>
> 'Secretary of State Antony Blinken helped create the infamous "Dirty 51"
> letter from former intelligence officials that claimed The Post's
> reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, Miranda
> Devine reports in her new book.
> AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
> Hunter Biden’s abandoned MacBook was a window into the Biden family
> business, a secret international influence peddling operation. New York
> Post columnist Miranda Devine, who exposed many of Hunter’s secrets in
> her book “Laptop from Hell,” returns with “The Big Guy,” the story of
> how the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, the IRS and the Department
> of Justice conspired to protect Joe Biden and his family. Here, an
> exclusive first excerpt:
>
> With his floppy hair, European reserve, and bilingual fluency, Antony
> Blinken’s foreign affairs pedigree could not have been designed better
> to impress Joe Biden.
>
> He’d grown up a world away from Scranton, Pa. — in Paris, in East
> Hampton and in the tony River House co-op on New York’s Upper East Side,
> which his father, Donald Blinken, an investment banker-turned-ambassador
> to Hungary, once described as “a special island in the midst of
> Manhattan” inhabited by “people who are not as exposed to the
> vicissitudes.”
>
> At the École Jeannine Manuel in Paris, where the lonely 9-year-old moved
> in 1971, after his parents’ divorce, to live with his mother, Judith,
> and her new husband, Samuel Pisar, a former adviser to John F. Kennedy,
> Blinken found a kindred spirit in Robert Malley, the son of an Egyptian
> journalist.
>
> He would later recruit his childhood friend to be the Obama
> administration’s lead negotiator on the ill-starred Iran nuclear deal,
> only to suffer the embarrassment of Malley being suspended without pay
> in 2023 during Biden’s presidency, the target of a mysterious FBI
> espionage investigation which continues to this day.'
>
> 'Blinken’s career trajectory was rather more tranquil. After Harvard,
> and Columbia Law School, he transformed himself into the consummate
> Washington staffer, with a sideline as a guitarist in a rock band named
> Cash Bar Wedding.
>
> Joe Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
> identified the urbane young staffer early on as a “superstar” and a
> useful source of the erudition he lacked.'
>
> 'Working for Joe, Blinken learned the crude ways of Tammany Hall and
> soon became embedded in the senator’s private life. He was an older
> brother figure to Joe’s adult sons, Beau and Hunter, and a frequent
> weekend visitor to his Delaware compound where he would join the family
> and assorted staffers at the kitchen table as they plotted the
> disastrous 2008 presidential campaign.
>
> His wife, Evan Ryan, a comely former Hillary Clinton staffer, worked on
> that campaign as deputy manager and went on to become White House
> cabinet secretary in the Biden administration.
>
> As different as they were, Blinken’s career became firmly entwined with
> Joe’s over the decades. When Joe was tapped by Barack Obama to be his
> running mate, Blinken became national security advisor to the vice
> president and rose to deputy secretary of state. He waited out the Trump
> years in a series of lucrative consultancies and ran Joe’s University of
> Pennsylvania think tank, the Penn Biden Center.'
>
> 'linken has worked for Biden since his time in the Senate — when he
> considered the staffer a “young superstar.”
> Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
> He would reach the summit of his profession under President Biden as
> secretary of state at age 59. But first Blinken had to find a way to put
> out the fire that threatened to destroy Joe’s candidacy.
>
> Bombshell
> On Oct. 14, 2020, three weeks out from the election, with Joe and
> President Donald Trump neck and neck in the polls, the New York Post’s
> first story about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop exploded like a bomb.
>
> The front page featured an email from Hunter’s Burisma paymaster, Vadym
> Pozharskyi, thanking him for “the opportunity to meet your father.”
>
> It was hard to square with Joe’s assertions throughout the campaign that
> he knew nothing about Hunter’s seeming international influence-peddling
> operation.'
>
> 'Candidate Biden had been lying low since the story broke,
> self-isolating in his basement under cover of the COVID pandemic, but
> behind the scenes his campaign struggled to find a coherent response to
> explain the email away.
>
> In a carefully worded statement to The Post, the campaign said there
> were no meetings on Joe’s “official schedules” in 2015 with Pozharskyi.
> But to other media outlets, they issued more emphatic denials.
>
> The Biden campaign categorically denied a meeting ever happened. “They
> never had a meeting,” Andrew Bates, a campaign spokesman, told USA
> Today.
>
> 'Even as Twitter and Facebook, in collusion with the FBI, censored The
> Post, and the mainstream media collectively looked the other way, the
> Biden campaign knew that the sheer weight of the evidence would
> eventually be impossible to ignore.
>
> Blinken’s solution was to set in motion one of the most brazen dirty
> tricks in US electoral history. Using the intelligence community to
> sound the false alarm of “Russian disinformation,” ground already
> prepared by corrupt elements inside the FBI, he set out to discredit the
> whole laptop story.
>
> A phony call away
> First, he phoned CIA veteran Mike Morell for advice on combating The
> Post’s reporting. Morell, 62, was thrilled the campaign was asking him
> for help. After more than 30 years of loyal service to the CIA, he’d
> never made it to the top. He’d come close — serving as acting director
> twice.
>
> The boyish, bespectacled, Ohio-born son of an autoworker and a homemaker
> quit the CIA in 2013 after being passed over for the top job. But he
> hadn’t given up hope of fulfilling his life’s ambition. When he got a
> call from Blinken, he saw his chance, at last, to be CIA director in a
> Biden administration.'
>
> 'Blinken contacted former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell to help
> organize the letter.
> AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
> Morell could not have been more eager to please. He would later testify
> to Congress that Blinken’s phone call prompted him to organize 50
> intelligence colleagues to sign a letter falsely insinuating that the
> damning material from Hunter’s laptop published by The Post was Russian
> disinformation.
>
> The Dirty 51 letter, as it came to be known, was timed to appear on the
> eve of the final presidential debate, to maximize its benefit to Joe, by
> giving him a “talking point to push back on [President] Trump on this
> issue,” as Morell put it.
>
> Blinken followed up his call a few hours later, emailing Morell a new,
> anonymously sourced, thinly reported — but conveniently timed — USA
> Today article claiming that the FBI was examining whether Hunter’s
> laptop was part of a “smoke bomb of disinformation pushed by Russia” to
> damage Biden.
>
> see also
>
> How CIA interference with the ‘Spies Who Lie’ letter made Biden the
> president
> At the bottom of Blinken’s email was the signature block of Andrew
> Bates, the Biden campaign’s director of rapid response. The Biden
> campaign was orchestrating the Dirty 51 letter. This was the real
> disinformation operation — 51 of the most powerful people in the
> intelligence world were uniting to deceive the American people and help
> Joe win the 2020 election.
>
> When his alleged role in the Dirty 51 letter was revealed some three
> years later, Blinken denied all: “Didn’t ask for it, didn’t solicit it,”
> he said.
>
> But, until Blinken called and implanted the idea, Morell had not
> considered floating the idea of Russian interference. “Prior to
> [Blinken’s] call, you did not have any intent to write this statement?”
> Morell was asked in a deposition for Congress. “I did not,” he replied.'
>
> 'Blinken had “triggered … that intent” in him. A purported hoax was
> born.
>
> Morell knew what he needed to do. He mobilized the intelligence
> community to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win
> the election.”
>
> Fools Russian
> To draft the letter, Morell enlisted the help of Marc Polymeropoulos,
> 51, a squat former CIA senior operations officer, who had retired early,
> stating he was a victim of the mysterious “Havana syndrome.”
>
> He would later boast that he “basically wrote” the letter, which claimed
> that the material from Hunter’s laptop published by The Post “has all
> the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and “the
> Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue.”'
>
> 'Moscow will “do anything possible to help Trump win and/or to weaken
> Biden should he win. … A ‘laptop op’ fits the bill, as the publication
> of the emails are [sic] clearly designed to discredit Biden. … It is
> high time that Russia stops interfering in our democracy.”
>
> Morell sent the draft letter to his network of intelligence contacts,
> explaining in an email that he had “drafted the attached because we
> believe the Russians were involved in some way in the Hunter Biden email
> issue and because we think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this
> week’s debate and we want to give the VP a talking point to use in
> response.”
>
> see also
> Hunter Biden, his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, and U.S. first lady Jill
> Biden leave the federal court after the jury finds him guilty on all
> three counts in his trial on criminal gun charges, in Wilmington,
> Delaware, U.S., June 11, 2024.
> editorial
> Top ex-spies who (still) lie about Hunter Biden’s laptop are anything
> but ‘patriots’
> Over the next two days, he gathered signatures from 51 former
> intelligence officials. Five former CIA directors signed — Mike Hayden,
> Leon Panetta, John Brennan, John McLaughlin (acting), and Morell
> (acting) would sign — as well as former Director of National
> Intelligence James Clapper, eight CIA intelligence officers, seven
> analysts and four chiefs of staff; 41 of the 51 signatories were former
> CIA.
>
> He asked them to “highlight your Russia work” in their affiliations when
> they signed the letter and assured them that he would “clear the
> statement with the Publication Review Board at CIA” in record time.
>
> Extraordinarily, the letter appeared to have been approved at the very
> highest levels of the CIA, although that unsavory matter was kept hidden
> for more than three years, until it was prised out of the CIA’s email
> archives by congressional investigators.
>
> The Blob
> Andrew Makridis, the CIA’s chief operating officer at the time the
> letter was published, testified to the House Judiciary Committee that he
> was sent a draft version by his agency’s Prepublication Classification
> Review Board on Oct. 19, 2020, and recognized it as an inherently
> political document.
>
> Because of its political sensitivity, Makridis walked across the hall
> from his office to inform then-CIA Director Gina Haspel about the
> letter.
>
> He testified in April 2024 that he’d felt at the time that the letter
> “rises to the level where I felt that I wanted to make sure the director
> and the deputy director were aware. [But] we had no discussion other
> than the notification that this was coming. … I mean, it’s talking about
> President Trump, Vice President Biden. I mean, you can’t read that and
> say there isn’t politics involved of some nature.”
>
> A congressional whistleblower claimed that the CIA also interfered in an
> IRS investigation into Hunter Biden.
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> A congressional whistleblower claimed that the CIA also interfered in an
> IRS investigation into Hunter Biden.
> AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
> After notifying Haspel, Makridis had his executive assistant send an
> email to the PCRB stating that they “may notify Former DDCIA [Deputy
> Director of the CIA] Morell.”
>
> An hour later, the PCRB notified Morell that the letter could be
> published. Internal CIA staff emails confirmed that at least some of the
> letter signatories were under active contract with the CIA at the time
> of its publication.
>
> It wasn’t the first time the CIA had intervened to protect the Bidens. A
> congressional whistleblower claimed that the CIA had interfered with the
> IRS investigation into Hunter, his business partners had been asked to
> become CIA informants, and Burisma had the whiff of a CIA operation.
>
> Like Morell, the Dirty 51 were part of Washington’s cozy, bipartisan
> consensus of the spook, military and foreign policy elite that Obama
> officials dubbed the “Blob.”
>
> These are the people responsible for the weapons-of-mass-destruction
> intelligence hoax that justified the Iraq war, and the warrantless
> spying on American citizens that followed 9/11. They are devotees of
> color revolutions and regime change to preserve US global dominance.
> They work together in the same think tanks and lucrative consultancy
> firms. They speak at the same events and on liberal TV shows, write for
> the same publications, pal around with the same journalists, and some
> even pretend to be journalists. They retweet each other’s anti-Trump
> memes and share hawkish views about Russia.
>
> The Dirty 51 were the Blob, and Biden was their guy.
>
> Excepted with permission from “The Big Guy: How a President and His Son
> Sold Out America” by Miranda Devine, out Tuesday from Broadside Books.
> Coming Sunday: Part 2, the Ukraine Operation.'

The US media helped them do it. CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, they are all complicit.