Lawmakers Threaten to Revoke Security Clearances of 51 Hunter Biden Laptop Deniers

WENDELL HUSEBO 15 Nov 2024

The 51 former intelligence officials who suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation could lose their security clearances, Republican lawmakers indicated this week.

The potential action of revoking the security clearances would fulfill a campaign pledge by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.“You cannot lie, take your position of public trust, and lie to the American people for political purposes,” Vance said. “It’s disgraceful. And people have to suffer consequences for it.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has not indicated if he will bring a measure to the House floor to fulfill the campaign promise. President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory fueled Republicans maintaining the House majority and Johnson’s job as Speaker.

Republican lawmakers, however, voiced support this week for revoking the clearances.

“I think we should scrub all the legacy clearances to see whether the people need to have them and for what purpose, and unless they’re working for a company in a role that makes sense, they should be taken away,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told the Washington Times. “Most on that list [of 51], I would include in that scrubbing.”

The 51 intelligence officials “should all lose their security clearances,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told the paper.

Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SCChicken) said “it should be an option.”

After the “laptop from hell” story broke before the 2020 election, 51 intel officials signed a letter that insinuated Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation. The letter was peddled by Politico under the title, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” Most establishment media organizations then used the Politico article to discount the revelations from the laptop.

President Joe Biden cited the story during a 2020 presidential debate with Trump to discredit the laptop’s contents. The story was reportedly planted by Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Biden to use during the event.

The 51 signatories, however, seemingly knew the Politico story was false at the time because the FBI had the laptop that Hunter abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. Apparently not a single one of the signatories of the infamous letter have retracted their made-up claim, Breitbart News reported in June.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/15/lawmakers-threaten-revoke-security-clearances-51-hunter-biden-laptop-deniers/

Below are the 51 intel officers, who sometimes double as CNN and MSNBC media analysts:

1. Jim Clapper 21. Patty Brandmaier 41. Nick Shapiro

2. Mike Hayden 22. James B. Bruce 42. John Sipher

3. Leon Panetta 23. David Cariens 43. Stephen Slick

4. John Brennan 24. Janice Cariens 44. Cynthia Strand

5. Thomas Finger 25. Paul Kolbe 45. Greg Tarbell

6. Rick Ledgett 26. Peter Corsell 46. David Terry

7. John McLaughlin 27. Brett Davis 47. Greg Treverton

8. Michael Morell 28. Roger Zane George 48. John Tullius

9. Mike Vickers 29. Steven L. Hall 49. David A. Vanell

10. Doug Wise 30. Kent Harrington 50. Winston Wiley

11. Nick Rasmussen 31. Don Hepburn 51. Kristin Wood

12. Russ Travers 32. Timothy D. Kilbourn

13. Andy Liepman 33. Ron Marks

14. John Moseman 34. Jonna Hiestand Mendez

15. Larry Pfeiffer 35. Emile Nakhleh

16. Jeremy Bash 36. Gerald A. O’Shea

17. Rodney Snyder 37. David Priess

18. Glenn Gerstell 38. Pam Purcilly

19. David B. Buckley 39. Marc Polymeropoulos

20. Nada Bakos 40. Chris Savos