Revenge? Accountability? A little bit of both?
Fifty-one former intel officials claimed in October 2020 that the New York Post’s report on Hunter Biden’s laptop likely came as a Russian intelligence operation. Their reputations, as well as their ongoing ties to the intel communities, lent a lot of credence to the efforts to suppress the story by other news agencies and social-media platforms.
The only problem was that the laptop was authentic — so authentic, in fact, that the FBI already had the data from it and had been investigating the crimes it documented. Two years later, the Department of Justice acknowledged its provenance, as did Hunter Biden in later court filings. The 51 ex-intel officials have never explained why they claimed otherwise or intervened in the political process just as voters went to the polls.
And now they won’t get the chance to…
