9 high-ranking former nationwide safety and army officers who signed a letter Sunday endorsing Vice President Harris’ run for the Oval Workplace additionally signed a letter practically 4 years in the past dismissing Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop computer as Russian disinformation forward of the 2020 election, Fox Information Digital discovered.
A gaggle known as the Nationwide Safety Leaders for America, which payments itself as a bipartisan group of former senior army and nationwide safety leaders, printed a letter Sunday endorsing Harris for the White Home. A complete of 741 former high-ranking nationwide safety officers signed the letter.
Fox Information Digital pored by way of the listing of signatories and located 9 of the previous nationwide safety chiefs who endorsed Harris additionally signed a letter in 2020 discounting Hunter Biden’s laptop computer as Russian disinformation – earlier than media shops authenticated the laptop computer after the 2020 election and the FBI finally cited the laptop computer as reputable in Hunter Biden’s prison trial earlier this yr.
The signatories who signed each the 2020 letter and the endorsement of Harris embrace: former Director of Nationwide Intelligence Jim Clapper; former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden; former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta; former CIA Director John Brennan; former Appearing CIA Director John E. McLaughlin; former CIA chief of employees Laurence M. Pfeiffer; former Division of Protection chief of employees Jeremy Bash; CIA chief of station John Sipher; and former Nationwide Intelligence Council Chair Gregory Frye Treverton.
Former Director of Nationwide Intelligence James Clapper (Reuters/Joshua Roberts/File)
Forward of the 2020 election, the New York Submit printed a bombshell report on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer.
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Fifty-one former intelligence officers, nevertheless, quickly after launched a press release on Oct. 19, 2020, discounting the laptop computer as having “all of the basic earmarks of a Russian info operation” in a bid to discredit the New York Submit’s report on the time.
The laptop computer got here into public view after the primary son left it at a Delaware restore store forward of the 2020 presidential election.
President Biden hugs son Hunter through the Democratic Nationwide Conference, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Picture/Paul Sancya)
The previous army chiefs’ 2020 letter performed a key function in lots of media shops turning their backs on reporting on the laptop computer as reputable, in addition to offering President Biden with political ammunition to downplay the laptop computer throughout his debate in opposition to former President Trump over the past election cycle.
Liberal media shops, nevertheless, modified their tune in 2022 after newspapers such because the Washington Submit and New York Occasions authenticated 1000’s of his emails on the laptop computer. The laptop computer additionally re-emerged this yr when the primary son confronted a prison trial in Delaware over his buy of a firearm in 2018 whereas he was reeling from a crack cocaine habit. The trial, which discovered Hunter responsible on all counts, formally entered the laptop computer into proof and was confirmed by the FBI as reputable.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan (Reuters/Joshua Roberts/File)
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The previous chiefs’ 2020 letter made headlines once more this yr when a joint report launched by three Home panels alleged that lively CIA contractors “coordinated” with the 2020 Biden marketing campaign simply weeks forward of that yr’s election “to discredit severe allegations about Biden household affect peddling” linked to Hunter’s laptop computer when the 51 former intelligence officers launched a press release dismissing the laptop computer.
President Biden and Vice President Harris (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs/File)
Quick-forward to Sunday and the 2024 election, the letter endorsing Harris and signed by tons of of former nationwide safety leaders, together with 9 from the 2020 letter, lauded her as “ready and strategic” whereas slamming Trump as “impulsive and ill-informed.”
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“We’re former public servants who swore an oath to the Structure. Many people risked our lives for it. We’re retired generals, admirals, senior noncommissioned officers, ambassadors, and senior civilian nationwide safety leaders. We’re Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. We’re loyal to the beliefs of our nation—like freedom, democracy, and the rule of regulation—to not anyone particular person or get together,” the letter printed Sunday endorsing Harris reads.
Vice President Harris, Hunter Biden and President Biden (Getty Photographs)
“We don’t agree on every little thing, however all of us adhere to 2 basic rules. First, we consider America’s nationwide safety requires a severe and succesful Commander-in-Chief. Second, we consider American democracy is invaluable. Every era has a duty to defend it. That’s the reason we, the undersigned, proudly endorse Kamala Harris to be the following President of america,” it added.
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Fox Information Digital reached out to Nationwide Safety Leaders for America for touch upon the 9 signatories who signed each the endorsement and the letter discounting Hunter Biden’s laptop computer as disinformation however didn’t instantly obtain a reply.