Nine high-ranking former national security officials And the military officials who signed a letter of support for Vice President Harris’ Oval Office appearance on Sunday also signed a letter nearly four years ago that dismissed Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop leak as Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, Fox News Digital found.
A group called National Security Leaders for America, which presents itself as a bipartisan group of US leaders, has said that it is a group that is working to solve the problem of security issues for America. Former senior military and national security A letter was published on Sunday endorsing Harris for the White House. The letter was signed by a total of 741 former high-ranking national security officials.
Fox News Digital did an in-depth study on this topic. List of signatories and found that nine former national security chiefs who supported Harris had also signed a letter in 2020 dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation — before media outlets authenticated the laptop after the 2020 election and the FBI ultimately declared the laptop legitimate at Hunter Biden’s criminal trial earlier this year.
Signatories to the 2020 letter and endorsement of Harris include: former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper; former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden; former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta; former CIA Director John Brennan; former Acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin; former CIA Chief of Staff Laurence M. Pfeiffer; former Defense Department Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash; CIA Chief of Station John Sipher; and former National Intelligence Council Chairman Gregory Fry Treverton.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (Reuters/Joshua Roberts/File)
Before the 2020 election, the New York Post published a shocking report on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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However, 51 former intelligence officials released a statement shortly thereafter on October 19, 2020, calling the laptops “all the classic hallmarks of a Russian information operation” in order to discredit a New York Post report at the time.
The laptop became public when the first son left it at a repair shop in Delaware before the 2020 presidential election.
President Biden embraces son Hunter during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancia)
The 2020 letter from former military chiefs played a key role in causing many media outlets to turn their back on legitimate reporting on the laptops, as well as providing President Biden with political ammunition to downplay the laptops during debates against him. former president trump during the last election cycle.
However, liberal media outlets changed their stance in 2022 after newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times authenticated thousands of his emails on the laptop. The laptop surfaced again this year when the first son faced criminal trial in Delaware for purchasing a firearm in 2018 while he was struggling with a crack cocaine addiction. The trial, which found Hunter guilty on all counts, formally introduced the laptop as evidence and was confirmed as legitimate by the FBI.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan (Reuters/Joshua Roberts/File)
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The former chiefs’ 2020 letter made headlines again this year, when a joint report released by three House panels alleged that active CIA contractors “coordinated” with the 2020 Biden campaign “to discredit serious allegations about the Biden family’s influence” in the weeks before that year’s election. Connected to Hunter’s laptop When 51 former intelligence officials issued a statement denouncing the laptop.
President Biden and Vice President Harris (Win McNamee/Getty Images/File)
Fast forward to Sunday and the 2024 elections, Letter supporting Harris And a 2020 letter signed by hundreds of former national security leaders, including nine of them, praised him as “prepared and strategic” while denouncing Trump as “impulsive and misinformed.”
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“We are former public servants who have taken an oath to the Constitution. Many of us have risked our lives for it. We are retired generals, admirals, senior non-commissioned officers, ambassadors and senior civilian national security leaders. We are Republicans, Democrats and Independents. We are loyal to our nation’s ideals – like freedom, democracy and the rule of law –not to any one person or partyThe letter published Sunday supporting Harris said.
Vice President Harris, Hunter Biden, and President Biden (Getty Images)
“We don’t agree on everything, but we all adhere to two basic principles. First, we believe that America’s national security requires a serious and capable commander-in-chief. Second, we believe that American democracy is invaluable. Each generation has a responsibility to protect it. That is why we, the signatories below, I proudly support Kamala Harris It further states, “I want to be the next President of the United States.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to US national security leaders for comment on the nine signatories who signed the letter of support and statement calling Hunter Biden’s laptop a misinformation, but did not immediately receive a response.
