The former CIA deputy director who claims Hunter’s laptop disinformation has been filed

A powerful House subcommittee is seeking testimony from a former high-ranking intelligence official who warned that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop contained “classic idiosyncrasies” of a Russian disinformation operation.

The Committee on Arming the Federal Government, a House Power subcommittee, will fire former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell on Tuesday, A source told the Washington Examiner.

Republicans have warned that the October 2020 letter from 51 former intelligence officials is an attempt to discredit reports that Hunter Biden at the time tried to use his father’s influence as vice president to enrich himself and his family by engaging in foreign business deals.

Rep. Judiciary and Armaments Chairman Jim Jordan first requested in April 2022 that Morell appear in a written interview — when he was a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and then again in February 2023 once he became chair.

“At best, the public statement was a reckless attempt by you and your signatories to express an erroneous opinion about alleged election interference,” Jordan said in his first letter of a request to testify.

The Ohio Republican added: “At worst — and most likely — the public statement was a deliberate and concerted effort to mislead the American people about information relevant to the 2020 presidential election by invoking your experience in national security to falsely suggest that the allegations about Hunter Biden did not in fact exist.

Correspondence found on the president’s son’s laptop computer, Morrell and his 50 signatories said, contained “classic characteristics of a Russian media operation.”

Hunter is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice over his tax affairs and is being investigated by multiple House committees.

In the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post released a report involving the first bits of a hard drive being abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware.

Several news outlets, including DailyMail.com, have confirmed the laptop’s contents and that it belonged to Hunter Biden.

Hunter’s attorneys contacted state and federal law enforcement agencies to request investigations of those responsible for posting the laptop’s contents, including laptop repair store owner John Paul Mac Isaac.

Abe Lowell, one of Biden’s attorneys, said in February that the letters calling for investigations “do not confirm” that the laptop was their client.

House Republicans contend that President Biden’s son engaged in “influence peddling” in foreign countries during his father’s tenure as vice president.

They say Morell and other former intelligence officials sent the letter in a “concerted effort” to discredit the allegations and the New York Times report.