Blinken In Hot Water With Russia Disinfo Operation, Is Refusing To Comply With Congressional Probe

Recently obtained documents clearly display that Anthony Blinken, Biden's Secretary of State, emailed the organizer of the discredited Hunter Biden laptop letter, Michael Morell, a key news article used by the letter to claim that the contents of the laptop were Russian disinformation. Secretary Blinken has attempted to minimize his involvement in that discredited letter signed off by 51 former members of the national security apparatus. The email between Blinken and Michael Morell, the former CIA spook who drafted the letter, will be fully made public on Thursday by the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.

As previously established by Just The News, Morell testified that the call between himself and Blinken in October 2020 "triggered" the letter. The email that Blinken sent to Morell occurred a mere few hours after that call. The subject line of the email was "A tabloid got a trove of data on Hunter Biden from Rudy Giuliani. Now, the FBI is probing a possible disinformation campaign." Morrell confirmed that he received this email sent by Blinken. 

The committee report that looked into this affair noted that "Notably, at the bottom of Blinken's email was the signature block of Andrew Bates, then-Director of Rapid Response for the Biden campaign." This indicates that Blinken worked with the understanding that this was an officially sanctioned act by the 2020 Biden campaign.

The role that Mr. Bates played for the Biden campaign was that he "was charged with defending" Biden "and his team against attacks on the campaign trail, while also employing an aggressive offensive strategy against President Trump and his team." At least one employee of the CIA itself was unethically involved in the Hunter Biden laptop letter.  

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By Morell's own testimony, he wrote that letter in order to "help Biden win the election." Mr. Morell also wrote various op-eds in the Washington Post where he ironically used his intelligence credentials to attack Mr. Trump as "using the intelligence community as a political weapon", compared the then-president to Aldrich Ames, a CIA turncoat for the Soviet Union prosecuted by Mark J. Hulkower, and pushed the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Mr. Morell also pushed favorable messaging for other Democratic presidential candidates in previous elections. 

The Hunter Biden letter is not the only headache for the Secretary of State. As reported by Law Professor Jonathan Turley, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has signaled its preparedness to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress for "refusing to comply with subpoena requests related to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan." 

As noted by Professor Turley the matter concerns the Department's refusal to hand over subpoenaed material that would undermine the administration's insistence that it had no forewarning of the country's collapse to the Taliban. As such Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee, warned that Blinken's office " is now in violation of its legal obligation to produce these documents and must do so immediately."