Chairman Michael Turner (R-OH) of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) of the House Committee on the Judiciary wrote a letter to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency threatening to subpoena the agency if they refused to comply with handing over documents relating to how CIA personnel facilitated the discredited Hunter Biden laptop letter, according to Just the News.

The political hit job that was the Hunter Biden laptop letter erroneously asserted that the laptop story may be part of a Russian disinformation campaign. This letter may have had an active CIA employee involved in soliciting signatures for the letter.

The letter by the aforementioned Republican chairmen reads, "The Committees have received evidence that the CIA, or at least an employee of the CIA, may have helped to solicit signatories for the statement about Hunter Biden. According to former CIA employee David Cariens, he spoke with the PCRB in October 2020 regarding the review of his memoir and during that call a CIA employee “asked” him if he would sign the statement...If accurate, this information raises fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA in helping to falsely discredit allegations about the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election."

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The lawmakers emphasized that their "Committees have a significant oversight interest in this matter to inform potential legislative reforms in the House.Potential legislative reforms that the Committees may propose include, among other things, restrictions on how federal employees with security clearances may use their clearances or may access classified information following their departure from government. The Select Subcommittee may also consider legislative proposals that would prevent U.S. intelligence agencies from engaging in, coordinating, or promoting any political activity related to federal elections, including candidates for federal office, as well as strengthening or amending the Hatch Act. The information we have requested regarding the CIA’s involvement with the public statement is necessary to help inform this potential legislation." 

They noted that "[w]hile the CIA made a minimal production of documents on May 9, 2023, the CIA admitted that it did not perform a full and complete search of all agency records prior to that production. In a phone conversation on May 12, 2023, with Committee staff, the CIA committed to cooperating in full with the Committees’ oversight." 

The information that the Committees seek pertains to communcations that the CIA had with the 51 signatories of the Hunter Biden letter from October 1 to October 31, 2020, all commucation and documents that the agency possesses with respect to the CIA's approval of the memoir that outted this problem of active CIA personnel helping to circulate the letter for signature, and all CIA phone records between the memoir's author, the 51 signatories, and CIA employees.

The letter demanded that the CIA produce such documentation "to the Committees’ March 21, 2023, request in unredacted form no later than May 30, 2023." The chairmen warned that failure to do so may make them "resort to compulsory process [i.e. subponea]."