Hunter Biden: The Ultimate Liar?
He keeps denying the laptop was even his, despite the FBI proving it was and using it against him in his 2024 gun trial. This has to be the boldest dodge in this whole mess, topping even the 51 CIA-linked officials who called it “Russian disinfo” (and were ultimately proven wrong). With so much riding on it personally, Hunter’s latest claim that he “100% didn’t think it was his” (blaming his addiction haze and maybe some tampering) just screams self-preservation, especially within the Biden camp, intel folks, and media all piling on deflections. His team says it’s all addiction chaos and political hits, but those verified emails tell a different story. Emails like the 2015 Burisma thank-you (thanking him for access to dad) and 2017 CEFC “10% for the big guy” align precisely with his verified business dealings, authenticated forensically.
Hunter Biden’s Rare Channel 5 Sit-Down: Laptop, Crack, and Chaos
Check out this wild 2025 Channel 5 interview with Andrew Callaghan where Hunter dives headfirst into the laptop scandal, his crack addiction lows, the 2020 election fallout, and even his dad’s pardon; raw, unfiltered, and profanity-laced. It’s the first deep media chat he’s done in years, skipping the usual spin for straight talk on the repair shop drama and hacked data claims.
New York Post reporting revealed that several of the 51 “Spies Who Lie,” including former acting CIA Director Michael Morell and Inspector General David Buckley, were active CIA contractors when they signed the 2020 letter.
They claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop had “classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation, aiding Joe Biden just before the election. Internal CIA emails expressed frustration over the partisan optics, with some officials noting signatories were still on agency payroll, raising questions about Hatch Act compliance and politicization.
How can anyone fault Trump for continuing to call the 2020 election stolen?
President Trump has long argued that the 2020 election was stolen through suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which polls show could have swung the outcome in his favor. FBI warnings to social media, the intel letter’s timing after Biden aide Blinken’s outreach, and widespread story throttling amplified this interference, bolstering Trump’s claims of an unlevel playing field that certified Biden despite these irregularities.
Subsequent polls, like a 2022 Technometrica Institute survey of over 1,000 adults, found 79% of Americans believe Trump likely would have won reelection if voters had known the truth.
The Technometrica Institute (TIPP Insights) survey results were entered into the Congressional Record as an exhibit (HHRG-118-FD00-20230720-SD011) during a House Oversight Committee hearing on July 19, 2023, where Rep. Elise Stefanik referenced it while questioning witnesses. Some of the key poll questions she referenced are paraphrased as follows from the poll summary:
- “Do you believe the laptop is real or was created by Russia?” (82% of those following said real; 11% said Russia.)
- “Do you believe the FBI and Intelligence Community deliberately misled the public when they claimed the laptop was ‘disinformation’?” (74% yes among those following.)
- “Knowing before the election that the laptop contents were real and not ‘disinformation’ would have changed your voting decision?” (47% yes overall; 71% of Democrats.)
- “Would a truthful interpretation of the laptop have changed the election outcome more in favor of Trump?” (79% yes.)
Here are the 51 publicly-named signatories and the main positions they previously held in the U.S. intelligence community.
Top-level leadership
- Jim Clapper – Director of National Intelligence (2010–2017); former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; former Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
- Michael Hayden – Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2006–2009); former Director, National Security Agency.
- Leon Panetta – Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011); former Secretary of Defense.
- John Brennan – Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2013–2017); former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser; long‑time CIA analyst and operations officer.
- Thomas Fingar – Chair, National Intelligence Council; former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis; former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.
- John McLaughlin – Acting Director and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director of Analysis and of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis at CIA.
- Michael Morell – Acting Director and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director of Analysis at CIA.
- Mike Vickers – Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; former CIA operations officer.
- Nick Rasmussen – Director, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
- Russ Travers – Acting Director and Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center; former analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
- Andy Liepman – Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center; senior CIA intelligence officer.
- Glenn Gerstell – General Counsel, National Security Agency.
- Greg Treverton – Chair, National Intelligence Council.
Senior CIA and IC staff/management
- Doug Wise – Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; senior CIA operations officer.
- John Moseman – Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director of Congressional Affairs, CIA; former minority staff director, Senate Intelligence Committee.
- Larry Pfeiffer – Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director, White House Situation Room.
- Jeremy Bash – Chief of Staff, CIA; Chief of Staff, Department of Defense; former chief counsel, House Intelligence Committee.
- Rodney Snyder – Chief of Staff, CIA; former Director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council; former CIA Chief of Station.
- David B. Buckley – Inspector General, CIA; former Democratic staff director, House Intelligence Committee; former Air Force counterespionage case officer.
- Patty Brandmaier – Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA; former Deputy Associate Director for Military Affairs and Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs at CIA.
- James B. Bruce – Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA and National Intelligence Council.
- Roger Zane George – National Intelligence Officer (NIC)
- Kent Harrington – National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, CIA; former Director of Public Affairs and Chief of Station at CIA.
- Timothy D. Kilbourn – Dean, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, CIA; former President’s Daily Brief (PDB) briefer to President George W. Bush.
- Greg Tarbell – Deputy Executive Director, CIA; former analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia at CIA.
- David Terry – Chairman, National Intelligence Collection Board; former Chief of the PDB at CIA; PDB briefer to Vice President Dick Cheney.
- Winston Wiley – Director of Analysis, CIA; former Chief of the Counterterrorism Center, CIA.
CIA operations and analysis officers
- Nada Bakos – Analyst and targeting officer, CIA.
- James B. Bruce – Senior CIA intelligence officer; senior officer at the National Intelligence Council.
- David Cariens – Intelligence analyst, CIA.
- Janice Cariens – Operational support officer, CIA.
- Paul Kolbe – Senior operations officer, CIA; former Chief, Central Eurasia Division, CIA.
- Peter Corsell – Analyst, CIA.
- Brett Davis – Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA; former Deputy Director of the Special Activities Center for Expeditionary Operations, CIA.
- Steven L. Hall – Senior Intelligence Officer and former Chief of Russian Operations, CIA.
- Don Hepburn – Senior national security executive, CIA background.
- Ron Marks – CIA officer; twice served on staff of the Republican Majority Leader in Congress.
- Jonna Hiestand Mendez – Technical operations officer, CIA.
- Emile Nakhleh – Director, Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, CIA; former senior intelligence analyst, CIA.
- Gerald A. O’Shea – Senior operations officer, CIA; four‑time Chief of Station.
- David Priess – Analyst and manager, CIA; former PDB briefer.
- Pam Purcilly – Deputy Director of Analysis, CIA; former Director, Office of Russian and European Analysis; former PDB briefer to President George W. Bush.
- Marc Polymeropoulos – Senior operations officer, CIA; former acting Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia.
- Chris Savos – Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA.
- Nick Shapiro – Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser to the CIA Director.
- John Sipher – Senior operations officer, CIA; former Deputy Chief of Russian Operations.
- Stephen Slick – Senior operations officer, CIA; former Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council.
- Cynthia Strand – Deputy Assistant Director for Global Issues, CIA
- John Tullius – Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA; National Intelligence Chair, Naval Postgraduate School.
- David A. Vanell – Senior operations officer, CIA.
- Kristin Wood – Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA; former PDB briefer.
Other listed signatories
- Rick Ledgett – Deputy Director, National Security Agency.
- Glenn Gerstell – General Counsel, National Security Agency.
The same source notes that nine additional former intelligence community officers supported the letter but were not named publicly.[judiciary.house]