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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Hunter Biden Laptop Disinformation Is Exposed

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A deposition transcript released by the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees reveals that the Biden campaign in 2020 helped spur an open letter signed by former intelligence officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story had the "earmarks" of Russian disinformation. Will anyone pay a price for that deception, and how much has it hurt the credibility of the press and the intelligence services? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:39.2

Remember the story of the 51 former US spies who wrote to the rescue of Hunter and Joe Biden in

0:46.0

October of 2020? Well, new information has emerged that their open letter was ginned up at the

0:53.4

request of the Biden presidential campaign. You won't read about that story in most of the media,

0:59.6

but we're here to tell you what we're learning thanks to investigations by the new House

1:04.9

Republican majority. And of course, what it means. Welcome. I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street

1:11.2

Journal opinion pages. And I'm here with my esteemed colleagues, Bill McGurne and Kim Strassel.

1:17.2

Welcome to you both. Fascinating news last week when the House Judiciary and Intelligence

1:21.8

Committee's released partial transcript of testimony from a deposition with Michael Morrell,

1:27.2

Morrell, a former acting CIA director. This is part of the investigation by the House into the

1:32.9

weaponizing of the government for political ends. And it concerns the episode. They then the

1:38.4

last presidential campaign, October 2020, after the New York Post broke the news about a Hunter

1:44.8

Biden laptop that it had discovered in a computer repair shop provided, I guess, with the

1:51.2

mediation of Rudy Giuliani or Republican, but all that was reported at the time. The laptop

1:57.8

was full of emails that were personally embarrassing to Hunter, but that really wasn't the story.

2:02.8

A lot more potent politically was the news that a lot of the emails and other things concerned. The

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