We received eight pages of records from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), showing Mike Morell, former acting CIA director under President Obama, requesting CIA permission to publish a letter by former intelligence community leaders stating that they believed the laptop emails exposing Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine were Russian disinformation.

Morrell’s request for prepublication review incredibly was approved in just six hours by the CIA.

We forced the release of the material through a June 23, 2023, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the CIA failed to respond to a May 11, 2023, request (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:23-cv-01844)). We are asking for:
Records and communications of the Prepublication Classification Review Board, Central Intelligence Agency, including emails, email chains, email attachments, text messages, cables, voice recordings, correspondence, statements, letters, memoranda, reports, presentations, notes, or other form of record, regarding an October 19, 2020, email request to review and “clear” a letter involving the Hunter Biden laptop story potentially having Russian involvement or being a Russian disinformation plot.

“This is a rush job, as it needs to get out as soon as possible,” Morell wrote in an email on Monday, October 19, 2020, at 6:36 a.m., to the CIA’s Publications Classification Review Board (PCRB) with a copy to Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA senior intelligence officer.

This was five days after the New York Post published an article on the Hunter Biden emails, three days before a Donald Trump/Joe Biden debate, and 15 days before the presidential election.

The “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” is included in the records. It states in part:
We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.

At 8:01 a.m. the same day, an unnamed CIA official sent Morell’s request to an official whose name is also redacted:
Below is a high profile/high alert action item for 19 October:

Former DDCIA Michael Morell submitted for review the attached manuscript (“Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails”). Mr. Morell has advised us that this article was co-authored with former DO officer Marc Polymeropoulos and that "many former senior and working-level officials from across the IC will sign and then be made public. PCRB has determined that this manuscript contains no classified information.” [Emphasis in original]

At 11:44 a.m., five hours and eight minutes after Morrell sent his request, a person whose name is redacted sends an email stating:
You may notify former DDCIA [Deputy Director] Morell.

At 12:44 p.m. an official whose name is redacted emails Morell:
Dear Michael,

The Prepublication Classification Review Board completed its review of your article titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails.” The Board determined that it contains no classified information and can be published. Agency approval for publication of this material does not represent Agency endorsement or verification of this work.

If you add new material, please resubmit it before sharing, highlighting the new language to expedite our review. The PCRB appreciates your cooperation with prepublication review. You may reach out to us via [redacted] with questions or concerns.

Kind regards, PCRB Staff

These documents are astounding. That the CIA would turn around a campaign document like this for Joe Biden’s team in six hours is insane news. This seems to be demonstrable campaign interference by the CIA, and that should be alarming to all Americans.

We have multiple federal lawsuits focused on Biden family corruption:

In July, we sued the DOJ for records from the Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Deputy Attorney General regarding the Internal Revenue Service investigation of Hunter Biden.

In June 2023, we filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for a copy of the FBI FD-1023 form that describes “an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.” Judicial Watch also asked for communications about the FD-1023.

In May 2023, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the National Archives for Biden family records and communications regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications between the Bidens and several known business associates.

On October 14, 2022, we sued the DOJ for all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to members of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on April 20, 2022, for messages sent through the SMART (State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter Biden.

In December 2020, State Department records obtained through our FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.

In October 2020, we forced the release of State Department records that included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which Burisma Holdings hired to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting, Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma Holdings.



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both brennan/clapper have no regrets.......would do it again!!

After the debate Hunter must be praying for a quick pardon before Joe Biden forgets he has the ability to pardon.

If Trump is re-elected his administration has every right to prosecute the CIA for election interference.

The Democrats are not terrified of "retribution" they are terrified of being held accountable under the law.

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
After the debate Hunter must be praying for a quick pardon before Joe Biden forgets he has the ability to pardon.

Rest assured, it was written and signed a long time ago. Only part left blank is the date.

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
After the debate Hunter must be praying for a quick pardon before Joe Biden forgets he has the ability to pardon.

Or that he forgets that he has a son.

This kind of gives some perspective to the question of whether SloJo will step down in favor of another Demon candidate or be replaced by his back-stabbing "supporters." It seems pretty clear that the minute he is no longer President that charges will be brought against him, and that jail time is not that unlikely a result. Forget Hunter, this is about dad.

It would follow that the leftist party isn't afraid of Trump so much as they are of justice. However, I wouldn't be surprised if PDJT decides to not pursue corruption charges to attempt to protect the reputation of the country.

If we're predicting the future here, I think there is a good likelihood that Joe pardons Hunter and then soon after steps down rather than face a 25th Amendment process. I have to believe that between a few honorable people who understand the danger from foreign enemies with Dementia Joe as POTUS and the plentiful power hungry usurpers that Joe will be forced out soon.

Once Joe has pardoned Hunter and then resigned, Kamala will invoke Gerald Ford and pardon Joe for any and all prior crimes.

Kamala will (and should!!) immediately nominate a new VP. Lots of Machiavellian options from there on to the election.

The deep state rightfully should fear serious prosecution for their actions in 2020, to include the laptop letter. Heads should literally roll for what they did.

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Kamala will (and should!!) immediately nominate a new VP

Whose initial are most likely to be HRC.
Imagine.

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Originally posted by sjtill:

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Kamala will (and should!!) immediately nominate a new VP

Whose initial are most likely to be HRC.
Imagine.

Two thoughts. First, while the next in line absent a VP would be Speaker of the House, who is Republican Mike Johnson, I believe it would be more stable as far as world politics go to have a VP. Second, whomever would be Kamala's VP will be at a disadvantage in the election. Logic is a dangerous thing in politics, so I could be completely wrong about all of this!

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
Kamala will (and should!!) immediately nominate a new VP.

More from the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution:

“Section 2
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.” [Emphasis added.]

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
If Trump is re-elected his administration has every right to prosecute the CIA for election interference.

The Democrats are not terrified of "retribution" they are terrified of being held accountable under the law.

Yeah, every right to do so, but only time will tell what will happen. While I think a lot of folks should be rotting in prison (if not decorating lampposts), it may well be that President Trump focuses his energy on moving the country forward and making things better for the average American and spends little, if any time, energy, or effort on punishing those who so richly deserve it.

I don’t know what he’s gonna do, but I have a lot of respect for his judgement, and I expect he’ll do what he believes is best for the country.

I hope that there will be some punishment of the oh so deserving, if only “pour encourager les autres”, or more accurately to discourage the others from considering the nonsense they’ve pulled going forward. I’ll do my best to get him the job, then let him do it though.

The only way to get the commie's to stop is to hit them so hard they don't try again.

And commies never give up. So you have to hit them so hard to destroy them.

I think the Libtards have no fear of Trump. And I don't think Trump would go for retribution as that sounds simply make him no better than the libtards

However while they dont fear the establishment, they should fear the people that have had enough of their treason

Fool me once....

Trump tried being nice to the opposition in 2016 and we all know where that got him

But now that he actually will be president, Trump says he won’t recommend prosecution of Clinton, who he told New York Times reporters has “suffered greatly.”

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Originally posted by sjtill:

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Kamala will (and should!!) immediately nominate a new VP

Whose initial are most likely to be HRC.
Imagine.

if that happens then just don't validate it in the senate. Room temperature in the senate would rise high enough to Melt steel but the Beast just might be the one that could pull the Stupid Party together.

The risk to the country is modest, there is still an intact chain of command just has one invisible link.