Congressional Republicans are demanding that the 51 former US intelligence community officials who signed on to an October 2020 letter attacking The Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop be punished.
Impeachment, security clearance revocations, firings and the loss of government contracts are among the penalties Republicans in the House and Senate are considering imposing on the so-called security experts behind the now-discredited letter.
“Exposing the truth is certainly the first step in accountability, pretty powerful accountability,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Just the News on Monday. “But the House can impeach those individuals who are currently serving in government. And a number of those individuals … are now serving in the Biden administration. They also ought to either resign or be impeached.”
Johnson, the ranking member on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, added that every official who signed onto the Oct. 19, 2020, letter should be banned from working in government for life.
“[W]e should do everything we can to revoke security clearances of every one of those individuals that sign that letter,” he said. “All of them should be barred from either current or future employment with the federal government.”
Ron Johnson Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis) argued that the signers of the Hunter Biden laptop “disinfo” letter “ought to either resign or be impeached.” AP House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) revealed last month that former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell testified before his panel that he drafted the letter and that Secretary of State Antony Blinken – then a Biden campaign adviser – was the “impetus” behind the attempt to discredit The Post.
The letter, published by Politico, was signed by Morell and dozens of other spy agency heavy hitters, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA directors Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta and John Brennan.
When asked by Just the News if he supported defunding federal contracts and blocking security clearances for officials who signed the letter, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) responded: “Why wouldn’t I? Especially if they knew what they were signing wasn’t truthful, that they said this all just to go after Donald Trump and to protect [Biden’s] son.”
“You’ve got to have consequences for these people,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) told the news outlet, agreeing with Nehls.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused the 51 intel officials of trying to “sway the 2020 election,” and argued that their jobs in government should be wiped out.
“If we don’t like the way people have been doing their job, we can fire them in Appropriations — we can completely wipe out their salaries,” Greene told Just the News. “And that’s what I would like to see done.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused the letter signers of trying to influence the results of the 2020 presidential election. AP Antony Blinken A new poll finds that most voters believe Blinken should be impeached over the letter. REUTERS “We had 51 members of the intelligence community lie, sign their name to a lie, saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was not real and that it was pure Russian propaganda. We know exactly why they did that, and that was to sway the 2020 election,” she added, calling for “real accountability” for “the Democrats and the agencies they’re in control of.”
A Rasmussen Reports survey released on Tuesday found that 60% of voters believe Blinken should be impeached for his alleged role in the “disinfo” letter, which was cited by Joe Biden during his Oct. 22, 2020 debate against President Donald Trump to deflect accusations about his involvement in overseas influence-peddling schemes.
The survey also found that 63% believe the signers should lose their security clearances.