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Judicial Watch Sues CIA Over Pre-Election Letter Attacking Hunter
Laptop Story

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Acting CIA Director Michael Morell was up early on October 19, 2020,
furthering a scheme that would significantly affect the outcome of the
presidential election.

U.S. House investigators are quite curious about that, and so are we.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA
for all communications of the spy agency’s Prepublication
Classification Review Board (PCRB) regarding an October 19, 2020,
email request to review and “clear” a letter signed by 51 former
intelligence community officials characterizing the Hunter Biden
laptop story as having “all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation
campaign” (_Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency_
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_(No. 1:23-cv-01844)).

In October 2020, in the run-up to the presidential election, the _New
York Post_ reported that Hunter Biden’s laptop
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which
was abandoned at a Delaware computer shop, contained embarrassing and
possibly incriminating information about the Biden family. In a May
10, 2023, report
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the
House Judiciary Committee revealed that on October 19, 2020, three
days before the second presidential debate between President Donald
Trump and Democrat candidate Joe Biden, then-acting CIA Director
Michael Morell sent the PCRB the finalized letter for review, calling
it a “rush job,” and quickly secured its approval.

We sued after the CIA failed to respond to a May 11, 2023, FOIA
request 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.
In a May 16, 2023, letter
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to
CIA Director William Burns, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim
Jordan and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman
Michael R. Turner stated that the committees were conducting oversight
of the October 2020 “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails”
signed by 51 former intelligence community officials.

Jordan and Turner wrote:

> The CIA has documents responsive to our requests and necessary to
> our oversight. On October 19, 2020, at 6:34 a.m., Morell submitted
> the statement to the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Review
> Board (PCRB), instructing it was “a rush job, as it needs to get
> out as soon as possible.” The PCRB staff responded at 7:11 a.m.
> that it had received the statement, and cleared it for publication
> at 12:44 p.m. on the same day.
>
> Morell speculated that the quick turn-around from the PCRB was
> because “[t]hey are probably afraid I’m coming back” as CIA
> director. On May 9, 2023, the CIA produced to the Committees two
> emails: Morell’s email to the PCRB early on October 19, 2023, and
> the PCRB’s response at 12:44 p.m. However, the Committees have
> reason to believe additional documents remain in the possession of
> the CIA.
>
> 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. As Cariens explained:

When the person in charge of reviewing the book called to say it was
approved with no changes, I was told about the draft letter. The
person asked me if I would be willing to sign. . . . After hearing the
letter’s contents, and the qualifiers in it such as, “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
. .’ I agreed to sign.

> 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.
A House Judiciary Committee report
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details
the testimony of former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos and criticized
the CIA’s handling of the letter:

> Q. Does what [Former CIA official David Cariens] described there,
> that interaction with the [Prepublication Classification Review
> Board], sound like a quid pro quo to you?
>
> A. I can’t comment on this. This is—to me, this is something
> that the [Prepublication Classification Review Board] in my
> experience would never engage in something like that. They are just
> straightforward back and forth in terms of approval. The idea they
> would have a comment on any other thing that they were working on,
> that to me is not even close to what I’ve experienced with them.
>
> Q. Does that concern you?
>
> A. If it’s true, it would concern me, for sure. But I just—I
> have a hard time believing that occurred. If it did, that’s
> incredibly unprofessional.
Congressional testimony
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also
confirms that the Biden campaign was behind the creation of the
infamous Hunter laptop letter promoted by the CIA.

The Deep State CIA, it seems, engaged in election interference and a
political operation against the American people to help Joe Biden and
hurt Trump. And now the CIA is ignoring FOIA law to cover up its role
in the scandal, censoring and suppressing the Hunter Biden/Joe Biden
laptop story just before the presidential election.

We have multiple federal lawsuits focused on Biden family corruption:
In July, we sued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(State
Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter
Biden.

In December 2020, State Department records
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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
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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 was hired by Burisma
Holdings to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting,
Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma
Holdings.

I’ll be sure to let you know if and when the CIA ponies up any
documents on this Biden election scandal, so be sure to check back
here for updates on this and all our other cases.

MAXINE WATERS CELEBRATES HIP HOP MUSIC PROMOTING VIOLENCE, MISOGYNY,
DRUGS

The drug-fueled violence in our inner cities is often reflected in
“Hip Hop” music, which is known for graphic lyrics promoting
violence and the abuse of women. Yet, we have a congresswoman praising
this music, as our _Corruption Chronicles _blog reports
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> Keeping with her history of poor ethical and moral fitness, a
> veteran congresswoman who has publicly encouraged violence against
> presidential cabinet members and among police protestors is proudly
> commemorating
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> 50th anniversary of Hip Hop and rap, music famous for glamorizing
> violence, misogyny, drugs and lawlessness. Celebrating the
> milestone, California Democrat Maxine Waters claims that Hip Hop is
> an international culture-shaping force with a growing role in
> politics. “When I was elected to Congress in 1991, many
> politicians, including Black politicians, were either distancing
> themselves from Hip Hop artists altogether or trying to censor rap
> music,” the lawmaker says in the tribute statement issued this
> month. “Coming from one of the epicenters of this creative
> creation, Los Angeles, California, I saw the value in the artistry
> early on. These young people were a sight to behold as they were
> making art out of themselves and their conditions.”
>
> Waters has long celebrated Hip Hop, a predominantly African American
> brand well known for graphic lyrics involving urban violence and the
> abuse of women. Songs often include profanity, offensive
> descriptions of women, gun violence and some encourage defying or
> attacking police. Among the most famous hits are tunes that brag
> about street warfare, promiscuity and the use of illicit drugs.
> Others incite hatred or violence. Some of the most famous Hip Hop
> artists in the U.S. have made headlines for domestic violence and
> sexual assault, offenses that seem to be widely accepted in the
> industry. One renowned singer, known as XXXTentacion, was charged
> with aggravated battery and false imprisonment against his pregnant
> girlfriend. Another artist, known as Fabulous, was slapped with
> multiple felony domestic violence charges after punching his
> longtime girlfriend in the face and knocking out two of her teeth.
> Other rap stars have been embroiled in serious criminal behavior
> involving guns and drugs. One highly popular singer, known as
> Tekashi69, was convicted of nine federal crimes, including
> racketeering and drug charges. A popular online news publication
> proclaims in a story
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that
> Hip Hop rewards rappers for abusing women.
>
> This has not stopped Waters from adorning the artists and their
> peculiar brand of music. “These are our children and they’ve
> invented a new art form to describe their pains, fears and
> frustrations with us as adults,” according to the legislator, who
> has been embroiled in a multitude of controversies and ethics
> scandals throughout her tenure in the House of Representatives.
> “Just because we don’t like the symbols they use or the way they
> look, we should not allow that to cause us to embark on a course of
> censorship.” When some members of Congress tried to crack down on
> Hip Hop music decades ago, Waters encouraged colleagues to listen
> closely to rap lyrics assuring that they would hear “profound”
> words that tell a story of pain. “Rap was criticizing the way
> America treated its poor,” the congresswoman told fellow
> lawmakers. “Rappers were singing about poverty, police abuse,
> incarceration and other facets of their conditions. As legislators,
> these were the issues we should have been focusing on, not
> censorship.”
>
> Waters is a divisive figure that has long abused her power to enrich
> family members and even got a communist dictator to harbor a
> cop-murdering Black Panther fugitive still wanted by the Federal
> Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The scandal-plagued politician sank
> to a new low by publicly encouraging violence
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against
> Trump administration cabinet members as well as anti-police
> protestors in an attempt to intimidate the jury in the trial of
> Derek Chauvin. “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a
> restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get
> out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell
> them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Waters said at a
> summer rally in Los Angeles, referring to members of the Trump
> administration. Judicial Watch filed a House ethics complaint
> against Waters for inspiring violence against members of a
> presidential cabinet. During the Chauvin trial the congresswoman
> urged protestors to “get more confrontational” if the officer
> was not found guilty in the George Floyd case. “Well, we’ve got
> to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve
> got to get more confrontational,” Waters declared. “We’ve got
> to make sure that they know that we mean business.” Judicial Watch
> also filed a complaint
>
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> Waters for violating House ethics rules in the Chauvin case.

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