CIA Officer Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Claims Credit for Trump Loss

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One of the former CIA officers who signed a letter claiming stories about a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were disinformation says he helped swing the 2020 election away from former President Donald Trump.

โ€œI take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump,โ€ John Sipher, who served for decades as a senior operations officer at the CIA, wrote in a recent post on Twitter. โ€œI lost the election for Trump? Well then I [feel] pretty good about my influence.โ€

Sipher and 50 other former U.S. intelligence officials signed the letter on Oct. 19, 2020, alleging that the effort to distribute its contents โ€œhas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,โ€ despite not knowing whether the laptop was legitimate.

The letter was at the core of a story from Politico that claimed the New York Post story about the laptop was โ€œRussian disinformation.โ€

The Post was the first to report about emails on the laptop, which was dropped off at a computer repair store and never picked up by then-presidential candidate Joe Bidenโ€™s son, according to the storeโ€™s owner.

While the FBI picked up the computer and a hard drive from the storeโ€™s owner, the bureauโ€™s apparent inaction in probing the matter prompted him to pass on a copy of the hard drive to an attorney representing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who, in turn, passed it to the Post.

The Oct. 14, 2020, story about the emails came as some voters were still deciding whether to vote for Biden or Trump. The story was widely questioned by legacy media outlets, suppressed by social media platforms, and claimed to be part of a Russian effort, despite top officials such as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe saying there was no evidence that was the case.

Sipher is one of the few former officials who signed the letter to respond to fresh questions about the laptopโ€™s contents, after more legacy media outlets, including Politico, said theyโ€™ve confirmed that itโ€™s legitimate.

By Zachary Stieber

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