(Headline USA) Congressional Republicans said this week that they want the intelligence officials who signed the infamous letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation to be fired or impeached.
“Exposing the truth is certainly the first step in accountability, pretty powerful accountability,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Just the News. “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.”
Other actions Republicans are considering taking against the intelligence officials include security clearance revocations and the loss of government contracts, according to Johnson.
“[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.”
The letter, published by Politico weeks before the November 2020 presidential election, was signed by a number of high-ranking current and former intelligence officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA directors Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, and John Brennan.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., agreed with Johnson that the officials ought to face consequences for trying to “sway the 2020 election.”
“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. And that’s what I would like to see done,” Greene said.
“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.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, revealed last month that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was then an adviser on President Joe Biden’s campaign, played an instrumental role in organizing the letter. Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell admitted to Jordan that Blinken approached him and several others and raised the idea of the letter.
