51 Intel Officials Who Lied About the Hunter Biden Laptop Might Lose Security Clearance

Why hasn’t this happened already?

Remember when 51 former members of the so-called “intelligence community” signed a letter saying they believed the now-authenticated Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation? Yeah, those 51 intel agents who meddled in the 2020 Presidential election running cover for Joe Biden.

The list consisted of current and former officials from the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies who mostly served during the Obama administration. Even though none of them had seen or examined the physical laptop hard drive, they decided it sounded like a Russian hoax (despite ample evidence to the contrary) to help Joe Biden in his quest for the White House.

As we now know and many of us knew at the time, the laptop was the genuine article that Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, had abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop.

With Republicans back in control of Congress and President-elect Trump soon to be in the White House, many within the halls of power are suggesting that these 51 ex-intel officials finally be held to account, according to the Washington Times:

Several Republican lawmakers want Congress to strip the security clearances of dozens of former U.S. intelligence officials who worked against President Trump in 2020 by asserting that information in the laptop of Hunter Biden was likely Russian disinformation.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said, “It should be an option” to yank the officials’ security clearances. Mr. Graham told The Washington Times that each official must be held accountable and that he plans on writing a letter to each one soon. He did not specify what the letter would say.

“I think we should scrub all the legacy clearances to see whether the people need to have them and for what purpose, and unless they’re working for a company in a role that makes sense, they should be taken away,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. “Most on that list [of 51], I would include in that scrubbing.”

Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, said the 51 intelligence officials “should all lose their security clearances.”

Stripping their security clearances is one of the first items he wants to discuss with fellow committee members, though he did not specify whether he would do so on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee or the Judiciary Committee.

On the campaign trail this year, Vice President-elect JD Vance stated that removing the clearances would be a goal of the new administration:

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance pledged during the campaign that the incoming Trump administration would strip the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials “who said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.”

The Trump administration could revoke security clearance without congressional action, but some Republican lawmakers said doing so through legislation would ensure the punishment is meted out and that no clearances are left untouched.

Frankly, it’s about time anyone in the intelligence community that meddled in either the 2016 or 2020 election faced some consequences.

In case you need a refresher, here’s the full list of the 51 intel agents who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop:

1. Mike Hayden, former CIA director, now analyst for CNN
2. Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, now CNN pundit
3. Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary
4. John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
5. Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University
6. Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank
7. John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University
8. Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University
9. Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems
10. Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at University of New Mexico
11. Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
12. Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director
13. Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director
14. John Moseman, former CIA chief of staf
15. Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group
16. Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
17. Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff
18. Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel
19. David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager
20. Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis
21. Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer
22. Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer
23. John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer
24. David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer
25. Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard
26. David Buckley, former CIA inspector general
27. Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
28. Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer
29. James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence office
30. David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst
31. Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer
32. Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer
33. Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst
34. Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer
35. Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer:
36. Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer
37. Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer
38. Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC
39. Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis
40. Ron Marks, former CIA officer
41. Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum
42. Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico
43. Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer
44. Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director
45. John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer
46. Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs
47. Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues
48. Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director
49. David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman
50. Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
51. Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis