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More than 50 former US intelligence employees write in an open letter that the information on Hunter Biden has “all the signs of Russian misinformation,” Politico says.
It was on Wednesday that the New York Post, referring to emails and photos found on a hard drive belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter, stated that Biden the youngest used his father, who was then vice president, to obtain benefits and secure contracts. lucrative with the energy company Burisma.
The signatories of the letter write that they do not know if the material is genuine or not, but that the email the article refers to has “all the classic signs” of a Russian-influenced operation and must be assumed to come directly from the Kremlin. .
“If we are correct, this is an attempt by Russia to influence how American voters should vote, and we believe they should be aware of that,” the former intelligence officials wrote in the letter.
As recently as Monday, John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s chief of national intelligence, came out and said the material on Hunter’s computer is not part of a Russian defense campaign, even though the FBI is investigating the matter.
Information in the article has been heavily contested and both Twitter and Facebook have prevented accounts from sharing the article, including the New York Post itself.
On Sunday, information also came that several of the reporters refused to sign the article with their names, concerned about the veracity of the material.
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