Jim Jordan has an extraordinary question for the CIA. One that would make the already bad look of the 51 former intelligence officials’ letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” even worse.

Ruh-roh. Reading between the lines of this letter, it sure looks like a bunch of signatories on the bogus Hunter laptop letter were getting paid by the CIA at the time. Recall that the bogus letter was used as a pretext for banning the New York Post. https://t.co/EVjhu0u3x7

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 8, 2023

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is giving the CIA a week to share any information about payments to signers of the letter between January 1, 2020, and today.

We already know that CIA officers coordinated the campaign to get the letter published, violating the Hatch Act. Now, Jordan is implying that at least some signatories of the letter were getting direct payments from the CIA. There can be little doubt that they were already benefiting from their CIA connections, but direct payments would be even more damning.

A report from the Weaponization Committee in May revealed the CIA’s covert involvement in orchestrating the letter. Evidence that surfaced from Hunter Biden’s laptop unveiled blockbuster details about the Biden family’s influence-peddling operations now at the center of a Republican impeachment inquiry.

In his Monday letter to the CIA chief, Jordan demanded a list of all signatories to the letter “who were on active contract or consulting for the CIA at any time from January 1, 2020, to the present,” as well as whether any of those potential contracts “pertained to Hunter Biden’s business dealings, Biden family influence-peddling, Ukraine, or the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.”

Anybody who has been following the saga of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal should have realized by now that the intelligence community was deeply involved in the effort to debunk and suppress it prior to the 2020 election. The line between the government and “former” IC officials is always blurred, and it would be unreasonable to prohibit retired IC officials from engaging in politics, but the closer they are to being employed by or advising the government, the more any political involvement stinks.

Earlier stories demonstrated that CIA offices still employed by the government helped coordinate the drafting and dissemination of the letter, and now Jordan has dropped what amounts to an accusation that actual signatories were on the government payroll at the time.

This is an accusation I had yet to hear, although to say it doesn’t shock me is a gross understatement. We are talking about people who have spent their lives manipulating the public for political ends, having worked for demonstrably corrupt ends.

In his letter to the Director of the CIA, Jordan accuses the agency of stonewalling and misusing the classification process to avoid accountability. He demands that information about payments to these former officials be released in an unclassified manner, which seems reasonable. It’s hard to see what national security or privacy concerns would pop up in letting people know that known former CIA/intelligence officials worked with the agency post-retirement.

We all assume that in any case. Certainly, our adversaries do.

It will be interesting to see if anybody in the MSM picks this up, or whether the story remains solely covered by alternative media outlets that also happen to be targets of censorship by the federal government.

Want to guess which it is?