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The security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who falsely claimed emails from Hunter Biden's laptop were Russian "disinformation" in an attempt to boost Joe Biden's chances of winning the 2020 election were revoked by an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Monday night. John Bolton, Trump's first-term national security advisor, had his security clearance revoked under the decision.

"This Order directs the revocation of any active or current security clearances held by: (i) the former intelligence officials who engaged in inappropriate and misleading political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential campaign; and (ii) John R. Bolton in order to remedy these abuses of the public trust," the order states.

Numerous former intelligence officials signed the controversial letter dated October 19, 2020, which falsely claimed that the emails from Hunter's laptop that were leaked by the New York Post weeks prior to the 2020 contest had "all the typical earmarks of a Russian information operation." Then, at his debate with Trump on October 22, 2020, Biden weaponized the false assertion to refute Trump's accusations against the Biden family's international business activities, according to one report.

The letter was signed by former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, former CIA Directors John Brennan and Leon Panetta, and others.

“Any additional inappropriate activity that occurred within the intelligence community, by anyone contracted by the intelligence community or by anyone who held a security clearance, related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials” is part of the report that the CIA and National Intelligence directors are required to provide to Trump within 90 days, according to Monday's directive.

"Any disciplinary action—including the termination of security clearances—that should be taken against anyone who engaged in inappropriate conduct related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials" and "any recommendations to prevent the Intelligence Community or anyone who works for or within it from inappropriately influencing domestic elections" must also be included in this report.

In the years following the 2020 election, congressional investigations into the notorious letter and its signatories have shown that these intelligence officials were not the only ones who tried to undermine the credibility of the New York Post's revelations about the Biden family.

Michael Morell, a former CIA deputy director who signed the letter, testified before House Republicans in April 2023 that Antony Blinken, a Biden campaign official who later became secretary of state, "reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story" that the Post published on October 14 "on or around October 17, 2020."

Blinken's outreach "put in motion the events that led to the production of the public statement" that falsely claimed the laptop was a part of a Russian misinformation effort, according to Morell. Morell acknowledged that the conversation "certainly" pushed him to write the statement when asked by House investigators if he had any intention of doing so before Blinken's call.

In his congressional testimony, Morell also confirmed that the statement was released for two reasons, one of which was to express the former intelligence officers' purported "concerns] with the American people that the Russians were playing on this subject. " "Assist Vice President Biden" was the other.

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