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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1288 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1288

       Condemning certain members of the intelligence community.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2024

Mr. Burchett submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                 the Committee on House Administration

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                               RESOLUTION

 
       Condemning certain members of the intelligence community.

Whereas, on October 14, 2020, a news outlet published a story revealing that 
        Hunter Biden's laptop contained emails suggesting Hunter Biden provided 
        Ukrainian energy officials access to meet then-Vice President Joseph R. 
        Biden;
Whereas, on October 19, 2020, fifty-one individuals who served in senior 
        positions in the intelligence community and other administrative 
        positions, including James Clapper, John Brennan, Mike Hayden, Leon 
        Panetta, Thomas Finger, Rick Ledgett, John McLaughlin, Michael Morell, 
        Mike Vickers, Doug Wise, Nick Rasmussen, Russ Travers, Andy Liepman, 
        John Moseman, Larry Pfeiffer, Jeremy Bash, Rodney Snyder, Glenn 
        Gerstell, David B. Buckley, Nada Bakos, Patty Brandmaier, James B. 
        Bruce, David Cariens, Paul Kolbe, Peter Corsell, Brett Davis, Roger Zane 
        George, Steven L. Hall, Kent Harrington, Don Hepburn, Timothy D. 
        Kilbourn, Ron Marks, Jonna Hiestand Mendez, Emile Nakhleh, Gerald A. 
        O'Shea, David Priess, Pam Purcilly, Marc Polymeropoulos, Chris Savos, 
        Nick Shapiro, John Sipher, Stephen Slick, Cynthia Strand, Greg Tarbell, 
        David Terry, Greg Treverton, John Tullius, David A. Vanell, Winston 
        Wiley, Janice Cariens, and Kristin Wood, released a public letter 
        regarding Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails therein;
Whereas the letter stated, ``emails purportedly belonging to Vice President 
        Biden's son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the board 
        of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a 
        Russian information operation'';
Whereas the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of 
        Representatives confirmed that Hunter Biden exchanged emails with Devon 
        Archer regarding a trip to Ukraine by then-Vice President Biden, in 
        which Hunter Biden stated, ``the announcement of my guy's upcoming 
        travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking''; 
        and
Whereas the United States Department of Justice has since recognized the 
        laptop's authenticity in United States of America v. Robert Hunter 
        Biden, and United States prosecutors have introduced it as evidence in a 
        criminal trial: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes--
                    (A) the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop;
                    (B) that the former officials listed above released 
                the public letter within one month of a Presidential 
                election;
                    (C) that the statements in the public letter were 
                meant to discredit the laptop story; and
                    (D) that the former officials listed above abused 
                their previous credentials to make misleading and 
                unfounded claims to the American public; and
            (2) condemns the former officials listed above for 
        interfering in the 2020 Presidential election.
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