IV 
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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1011 
Recognizing the erroneous and misleading allegations in the October 19, 
2020, ‘‘Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails’’ signed by 51 
former intelligence officials. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 29, 2022 
Mr. GAETZ (for himself, Mr. MASSIE, Mrs. GREENE of Georgia, Mr. GOSAR, 
Mr. BIGGS, Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina, and Mr. GOHMERT) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the erroneous and misleading allegations in the 
October 19, 2020, ‘‘Public Statement on the Hunter 
Biden Emails’’ signed by 51 former intelligence officials. 
Whereas, on October 14, 2020, the New York Post exclu-
sively reported on a ‘‘. . . massive trove of data recov-
ered from a laptop computer’’ belonging to Hunter 
Biden; 
Whereas, on October 19, 2020, 51 current and former intel-
ligence officials signed and released a ‘‘Public Statement 
on the Hunter Biden Emails’’, which announced that the 
emails uncovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop ‘‘. . . [have] 
all the classic earmarks of a Russian information oper-
ation’’; 
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Whereas the signatories include Jim Clapper, Mike Hayden, 
Leon Panetta, John Brennan, Thomas Finger, Rick 
Ledgett, John McLaughlin, Michael Morell, Mike Vick-
ers, 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, Janice Cariens, Paul Kolbe, Peter Corsell, Brett 
Davis, Roger Zane George, Steven L. Hall, Kent Har-
rington, 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, and Kristin Wood; 
Whereas the verification of doubts surrounding a developing 
story published by the New York Post story was not 
proven at the writing of the ‘‘Public Statement of Hunter 
Biden Emails’’; 
Whereas the distribution of this letter occurred 15 days be-
fore the 2020 Presidential election; 
Whereas using authorized access as a platform to discredit le-
gitimate reporting has falsely informed the public prior to 
the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election; 
Whereas, on October 19, 2020, Director of National Intel-
ligence, John Ratcliffe, appeared on a televised interview 
with Fox Business, where he declared that ‘‘Hunter 
Biden’s 
laptop 
is 
not 
part 
of 
some 
Russian 
disinformation campaign, and I think it’s clear that the 
American people know that’’; 
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Whereas Twitter locked the New York Post’s account for 
seven days following the October 2020 report; 
Whereas, on April 8, 2021, the Daily Mail reported that 
‘‘103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails, more than 
2,000 photos and dozens of videos’’ from Hunter Biden’s 
laptop were authenticated by forensic experts; 
Whereas, on March 17, 2022, the New York Times published 
an article tacitly referring to these same legitimate emails 
found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which are being used in 
a grand jury probe into his finances; 
Whereas, on March 22, 2022, 4 of the 51 signatories have 
issued sustained support of their letter, since the New 
York Times March 17th article, which passively verified 
the data discovered on Hunter Biden’s ‘‘Russian 
Disinformation’’ laptop; and 
Whereas this resolution shall be known as the ‘‘Spook Who 
Cried Wolf Resolution’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the 51 signatories of the letter who pub-
licly and falsely decried Hunter Biden’s laptop to be Rus-
sian disinformation should be barred from holding any 
level of security clearances indefinitely. 
Æ 
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