Recognizing the erroneous and misleading allegations in the October 19, 2020, "Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails" signed by 51 former intelligence officials.

Bill: 117-hres-1011
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gaetz, Matt [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2022-03-29
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Europe

Federal officials

Government Operations and Politics

Government information and archives

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

News media and reporting

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Russia
Latest action: action_date: 2022-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This resolution states that the 51 current and former intelligence officials who signed an October 19, 2020, public statement pertaining to Hunter Biden's laptop should be barred from holding security clearances indefinitely.</p>

tv_txt: IV 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1011 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 ) submitted 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 exclusively reported on a … massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer belonging to Hunter Biden; Whereas, on October 19, 2020, 51 current and former intelligence 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 operation ; Whereas the signatories include Jim Clapper, Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, 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, Janice 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, 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 before the 2020 Presidential election; Whereas using authorized access as a platform to discredit legitimate reporting has falsely informed the public prior to the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election; Whereas, on October 19, 2020, Director of National Intelligence, 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 ; 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

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the 51 signatories of the letter who publicly and falsely decried Hunter Biden’s laptop to be Russian disinformation should be barred from holding any level of security clearances indefinitely.