One of President Joe Biden’s choices for the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board was one of the about 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter claiming, without evidence, that stories about a laptop computer said to belong to Biden’s son was part of a “Russian information operation.”
Jeremy Bash has been a chief of staff for both the CIA and the Department of Defense. While in those positions during the Obama administration, he advised Leon Panetta. Panetta, an Obama appointee, also signed the Oct. 19, 2020, missive, which claimed that stories about Hunter Biden’s computer “has all the classic earmarks” of a Russian operation, even as the officials admitted that they didn’t know if emails from the computer were genuine.
