Did Intel-Linked Dataminr Play Sinister Role In Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression?

Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell admitted he orchestrated the joint letter that torpedoed the New York Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop

By Kit Klarenberg

On April 20, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell admitted he orchestrated the joint letter that torpedoed the New York Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop in the weeks leading up to the November 2020 US Presidential election, at the direct request of Joe Biden’s campaign team.

That letter, published by Politico, asserted the leaked material bore unambiguous hallmarks of a Kremlin “information operation.” In all, 51 former senior intelligence officials endorsed the declaration on the basis their spying careers made them “deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,” despite an avowed lack of evidence to support the charge.

This intervention was sufficient for Twitter to block all sharing of the NY Post’s exposés and ban the outlet’s official account. These measures were later undone due to intense backlash, but by then, the damage was done, and the articles thoroughly discredited. Joe Biden himself even cited the joint letter in a presidential debate with Donald Trump in order to deflect accusations of impropriety in his son’s Ukrainian dealings.

In private sworn testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Morrell recounted how Antony Blinken, now secretary of state and then a senior Biden campaign official, reached out to him three days after the NY Post published an email indicating Hunter had introduced a Ukrainian business partner to his father.

Morrell, at the time tapped as a potential CIA director in a future Biden administration, avowedly organized the letter to “help [Biden]…because I wanted him to win the election.” Following Blinken’s call, he contacted retired CIA senior operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos for assistance in compiling the letter, and over the next two days gathered signatures from his intelligence community cohorts to lend an imprimatur of expert legitimacy to its dubious contents.

This revelation has reignited a welter of controversies, not least because the Elon Musk-approved “#TwitterFiles” recently exposed how the social network’s suppression of NY Post was executed despite significant internal doubts about the assorted intelligence officials’ “Russian disinformation” charge. Serious questions now hang over the Biden family’s activities in Ukraine, the legitimacy of the 2020 election result, and the role of Twitter and other social networks as effective wings of the US national security state.

However, even critical voices have failed to acknowledge one of the most curious – and sinister – aspects of the joint letter psyop, which adds a whole other dimension to those burning concerns. There are strong grounds to believe that Twitter’s public suppression of the NY Post’s disclosures was complemented by a covert operation to identify and neutralize anyone discussing the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, courtesy of Dataminr, a social media spying tool heavily connected to British and American intelligence services.

As we shall see, Dataminr has previously been marketed to highly repressive foreign governments known for their criminalization of political activism and journalism, as a means of closely monitoring the activities of dissidents and scrupulously mapping the networks in which they operate, both on and offline.

If Dataminr was deployed in service of suppressing Hunter Biden’s emails, then its sweeping dragnet would’ve placed any Twitter user who discussed the leaked content, and all those who retweeted, ‘liked’, or commented on their posts, at risk of intensive monitoring censorship, suppression, and outright banning. All their associates could also then be placed under surveillance, and dealt with similarly if necessary.

In the offline realm, it could’ve placed all these individuals in the crosshairs of the FBI and DHS. Both maintain big-ticket contracts with the company.

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES

Among the signatories to the joint letter were a number of individuals tied to shadowy consultancy firm Beacon Global Strategies. Alongside Morrell himself, this included; Jeremy Bash, former CIA and Department of Defense chief of staff; Glenn Gerstell, former NSA general counsel; Rick Ledgett, former NSA deputy director; Leon Panetta, former CIA director and secretary of defense; and Michael Vickers, former CIA operations officer and under secretary of defense for intelligence.

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