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Rep. Jim ​Jordan ​sent letters Thursday to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper renewing the GOP’s demand that ​they provide information about a statement they ​signed ​in October 2020 declaring The Post’s​ expose on​ Hunter Biden​ ​to be Russian disinformation.​

The Ohio Republican sent the missives seeking voluntary cooperation from Brennan and Clapper, noting the statement they and 49 other intelligence officials signed “served as a basis for partisan operatives to attempt to delegitimize allegations, as reported in The Post” that the disgraced first son used his father’s position for personal gain. 

“The statement was part of a broader effort among national news organizations and social media companies to minimize and censor The Post’s reporting — and thereby limit public awareness of the allegations” weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the letter states.


  Rep. Jim Jordan, expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee in the new Republican-controlled House, sent letters to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about a statement they signed calling The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting Russian disinformation. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Rep. Jim Jordan, expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee in the new Republican-controlled House, sent letters to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about a statement they signed calling The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting Russian disinformation. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

​​Jordan, who is expected to become the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when Republicans take control of the chamber on Jan. 3, said the “coordinated effort” to quash the allegations about Hunter Biden and the Biden family “was a grave disservice to American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy.”​​

He said Clapper and Brennan failed to respond to a letter sent on April 6 seeking the documents.

If the two do not immediately turn over the requested information, Jordan wrote, “you can be assured that Committee Republicans will continue to examine this matter” in the new Congress, “including by compulsory process if necessary.”


  Former CIA Director John Brennan. GC Images Former CIA Director John Brennan. GC Images

  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Getty Images Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Getty Images

Along with the letters to Brennan and Clapper, Jordan also sent missives to Nina Jankowicz, the former executive director for the Department of Homeland Security’s short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, and Jennifer Moore, the executive assistant director of the FBI’s Human Resources Branch. 

Jordan is seeking information from Moore about allegations from whistleblowers that the FBI is “purging” employees with conservative viewpoints. 

From Jankowicz, he wants documents pertaining to the board and the Biden administration’s efforts to establish a “Ministry of Truth” in the federal government.

After The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was vice president in the Obama administration, Twitter and other social media sites suppressed the articles. 


  The letter Jordan sent to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Twitter / @Jim_Jordan The letter Jordan sent to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Twitter / @Jim_Jordan

Yoel Roth, who was Twitter’s head of trust and safety at the time, admitted in an interview this week that the company erred in censoring the stories despite their suspicions about the authenticity of the first son’s laptop computer.

“We didn’t know what to believe, we didn’t know what was true, there was smoke — and ultimately for me, it didn’t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter,” Roth, who left the company in November, said in an interview with journalist Kara Swisher Tuesday.

“But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 ‘hack and leak campaign’ alarm bells,” he continued, using an alternative name for the Russian cybercrime group Fancy Bear.


  The letter Jordan sent to former CIA Director John Brennan. Twitter / @Jim_Jordan The letter Jordan sent to former CIA Director John Brennan. Twitter / @Jim_Jordan

Jack Dorsey, who was Twitter’s CEO at the time, has since admitted that blocking The Post was a “total mistake.” ​

Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, said the social media platform must be completely transparent about its handling of the Hunter Biden story to “restore public trust.”

It wasn’t until a year and a half after The Post’s blockbuster reporting that the Washington Post and the New York Times finally relented and admitted that the emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop were authentic. 

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