Blinken refuted the allegations made by former CIA chief Mike Morell, who testified under oath before the House Judiciary Committee that Blinken, who was a senior Biden campaign official at the time, reached out to him after the New York Post published articles detailing information found on the laptop concerning shady foreign business dealings.
Morell testified that he organized the letter at the prompting of the Biden administration to "help Vice President Biden" win the election. Morell then influenced other intelligence officials to sign the letter asserting the false claims to further Biden's Presidential campaign.
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However, Blinken denied being behind the letter and said, "It wasn't my idea. I didn't ask for it. I didn't solicit it, and I think the testimony that the former deputy director, the CIA's Mike Morel, put forward confirms that." Blinken added, "One of the great benefits of this job is that I don't do politics and don't engage in it."
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The letter, which Politico released, claimed that the New York Post's bombshell reporting was "Russian disinfo" according to "dozens of former officials." The letter stated that the Post's reporting had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
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The Biden campaign used the letter as leverage to discredit and censor the Post's factual reporting to help Biden win the 2020 presidential election. However, in October 2020, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated that the laptop was decidedly "not part of a Russian disinformation campaign."
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