Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News,

An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization.

It transpires that the infamous incident before the 2020 election in which50 former intelligence officials signed an open letterdeclared aNew York Postexpose about Hunter Biden’s laptop to have the "classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was instigated at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign. This at least is the allegation in aletterto Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released by Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.

In that letter, which is not easy to find, you’ll see three snippets of dialogue from questioning of Morell, who appears to have organized the open letter. In the first snippet, he explains that the idea originated with a callfromBlinken, then of the Biden campaign, and that absent that call, Morell wouldn’t have done what he did: