DOJ further acknowledges Hunter Biden's laptop is real, contents match Apple iCloud backups

To be perfectly objective on this issue, the letter did not specifically reference the laptop, and only the emails.

"It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

They had no business doing this without actual confirmed intelligence, this was true, and in turn they did in fact interfere in the same election they claimed they were trying to protect. I have yet to see any of them apologize for their incompetence and or at least admit they were wrong. All 51 should have their clearances revoked and should have their names tied to this extreme lapse in judgement for any reporting or commentary they make in the public sphere. They are an embarrassment to the IC community, in which I spent a significant amount of time during my two Air Force careers (Active Duty and Civil Service).

Some are media analysts for biased media outlets, others are professors in our universities, and others are in prominent roles within our cleared defense contractor community. And then there are these guys serving in positions they should be removed from if they continue to not own up to their actions:

Thomas Fingar
National Committee on United States–China Relations, Board of Directors

Russ Travers
Deputy Homeland Security Advisor

David B. Buckley
United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Staff Director

John Tullius
Naval Postgraduate School, National Intelligence Chair