US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Monday that he was not behind a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials in October 2020 that sought to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as part of a purported Russian disinformation campaign.
When asked whether he accepts that the laptop is not Russian disinformation, the top US diplomat deflected the question, arguing that he is very busy with other matters.
According to Steve Gilll, there is something dodgy about all this, pointing to the Biden team’s and Blinken’s change of mind on the matter.
"Now, they [ex-intelligence officials] are saying, 'oh, well, we didn't say it was Russian disinformation. We said it could be,' but not a single one of them spoke up at the time to correct the record," the Gill Media Topic chief executive said.
He went on to insist that those officials "should all lose their security clearances for life" and ought to "be banned" too.
“They ought to be called before Congress to testify under oath to get the story straight and put Blinken, who was simply trying to apply for the secretary of state job by showing his usefulness to the Biden team [on the stand]. ‘Look, look what I can do. I want to be secretary of state.’ And it worked,” Gill noted.
He slammed Blinken as a "big liar", who had repeatedly claimed that "he's not playing at all in the delays of the investigation" into the Hunter Biden laptop story.
"Blinken lied to get the secretary of state's confirmation," the expert went on, arguing that the reason the US secretary of state did this "was to make sure their guy, not Donald Trump, was in power," in an apparent nod to Joe Biden.
"Because if Donald Trump had gotten in power for another four years, he would have cleaned out the intelligence agencies, he would have cleaned out the top levels of the FBI and the Department of Justice. And that's what needs to be done because they are so embedded deep into the structure of our government that you will have to literally pull it out by the roots, like just kind of mow the grass at the top," Gill pointed out.