The New York Post published a scathing front page Saturday calling out the intelligence officials who deemed its original reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as “disinformation” after it received vindication Wednesday night.
Saturday’s lead editorial, titled “Spies Who Lied,” lambasted the 51 former intelligence officials plus nine anonymous ones who signed a letter in October 2020 who raised doubts about its reporting and have not yet expressed remorse, mirroring parallel efforts from the Washington Examiner to contact the signatories.
“They are the supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation,” the outlet wrote in its editorial. “The 51 former ‘intelligence’ officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election.”
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The publication accused the officials of using their public standing to influence public opinion before the 2020 election, emphasizing that the intelligence officials lacked proof to cast aspersions on its reporting.
“What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. ‘We do not know if the emails … are genuine or not,’ the letter said. They’re just ‘suspicious.’ Why? Because they hurt Biden’s campaign, that’s evidence enough,” the outlet wrote.
The newspaper accused the media, Big Tech, and former government officials of “peddl[ing] online disinformation to sway an election” and conspiring to “bury a story,” citing efforts from Twitter, Facebook, and others to stop the circulation of its story on social media in 2020.
“No, not just bury — create a false narrative that flipped the script to make Joe Biden the victim of a conspiracy. In short, they peddled online disinformation to sway an election. No one actually proved The Post’s reporting was wrong,” the tabloid said.
Earlier this week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about past comments she made in 2020 raising doubts about the existence of the laptop. She dodged the question and referred the reporter to the Justice Department and the younger Biden’s representatives.
Last year, the Washington Examiner reached out to the 51 intelligence officials who signed the October 2020 letter suggesting the reporting was grounded in disinformation, but requests for comment were mostly met with silence and evasiveness.
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In recent weeks, several outlets began to corroborate the 2020 report. The New York Times on Wednesday night verified the existence of the laptop in a story about a Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden, and last year, Politico correspondent Ben Schreckinger confirmed recipients of emails on Biden’s laptop received the emails listed on the device.
When the outlet published the story on Oct. 19, 2020, saying it received a copy of what was believed to be the future first son’s laptop and hard drive from Rudy Giuliani, who was working as a lawyer for then-President Donald Trump, it faced widespread backlash. Media outlets panned the publication, with NPR and CNN dismissing the story as a “pure distraction” and a “manufactured scandal,” respectively. Twitter locked the newspaper’s account and even blocked users from sharing the story, and Facebook suppressed the spread of the story on its platform.
