So, the argument Joe Biden used to silence Trump during presidential debates, when Trump asked about Hunter's laptop was ... a lie. Biden knew it, and people around him knew it (they fabricated the story about "Russian disinformation" themselves).
Morell said that he was asked by Blinken to rally former intelligence chiefs to agree that the laptop looked like a smear campaign.
He carried out 'a little bit of my own research,' and then reached out to retired CIA senior operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos for assistance in compiling the letter.
The letter was ultimately signed by 51 former intelligence officials, including himself and four other former CIA directors, including John Brennan and Leon Panetta.
The letter was published by Politico five days after The New York Post first reported on the contents of the laptop.