# What is the letter mentioned in Trump’s anti-CIA order?

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**Created:** [January 21, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192 "2025-01-21T01:49:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192/1 "2025-01-21T01:49:04Z")

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[Executive Order Holding Former Government Officials Accountable](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/holding-former-government-officials-accountablefor-election-interference-and-improper-disclosure-of-sensitive-governmental-information/)

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> In the closing weeks of the 2020 Presidential campaign, at least 51 former intelligence officials coordinated with the Biden campaign to issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had abandoned his laptop at a computer repair business. Signatories of the letter falsely suggested that the news story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

I would be interested to read the letter Trump is complaining about.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192/2 "2025-01-21T02:11:55Z")

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This one I think

[https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000)

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**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192/3 "2025-01-21T02:22:31Z")

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Thank you.

That’s obviously it.

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**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192/4 "2025-01-21T03:47:38Z")

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I beleive in the documentary “From Russia With Lev”, Lev Parnas explicitly states that the laptop was a Russian FSB disinformation plant.

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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192/5 "2025-01-22T01:01:13Z")

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Joe’s inclusive pardon of Hunter was clearly necessary. President Felon isn’t going to give up.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-letter-mentioned-in-trump-s-anti-cia-order/1013192/6 "2025-01-22T02:09:30Z")

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> [@Lightnin](#):
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> Joe’s inclusive pardon of Hunter was clearly necessary.

Yep. Joe had to do it. It became political.