House Republicans issued a subpoena threat to the CIA, escalating their investigation into a letter used to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Committees “may resort to compulsory process” if the intelligence agency does not fully comply with a prior documents request, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) wrote to CIA Director William Burns on Wednesday.
The GOP investigators, who are following up on last week’s staff report that revealed an active CIA employee may have helped gather the signature of at least one former intelligence official, set a May 30 deadline for the records to be produced “in unredacted form.”
The laptop letter, which ultimately boasted the signatures of 51 intelligence veterans, warned the “arrival” of a laptop full of emailspurportedly belonging to Hunter Biden had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Then-candidate Joe Biden, Hunter’s father, used the statement to cast doubt on the laptop story during a debate against former President Donald Trump.
