Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.

Your name was also on the list, but it's not clear to me that you had a clearance, because I thought that the president, President Trump, tried to cancel your clearances back in 2018, if you want to clear that up.

He misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,” Brennan said during an MSNBC interview.

President-elect Donald Trump, on Day 1, plans to suspend the security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting tied to Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election,

Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons of family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020.

Donald Trump has a day-one plan to punish the 51 intelligence officials who deemed the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation."

Trump took the action after the former officials said in 2020 that leaks from Hunter Biden laptop could be "a Russian information operation."

Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Lest anyone still have doubts, two ex-Politico reporters, Mark Caputo and Tara Palmeri, just confirmed how far the media went to protect Joe Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election.

Bolton did, however, publish before getting permission to do so, and anyone who has had a security clearance knows that dodging the review is a violation not just of the letter of one’s clearance conditions but also of the norms and instincts inculcated by the culture of national security.

By a 74-25 vote, lawmakers approve a former director of national intelligence accused of politicizing intelligence assessments.