John A. Gentry

open letters, usually were published in Politico, a politically oriented newspaper based in Washington, and then were spread to the other mainline press organizations.

And that's the way it worked this time.

So you get this short letter.

It sort of looks like the Russians were in it.

You get 51 former intelligence officers to sign it.

You look at that list, a lot of senior people.

There were like half a dozen, five, I think, former CIA officials, a lot of very senior people.

So this is a credible group of people, right?

So you're a voter, gee whiz, these really sharp people are saying it looks like Russia.

So hey, I'm not going to worry about Joe Biden.

Okay.

So how do we know that this was basically a sham?

Basically, this was a political operation.

It was an information operation.

by Morrell and Palomaropoulos.

Well, Morrell told the House Judiciary Committee that.

And I can tell you, not commonly published thus far anyway, that one of the people who was approached told me that the pitch received specifically was, we want your signature to help Joe Biden.

Not, not for your intelligence expertise.

So the pitch, the pitch was explicitly political.

Okay, so now Morrell has had his credibility shot, I think, pretty clearly.