Former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, who is on the advisory board of the left-wing media monitor NewsGuard, was one of the 50 former intelligence officials who had their national security clearance revoked by President Donald Trump for signing on to a 2020 letter that aimed to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop report as Russian interference.

In an executive order on Monday, Trump cited election interference in stripping Hayden and 49 others of their clearances, effective immediately, in order to remedy the “abuses of public trust.”

In January 2024, the Justice Department confirmed that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden.

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