Secretary Blinken in Tense Stand-Off With House GOP Over Hunter Biden Letter, Secret Afghanistan Cable

From Hunter Biden’s laptop to the Afghanistan disaster, the secretary of state is on a roll … of denials.

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Secretary Blinken at Cairo, January 30, 2023. Khaled Desouki/pool via AP

Were each Biden administration official asked, maybe just for fun, to choose his/her/their closest kindred mythological Greek deity, Secretary Blinken would have a lock on Eris, goddess of discord and strife. That is because despite the gift of projecting a cool-as-a-cucumber image when cameras are present, the former foreign policy advisor for Mr. Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign is emerging as a chaos magnet: keywords Hunter Biden, laptop, letter, CIA, Afghanistan. 

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