Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, newly declassified records revealed then-Vice President Joe Biden’s request that Ukrainian concerns of a “double-standard” on corruption be kept under wraps.
For years, Americans have seen the evidence supporting the claims of the Biden family’s alleged influence peddling and corruption, particularly as it pertained to Ukraine. Now, as accountability had yet to be demonstrated in contrast with President Donald Trump facing impeachment over a phone call, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made public records showing Biden’s request to have a Ukrainian report “not be disseminated.”
“Today, I declassified @CIA intelligence regarding Ukraine after determining it is in the public interest,” wrote the director on X Tuesday morning.
The heavily redacted report included a declassified email from February 10, 2016, said to have come from then-Director of National Intelligence John Clapper, according to journalist Catherine Herridge, explaining that Biden would “strongly prefer” the concerns of Ukrainian officials over his family’s ties to “corrupt” business deals in Ukraine, not be disseminated.”
The report with the subject line “NON-DISSEMINATED INTEL INFORMATION: Reactions of [REDACTED] Ukrainian Government Officials to the Early December Visit of Senior United States Government Official” found Ukrainian officials saw alleged ties “as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
NEW via @CIADirector
“Matters of Corruption”
Declassified 2016 Intelligence Report VP Biden Trip To Ukraine.
DNI Clapper Email: Biden prefers “report not/not to be disseminated.”
“These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corruption in… https://t.co/GoMGyYYbta pic.twitter.com/LzS7oT8IXQ
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 7, 2025
Beneath the subject line, “RE: OVP query regarding draft [REDACTED],” the 2016 email read, “Good morning, I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding,” with the title of the signer listed as “PDB Briefer,” as in presidential daily brief.
According to the report, “officials within the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed bewilderment and disappointment at the 7-8 December 2015 visit of the Vice President of the United States to Kiev, Ukraine.”
“These officials highlighted that, prior to the visit, the Poroshenko administration and other [REDACTED] Ukrainian officials expected the U.S. Vice President to discuss personnel matters with Poroshenko during the visit, and had assumed that the U.S. Vice President would advocate in support of or against specific officials within the Ukrainian Government,” the report said as officials determined Biden’s trip to Ukraine was “almost exclusively to give a generic public speech” rather than to discuss “substantive matters” with government officials.
During Biden’s 2015 trip, the vice president had said as part of a December 9 speech, “And it’s not enough to set up a new anti-corruption bureau and establish a special prosecutor fighting corruption. The Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform.”
He’d also called for competition in the energy sector at a time when Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating the energy firm of which Biden’s son Hunter Biden was on the board, Burisma Holdings.
The now-former president had famously recalled in 2018 how he’d threatened to withhold $1 billion worth of aid if Shokin wasn’t fired, “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ … I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not gettin’ the money.’ Well, son of a b*tch — got fired, and they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
Here is Joe Biden bragging about how he leveraged aid to force Ukraine into firing prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
Shokin was investigating Burisma.
Hunter worked for Burisma. pic.twitter.com/LgtwyAJftx
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 2, 2024
Speaking with Fox News Digital, a senior CIA official said, “Intelligence officials agreed that, at the time of collection, it would have met the threshold [for dissemination], but based on the Office of the Vice President’s preference, the information was never shared outside of the CIA.”
The official further described the move as an “extremely rare and unusual” decision and “inappropriate to go outside of the intelligence community and inquire with the White House on the dissemination of a particular report for what appears to be political reasons,” resulting in an “example of politicization of intelligence.”
As a reminder, Clapper was the same former DNI who would go on to join 50 other so-called intelligence experts to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election, little more than four years before the outgoing president would issue a blanket pardon for his son stretching back over a decade.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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