NPR Corrects Claim that Hunter Biden Story Was ‘Discredited’ by Intelligence Community

National Public Radio corrected a claim on Thursday that reports about Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop had been “discredited” by the intelligence community.

“A previous version of this story said U.S. intelligence had discredited the laptop story,” NPR noted. “U.S. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect.”

The correction came on a review of Biden’s new memoir, Beautiful Things, authored by NPR’s Ron Elving. “The laptop story was discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations,” Elving initially wrote.

In reality, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the opposite when the laptop became news in October. Speaking in reference to Democrats who floated the idea that the laptop could be part of a Russian “disinformation” campaign, “Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” Ratcliffe said in an interview at the time.