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Joe Biden, vice president in 2015 and in charge of Ukraine policy for Barack Obama, told the CIA he would "strongly prefer" that an intel report confirming Ukrainian concerns about his family's tied to "corrupt" business operations there "not be disseminated."
And it wasn't.
A report published at Fox News explains that comes from newly declassified emails and records.
The information was declassified by CIA chief John Ratcliffe, who said the details suggest there was a "politicization of intelligence."
The report explained a senior CIA official briefed Fox News Digital on the details, "stating that the intelligence was discovered along with an email showing that Biden 'expressed a preference to not share the report.'"
The email said, "Good morning, I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding."
The signer's name was redacted but held the title of "PDB Briefer," for "presidential daily brief."
The email was from Feb. 10, 2016, with the subject line: "RE: OVP query regarding draft [REDACTED]."
Fox confirmed, "The report in question included intelligence revealing that Ukrainian officials viewed the Biden family's alleged ties to corrupt business practices in Ukraine 'as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.'"
In fact, at the time Joe Biden was in charge of Obama's Ukraine policy, son Hunter Biden was being paid about a million dollars a year to be on the board of Burisma, an allegedly corrupt company being targeted by investigators.
Joe Biden used the threat of withholding American financial help to force Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.
The report never was shared based on the "preference" from the office of the vice president.
"The senior CIA official told Fox News Digital that it was 'extremely rare and unusual' 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,'" the report said.
Fox's report continued, "The intelligence document stated that '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 intelligence states. After the visit, these officials assessed that the U.S. Vice President had come to Kiev almost exclusively to give a generic public speech, and had not had any intention of discussing substantive matters with Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government.'"
The intelligence document specified, "Following the visit of the U.S. Vice President, [REDACTED] officials within the Poroshenko administration privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President's family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine. These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President's family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power."
It was Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, and it was Shokin who was fired after Biden's pressure on Ukrainian officials.
Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid: "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 getting the money,'" Joe Biden confirmed.
