The narrative surrounding Joe Biden’s involvement in Ukraine just took another serious blow — not from partisan commentary, but from declassified CIA documents. These records, made public under the direction of former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, reveal that then–Vice President Biden personally intervened to block the dissemination of an intelligence report highlighting Ukrainian officials’ concerns about the Biden family’s corrupt entanglements.
Let that sink in.
An official CIA email from February 2016 shows that Biden “strongly preferred” that the report — which detailed Ukrainian perceptions of a double standard in the U.S. government regarding corruption — not be shared.
And according to the agency itself, his wish was granted. The intelligence, which officials said did meet the threshold for distribution, was quietly buried, never reaching the broader intelligence community or policymakers.
The subject of the report? Ukrainian officials’ deep skepticism over Biden’s December 2015 visit to Kyiv, during which they had expected meaningful engagement on governmental issues. Instead, what they got was a generic speech about anti-corruption — a speech now soaked in irony, given the concerns Ukrainian officials had at the time about Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Burisma, the very company under investigation by the prosecutor Joe Biden would later help oust.
The intelligence report, which Biden actively worked to suppress, noted that officials in President Poroshenko’s administration saw the Biden family’s involvement in Ukrainian business deals as a clear example of American hypocrisy — lecturing others on ethics while turning a blind eye at home.
It’s no secret that Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma in 2015 and early 2016. It’s also no secret that Joe Biden, in his own words, demanded Shokin be fired — under threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. aid. What is newly confirmed is that behind the scenes, there were credible intelligence assessments that the Ukrainians were connecting the dots — and that Biden didn’t want that analysis to be seen.
Now, the question isn’t whether Biden had concerns about optics. The question is whether he used his position to suppress intelligence — not because it lacked merit, but because it might have reflected poorly on him and his family.
That, according to multiple CIA officials, would be not just highly unusual, but inappropriate and potentially unethical. And it fits into a broader pattern: selective suppression of information that threatens the narrative.
Let’s not forget: while this report was hidden, President Donald Trump was impeached in 2019 for asking Ukraine to investigate these same matters — Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma and the firing of Shokin. At the time, Democrats insisted there was no “there” there. Now, the declassified material tells a different story — one in which Biden was keenly aware of how things looked and took extraordinary steps to make sure the public never found out.
