Overview

• A newly released email dated Feb. 10, 2016, from a Presidential Daily Brief briefer stated the vice president “would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated.”
• The withheld assessment summarized senior Ukrainian officials’ disappointment with Joe Biden’s December 2015 Kyiv visit and their private view that media scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s Burisma ties signaled a double standard.
• Career CIA officials said the reporting met dissemination standards at the time, while a senior agency official called the outside intervention extremely rare and unusual.
• The records were discovered during a late‑2024 internal CIA review and were declassified this week in heavily redacted form to protect sources and methods.
• House Republicans, including Oversight Chair James Comer, are pressing for further scrutiny, while the documents themselves do not assert criminal conduct by Joe Biden.