text:  And then there were 51 so-called former intelligence officials who signed a letter saying, we're reasonably sure that that is just a bunch of Russian disinformation on that laptop. Well, some of them were still on the payroll of United States intelligence agencies as contractors. So you say, is it possible some of those people signed a letter that they didn't even know jack about, but they signed it because it meant that they'd continue to get a paycheck?