Posted on 03/27/2022 4:35:56 PM PDT by Libloather
The former head of US intelligence blasted one of the officials who signed the letter casting doubt on Hunter Biden’s laptop - calling him a lying “phony” and igniting a Twitter war over the weekend.
The spat erupted Saturday when Richard Grenell, the former Trump-appointed acting director of national intelligence, reacted to a post from John Sipher, who retired from the CIA in 2014, about ethical behavior among public servants.
“Didn’t @john_sipher sign a letter 3 weeks before the 2020 elections saying don’t look at Hunter Biden’s laptop because it’s Russian disinformation?” Grenell tweeted Saturday. “Now he’s lecturing people about ethical behavior?! These people have no shame….”
The letter was signed by 51 former intelligence officials, including Sipher, and released after the New York Post revealed the existence of the laptop, which Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop, in October 2020.
It contained a trove of emails about Biden’s business dealings in China and Ukraine that implicated his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.
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The exchange between Sipher and Grenell appeared to be prompted by a tweet that called for Republicans - if they take control of Congress this year - to revoke the security clearance of all former intelligence community members who signed the Biden letter.
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Grenell has been fearless. Need so many more like him.
Ha. Love it.
Ditto that!
Actually I didn’t even think of those. He would be perfect for any of them.
Sipher whined that Trump said he trusted Putin more than the US Intel community.
Well given the serial lies of the intel community - a prime example of which is Sipher’s claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” on the basis of zero evidence, I’d say Trump was right. The deep state is completely untrustworthy.
Thanks Liz
They need to revoke the clearance of every ex-IC officer high or low who can’t tie the need to have a clearance to a classified contract! No courtesy clearances Period!
Not for liberals not for conservatives not for anyone unless there’s a legitimate contractual relationship that requires it.
Amen!
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