Posted on 02/14/2023 5:36:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In an interview with The Washington Post’s “fact checker,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper contends that Politico misled the public about a letter he and 50 other former intel officials signed during the 2020 presidential campaign warning that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story could be Russian deception. “There was message distortion,” Clapper tells The Washington Post. “All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.”
It was not clear, at all. The purpose of the letter, apparent then as it is now, was to discredit the Post’s scoop and provide Democrats and the media with ammunition to reject it. Of course intel officials couldn’t definitively say that Hunter’s emails, which implicated Joe Biden as a business partner, were concocted by Putin’s spooks. They had no access to the laptop. The purpose was to enlist former intel chiefs to cast doubt on the story. A perfunctory CYA paragraph doesn’t change anything.
The laptop lie began, as is often the case, with Adam Schiff, the California congressman who used the intelligence committee as a partisan disinfo clearinghouse. As soon as the story broke, Schiff claimed that “we know” — a phrase he used numerous times — that the emails had been planted by the Kremlin. By then, though, everyone understood the congressman was an irredeemable liar. The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, issued a statement stressing that, actually, there was no evidence to back Schiff’s claims.
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You know he’s lying, I know he’s lying, he’ll say he can’t recall, Hillary style.
I don’t know why he still has a job. He can’t remember what said or did yesterday.
Just raising a yellow flag, huh? How much time and effort when into drafting the letter and rounding up all of those commie deep staters to sign the letter when you were not sure? You knew it was real from the very beginning. F U Clapper. You put out disinformation so people would vote for Biden.
There’s NO WAY the Laptop from 4377 could have been Rooskie disinformation. The IC ‘Leaders” are dumb.
Clapper needs Hanged along with the other 49 Traitors that signed the letter! Enough of the BS. Hey, Repubs do something substantial for once in your miserable lives.
7734 [view upside down].
EVERYTHING.
Could lying be his native tongue?
waterboard Clapper
Of course he can’t stop lying.
If he told the truth, they’d have to put him and everyone he worked for, and with, in prison.
Yeah and a cigar maker can’t stop making cigars.
Lie to a judge and you go to jail?
Lie to congress and you go to jail?
Why is lying to the American people also not a crime that is punishable by jail? After all the FBI, the courts, and the congress are nothing more than an extension of the American people?
I guess he is finally hearing that we are all lauging at him?
Nice call. I have simple standard for McCarthy btw. He needs to do something tangible, as in measurable. Personally, I want to see the debt clock roll backwards.
This is how dictatorships are born. Clapper is a traitor to the United States and the Constitution. The federal government is at war against the people of the United States
He belongs in a prison cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Truly can’t stand him
4 Different Lies James Clapper Told About Lying To Congress The Federalist - March 06, 2019
The "English of Old had a penchant for drawn and quartered." It was ugly in the extrreme.
They don’t call him the clap for nothing. Lying maggot.
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