"... lost their professional bearings..."
Posted on 05/19/2022 6:09:32 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
One of the most galling aspects of the Hunter Biden laptop saga is that the 51 former intelligence officials who played such a critical role in suppressing The Post’s stories and giving Joe Biden cover before the 2020 election have never been brought to account.
The “Dirty 51” lied by painting our stories as Russian disinformation in an Oct. 19, 2020, letter they signed and delivered to Politico five days after The Post exposé and three days before the final presidential debate of the election campaign.
They used the institutional weight of their powerful former roles to legitimize partisan political propaganda designed to smear The Post and everyone associated with the story and dissuade the rest of the media from looking deeper into the laptop.
The letter, titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden emails,” and signed by former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other ex-spooks, claimed the material on Hunter’s hard drive “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” although not one of them had seen it.
Their lie “probably affected the outcome” of the 2020 presidential race, as former Attorney General William Barr has said, describing the letter as “partisan hackery,” “baseless” and signed by “a coterie of retired intelligence officials who had lost their professional bearings.”
Yet they have never apologized or retracted their lie. In fact, when The Post contacted the group in March, after the New York Times belatedly acknowledged the laptop was real, some, like Clapper, doubled down.
One former CIA officer who signed the letter, John Sipher, boasted that he took “special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump.”
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"... lost their professional bearings..."
They were playing with it deck of 51.
bttt
They were playing with a deck of 51.
"All we said was that the Hunter Biden Laptop had all of the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
In fact, there was a disinformation campaign going on, it just wasn't being perpetrated by the Russians. So as the fact-checkers would say, our letter was 'Mostly True.'"
That’s exactly what they’ll be saying...and are saying...
The enemy is subtle & shrewd. He uses the law to his advantage.
The CIA directors who ran cover for Biden did not say that the material on Hunter's laptop was proven to be Russian misinformation. They only offered an opinion, "it has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
As far as I know, there is no law against giving an opinion. IMHO, it will be difficult to get a criminal or civil court conviction.
Get a rope!
Bad headline. Justice is coming for us all...
They should all lose their security clearances
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you.
Those slimy bastards knew exactly how far they could go, and knew that the media would push their bullshit to the maximum and the results would be what they turned out to be.
I don't believe there will be any legal action taken against the " filthy fifty one ".
A ton of ropes. 👍
These corrupt turds have been operating with impunity and at the whim of the deep state for a long long time 🤪
AND yet, Big Boy Billy Barr did nothing constructive about it when he could have. And should have.
spit
bkmk
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