Posted on 02/14/2023 2:40:42 AM PST by Libloather
It's now an infamous headline among conservatives and a sore spot for Politico. But at the time, the October 19, 2020, story by Natasha Bertrand had its intended bombshell effect with this headline: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."
Now former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says Politico "deliberately distorted" the letter he and more than 50 others – many of them open Joe Biden supporters – signed. Critics are wondering why the players in the story are speaking out more than two years later – just as House Republicans are investigating the matter – and why they didn't cry foul at their own words being twisted at the time.
"If James Clapper knew Politico and Natasha Bertrand were lying about what their letter said, why didn't he say so then?" journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on Monday. "Reality: the CIA/IC people lying wanted the media to spread this. Only now that someone has to take the hit is Clapper saying Politico lied."
Clapper's remarks showed up in a lengthy fact-check by the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler on Monday, which broke down the letter itself and how it was also falsely characterized by then-candidate Joe Biden in the closing weeks of the 2020 election. Biden claimed at a debate with then-President Trump that intelligence officials had declared the laptop reported on by the New York Post was a "Russian plan." Another letter signer, former deputy director of National Intelligence for analysis Thomas Fingar, told Kessler that no one should be "surprised" by the media or politicians that "willfully or unintentionally" misconstrue statements.
Kessler noted Politico's headline did not accurately reflect the letter's contents, which were not quite as conclusive, but rather suggested the laptop had the "earmarks" of a Kremlin disinformation operation.
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Clapper needs a wall, a blind fold and a cigerette.
Is Iraq and that part of the world a better place now than before we got involved there? How about Afghanistan or Libya? We should probably learn to not do wars of choice anymore. We are not very good at it and every place we fight a war of choice ends up much worse off than it was before we intervened. The world police thing we do is a waste of blood and treasure that has accomplished nothing good I can see.
The fact that James Clapper had any thing to do with “national intelligence” is proof positive our federal government is a bad joke.
It had the “earmarks” of Russian disinformation....
Anybody ever hear of a case, in all recorded history, of an entire laptop full of someone’s emails, photos, business dealings, family correspondence on all topics, covering years..
Being Russian disinformation? No one’s ever heard of such a case.
Plus it was the guy’s own laptop and he didn’t deny it was all his.
So then what were these “earmarks”? They didn’t exist.
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so, how will they try to explain away Pelosi’s lap top MIA since J6?
I posted this same image on Facebook a few minutes ago and it was removed and I was warned for “offensive or terroristic” posts.
I so hate Zuckerberg and his communists minions and bots.
While McCarthy was the desired Republican to be selected as the Speaker of the House, something happened on the way to the forum. The gang of 6 held fast demanding concessions from McCarthy, before finally selecting him. Then surprisingly, McCarthy actually followed through on the concessions he had made, so then the investigations began, much to the chagrin of every signer.
Now, they were forced to fall back on what had been planned as the backup plan all along should it become necessary, which it did, and which we are now seeing unfold.
Time to hold every last one of them with election interference, and convict them, and sentence them with significant jail time to be served. No slap on the hands.
The letter was published verbatim for all to read. Who are you going to believe, Clapper or your lying eyes? What a scumbag he is.
Yeah....weak, very weak! Only interest to me is the genesis of the whole thing. Were a lot of these d-bags at a party and cooked this up, or was there a chain email where they jumped on the bandwagon? A real “intel” guy would have required sourcing.
Of course, Politico and the others 'deliberately distorted" the letter. The letter was carefully, lawyerly, composed to be deliberately distorted. That was the whole intent of the letter. Clapper's claptrap is just another of his criminally liable actions.
Of course he’s a FRAUD, he’s a democrat !!!
The president’s son is being investigated by the DOJ and a GOP-led House panel.
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