Posted on 04/07/2022 1:51:13 PM PDT by lasereye
Hunter Biden just paid over $1 million in back taxes for income he never claimed, but which was found in his emails — the ones from his laptop that had been dismissed by the mainstream media as Russian disinformation.
The FBI is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter’s business activities based on the contents of the laptop. It was only the Bureau’s use of the laptop as evidence that finally forced the New York Times this month to admit that what it said last year was false.
See, as the New York Post broke the story that a laptop full of Hunter Biden’s files indicated a potential pay-for-play scenario involving then-candidate Joe Biden just ahead of the 2020 presidential election, almost in real time more than 50 former senior intelligence officials signed a letter claiming the emails “have all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The signers said their national security experience made them “deeply suspicious the Russian government played a significant role in this case. If we are right this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”
The letter played off prejudices from 2016 that the Russians manipulated an American election. In fact, most of the letter’s signatories — James Clapper and John Brennan among them — had played key roles in misdirecting public opinion around the DNC server hack and later the whole of Russiagate. In the hands of the mainstream media, the meme quickly morphed into “the laptop is fake, ignore it.” Twitter and Facebook quickly banned all mentions of the laptop, and the story disappeared in the mainstream media. Until now.
During my twenty-four-year State Department career, I was exposed to foreign disinformation, and as a journalist today, I read the Hunter Biden emails. There is no way experienced intelligence officers could have mistaken the contents of the Biden laptop for fake, produced material.
The most glaring reason is that most of the important emails could be verified by simply contacting the recipient and asking him if the message was real. Disinfo at this level of sophistication would never be so simple to disprove.
In addition, the laptop contents were about 80 percent garbage and maybe 20 percent useful (dirty) information, a huge waste of time if you are trying to move your adversary to act in a certain way. Such an overbearing amount of non-actionable material also risks burying the good stuff, and if this is disinfo you want your adversary to find the good stuff. It is also expensive to produce information that has no take attached to it, and fake info of any kind is at risk of discovery, blowing the whole operation. Lastly, nothing on the laptop was a smoking gun. You need the disinfo to lead fairly directly to some sort of actionable conclusion, a smoking gun, or your cleverness will be wasted.
Compare the alleged Russian disinfo of the Biden laptop to the real disinfo of the Christopher Steele “Russiagate” dossier. To begin, Steele pastes fake classified markings on his document. That signals amateur work to the pros but causes the media to salivate: Steele’s goal (always remember who your target is and who you are trying to fool).
Steele never names his sources, to prevent verification by the media (a major tell). Steele also finds a way to push the important info up front, in his case a Summary. If Biden’s laptop was disinfo, the makers could have included an Index, or Note to Self where “Hunter” called out the good stuff. Or maybe even a fake email doing the same. Steele’s dossier is also concise, at 35 typed pages. Hunter’s laptop is a pack rat’s nightmare of jumbled stuff: thousands of pages, receipts, info on cam girls and the like.
But the real giveaway is who was out there peddling the info/disinfo. Ideally you want the stuff to come from the most reliable source you can find to give it credibility. Steele, as a professional intelligence officer, used multiple, overlapping sources, including himself. The list included leaks to selected patsy journalists, the State Department, John McCain and even the Department of Justice (FBI and DOJ officials). Steele not only planted the disinfo, he figured out a way to create “buzz” around it. Textbook work.
For the Biden laptop, it is understood the whole messy thing was shopped all across the mainstream media by Rudy Giuliani, about the most mistrusted man available for the purpose. The source must be reputable for the gag to work, and there is no way a full-spectrum Russian disinformation operation would use Rudy. That alone should have ended the discussion among those 50 letter-signing intelligence officials.
Lastly, everything on the laptop was verifiable in an hour or two by an organization like the NSA. They could have had an intern verify the emails, bank statements, wire transfers, etc., using about half the capabilities Edward Snowden revealed they have. James Clapper and John Brennan knew this, and knew equally well that the media, if they picked up the story at all, would not ask any such questions, and the NSA, et al, would never weigh in. It would be our little secret.
So we’ll call that letter claiming the Biden emails were potential Russian disinfo a lie, a fabrication, made-up, fake stuff designed to influence an election. That’s disinformation by any definition, and evidence the only disinformation op in 2020 was run against the American voters by their own intelligence community working with the media and on behalf of the Democrats.
Almost half of Americans now believe Trump would have won a second term if the media had fully reported on the laptop’s revelations. The scam worked. You know some of its hallmarks now, so keep a sharp eye out in 2024.
And Hunter never stepped forward and said it’s not Russian disinformation I owe taxes on millions of dollars I got from foreign sources...and what exactly is hunters special expertise that is worth millions to foreigners?
No question about it. As Elaine Benes said, “Fake! fake! fake!”
But where did Hunter get $1,000,000 to pay in back taxes? He is dead broke and couldn’t pay any child support for his bastard child. At least that’s what was reported.
Wish I could just pull a million bucks out of my ass at a moment’s notice.
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Twitter is Still protecting Biden and his business.
That’s what it’s designed to do.
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The NSA also could have “found” Hillary’s 30,000 yoga emails if they really wanted to. If she was a Republican, it would have taken a couple of hours max. 🤬
You commit TAX Fraud, get caught Publicly because you are a stupid drug addict, manage to come up with $1 Million Dollars to pay the back taxes on your TAX FRAUD, and there are no consequences??
Is this the New Standard for the IRS? Commit a FELONY, Pay the Money and everything is Okie Dokie??
They'd have been forced to dump in a couple of million more fake mail-ins than they did, or face calls for recounts.
Trump did win the election. But if the laptop was proven real at that time then they would never been able to produce and switch and ballot harvest enough fake votes to over come the landslide win. They had to stop at 2am and regroup. The hard and incriminating evidence was had about a month after the FBI got the laptop. They are setting on it. They will let out a little here and there. Any new stuff that’s in the 450gb about to be released will be called disinformation until they are ready.
Here we go. This is my prediction if the 450GB drop occurs.
The original laptop was real, it belonged to Hunter, and it contained info about foreign deals that he had made. He made mistakes on his taxes, and has paid for them. This NEW stuff though? This 450GB? That’s CLEARLY Russian disinfomation, and it’s being released because Russia is losing in Ukraine as a result of the weapons that the west is providing to them at Biden’s request. So, since Russia can’t overcome those weapons, they’ve gone unconventional. They’s concocted this whole trove of BS content here, and are hellbent on getting rid of Biden as a way to stop the weapon shipments from arriving in Ukraine. I mean, they’ve had almost 2 years to work on all of this! And, Maxey (?) went to Switzerland because he knew that if he stayed in the US, the FBI would see his connections with the Russians (Presumably though Alfa bank).
Somewhere there is a little girl whose mother is a stripper, her father a crack addict and her grandfather is the U.S. President.
“He is dead broke and couldn’t pay any child support for his bastard child” Yea right.....
Not to shabby and could be right on. But I think that russia wanted Trump out as much as China did. Trump put tariffs on chinas goods. And Putin wanted his pipeline and ukraine. So they helped switch votes from dominion machines and sent them back. And Germany did to. Remember the raid in Germany that seized a server and we didn’t know if the good or bad people had it. Well now we know it was the bad people. Votes switched and sent back twice. Once before 2am and then when they didn’t have enough they shut it down and reset the machines at 2am along with bringing in more mail in ballots to be counted. They only needed so many extra votes in swing states and those are the ones we here about except Penn. at 2am most votes were counted and Trump had almost a 1 million vote lead. That’s how bad the defeat was for biden. They weren’t supposed to start counting till 7am and all the totals were in for the night but by 6am the numbers changed big time. But anyways the info already uncovered was enough to put the biden family in jail. And they hid it. The last to do so was barr. He saw it and refused to “investigate” because it could interfere in the election. He showed his hand then. If they knew biden would be compromised and couldn’t run and would be in possible jail but they would have paid some fine and ran off like Hillary and her emails. She paid 130k and will likely walk. The law suit will be dropped by a obama appointed judge. Now this new 450gb of evidence maybe be real or not. They can mix in real pictures of hunter and girls along with made up emails. But we will never know the full truth. A shame we didnt and could have a say. But then half the politicians would be in jail. Do you think biden is the only one that takes tax payers money used for foreign aid and sends it over and has it laundered and sent back through family that “opens businesses” in those poor countries. They have been using these countries as there own personal ATM’s for years. The difference is biden used a crack head son to do it.
I read where they "lost" it.
I wouldn’t trust the author as far as I could throw him, but it was a Russian disinfo campaign, just not in the way the media reported it. The Russians successfully fed made up material to Chris Steele. And they also fed info to Hillary through Cody Shearer (who is now conveniently dead and can never be questioned), who fed it to Sid Blumenthal (who is now also conveniently dead albeit he was old enough to age out without help.)
It was the Brookings Institution that fed false information from Hillary campaign through Danchenko to Steele. Steele pretended not to know the info was fake stuff from the Hillary campaign. Everyone was careful to preserve some plausible deniability, or at least enough to bring the MSM to their defense, and a partisan DOJ to ignore the facts.
It was reported that someone “loaned” him the money.
Blumenthal is very much alive.
What was the storage capacity of Hunter’s laptop hard-drive(s)? Has to be a big one... couple of TB, minimum. How much data was recovered by the Mac store repair shop? I guess I’m saying that ‘you have a point.’
It was reported that the money was lent to Hunter Biden so that he could pay the tax. Wouldn’t you like to know who the lenders are and what the loan terms were? The Biden family has a lot of pull with banking institutions in Delaware since forever.
FWIW, My comment was more of a “This is what I bet the MSM will say if there IS a dump of new data”.
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