Posted on 12/16/2022 3:27:37 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The "Twitter files", an exposé of internal communications at the social media platform, has reheated interest in Hunter Biden's laptop, a story that revealed potentially compromising correspondence between an adviser at Ukraine energy firm Burisma and President Joe Biden's son.
While the significance of the "Twitter files" is under debate, it has reignited examination of the reach that behind-the-scenes characters had in the proliferation of the early Hunter Biden reports, including the role of figures from the U.S. intelligence community.
The Claim
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) stated in a Facebook post published on 15 December 2022, that "51 former 'intelligence' officials told us the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation."
"That was false. Turns out, the real disinformation campaign was created by our own government and woke Twitter executives," he added......
The document Jim Jordan refers to is an open letter signed by 51 intelligence experts and directors about the Hunter Biden story.
The letter stated that these former intelligence officials, based on their past experience, had serious concerns that the laptop had the potential to be linked to Russian disinformation efforts.
But it also did not make a determination on if the reported contents of the laptop were genuine, and said they had no evidence to link Russia with the story.
"We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case," the letter said.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
If they did this based on professionalism they would be coming out now trying to make amends. However, none to my knowledge has recanted and tried to make things “right”.
Moreso the culpable media has not done anything to make amends.
We had to endure the "media" instructing on how "Free Speech" can harmful and must be regulated.
Mostly to defend the gub'mint & twitter collusion to suppress our rights.
A few "journalists" get a temp ban for doxing and they're threatening congressional hearings.
More like fact deniers than fact checkers.
The salient point about the letter, is that it was written and signed/endorsed by “51 former ‘intelligence’ officials of the federal government” in the first place. Try finding another time in our election history when a letter of this magnitude was offered, not solicited, to support one presidential candidate.
And how nice for Newsweek to voluntarily “fact check” the claims regarding the letter. Maybe Newsweek should have done it’s own investigation of the laptop from hell, along with a “fact check” of the letter and Joe Biden’s use of it.
With less than three weeks until the Republicans take control of HoR, they’ve added themselves to the list of other MSM outlets circling the wagon for the Bidens and this group of 51 former ‘intelligence’ officials . . .
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