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1 posted on 04/29/2023 5:28:11 AM PDT by george76
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“In other words, when he realized that Morrell had organized the letter at the behest of Blinken/the campaign, he saw that direct line and felt compelled to speak out about it.”

Everyone with one ounce of common sense or logic knew immediately that: A. the laptop was real, and B. the letter was disinformation instigated by the Biden campaign. But not this high ranking intelligence official! He had to read it in the news to figure it out. Our entire government is either idiotic or natural born liars.


2 posted on 04/29/2023 5:44:59 AM PDT by suthener
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Here are the signatories to the August 19, 2020, Hunter Biden Laptop Letter:

Jim Clapper
Former Director of National Intelligence
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Former Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

Mike Hayden
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director, National Security Agency
Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

Leon Panetta
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Secretary of Defense

John Brennan
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor
Former Director, Terrorism Threat Integration Center
Former Analyst and Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Thomas Finger
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis
Former Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Former Chair, National Intelligence Council

Rick Ledgett
Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

John McLaughlin
Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director, Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency

Michael Morell
Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency

Mike Vickers
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Doug Wise
Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Former Senior CIA Operations Officer

Nick Rasmussen
Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Russ Travers
Former Acting Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Defense Intelligence Agency

Andy Liepman
Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

John Moseman
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Minority Staff Director, Senate Select CommiSee on Intelligence

Larry Pfeiffer
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director, White House Situation Room

Jeremy Bash
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense
Former Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select CommiSee on Intelligence

Rodney Snyder
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Intelligence Programs, National Security Council
Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency

Glenn Gerstell
Former General Counsel, National Security Agency

David B. Buckley
Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Democratic Staff Director, House Permanent Select CommiSee on Intelligence
Former Counterespionage Case Officer, United States Air Force

Nada Bakos
Former Analyst and Targeting Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Patty Brandmaier
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Associate Director for Military Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency

James B. Bruce
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, National Intelligence Council
Considerable work related to Russia

David Cariens
Former Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
50+ Years Working in the Intelligence Community

Janice Cariens
Former Operational Support Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Paul Kolbe
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief, Central Eurasia Division, Central Intelligence Agency

Peter Corsell
Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Brett Davis
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Director of the Special Activities Center for Expeditionary Operations, CIA

Roger Zane George
Former National Intelligence Officer

Steven L. Hall
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Kent Harrington
Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Public Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Don Hepburn
Former Senior National Security Executive

Timothy D. Kilbourn
Former Dean, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency

Ron Marks
Former Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Twice former staff of the Republican Majority Leader

Jonna Hiestand Mendez
Technical Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Emile Nakhleh
Former Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Senior Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Gerald A. O’Shea
Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Served four tours as Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency

David Priess
Former Analyst and Manager, Central Intelligence Agency
Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency

Pam Purcilly
Former Deputy Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of the Office of Russian and European Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency

Marc Polymeropoulos
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Acting Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia, Central Intelligence Agency

Chris Savos
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Officer

Nick Shapiro
Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency

John Sipher
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Stephen Slick
Former Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council
Former Senior Operations Office, Central Intelligence Agency

Cynthia Strand
Former Deputy Assistant Director for Global Issues, Central Intelligence Agency

Greg Tarbell
Former Deputy Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Central Intelligence Agency

David Terry
Former Chairman of the National Intelligence Collection Board
Former Chief of the PDB, Central Intelligence Agency
Former PDB Briefer to Vice President Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency

Greg Treverton
Former Chair, National Intelligence Council

John Tullius
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

David A. Vanell
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Winston Wiley
Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief, Counterterrorism Center, Central Intelligence Agency

Kristin Wood
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency

In addition, nine additional former IC officers who cannot be named publicly also support the arguments in this letter.


3 posted on 04/29/2023 5:45:55 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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As far as I'm concerned, all 51 who signed that letter should lose their pensions and clearances (if they still have them). They knew they were signing on to interference of an election (Blinken) and as such, the oath they took when serving had now been violated. The fruits of that oath have been spoiled.
6 posted on 04/29/2023 5:55:37 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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What is amazing, that without any sources these 51 liars would opine on something so essential to the putcome of the election, that they encouraged a lie using their professional credentials, rather than telling Blinkin to go shove it.


11 posted on 04/29/2023 6:15:17 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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It took the author eight paragraphs to get to naming the guy – – it’s Dan Hoffman. We’ve seen him on Fox (back when people were watching Fox, that is).


12 posted on 04/29/2023 6:16:08 AM PDT by Joann37
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Put this in perspective folks. The Deep State wasn’t just rigging an election.

There were willing to place blame on a nuclear superpower and risk escalation of war by accusing them of rigging our elections.

They risked nuclear war to rig the election against Donald Trump.

That’s how evil these scumbags are. They are traitors and they deserve the fate of traitors after a fair trial of course.


13 posted on 04/29/2023 6:17:23 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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These fifty one “former intelligence officials” now take their place in history along side the bigoted “one hundred prominent German physicists” who signed a letter denouncing Einstein.


14 posted on 04/29/2023 6:29:47 AM PDT by allendale
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During their exchange, Hoffman indicated that he received the letter on October 18, 2020, and, at first glance, it seemed natural to lay the blame for the laptop at the Kremlin’s doorstep. But there was no evidence of Russian involvement — which the letter noted (though the media and Joe Biden were seemingly comfortable intimating otherwise) – and he felt like there needed to be a forensic analysis of the laptop and its contents in order to properly determine its origins.

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it was an op all along & they knew it before they signed

so it was actually a fraud


15 posted on 04/29/2023 6:30:45 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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17 posted on 04/29/2023 6:44:24 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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...and now he’s a FORMER chief


19 posted on 04/29/2023 6:51:38 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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Political phrases are subject to fads. You don’t hear the term “dirty trick” any more. If there is any doubt that, if the shoe was in the other foot and this was done by GOP, that phrase would make a big comeback? That whole constellation of activities around the re-election of Nixon were put under the dirty trick umbrella. Yet this letter makes all of those activities into child’s play


21 posted on 04/29/2023 6:59:02 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Obama filled many high positions in government with political operatives. Those that signed the letter were of this ilk. They were political operatives. They knew what they were signing and why.


22 posted on 04/29/2023 7:04:12 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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“all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”

That letter signed by 51 stooges had all the earmarks of a filthy democrat disinfo operation.


23 posted on 04/29/2023 7:11:26 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Hoffman wants to remain a Fox contributor. The fact that DNI Ratcliffe stated at the time that there was no substantiation that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation should have ended the speculation. It was clear at that time the 51 signatories were politically motivated. I don’t understand why that point is not made over and over again.


26 posted on 04/29/2023 7:34:18 AM PDT by kabar
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The “statement” combines two Democrat favorites:

1) Tell the gullible something superficially true, but actually meaningless, to invite them to project their own false conclusions onto a nothingburger. Sure, Hunter’s laptop situation had “characteristics” of a Russian disinformation operation; it’s just that the signatories knew there was a mountain of evidence that the laptop was genuine but omitted to mention it. The signatories gave the opinion that the night sky might have a color and their audience thought “blue”.

2) The “statement” was Mr. Johnny pretending OJ couldn’t get his hand in the glove. Biden-leaning “moderate” voters who don’t follow right of center news, needed an excuse to dismiss candidacy-killing evidence of Biden family corruption, so they could feel ok about voting for someone they knew was a criminal.


27 posted on 04/29/2023 7:37:01 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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May justice prevail upon everyone behind the letter, and everyone who signed it.


28 posted on 04/29/2023 7:56:26 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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