Panetta: I Don’t Regret Signing Hunter Biden Laptop Letter, ‘Disinformation Is Involved Here’

Breitbart ^ | 10/14/2023 | Ian hatchett

[ChicagoConservative27]

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” former Defense Secretary and former CIA Director Leon Panetta responded to questions on whether he regrets signing a letter that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation knowing what he knows now by stating, “I think that disinformation is involved here. I think Russian disinformation is part of what we’re seeing everywhere.” And “I don’t have any regrets about not trusting the Russians.”

Host Bret Baier asked, [relevant exchange begins around 4:10] “I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask you about that letter you signed on to from former intelligence officials saying that the laptop and the emails had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation…that letter was used in the debate. I haven’t asked you this, but do you have regrets about that, now, looking back, knowing what you know now?”

[OldArmy52]

Cream and scum rise to the top.
Cream go into private business.
Scum...well, duh...

[sport]

Scum goes into politics or religion.

[caddie]

All the people who signed this letter are traitors.

Need to be followed up on.

Need some time in prison. They will like it.

Maybe be executed. That is what they truly deserve for the deaths of millions.

[outofsalt]

All you can do is wipe your boots.

[Jolla]

Leon Panetta IS disinformation involved here.

[coloradan]

Of course disinformation is involved, the CIA is involved. QED. Their job most certainly isn’t to ensure Americans have accurate information upon which to guide their votes, their decisions, and their lives.

[nesnah]

Says the Clinton lapdog...

[StAnDeliver]

Always worth reposting, especially to jam down the neck of gobsh!te like Panetta.

Editorial: Spies who lie: 51 ‘intelligence’ experts refuse to apologize for discrediting true Hunter Biden story
The NY Post ^ | March 18, 2022 | By Post Editorial Board

Posted on 3/19/2022, 11:25:55 AM by Oldeconomybuyer

"They are the supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation.

But the 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election."

[StAnDeliver]

What someone needs to do is get in Leon's face, and just disgrace him, punch down in real time, like this:

"Look at the Swamp whores who did respond. Their acknowledgment of their complete lack of probity -- and Hepburn practically brags about his own ignorance -- means the deep state needs removal" (or 51 subpoenas, as promised by Kevin Faboo).

• Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC:: “My position has not changed any. I believe the Russians made a huge effort to alter the course of the election . . . The Russians are masters of blending truth and fiction and making something feel incredibly real when it’s not. Nothing I have seen really changes my opinion. I can’t tell you what part is real and what part is fake, but the thesis still stands for me, that it was a media influence hit job.”

• Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum: “I don’t have any comment. I would need a little more information.”

• Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico: “I have not seen any information since then that would alter the decision behind signing the letter. That’s all I can go into. The whole issue was highly politicized and I don’t want to deal with that. I still stand by that letter.”

• Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: “I’ll pass. I haven’t followed the case recently.”

Well well well... here are 4 subpoenas that ought to be a f---ing hoot.

Dumb Hepburn now lists himself on LinkedIn as "Mg Partner" of something called Senile Solutions Company Former Company LOFL. Joking but just barely. Can't wait to hear from him, although JK Rowling might want to get a protective order against this delusional white knight...

Don't bother deleting the Twitter account shit-for-brains, I've already archived it and forwarded the link to the appropriate Committee...

Jonna Hiestand Mendez, this old broad was a mustache-and-spirit-gum disguise 'expert'. That was her employment. Mistress of disguises. I mean, she's another hoot waiting to happen in front of Congress. Perhaps she will answer her subpoena in a wig and mustache herself. She is a fugly old Karen who likes to hear herself talk. Don't discount the possibility she may hand the GOP an ammo dump.

Emile Nakhleh is such an important spy genius he was banished to freaking New Mexico 8 long years ago (just like Dumb Wise!). He holds himself out as a "Consultant" on LinkedIn -- so enjoy your renewed infamy answering this GOP Congressional subpoena, Mr. Consultant. In other words, lawyer up pruneface.

Greg Treverton says, "I'll pass." Wonder why? Wikipedia: "Treverton was implicated in a dispute with Oxford University Press and a former graduate student regarding his 2015 book National Intelligence and Science: Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy. Oxford University Press found that Treverton had plagiarized a substantial portion of a chapter in his book from white papers by the graduate student, who was eventually named a co-author of the chapter." Plagiarizing Greg is near and dear to Biden's heart!

[StAnDeliver]

I do not understand why, given the facts of the Hunter Biden laptop, why people refuse to humiliate the Russian Hoax perpetrators, when it could be done so goddamn easily.

This void that Rush has left is absurd.

[TakebackGOP]

This is another thing that Kevin McCarthy didn’t begin doing, having hearings on the 51 intelligence officers. Panetta is a fraud.

[irishjuggler]

Exactly. Shame on Bret Baier for insufficiently coming down on Panetta for spewing such obvious bulls—t.

[Pearfect]

What a LIAR.

DEMOCRATS LIE.

[antidemoncrat]

“I think that disinformation is involved here”

Just another word the Democrats use when they see something that disagrees with their “truths” ... along with disinformation and malinfonation

[brookwood]

‘I think Russian disinformation is everywhere”
Leon, the sun rises in the East. Is that Russian disinformation?
Leon you’re a shameless liar. That is not disinformation.

[Liz]