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  • GOP demands ‘experts’ who dismissed Hunter Biden laptop fess up — or face subpoenas

    04/06/2022 3:35:54 PM PDT · by chief lee runamok · 15 replies
    compost ^ | 04/06/22 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Republicans are demanding that 51 former intelligence operatives divulge information about their 2020 statement that documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian disinformation — with a senior GOP aide telling The Post that the ex-spies should expect subpoenas next year if they fail to comply.
  • Dutch spies back in business

    01/24/2004 7:35:43 AM PST · by knighthawk · 2 replies · 88+ views
    Radio Netherlands ^ | January 23 2004 | Hans de Vreij
    For a period of eight years, the Netherlands was one of the few industrialised countries without a foreign intelligence service. But now, the Dutch are back in business, with a brand-new Foreign Intelligence Directorate (DIB) almost fully operational within the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD). Surprisingly, the news has been largely ignored by mainstream Dutch media. In 1992, the government of Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers decided to dismantle the ‘Foreign Intelligence Service' (IDB), after internal feuds and scandals had seriously undermined the service's credibility, both at home and abroad. In addition, there was talk of poor management and overlaps...