Posted on 02/14/2023 2:40:42 AM PST by Libloather
It's now an infamous headline among conservatives and a sore spot for Politico. But at the time, the October 19, 2020, story by Natasha Bertrand had its intended bombshell effect with this headline: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."
Now former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says Politico "deliberately distorted" the letter he and more than 50 others – many of them open Joe Biden supporters – signed. Critics are wondering why the players in the story are speaking out more than two years later – just as House Republicans are investigating the matter – and why they didn't cry foul at their own words being twisted at the time.
"If James Clapper knew Politico and Natasha Bertrand were lying about what their letter said, why didn't he say so then?" journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on Monday. "Reality: the CIA/IC people lying wanted the media to spread this. Only now that someone has to take the hit is Clapper saying Politico lied."
Clapper's remarks showed up in a lengthy fact-check by the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler on Monday, which broke down the letter itself and how it was also falsely characterized by then-candidate Joe Biden in the closing weeks of the 2020 election. Biden claimed at a debate with then-President Trump that intelligence officials had declared the laptop reported on by the New York Post was a "Russian plan." Another letter signer, former deputy director of National Intelligence for analysis Thomas Fingar, told Kessler that no one should be "surprised" by the media or politicians that "willfully or unintentionally" misconstrue statements.
Kessler noted Politico's headline did not accurately reflect the letter's contents, which were not quite as conclusive, but rather suggested the laptop had the "earmarks" of a Kremlin disinformation operation.
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Once we banged-up all of the UFO crap...what’s next? Bigfoot, rabies in NYC, or new drug to make people into zombies?
It took two years for any of the 50+ experts to realize that this very famous and well-publicized letter was “misunderstood”? I don’t think so.
Go to Rumble and watch “Cosmic Hoax”
They are being subpoenaed by Congress!
Officials signing the letter knew they were intentionally misleading the public to cover the Biden family corruption.
Brett Baer interviewed a signatory and the line “earmarks of Russian misinformation “ was the cover story.
No. There’s no walking it back now, A-holes.
Deliberate misinformation and lies on the part of those picked to head our “intelligence” agencies. No wonder there weren’t any WMDs in Iraq, leading to an incredibly costly war, tens of thousands of ruined lives, and constant deception based on nutty conspiracy theories and human sources like Achmed Chalabi with criminal backgrounds you wouldn’t trust to give you driving directions to the next block. “You can take it to the bank, Mr. President”.
Ignore the bast_rds.
Ignore the bast_rds.
These deep staters have a superiority complex that must be compensating for a lack of achievement and intelligence. They never built anything. I don’t consider growing government building by the way. It’s sort of like the dumb schmuck that wins the lottery and goes on a spending spree, except government types forcibly confiscate other people’s hard earn money.
It had the “earmarks” of Russian disinformation....
Anybody ever hear of a case, in all recorded history, of an entire laptop full of someone’s emails, photos, business dealings, family correspondence on all topics, covering years..
Being Russian disinformation? No one’s ever heard of such a case.
Plus it was the guy’s own laptop and he didn’t deny it was all his.
So then what were these “earmarks”? They didn’t exist.
Yep. This “story” has all the hallmarks of Deep State and Corporate Media lying.
James Clapper? He of the Steele dossier and Russiagate cabal? Does he think that is so far in the past that no one will remember?
It was published so the mainstream media would have an excuse not to talk about this clear and compelling evidence of corruption from top to bottom in the U.S. government.
He’s trying to avoid the noose.
There were mobile biolabs in Iraq, there were tons of precursors in Iraq, there was a children’s prison in Iraq, Saddam Hussein did bribe Scott Ritter and others using Khafaji, Salir Vincent, and oil vouchers, there was a prototype of banned equipment found in Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was in violation of the cease fire agreement he agreed to. Zarqawi’s terrorist group -later renamed ISIS and still under his command- did operate in and from both Baghdad and Northern Iraq and Syria prior to the invasion, and before the invasion did assassinate USAID official Lawrence Foley in Jordan. And Zarqawi’s group merged formally with an arm of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Intel people commanded by his red headed General al during the insurgency.
Clapper deserves it.
Such an obvious lie. Brennan prebunked the Hunter laptop story. Biden used it in the debate. Clapper is such obsequious rat. There should be severe consequences for anyone signing the letter.
And there was a phony “insider” named Cueball, and a liar who said he met with AlQaeda in Prague who were supposedly acting in conjunction with Saddam, and the “George Washington of Iraq”, one Achmed Chalabi, who got one-half of one percent of the vote in the Iraqi election for president, and Saddam was supposedly trying to buy uranium or some such thing in Africa, and the population of Iraq used to be 10 percent Christian, and Iraq used to be the sworn enemy of Iran. And we used to have 4500 of our best in uniform who are now dead, and many more thousands maimed and for what?
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