Posted on 02/26/2024 5:34:20 AM PST by MrRelevant
The Justice Department’s assertions this week that a longtime FBI informant was seeking to “spread misinformation” designed to hurt President Joe Biden after speaking to Russian intelligence operatives has put a new spotlight on an old debate:
To what extent, if any, has the Russian government manufactured or amplified unproven allegations of corrupt Ukraine dealings by Joe and Hunter Biden?
In a request to revoke his bail, prosecutors said that former informant Alexander Smirnov, charged last week with lying to the FBI in 2020 when he said Joe Biden had received a $5 million bribe, “is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials” as recently as last fall.
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Total BS. They are railroading a man because he spoke the truth about the Biden crime family. Just another in the long line of frame ups by the FBI.
This is a real stretch
This is outrageous and the letter wasn’t about the Hunter Biden scam it was about the Hunter Biden laptop in particular.
We are in a post-Truth society. Everyone knows this is BS, but we’re supposed to accept it anyway.
This is going to be the official escape plan, Hunter was just a victim of Russian dis-info. Sweep it all under the carpet.
What a bunch of baloney...
The Ukes deny/recant the stories about the Bidens to keep the war money coming in. This guy is collateral damage.
Wasn’t part of his job description as a confidential informant to talk to intelligence officials and try to get information? So wouldn’t he have been doing his job talking to them?
Just in time for the election.
Interesting how this propaganda outlet tries to equate “lying” with spreading information that may very well be true.
It’s even more comical when you consider that NBC News wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t in the business of “amplifying” manufactured stories that ultimately prove to be FALSE.
Vindicated that they said the laptop was Russian misinformation and printed it across the media?
Daddy, we are winning in Ukraine, aren’t we?
Did these same individuals (names, please!) also warn that the slanderous misinformation campaign against Donald Trump had "Russian fingerprints" all over it?
No, didn't think so!
Regards,
These cretins will soon be telling us that the Ashleigh Biden diary was Russian misinformation. You know, the diary where Ashleigh reveals how she became sexually dysfunctional because of her showers with Joe Biden when she was 11 years old.
I am sure Putin forced Ashleigh to write that into her journal just to make Biden look bad.
Also, those photos of Hunter molesting his niece Natalie, that was Russian propaganda as well. Don’t believe your lying eyes. /spit
Except it didn’t and this was a public lie clearly meant for purposes of election interference....as everybody knows. So much so that even the corporate media finally stopped lying and admitted the Laptop was Hunter’s the whole time a year or so ago.
FTA
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Derogatory information, purportedly from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, had surfaced in a New York Post article. Soon afterward, 51 former intelligence officials signed and blasted to the media a letter warning that the laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The letter continued: “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails … 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 laptop data included embarrassing photos of Hunter Biden with prostitutes and numerous selfies of his penis— and emails that detailed his business dealings in Ukraine and China. The mainstream media largely ignored it, while Twitter and Facebook put restrictions on the sharing of the New York Post story.
After mainstream news organizations verified portions of the laptop material, the letter became a focus of anger among Donald Trump and his supporters. They branded the group of mostly Biden supporters as “spies who lie” and accused them of election interference, saying their letter suppressed coverage of a story that reflected poorly on their candidate.
The House Judiciary Committee hauled some of them in for sworn interviews, and in May published a report titled, “How senior intelligence community officials and the Biden campaign worked to mislead American voters.” Some received death threats.
Now, many of those former officials say they feel vindicated by the allegations against the FBI informant.
No public evidence has emerged pointing to a Russian government role in how the laptop materials were made public. But the former officials say the materials fueled stories consistent with Russian efforts to accuse Biden of corruption that persist to this day — and that therefore they were justified in sounding the alarm.
“It validates exactly what we were warning about,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a 26-year CIA veteran who supervised operations involving Russia. “Ours was a prudent warning. The Russians were going to push this narrative of Hunter Biden and corruption, to hurt Joe Biden.”
Polymeropoulos, who spent much of his career in counterterrorism, said he received emails saying he and his family should be hung, and a barrage of crank phone calls. Another signatory, former CIA operations officer John Sipher, says he was also targeted by threats.
Sipher said the group never claimed that material about Hunter Biden was made up — only that the story fit a narrative being pushed by people with ties to Russian intelligence, including some who had met in Ukraine with Trump’s lawyer and adviser Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani had provided the laptop materials to the New York Post.
“This has always been an ugly political game from the beginning,” Sipher said. “Anyone who actually bothered to read the letter would realize that the focus was on warning about Russian subversive efforts prior to the 2020 election.”
He added, “The recent revelations show that we were prescient. While I would love to gloat, the important issue remains the same — foreign interference in American democracy, and unethical, cynical and faithless behavior by members of Congress entrusted to provide oversight of our important institutions.”
Russell Dye, a spokesman for the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, responded: “The Hunter Biden laptop was always real and always authenticated. They knew, or should have known, that and they still ran with their verifiably bogus letter. The people who signed the letter should feel zero vindication.”
L.A. Times Disowns Reporter Outed as a CIA Collaborator
Recently released emails indicate that prominent national security reporter Ken Dilanian shared stories prior to publication with CIA press office seeking their approval
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/la-times-disowns-reporter_b_5770388
Weiss, directed by joeybag’s crook pals is trying to defuse his own “prosecution” of hunter biden— one MORE attempt to get the little bastard off, since he couldn’t arrange a total immunity deal when the judge threw out the whole arrangement (one sharp judge).
Smirnov was released and the very next day on the same charges arrested again— can’t make this clown keystone prosecutor up— he’s a classic Delaware pimp.
Ludicrous for the “51” intel signers (who once again say they were just “commenting” on the laptop- yeah,right not how the press handled that statement) to try to rescue their sorry a@@es by saying they are “vindicated”. All the crap about Giuliani is proof of all that.
Multilevel continuous crap- including all the domestic efforts against the steal FISA based intel operation within the US. Against Trump. This Dilanian clown even lets the cat out of the bag describing how they rigged the FISA (all of which has been proven, against Carter Page, Manafort, etc.) This is out there now, coupled with the Ukraine “we gotta have 60 billion more for the kickback” effort right now.
Synchronized and absolutely full of it lies. They name the seeing eye dog Greek guy.. he must be retired now but still on the kickback payroll. All of it pivoting on the obviously true and provable with bank documents progress of the impeachment investigation ongoing. Hunter is a slimy worm— and this is Abbie Lowell’s handwork as well. The photo of pie eyed hunter, his attorney a bodyguard and behind him his hippie bong smoking 2 million dollar pal who paid some of hunters taxes, another slime ball drug clown.
As pointed out this is all hooked to the Cartels who partner with joeybags and the dems.
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