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2022-03-19 -Great Cultural Revolution
51 garbage intelligence experts refuse to admit error on laptop letter
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.[NYPost] 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.

The officials, including CNN pundit and professional fabricator James Clapper — a man who was nearly charged for perjury for lying to Congress — signed a letter saying that the laptop “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. “We do not know if the emails . . . are genuine or not,” the letter said. They’re just “suspicious.” Why? Because they hurt Biden’s campaign, that’s evidence enough.

Keep in mind this was written Oct. 19, 2020, five days after The Post published its first story. Neither Joe Biden nor Hunter Biden had denied the story, they simply deflected questions. Didn’t these security experts think that if this was disinformation, the Biden campaign would have yelled to the heavens that the story was false?
The Post contacted all fifty-one of the original signers to get their reaction to the fact of the New York Times’ story, and publishes their responses.
Posted by Glalet Slaiger2825 2022-03-19 12:50|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 Former FBI Director seems to have boarded the gravy train, too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10624113/NYT-finally-admits-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-real-year-DailyMail-com-confirmed-authenticity.html
Posted by jack salami 2022-03-19 14:06||   2022-03-19 14:06|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-19 14:36||   2022-03-19 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 You'd think people who knew everything would smile more.

/sarc
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-19 14:37||   2022-03-19 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 We've got a Democrat president to elect here. Damn his son's laptop full speed ahead!
Posted by jpal 2022-03-19 16:01||   2022-03-19 16:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I have installed a new filter in my brain. I always mentally insert the word "garbage" before the word "expert" whenever I come across it. This improves my speed of processing the information.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-03-19 16:43||   2022-03-19 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 ^-- Kind of insulting to actual real 'Garbage Experts' isn't it?
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-03-19 16:52||   2022-03-19 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Could always distinguish by calling them rubbish laureates or sanitation engineers.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-19 16:58||   2022-03-19 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, there was an actual conspiracy to spike this damning story 3 weeks before the election.

They lied. They suppressed the truth of Biden and his son and brother's corruption and years of influence-peddling while receiving payoffs from our enemies.

Yes, the election was stolen.
Posted by Woodrow Hatrack4089 2022-03-19 17:13||   2022-03-19 17:13|| Front Page Top

#9 For most it was at least a future career decision, for many also a political statement. I suspect many had no actual direct information and were accepting the consensus. Hayden surprised me, but the CNN gig recently has dimmed that surprise a bit. One guy was honest and I think at least thoughtful:
Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director: “The letter explicitly stated that we didn’t know if the emails were genuine, but that we were concerned about Russian disinformation efforts. I spent 25 years as a Soviet/Russian analyst. Given the context of what the Russians were doing at the time (and continue to do — Ukraine being just the latest example), I considered the cautionary warning to be prudent.”
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-19 18:57||   2022-03-19 18:57|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Yes, Hayden surprised me as well. I was shocked to see him come out against Mike Flynn. Kept waiting for Keith Alexander to be thrown into the briar patch with Flynn, but he survived it. \

Hayden went with 'the team' (IC community) against the Orange Man. They knew better, but refused to do better, followed Brennan and Clapper like a pack of honds.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-19 19:04||   2022-03-19 19:04|| Front Page Top

#11 cowards
Posted by Ulaiper Slulet2694 2022-03-19 19:45||   2022-03-19 19:45|| Front Page Top

#12 They just went lockstep with Brennan and the Klingons. All doubts about who the 'Shadow Government' was, were swept way downstream.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-19 19:53||   2022-03-19 19:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Certainly if their goal was to enhance American security, lending their professional credibility to facilitate a Biden presidency has not worked out well. Rather than asking them to apologize, wouldn't it better to ask them how they were fooled by Hunter Biden? How is it that a punk crackhead took millions from the CCP under the noses of all these intelligence experts? Surely, they would have done something to stop this if they knew about it. Hunter Biden had them fooled, so why should we value any of the intelligence products that they provide at the cost of our tax dollars?
Posted by Super Hose 2022-03-19 20:06||   2022-03-19 20:06|| Front Page Top

#14 maybe the punk crackhead or his dad has something on the CIA
Posted by Knuckles Protector of the Leprechauns6145 2022-03-19 20:36||   2022-03-19 20:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Or maybe the CIA and State Department have ceased to serve our national interest sometime in the 1960's.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-03-19 20:50||   2022-03-19 20:50|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ Very likely Hose. But what at this point, does it matter. Nothing will change. It is best we be concerned only about breakfast.

"We're not owners here, Karen. We're just passing through."
~ Denys Finch Hatton
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-19 21:55||   2022-03-19 21:55|| Front Page Top

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