Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2023-05-15 Government Corruption
Mike Morell can't clean up this ‘dirty' letter that was meant to secure Biden's 2020 win
[NYP] Now we know that the CIA conspired with former acting director Mike Morell and the Biden campaign to produce a letter falsely claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation — and solicited signatures from at least one former intelligence official.

But there is much more to come from the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees on the origins of that "Dirty 51" letter cooked up by five former CIA directors and 46 fellow spooks to discredit The Post’s reporting on the laptop.

John Brennan, the Obama-era CIA chief, admitted to House investigators in a four-hour closed-door deposition last week that the letter was "political."

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, is slated to appear next week.

Brennan and Clapper also were involved in the Hillary Clinton campaign’s Russia hoax against Donald Trump and have lied to Congress previously without sanction, but it is unlikely the new breed of Republicans conducting these investigations will be as lenient as their predecessors.

Why does the letter matter? Because it was crucial to saving Biden’s skin to deny that he had met with his son Hunter’s Ukrainian paymaster Vadym Pozharskyi while he was VP, as The Post reported on Oct. 14, 2020, citing evidence from the laptop.

The Biden campaign knew that the laptop was a serious political liability.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-15 07:40|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Miranda Divine squarely nails it. These people not only have their fingers on the scales, they have their hands on the rudder of the nation.

They are NOT our friends, and likely never have been.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-15 07:43||   2023-05-15 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Morell is a rat of some standing
May 18, 2015, Mother Jones: "The Bush White House made a “false presentation” on “some aspects” of the case for war. “That’s a big deal,” [Chris] Matthews exclaimed. Morell replied, “It’s a big deal.”
And there’s more. Referring to the claims made by Bush, Cheney, and other administration officials that Saddam was in league with Al Qaeda, Morell noted, “What they were saying about the link between Iraq and Al Qaeda publicly was not what the intelligence community” had concluded. He added, “I think they were trying to make a stronger case for the war.” That is, stronger than the truth would allow.
Morell’s remarks support the basic charge: Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead."
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-15 09:09||   2023-05-15 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't? LMAO - not only are they not trying, they're rubbing our faces in it. We all know the game and we all take our assigned seats.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-05-15 12:40||   2023-05-15 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Exactly CORRECT !

Yes. they are running things and all they desire from us is that we sit down and shut up !
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-15 12:43||   2023-05-15 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Ex-CIA chief admitted that the 'Dirty 51' letter 'WAS political' as agency conspired with Biden campaign to produce it and falsely claim emails on Hunter Biden's laptop were Russian disinformation
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-15 15:35||   2023-05-15 15:35|| Front Page Top

17:48 49 Pan
17:38 Lord Garth
17:29 alanc
17:09 BrerRabbit
16:13 Pancho Poodle8452
16:08 Beavis
16:08 Lord Garth
15:52 Lord Garth
15:28 trailing wife
15:26 Pancho Poodle8452
15:26 trailing wife
14:34 Frank G
14:28 Melancholic
14:27 NoMoreBS
14:14 swksvolFF
14:12 swksvolFF
13:54 mossomo
13:51 mossomo
13:50 NoMoreBS
13:50 Abu Uluque
13:44 Abu Uluque
13:41 NoMoreBS
13:39 Abu Uluque
13:36 mossomo









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com