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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
It was bad enough that 51 of the nation’s top intelligence officials declared in Oct. 2020, at the height of the presidential campaign, that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” But now the flagrant dishonesty of the whole affair has gotten exponentially worse, for any lingering doubt that these officials had access to adequate information when they published their assessment has been put to rest: it has now come to light that the FBI found the laptop to be authentic months before the intelligence officials told the world that it wasn’t. The last doubt that the 51 officials were brazenly lying to the American people has been removed.
It’s important to remember exactly who it was who lied to us. The chief signatory was James Clapper, who is listed on the letter as the former Director of National Intelligence, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
You can’t get more of a U.S. intelligence insider than James Clapper. Clapper, 82, has spent practically his entire life in the intelligence field; he has been working in intelligence since he commanded a signals intelligence detachment in Thailand during the Vietnam War. To be sure, he has previously shown his willingness to sacrifice the truth to political expediency. Back in 2011, he notoriously labeled the Muslim Brotherhood, which has repeatedly stated its goal of imposing Sharia (Islamic law) over the entire world, as “largely secular.”
That was right around the time that the Obama administration was selling Muslim Brotherhood uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa as a secular “Arab Spring” flowering of democracy, so Clapper was doubtless reflecting his boss’ agenda. Still, he showed himself to be either clueless or craven and only confirmed that by becoming the chief signatory to the Biden laptop letter even when he must have known that it itself was disinformation.
Also signing the letter were three more of the heaviest hitters in Washington’s intelligence establishment: Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, as well as of the NSA; another former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who also served as Secretary of Defense during the Obama administration; and a third former CIA director, John Brennan, who also served as White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor and Director of the Terrorism Threat Integration Center.
There were, of course, 47 other signatories, including two former CIA Acting Directors, John McLaughlin and Michael Morell; Russ Travers, former acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program.
All 51 of these people, who were entrusted with the nation’s most sensitive secrets and the responsibility to protect it from its enemies, lied outright to the American people and to the world. Just the News reported Sunday that long before the letter they signed was written, “the FBI had authenticated the device as belonging to the first son and prosecutors had expressed confidence its contents had not been manipulated, according to a contemporaneous IRS investigative memo.”
The author of that memo was “IRS Supervisory Criminal Investigative Agent Gary Shapley, now a whistleblower.” It “provided a chronology of how the FBI validated the laptop as having belonged to Hunter Biden as early as November 2019 and by spring 2020 was exploiting and analyzing its emails, text messages and photos.” Shapley wrote in the memo that “we have no reason to believe there is anything fabricated nefariously on the computer and or hard drive. There are emails and other items that corroborate the items on the laptop and hard drive.”
Clapper, Hayden, Panetta, Brennan, and the others saw the assessment that nothing on the laptop had been “fabricated nefariously,” and they wrote, “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, 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.”
This was not the weaselly escape clause they intended it to be, as when they wrote this, they had easy access to the FBI memo saying that nothing was fabricated nefariously and that other items corroborated what was on the laptop.
This is the apex of political corruption. These people should be formally barred from holding any position in the American government ever again. But their friends and cronies are still in power, so expect them to be given awards instead.
The 51 IC prominent individuals lied and should never hold office again
Try voting them out.
Yes; but they end up in “trusted” think tanks (spin tanks) which have influence over all things political. How do we neuter them?
How? With a Marine K-bar.
Those who banned the NY Post article and the laptop info months before the election THEY are the ones who elected Biden. Just a few months after the election 6% of those who voted for Biden said they would NOT have which is enough for a Trump landslide. No need for ballot harvesting shenanigans etc. that ALONE is purest election tampering and Mark Zuckerberg was, above all, the man who stole all of our votes and destroyed our democracy.
They should be criminally prosecuted and convicted for election interference and related crimes. That was obviously their intent. Also, since the FBI had already determined the laptop to be the real deal, where was it in debunking the odious 51’s letter? Not only did it not tell the public that it had looked into the laptop and found it genuine but, to the contrary, was out there actively promoting to social media and who knows who else that it was part of a “hack and leak” operation while it knew it was not.
I fear the ambition of those obsessed with power.
I fear Horowitz was right, and there may be no more legitimate national elections.
Leon Panetta was stupid enough to use 1,2,3,4 as a pass word, and get phish hacked.
Brennen is a communist prick who looks like El Duce’, and deserves a similar fate.
Paradise is where you find it.
For political wirepullers and influence peddlers that would be contemporary America.
They’re thriving. [ Not to be confused with contributing. ]
HAVE ANY OF ADMITTED they were given knowingly false Intel, that they were DUPED, and now demanding Heads? THEY’RE LAUGHING! Harry Reid: “We won didn’t we!”
There’s that word – KNOWINGLY! I recall another “conspiracy theory” that used that term! Odd how all of our “conspiracy theories” have been proven! Now we need to get people in office and in positions who will PROSECUTE the REAL CONSPIRATORS!!
By the way, who murdered Phil Haney and Seth Rich?
Something to think about…… https://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/every_president_has_been_manipulated_national_security_officials_david_talbot_investigates_americas_deep_state/
In order to make that determination and statement by the “notorious 51” would they not have had to examine the laptop in question? If so, then did the FBI just allow 51 people seemingly unrelated to the case to examine crucial evidence? And then they made public statements about it. Unethical for sure. Unlawful???
Lets all take a vote and vote the Democrat Jackass off the Island
The price these cretins will pay won’t be exacted in this life. However…
Think if good people worked as hard at doing good as evil people work at doing evil.
The C.I.A. should stand for Crooked Intelligence Advice . I think Congress should make this a top priority for consideration to more accurately reflect what they really do for us.
Integrity takes a lifetime to build but a moment to destroy. The loss of credibility is a very serious miscalculation because the reputation will never be restored. These 51 men and women have sold out and will forever be known as traitors to America and their own worst enemy. The next Trump administration is a threat to their freedom because only then will they pay the piper. It appears that Trump is the only one courageous and tough enough to speak the truth to inveterate con men.
If Shapely, using FBI resources, was able to have previously determined that the laptop was genuine, then either the 51 IC members were:
A. Speaking without a strong grasp of the true evidence, or
B. Lying.
The fact that unlike Shapely, they spoke as a large group and couched their opinion in an obliquity rather than a direct statement, would indicate the later option.