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WSJ: Musk's Twitter files shows real "disinformation" threat is America's former intel leaders
Point of order: Didn’t we learn that in 2013 when James Clapper perjured himself before Congress? And didn’t we learn that the American media enthusiastically facilitated that disinformation potential by hiring Clapper and former FBI executive Andrew McCabe after getting fired for lying to investigators? Among dozens of others?
We did indeed, but the editors of the Wall Street Journal want to underscore that point in the release of Twitter’s files on the Hunter Biden laptop story. They also note the media’s complicity in promoting this “disinformation,” even in the face of independent corroboration:
Recall that former Democratic intelligence officials James Clapper and John Brennan led the spooks in issuing a public statement suggesting that the laptop may have been hacked and its content was Russian disinformation. On Oct. 16, 2020, Mr. Clapper told CNN that “to me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work.” On Oct. 19, 51 former spooks released their statement claiming that the arrival of the emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” (The statement and signers are published nearby.)
We now know that the Clapper-Brennan claims were themselves disinformation and that the laptop was genuine and not part of a Russian operation. CBS News recently waddled in two years later with a forensic analysis of its own and concluded it is real.
But the claims by the spies gave an excuse for the media to ignore the Hunter Biden story and even to dismiss Hunter’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, who went on the record before the election to confirm much of the content on the laptop with documentation in the form of voluminous text messages.
~Snip~Here’s a thought: perhaps news orgs should rethink the idea of hiring ex-intel leaders as “analysts.” Especially those who have already demonstrated a predilection for lying, either in public or during investigations. If media outlets are interested in actual news and analysis rather than sef-serving spin, that is.
Clearly, they have something else in mind.
The real disinformation threat didn’t turn out to be the laptop or the Russians. Strictly speaking, it’s not even the political hacks who left the intel community to peddle their manipulative crankery on television. It’s the media outlets themselves who hired perjurers as analysts and then pushed their perjury as truth through one national election and almost through another.
Commentary:
The corrupt FBI interfered in the Presidential Election. Threw it to Biden.
Read that again, slowly.
The FBI interfered in the election, period.
This is a larger scandal than the Russia Collusion lie operation (See: Operation Crossfire hurricane). And that was the biggest ever, in America’s history.
The FBI threw the election to Biden!!!!!
They read Rudy’s emails (illegally), found out he gave the Hunter laptop info to Miranda Devine (NY Post), read her emails, knew exactly when the story would drop. Right before, the FBI told Twitter, FaceBook, etc., to be on the lookout for a hacked Russian October surprise.
They shut down the truth completely. Tanked the story. Banned people who shared it.
Then the FBI and did the “53 former Intelligence official hotshots sign the letter, laptop is Russian disinformation!” scam, the second phase in this treasonous ops.
The FBI and former Intelligence officials threw the election to Biden, period. And have been indicted or tried!!!
Meanwhile, Congress as voted themselves immunity from prosecution for lying, libel and slander while in office
Americans are starting to realize it. Maoist Democrats deny it.
