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| Stay silent or double down: What Hunter Biden intel letter signees are doing now |
| 2022-04-07 |
| [Washington Examiner] The former intelligence officials who signed an October 2020 letter baselessly claiming Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop stories are largely remaining silent, though some have continued to defend their signatures, while a few recently returned to government service. The laptop saga has burst back into public view a year and a half after the New York Post published emails belonging to now-President Joe Biden's son, with the New York Times and the Washington Post finally joining a number of right-leaning outlets that had confirmed the authenticity of emails on the laptop. Despite offering no proof, Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed the laptop story as being a Russian disinformation operation. The president called the story a Russian operation during one of the 2020 presidential debates with then-President Donald Trump. He claimed: "There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said this is, has all the — four, five former heads of the CIA. Both parties say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage." The future president was referring to a Politico report about the letter in an article titled "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say." The title was misleading because the letter never directly called it Russian "disinformation." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 "Stay silent or double down." Going with what has obviously worked well in the past. They've got AG Garland wired. I expect the DoJ will take no action one way or the other. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-07 00:42 |