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Government Corruption

Mayorkas Names Russia Hoaxers, Laptop Deniers Brennan, Clapper to Intelligence ‘Experts' Panel

2023-09-20

[Breitbart] Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas said Tuesday that he had named Russia collusion hoaxers and Hunter Biden laptop deniers John Brennan and James Clapper to an intelligence "experts" panel.
51 of them?
In a statement, Mayorkas announced "the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group (Experts Group) ... comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator."

The group will analyze "foreign nation-state adversaries" as well as "domestic violent extremists."

Brennan, a former CIA director, and Clapper, a former Director of National Intelligence, were key players in spreading the "Russia collusion" hoax to discredit the 2016 election, with Clapper telling CNN that it was possible there was evidence linking Russia to Trump, then admitting under oath that he knew of no evidence.

Brennan claimed that Trump’s protestations of innocence were "hogwash," though Special Counsel Robert Mueller later found that no American, including on the Trump campaign, had colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.

Later, as Breitbart News noted, Brennan and Clapper joined more than 50 national security and intelligence alumni in a letter claiming that stories during the 2020 race about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation. In fact, the laptop was real, and the stories — published by the New York Post, Breitbart News, and others — were proven accurate. But the letter, arranged by Joe Biden’s campaign, served to deflect criticism from the candidate.

It is unclear how Brennan will advise the Department of Homeland Security, given that President Trump revoked his security clearance in 2018, in reaction to Brennan’s increasingly unhinged political attacks on the president.

Gateway update on DHS "Expertengruppe"

[Gateway] On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security led by the failed Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced a new "group": the "Homeland Intelligence Experts Group." The "Experts Group" will operate under the Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Ken Waintstein, as well as Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen (a Biden Laptop letter signee), to "provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Counterterrorism Coordinator to support DHS’ vital work to protect our country."

According to a press release, the group will be comprised of "private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s I&A and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator."

Today, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Ken Wainstein, and Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen announced the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group (Experts Group). The group is comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s I&A and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator.

"The security of the American people depends on our capacity to collect, generate, and disseminate actionable intelligence to our federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, campus, and private sector partners," said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. "I express my deep gratitude to these distinguished individuals for dedicating their exceptional expertise, experience, and vision to our critical mission."

"The Homeland Intelligence Experts Group is being formed at a time of unprecedented challenge, with the U.S. intelligence enterprise facing threats from a range of malign actors, to include foreign nation-state adversaries, domestic violent extremists, cyber criminals, drug-trafficking cartels and other transnational criminal organizations," said Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Ken Wainstein."The Experts Group will be an invaluable asset as we navigate through this evolving threat and operating environment and continue to strengthen our efforts to protect the Homeland."

"The homeland threat environment is more diverse, dynamic, and challenging than at any point in our post 9/11 history, with threats tied to an array of different terrorist and violent extremist ideologies and narratives," said Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen. "The experience, expertise, and perspective offered by Experts Group members will undoubtedly put the Department in a strong position to confront this threat landscape, and we are grateful for the willingness of the Experts Group members to serve in this important capacity."

The "Experts Group" will consist of some controversial individuals including Hunter Biden Laptop "Spies Who Lie", "Russia, Russia, Russia" promulgators and others discredited in recent investigations including:

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 One and a half more years to go then the nightmare will end!

At least that's my hope!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-09-20 17:06

#6 I&A’s most complex problems and challenges, including terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology.

for example how to set up more domestic terrorist events, how to import more fentanyl, how to open up the border and new technology that can be used against Americans...

Posted by: airandee 2023-09-20 15:58

#5 Someday there will be a round up of traitors. In this case, they have voluntarily self-identified. Every once in a while the cops run a sting where they round up criminals with a fake television giveaway. This panel format would work great for that.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-09-20 15:51

#4 The Junta's Counterterrorism CC, and we've been assigned the role of terrorist.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-09-20 10:06

#3 The Experts Group members are the following:
John Bellinger, Partner, Arnold & Porter (Former Legal Advisor, Dept of State and National Security Council) -- John Brennan, Distinguished Fellow, Fordham U. School of Law and U. of Texas at Austin (Former Dir, CIA) -- James Clapper, CNN National Security Analyst (Former Director of National Intelligence) -- Rajesh De, Partner, Mayer Brown (Former Principal Deputy Asst Attorney General for Legal Policy and NSA General Counsel) -- Thomas Galati, Senior VP, East Coast Security Operations, NBC Universal (Former NY Police Department, Chief, Intelligence and Counterterrorism) -- Tashina Gauhar, Senior Director, Compliance, Strategy and Policy, Boeing Company (Former Associate Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice) -- Asha M. George, Executive Director, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense (Former Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Homeland Security) -- Karen Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham U. School of Law -- Emily Harding, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Int Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Former Deputy Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) --Paul Kolbe, Sr Fellow and former Director the Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center (Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency) -- David Kris, Co-Founder, Culper Partners LLC (Former Assistant Attorney General, Nat.Security Division, Department of Justice)== Michael Leiter, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center) == Elisa Massimino, Executive Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Law -- Gregory Nojeim, Senior Counsel and Director, Security and Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy & Technology -- Francis Taylor, Principal, Cambridge Global Advisors (Former Under Scry for Intel and Analysis, DHS) -- Caryn Wagner, Former Under Secy for Intelligence and Analysis, DHS -- Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, Lawfare.
The Experts Group will meet four times annually and leverage the expertise of each member to provide input on I&A’s most complex problems and challenges, including terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology.

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-09-20 09:37

#2 We'll have a new name rather than Benedict Arnold for traitors or Judas Iscariot for betrayers.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-09-20 08:14

#1 Kindof a roundabout way of being a whistleblower on the oldschoolers, eh.

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-20 00:15

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