.[NYPost] They are the supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation.
But the 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election.
The officials, including CNN pundit and professional fabricator James Clapper — a man who was nearly charged for perjury for lying to Congress — signed a letter saying that the laptop “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. “We do not know if the emails . . . are genuine or not,” the letter said. They’re just “suspicious.” Why? Because they hurt Biden’s campaign, that’s evidence enough.
Keep in mind this was written Oct. 19, 2020, five days after The Post published its first story. Neither Joe Biden nor Hunter Biden had denied the story, they simply deflected questions. Didn’t these security experts think that if this was disinformation, the Biden campaign would have yelled to the heavens that the story was false?
The Post contacted all fifty-one of the original signers to get their reaction to the fact of the New York Times’ story, and publishes their responses.
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Former FBI Director seems to have boarded the gravy train, too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10624113/NYT-finally-admits-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-real-year-DailyMail-com-confirmed-authenticity.html
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I have installed a new filter in my brain. I always mentally insert the word "garbage" before the word "expert" whenever I come across it. This improves my speed of processing the information.
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^-- Kind of insulting to actual real 'Garbage Experts' isn't it?
#7
Could always distinguish by calling them rubbish laureates or sanitation engineers.
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Yes, there was an actual conspiracy to spike this damning story 3 weeks before the election.
They lied. They suppressed the truth of Biden and his son and brother's corruption and years of influence-peddling while receiving payoffs from our enemies.
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For most it was at least a future career decision, for many also a political statement. I suspect many had no actual direct information and were accepting the consensus. Hayden surprised me, but the CNN gig recently has dimmed that surprise a bit. One guy was honest and I think at least thoughtful:
Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director: “The letter explicitly stated that we didn’t know if the emails were genuine, but that we were concerned about Russian disinformation efforts. I spent 25 years as a Soviet/Russian analyst. Given the context of what the Russians were doing at the time (and continue to do — Ukraine being just the latest example), I considered the cautionary warning to be prudent.”
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/\ Yes, Hayden surprised me as well. I was shocked to see him come out against Mike Flynn. Kept waiting for Keith Alexander to be thrown into the briar patch with Flynn, but he survived it. \
Hayden went with 'the team' (IC community) against the Orange Man. They knew better, but refused to do better, followed Brennan and Clapper like a pack of honds.
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Certainly if their goal was to enhance American security, lending their professional credibility to facilitate a Biden presidency has not worked out well. Rather than asking them to apologize, wouldn't it better to ask them how they were fooled by Hunter Biden? How is it that a punk crackhead took millions from the CCP under the noses of all these intelligence experts? Surely, they would have done something to stop this if they knew about it. Hunter Biden had them fooled, so why should we value any of the intelligence products that they provide at the cost of our tax dollars?
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maybe the punk crackhead or his dad has something on the CIA
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Or maybe the CIA and State Department have ceased to serve our national interest sometime in the 1960's.
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/\ Very likely Hose. But what at this point, does it matter. Nothing will change. It is best we be concerned only about breakfast.
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[NYPOST] Sometimes a newspaper story is just a story about someone. And sometimes the story inadvertently reveals far more about the newspaper itself.
That’s the case of the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... ’ Thursday piece on Hunter Biden. What the discerning reader learns about the Times is far more important than anything disclosed about the president’s scheming son.
The one bit of actual news is that Hunter Biden took out a loan to pay the federal government as much as $1 million in back taxes as part of a continuing criminal probe about his business ventures with foreign corporations and individuals.
But that fact, which comes in the very first paragraph, is dwarfed by the Times’ bombshell acknowledgment later on. Much later on.
It’s not until the 24th paragraph that the story mentions emails involving Hunter Biden and his associates in those deals, followed by these two sentences: "Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation."
Heart be still. It took the Gray Lady nearly 17 months to grudgingly concede even a fraction of what New York Post readers learned in October 2020. Of course, Times readers would have learned all that too if their paper were still in the news business instead of being a running dog for Democrats.
The Post revealed those emails and many, many more after it came into possession of the contents of the same laptop’s hard drive. Post readers also know the Times was part of the Big Government, Big Tech and Big Media cabal that tried to hide those emails from the public during the 2020 presidential election.
The reason for that coverup was simple: Many of the emails to and from Hunter Biden implicated Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... in the international influence-peddling business run by Hunter and Joe’s brother Jim Biden.
If the whole country knew then that Joe Biden was corruptly using his office to help his family cash in, we would now be in the second year of Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s second term. That’s a fact because 8% of Biden voters told pollsters they would have supported Trump had they known about the bombshell contents of the laptop.
But the Times, Facebook, Twitter, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... and the deep state couldn’t let that happen. They had spent four years trying to drive Trump out of office, mostly by falsely alleging he had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. They were determined he would not get four more years.
So as a corollary to their reporting fake news about Trump, when they had real news about Biden family corruption, instead of reporting it and letting users share it on social media, they conspired to bury it.
Blame them for Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency.
And now the Times has the gall to act as if it did heroic digging by claiming Thursday the emails "were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation." Oh, please.
Unlike the Times, The Post didn’t rely on anonymous sources, saying openly that Rudy Giuliani gave the paper a copy of the laptop’s hard drive. Giuliani said it came from a repairman in Delaware, whom The Post also interviewed. He said a man who signed his name as Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off for fixes and never retrieved it.
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So as we already knew it was a massive election coverup.
Now, will those involved (Hunter-DOJ-FBI-IRS-Biden Admin) in the conspiracy to coverup a felony be criminally indicted?
BTW: If media leaders assisted in the coverup for political reasons, shouldn't they be indicted also?
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NYT Lede 3/20/22: "Evidence suggests Walter Duranty may have been less-than-candid in previous Times stories about Soviet behavior in Ukraine. Some Factcheckers disagree"
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He said a man who signed his name as Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off for fixes and never retrieved it.
Because that's the kind of thing crack addicts do.
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[THEEPOCHTIMES] Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a new interview that he is considering stepping away from the position he’d held since 1984.Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was asked during a podcast released March 18 whether he was mulling retirement or transitioning to a less-demanding job.
"I certainly am because I’ve got to do it sometime," Fauci, 81, said.
"I can’t stay at this job forever, unless my staff is going to find me slumped over my desk one day. I’d rather not do that," he added.
Fauci was appointed to his position in 1984 during the Reagan administration.
Fauci’s comments came after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) failed in his effort to get support for a measure that would eliminate the NIAID and create three new institutes in its stead.
Paul, who has clashed with Fauci during multiple congressional hearings, said Fauci has become has become a "dictator-in-chief."
"No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans," Paul, a doctor, said.
Fauci and his agency had not responded to requests for comment on the measure.
Paul and other Fauci critics have taken issue with how the doctor misled the public on his agency’s funding for the Chinese lab located near the first cases of COVID-19 were recorded, his support for harsh measures during the pandemic, and his admission that he lied about the effectiveness of masks because of worries there wouldn’t be enough for health care workers.
Fauci, who has also been preparing for investigations Republicans have pledged into the COVID-19 response, has called Paul a partisan whose accusations aren’t rooted in facts.
Without mentioning Paul, the podcast host asked Fauci in the new interview whether he would leave his post soon, noting that besides Dr. Francis Collins, who exited from his position as director of the National Institutes of Health in late 2021, Jeffrey Zients was stepping down as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator.
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He’s a narcissist. He’s not going anywhere unless, MSNBC is willing to pay him Chris Cuomo money. Why would he trust some lackey to not throw him under the bus. As far as Tony is concerned, the American people can’t handle the truth.
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[NYPOST] The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... signed this week — the first since he took office — has the biggest hike in domestic spending in four years. But not all programs are equal. Climate-change boondoggles get billions while border-security funding is slashed by nearly a half-billion — even as illegal crossings continue to spike.
It’s a recipe for disaster as officials expect an overwhelming flood of migrants colonists within weeks as Biden prepares to lift the COVID-deportation measure.
The package boosts domestic spending by $46 billion, a nearly 7% hike. But it gives US Customs and Border Protection just $14.8 billion, a $428 million decrease from fiscal year 2021. (Factor in inflation, and the cuts are even deeper.)
The nosedive comes as illegal-immigrant apprehensions along the southwestern border skyrocketed in February to nearly 165,000, a 6.6% increase over January — and a 350% increase over February 2020, just after Biden took office and threw open America’s doors.
Heartbreaking images of massive numbers of migrants colonists huddled under a bridge at the Rio Grande made headlines last year. This year’s crisis is likely to look even uglier. Authorities are bracing for a colossal crush of up to 170,000 people once the administration lifts the Title 42 public-health authority allowing (but not mandating) quick expulsion. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... instituted Title 42 at the pandemic’s start, and it’s been upheld in court under Biden.
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[NYPOST] Andrew Sonny Cuomo on Thursday would not rule out a bid to oust Gov. Kathy Hochul — telling news hounds he was "not going anywhere" during his second public appearance since resigning in disgrace last summer. Asked after his speech at a Bronx church if he would run against Hochul, the ex-governor delivered a meandering response while leaving the door open on a longshot comeback attempt. He moaned about how he went through "a very difficult year," while noting his brother Chris Cuomo was fired from his job at CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , before saying, "I am more committed to fighting and fighting hard to do the right thing, so government works."
"I am not going anywhere," he added, implying a campaign announcement could be in the offing. "I am going to continue to fight the good fight."
The answer on a potential run for office came after he blasted fellow members of the Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... for their "radical" positions and charged they perpetuate "cancel culture" at a Bronx church where he spoke the invitation of the controversial ex-councilman Ruben Diaz Sr.
The speech was Cuomo’s latest attempt to spin his decison to step down under threat of impeachment amid several scandals — including his documented sexual harassment of 11 women, misuse of government resources to write his $5 million pandemic memoir and misleading the public about COVID-related deaths in nursing homes — as his being a victim of "cancel culture."
Pressed after his remarks if he will launch a bid to reclaim his old post in a primary challenge of Hochul — Cuomo’s lieutenant governor who took over after he resigned, becoming the state’s first woman governor — Cuomo replied, "I am open to all options."
"Look, I have been through a very difficult year and did a lot of soul-searching. I have been blessed. I have three very beautiful daughters and a very beautiful family. I served as your Governor and I am so proud of the way I did it," he told news hounds.
"I have a lot of options. I am open to all of them," he said before joking, "I am hoping for an offer from the New York Jets. I still think I could play wide receiver.
"I am open to all options and I am going to leave it at that."
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He is not going anywhere. Nobody knows where he is. It would make for a game of hide and seek, but everybody would just rather he stay there all alone.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Democratic candidate for governor Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... is looking for ways to close a persistent gap in the polls with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... , backing off his far-left stance on border security, gun ownership and other hot-button issues.
The O’Rourke pivot is a glaring bid to turn out the party’s more moderate base and win over independent voters in the conservative state.
Mr. O’Rourke, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 2018 and made a failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination a year later, has been campaigning nearly nonstop to unseat Mr. Abbott after easily winning the Democratic primary on March 1.
Polling shows Mr. O’Rourke consistently lagging behind Mr. Abbott, though only by single digits, leading some analysts to predict a close race.
Since announcing his candidacy in November, Mr. O’Rourke has shifted his position on key issues, including gun rights, border security and school curricula. "I challenge Mr. Abbott to a skate-off!"
The Abbott team says the shift, which appears to be aimed at attracting the state’s more moderate Democrats and independents, is a sign that Mr. O’Rourke’s campaign is struggling.
"He’s been all over the place on all the issues," said Mark Miner, an Abbott campaign front man. "He’s on this extreme Texas makeover tour where every stop he comes up with a new position."
Democratic strategists say Mr. O’Rourke has not flip-flopped but has refined his positions on some issues, including gun control.
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There's always a fringe candidate ready to sweep up the disgruntled far-left votes. Beetle just doesn't have that much maneuvering room.
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The best comment on him still comes from that cover story (was it GQ?) showing him in jeans with a pickup and his hands in his rear pockets. The caption was, "See? I can too find my rear end with both hands."
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A lot of people around here really dislike Abbott, and though they won't vote for O'Rourke I fear they may just not vote.
Ya mean Dem policies suck and few people like them? Is O'Rourke a Dino? Or a Rino? You have to run as something you are not in order to have a chance? Manchuria candidate? He's stuck in infantilism.
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"Mr. O’Rourke has not flip-flopped but has refined his positions on some issues. He still feels as strongly about these issues as before, but now in the opposite way."
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O'Rourke is running only because of the cashflow that goes from his fundraising through his "vendors" back into his personal bank account. He sucks as a candidate. I am sure that everyone in Texas outside of Austin knows that he is a clown that you wouldn't hire to run a shift at McDonalds. He said he would take all the guns, LA liberals sent him money, now he says that he won't take guns, no gun owners are fooled. This is all a dodge for him. He will follow up his concession speech with the announcement of his 2024 presidential campaign. What you won't see him do is work a job. Winning is for suckers.
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This is another Democrat head fake. Like candidate Joe Biden the "reassuring, sensible moderate"
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He was not electable for statewide Texas office when people liked Democrats. Dem likability is now -10 nationally, that includes California and Oregon. Beat Hoe has no chance. He is doing us a favor by sucking resources away from viable candidates. Unless he is an idiot, he knows he has no chance. He is electable for office like Mayor of Austin, but that would probably require work and would likely be a pay cut. Because I am not his accountant, I have no idea how much he is raking in with this gig as a failed politician. It must be lucrative or he would be in Stelter’s spot on the CNN Primetime line-up.
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[NYPOST] Looks like Gov. Kathy Hochul has gotten the message on crime. Good for her — and good for New York, too.
Hochul, as this newspaper first reported exclusively Thursday, has abandoned her puzzling timidity on public safety and is pushing legislation that would tighten New York’s notorious no-bail laws, target both young gunslingers and subway crime generally and beef up the state’s power to detain and treat the mentally ill — against their will, if necessary.
And there’s the key word: necessary.
It is necessary for Hochul to do this — just as it is necessary that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins face down their lunatic-fringe progressive caucuses and not only take up Hochul’s 10-point public safety plan, but not gut it in the process.
That is, it is necessary that New York confront and defeat crime and serious civic disorder, just as it did a generation ago, and for the most fundamental of reasons: A society that will not do its best to protect its citizens from predation has no moral claim on their loyalty, their industry or their resources.
Eventually, it will wither and fade — which is precisely where New York was in 1993. Hochul, up for a full term in the June primary, now seems to want no part of that.
But why the change?
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All talk.
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Once again: 'The polling must be absolutely brutal"
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The NYC prosecutor is Soros-backed and has been put in place specifically to destroy the city so that the proles will accept The Reset. Hochul is not getting in the way of that as she is on the same team. She’ll orchestrate a pantomime of activity but accomplish nothing and blame somebody – probably conservatives. Biden will do the same thing regarding increasing American energy production. There will be a puppet show, but some vital element will remain blocked.
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I’ve read that the Republican candidate for governor actually has a real chance, but I know nothing more — not even his name.
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A plumber with no campaign budget knocked out a top Dem in NJ. The national environment is heavily in favor of GOP candidates. African American and Latino voters are giving the GOP a look. Hochul may still win, but the easiest path would be for her to remove the DA in NYC. That is the only way to restore order in the city. It is within the governor's power and only within the governor's power to remove the DA. I don't think she will do it. I expect the GOP candidate to pound the issue.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Dr. 
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...every time you hear the phrase 
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
