ANALYSIS โย In December 2020 Iย wrote aboutย how 50 former U.S. intelligence officersย became part of a Democrat electionย disinformation campaignย to hurt Donald Trump and aid Joe Biden by claiming Hunter Biden's laptop was part of a nefarious Russian spy plot.
I noted this was coordinated election interference by high-ranking former intelligence officials.
And their effort succeeded โ proving, as I said โ that: โDemocrat disinformation is far more dangerous than Russian.โ
But few followed this lead for over a year. Until now. (RELATED: Outlet Belatedly Decides Media Should Reassess Hunter Biden Laptop Story)
The list of intelligence luminariesย (aka partisan hacks) used by the Democrats to discredit the Hunter Biden story included five former CIA Directors and former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper.
They allย signed a letterย asserting, with ZERO evidence, that Hunter's laptop, โhas all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.โ They did this, despite their own disclaimer noting that they didn't know if the Hunter Biden emails from his laptop were genuine or not, and that they had no evidence of Russian involvement.
And of course, there was no evidence, because it was not.
Yet even now, 18 months later, after The New York Timesย admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop is real, and โauthenticated' the emails, none of these partisan hacks has paid any price for their malfeasance. (RELATED: CNN Now Says There's a โRealistic Chance' Hunter Biden Could Be Indicted)
Many refuse to comment, though a few of the more shameless ones have doubled down in the face of all evidence to stand by their deception.
DNI James Clapperย told theย New York Postย that he stands by the statement โmade AT THE TIME,โ adding, โI think sounding such a cautionary note AT THE TIME was appropriate.โ
That same New York Postย piece last weekย provides a full list of the 51 former spooks who signed the letter, and their responses (or lack thereof) to requests for comment on their deceptive letter in the face of recent corroboration of the laptop story by The New York Times and others.
And let's be clear โ by signing this fake letter calling the bombshell New York Post story about Hunter's laptop, โRussian disinformation,' they almost single-handedly derailed its potentially devastating effect on Joe Biden at the polls.
The Oct. 14, 2020 Post story about the laptop and emails came as some voters were still deciding whether to vote for Biden or Trump.
And the letter, which was sent out just five days later, on Oct. 19, 2020, served as the core ofย a Politico story calling the Post's laptop story โRussian disinformation.โ That one Politico story then changed the entire media narrative, being quoted ad nauseam by the establishment media and partisan Democrats alike. (RELATED: Joe Biden Makes US Dangerously Dependent Since Hunter Biden Sold World's Richest Cobalt Mine to China)
After the Politico story, Democrat Adam Schiff โ chairman of the House Intelligence Committeeย shamelessly went on to claim on CNN about the laptop story,ย โWe know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin.โ
As the Postย explains:
โฆpure speculation by a group of biased officials became gospel among the media. This was โfake news,โ and could be safely ignored.
Keep in mind that Twitterย already had bannedย The New York Post a few days before. The rationale was that this was โhacked materials,โ even though it wasn't โ and Twitter had no evidence to think it was. A Facebook official, meanwhile, said it wasn't going to allow the sharing of The Post's story until it was โfact checkedโ by a third party โ a check that never happened.
Thus, Big Tech, former government officials, andย the media conspiredย together to bury a story.
No, not just bury โ create a false narrative that flipped the script to make Joe Biden the victim of a conspiracy.
In short, they peddled online disinformation to sway an election.
And yet no consequences.
And to make matters worse,ย John Sipher, who served for decades as a senior operations officer at the CIA and was one of those whoย signed the letter, now admits that the fake letter he signed helped bring down Trump.
In a recent Twitter feud with former Trump DNI John Grenell, he said,ย accordingย to The Epoch Times:
โI take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump. I lost the election for Trump? Well then I [feel] pretty good about my influence.
Though Sipher claims this post was sarcasm, it sounds like an admission of guilt to me. Sipher alsoย wrote that โthe letter didn't say the laptop was disinformation,โ but, in May 2021,ย reportsย The Epoch Times, he posted a link to the Politico story that did say that.
Again โ this was coordinated domestic disinformation and election interference by Democrats and former U.S. intelligence officers to sway an election. There must be consequences.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
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Remember, the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies are populated by people who were hired and trained by these traitors. Treason has become a way of life in Washington.