{"id":133875,"date":"2020-12-15T04:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-intel-veterans-lied-about-russian-plot-and-the-media-bought-it-hook-line-and-sinker\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T04:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T01:06:19","slug":"us-intel-veterans-lied-about-russian-plot-and-the-media-bought-it-hook-line-and-sinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-intel-veterans-lied-about-russian-plot-and-the-media-bought-it-hook-line-and-sinker\/","title":{"rendered":"#US intel veterans lied about \u2018Russian plot\u2019 \u2014 and the media bought it hook, line and sinker"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#US intel veterans lied about \u2018Russian plot\u2019 \u2014 and the media<\/a> bought it hook, line and sinker<\/strong>”
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If there is one thing that the Hunter Biden laptop episode has proved, it is that former directors of the CIA aren\u2019t as adept at evaluating evidence as advertised.<\/p>\n

Five former directors or acting directors of the CIA signed a letter asserting that the laptop, first reported by this news<\/a>paper in the weeks before the election, \u201chas all the hallmarks of Russian information operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 50 former senior \u00adintel officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapp<\/a>er, signed the letter, which was used by the Biden campaign and the media to discredit the damning e-mails about Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n

The signatories should have thought better of their missive when they felt compelled to \u00adinclude the line, \u201cWe want to emphasize that we do not know if the e-mails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump\u2019s personal attorney, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

That also should have tipped off reporters to the fact that the letter was rank speculation masquerading as informed analysis. But true to form, they happily ran with it instead.<\/p>\n

In a complete reversal from the Cold War era, journalists in the Trump years have not only reflexively believed representations from national-security professionals about nefarious Russian plots, they have actively sought them out and promoted them.<\/p>\n

In this case, it was former US \u00adintelligence officials who were spreading disinformation in an \u00adattempt to mislead the American public about a consequential matter touching on the front runner in an American presidential campaign. The call came from inside the house.<\/p>\n

Anyone believing the officials, who used their past titles and long experience to lend credibility to their letter, would have been shocked to learn last week that Hunter Biden is under federal investigation for tax crimes.<\/p>\n

According to news reports, the laptop hasn\u2019t advanced the investigation, but the feds have looked at it, and there\u2019s no indication that it\u2019s foreign disinfo.<\/p>\n

The provenance of the laptop wasn\u2019t, to paraphrase Winston Churchill\u2019s famous line about \u00adSoviet foreign policy, a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, but as simple as Hunter Biden \u2014 not the most careful person \u2014 accidentally leaving it at a Wilmington, Del., repair shop.<\/p>\n

The idea that the Russians were behind the laptop was always far-fetched. Certainly, no one would ever accuse Rudy Giuliani, who brought the device to light, of being a credible source of information. But if the Russians were behind it, they would have had to fabricate the laptop, drop it off at the repair shop, hoping that the owner would eventually look at it and be alarmed enough to tell someone about its contents \u2014 or compromise the repair shop owner and make him a tool in their operation.<\/p>\n

This might have been plausible, if we, indeed, have been living in a Russian spy novel for the last five years. We haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Still, Democrats and the media relentlessly hewed to the Russian disinformation line. Of course, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spouted it: \u201cWe know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin.\u201d Biden used it to deflect during a debate with Trump: \u201cThere are 50 former national-intelligence folks who said that what he\u2019s accusing me of is a Russian plan[t].\u201d And the press, like Lesley Stahl of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d did in an interview with Trump, insisted that there was \u00adabsolutely nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know where the Hunter Biden story ends up. But if he gets indicted, it\u2019s at least going to be a significant distraction for President Biden and raise questions about how much he knew about his son\u2019s sketchy dealings.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of story voters should be aware of when choosing a president. And they would have been if there hadn\u2019t, in effect, been an American conspiracy to misinform people, led by former US intelligence officials who shamefully abused the public trust.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RichLowry<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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