{"id":419534,"date":"2022-03-22T00:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/james-clapper-and-our-other-intel-experts-are-full-of-it\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T00:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:36:10","slug":"james-clapper-and-our-other-intel-experts-are-full-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/james-clapper-and-our-other-intel-experts-are-full-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#James Clapper and our other intel &#8216;experts&#8217; are full of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a367f5a6ccc6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a367f5a6ccc6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/james-clapper-and-our-other-intel-experts-are-full-of-it\/#%E2%80%9CJames_Clapper_and_our_other_intel_%E2%80%98experts_are_full_of_it%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;James Clapper and our other intel &#8216;experts&#8217; are full of it&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJames_Clapper_and_our_other_intel_%E2%80%98experts_are_full_of_it%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;James Clapper and our other intel &#8216;experts&#8217; are full of it&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/newspress-collage-21601223-1647897720338.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>America has never had so many intelligence \u201cexperts.\u201d And they\u2019ve never been so wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Start with Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201cnow authenticated\u201d laptop (actually authenticated in October 2020).<\/p>\n<p>The Post asked for comment from the 51 former intel-community bigwigs<strong> <\/strong>who signed an October 2020<strong> <\/strong>letter suggesting \u2014 with zero proof, as they admitted \u2014 that the laptop info was somehow part of a Russian disinformation operation. Most declined to respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The few who did mostly doubled down. Notably, former Director of National Intelligence James Cl<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er told us: \u201cI stand by the statement made AT THE TIME . . . I think sounding such a cautionary note AT THE TIME was appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which means our former DNI, who also served as undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was clearly either dead wrong or flat-out lying. (Note that he dodged a perjury charge for lying to Congress about NSA data collection practices in 2013).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why do major \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\u201d networks like CNN and MSNBC still bring these \u201cexperts\u201d on? Why do Politico and The New York Times keep publishing them?<\/p>\n<p>Their credibility should be less than zero at this point.\u00a0Events have proved time and again that they either can\u2019t get basic facts right in their area of expertise \u2014 spies and spying \u2014 or they\u2019re so insanely partisan that they will fudge, fib and falsify anything if it furthers their political goals.<\/p>\n<p>Add in Clapper\u2019s history of hyping hysteria (and that of others among the \u201cfoolish 51\u201d) on Russiagate, the Clinton-campaign-run smear claiming Donald Trump colluded with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They got that wrong, too \u2014 taken in by Beltway political operatives.<\/p>\n<p>This rogue\u2019s gallery has also helped stoke the panic over \u201cdisinformation\u201d (i.e., any opinion unpopular with Democrats or real information that embarrasses a Democrat) that  has gained a stranglehold on the minds of so many liberal or lefty commentators, journalists, legislators and Silicon Valley censors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We wonder how <em>that<\/em> crusade is going to look five years down the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s trust in its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> institutions is stuck near historic lows. With people like Clapper providing \u201cexpert\u201d analysis, that\u2019s no wonder. <\/p>\n<p>Get them off the air and out of print, and let the truth have its say.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Post asked for comment from the 51 former intel-community bigwigs who signed an October 2020 letter suggesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/newspress-collage-21601223-1647897720338.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[127029,4941,43,70867,27951,106058,991,5079],"class_list":["post-419534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-21-22","tag-donald-trump","tag-editorial","tag-hunter-biden","tag-intelligence","tag-james-clapper","tag-joe-biden","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}