Because he's the current DNI
Lol, no I literally had to google search that one and it was the first I happened to find. I assumed there wouldn't be any funny business with the story I remembered about it and I posted it. It wasn't the one I was thinking of.
To be fair I agree that article is crap actually reading through it. It doesn't actually say anything while babbling on.
This is a little better source and I think the one I read at the time. Seems to be based on a report from the House. I assume all this was posted earlier in this thread but I haven't been following it so I can't say for sure. Wasn't intending to talk about anything more than the whistleblowers testimony released yesterday because it hadn't been posted here.
Just before the last 2020 presidential debate, 51 of the former officials signed a letter saying the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop had the "earmarks" of a Russian operation.
www.cbsnews.com
I assume this is what it's based off. And what I think is suspicious.
A former CIA official testified that then-Biden campaign senior adviser, now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken "played a role in the inception" of the public statement signed by current and past intelligence officials that claimed the Hunte
judiciary.house.gov
"In his transcribed interview, Morell testified that on or around October 17, 2020 you reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story," they wrote. Blinken, at the time, was a senior adviser to the Biden campaign.
"According to Morell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morell's reaction to the Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement," they wrote.
Morell testified that the Biden campaign "helped to strategize about the public release of the statement."
"Morell further explained that one of his two goals in releasing the statement was to help then-Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist him in winning the election," Jordan and Turner wrote.
Morell testified: "There were two intents. One intent was to share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue; and, two, it was to help Vice President Biden."
Morell was asked why he wanted to help Biden.
"Because I wanted him to win the election," Morell testified.
Behind paywalls so I haven't read them. But they're all based on the same report I'm assuming.
Dozens of former intelligence officials signed a letter discounting the laptop’s contents. Republicans say the missive was part of a Biden campaign operation.
www.nytimes.com
We’re now learning that his campaign helped gin up the disinformation about Hunter’s laptop.
www.wsj.com
I'll bite.
Apologies to everyone for the very long post, which I try to avoid whenever possible. I didn't want to respond to cmcartman's posts. But it was just getting to be too much.
CBS news article, lot of conjecture, no proof of tampering by Joe Biden. Lot of GOP bitching about lack of cooperation. You know, the same political leaders like Gym Jordan who decided to ignore a subpoena from Congress, and was referred to the House Ethics Committee complaint. The same committee the GQP then dismantled when they were in charge, but that's getting ahead of ourselves. No Biden conspiracy proven.
House.gove article. It's just reporting actions by the House, so no spin either way. The gist of it is, Gym Jordan thinks he's a genius and has a smoking gun, but has nada. Michael Morell last served the Director of the CIA in 2013. He's now a private citizen. I'd doubt he had direct knowledge into any investigation on the Hunter laptop at that point. A lot of conjecture on the part of the GQP, especially from Gym Jordan. No actual proof of any misconduct on Joe Biden's part or Morell's part. I mean, who would have thought that when running for office, you'd want to spin potentially negative news in a positive light? And that you'd enlist people you worked with to help you couch a response? There was no proof, or even a hint, of a coverup. And spinning is not outright lying like what Trump does. No Biden conspiracy proven.
NY Times article. So James Clapper Jr served as a high level intelligence officer, until January of 2017. But again, former intelligence official. As the article states, the GQP had him in for a closed door questioning, over his public letter, which was written in 2020, well after he left his post as an intelligence officer. Clapper expressed doubt about the Hunter laptop, and believed it to be part of Russian propoganda. That is Clapper's right as a private citizen to offer such analysis. You can disagree with the analysis. That is your right. But as everyone knows, Russians have aided Trump in political campaigns. That is a FACT. Clapper's conclusion that this could be more aid by Russians to Trump is grounded in FACT. Here is something that cannot be proven as fact even now, that Hunter's laptop contains some sort of smoking gun proving Joe Biden did something illegal. Whatever it proves about Hunter, that's on Hunter. No Biden conspiracy proven.
WSJ article. This is an opinion piece. I could call Trump Jr a gay father humper in an opinion piece and wouldn't need to prove any of my words. Starts off with the same premise about somehow there was some sort of conspiracy by Blinken, who was Biden's presidential campaign manager, with Michael Morell, a private citizen, to somehow trick the American public. As per previous thoughts, there is a difference between positive spin, and outright conspiracy. Any conspiracy is conjecture. Even the GQP who had access to the damn laptop has proven nothing other than it contains illicit drug use by Hunter, and his dick picts. I'm sure the GQP are jealous that Hunter has a bigger penis than any of them. Especially Trump. We know Trump has small hands. We're also fairly certain Trump has penis envy. No Biden conspiracy proven.
So here are my thoughts. Hunter Biden is a flawed man. Doesn't make him an evil man. Doesn't mean jack shit because he's a private citizen, even if his father holds high political office. And Joe Biden is not the only president, ex or otherwise, with a flawed drug addicted son (hi Trump Jr).
@cmcartman, if you want to debate in an intelligent fashion, there are plenty who would trade ideas with you. However, from all of your posts, it's very clear that's not what you're after. You show all the signs and actions of a right wing nutjob.
You believe that writing a lot of words somehow make your words more true. You ignore facts when it inconveniences your flawed argument. You like to "both sides" the argument when the mountain of facts against your conspiracy nutjob theories are too much for you to ignore. While you couch your personal attacks better than some other right wingers here, one of your arguments is still questioning the thinking abilities of anyone who debates you on facts. Which is funny considering how many facts you choose to ignore. Hell, you won't even fucking admit a damned armed insurrection (Jan 6) is bad.