According to this story from MSN, "The 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter
suggesting Russia was involved with the Hunter Biden
laptop saga, are now silent regarding the lies they told.
If they were not lying, they are incompetent clowns.
If they were lying, they were complicit in rigging the election and allowing the criminally involved, incompetent and feckless Biden to win.
By extension, we can pin the responsibility for every victim of the current Russian invasion on them.
Our spies are criminal. The only question is whether they are criminally incompetent or criminally corrupt and dishonest.
Which is it? My guess? All of the above.
The OP article uses the word 'silent' . It's not that they are silent or refusing to comment. They just don't think responding to the WE is worth a sh*t . Among the 50 people who signed the letter, most don't have any respect for the WExaminer or don't care enough . The NY Post article link in the WE article showed a litany of people who declined to respond. A few were polite, and their responses show the disrepect or contempt for the WE:
“I’ll pass. I haven’t followed the case recently.”
“As far as I know I do [stand by the statement] but I’m kind of busy right now.”
Then, there are some who signed and are not silent. They signed a letter saying that it walked like a duck and talked like a duck, or a russian. THe letter did not claim proof. I am aware that Biden used the letter during the debates, but that doesn't include anyone who signed it. THere were others who politized the letter, but that doesn't change what the letter itself said. There are claims about what is in the letter that are not true, and that doesn't change the letter itself either.
Emile Nakhleh said the reportedly Russian-backed SolarWinds hacks “underscore my thinking that the whole Hunter Biden email incident is part and parcel of the Russian disinformation operation and persistent ugly campaign against the United States. I have not seen any information since then that would alter the decision behind signing the letter. That’s all I can go into. The whole issue
was highly politicized and I don’t want to deal with that.
I still stand by that letter.”
David Cariens, a former CIA intelligence analyst, told the outlet that “I think the current investigation [into Hunter Biden] is probably bogus, and being pushed by [Trump] as
he seeks revenge on Biden.”
Nick Shapiro spoke to the
merits of the statement they signed.
Kent Harrington, a former national intelligence officer for the CIA,
defended signing the letter to National Review, saying: “The travesty created by [Trump], his enablers at home, and the Russian exploitation of Trump’s venality continue," and people needed to speak out.
Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC: “
My position has not changed any. I believe the Russians made a huge effort to alter the course of the election . . . The Russians are masters of blending truth and fiction and making something feel incredibly real when it’s not.
Nothing I have seen really changes my opinion. I can’t tell you what part is real and what part is fake, but
the thesis still stands for me, that it was a media influence hit job.”
Hunter may be on his way into a court. THe charges that are most likely at the time are FARA infractions. Only the DOJ knows if there might be charges coming from the laptop contents.
The NYT first reported that the laptop was linked to Hunter and that there were questions about it more than a year ago, a week before the election. This is not new. So the headline saying that the signitories are silent really means that no one is asking in a forum that would facilitate a discussion. Meaning the WE doesn't count as a meaningful source of news or information.
Did you read the NYT article that the NY Post article links to?
Who will change their next vote based on this? If there are several folks who signed the letter and still stick to their position, how is the NYT wrong, and please cite the exact lie being claimed. I'm not sure how this adds up to a political victory for trump. Please do explain.
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