For John, BLUF: Washington does not speak with a single voice, so who to believe? Nothing to see here; just move along.
From PJ Media, by Writer Tyler O'Neil, 19 October 2020.
Here is the lede plus four:
Democrats have been working overtime to discredit the newly released emails ostensibly showing that Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to an executive at the corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma one year before Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian president to fire a prosecutor investigating Burisma. On Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) cooked up yet another Russia conspiracy theory in order to dismiss evidence of Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s corruption. On Monday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe debunked Schiff’s claim.In choosing between Representative Adam Schiff, originally from Framingham, Massachusetts, the head of the House Intelligence Committee, and Director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe, one might ask who is most partisan, or one might ask who has access to the latest intelligence product. In terms of partisanship I think Rep Schiff has the lead. On the other hand, Director Radcliff is the one with a string of intelligence assets.Schiff, notorious for pushing the narrative that Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, seems intent to vindicate his Russia conspiracies.
“We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin,” Schiff said on CNN. “That’s been clear for well over a year now that they’ve been pushing this false narrative about this vice president and his son.”
Ratcliffe emphatically denied this assertion.
“It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence,” Ratcliffe quipped. “Unfortunately, it is Adam Schiff who said the intelligence community believes the Hunter Biden laptop and emails on it are part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
This all from a New York Post article last week, talking about incriminating EMails from Vice President Joe Biden's Son, Hunter Biden. The article, titled "Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad", was banned for almost a week by Twitter.
The larger issue for Americans may be the action that Facebook and Twitter took to suppress information on one candidate during an active election campaign. We, as Americans, can survive corrupt politicians, but we might not be able to survive the loss of the free echange of information inherent in a Free Press.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
2 comments:
Is this the Intelligence Community that Trump distrusts or just his political appointee I am asked to value over an elected representative of the people
I am thinking the political appointee, who I hope is in charge of the Intelligence Community, in accordance with our tradition, where the political schmear is how we ensure the bureaucrats don't take over and dictate policy to the elected officials.
Regards — Cliff
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