For months in the run-up to the 2020 election, the U.S. intelligence aristocracy, almost to a man, said that Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop and its contents were “Russian disinformation.”
The people who poo-pooed the laptop numbered 51.
Last week, the New York Times stamped its imprimatur on the laptop’s authenticity in a long story about Hunter Biden’s status as a tax deadbeat and possible prosecution as an unregistered foreign agent. That import of the story was that President Joe Biden and his spear carriers lied when they called the laptop “Russian disinformation.”
And here is what the Post heard from the 51 when it asked each and every one to react: Crickets.
E-mails, Nude Photos
Multiple news reports confirmed the authenticity of the laptop and its contents long ago. Left at a repair shop in Delaware and given to Rudy Giuliani, an aide to President Trump, the laptop contained nude photos of Biden, photos of Biden with a crack pipe in his mouth, and e-mails that showed Biden had connected his father with big business deals in China and Ukraine.
The Bidens’ shenanigans in the latter ended in the Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scheme, wherein then-Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings, an energy company. It just happened to employ Hunter and add him to its board, despite his record as a dangerous drug addict and complete lack of experience in the energy business.
Eager to dump Trump, the Deep State sprung to defuse the bomb about to explode in Joe Biden’s face. Just before the election, drug-induced carelessness had exposed the family’s dirty secret. The Bidens are up to their elbows in dirty global business deals.
The laptop and everything on it, Deep Staters said, is “Russian disinformation.” Among them were the 51 intelligence elites.
The Times confessed the truth deep into its story about Hunter Biden’s paying a overdue $1 million tax bill, and the possibility that he broke the law by serving as a highly paid mouthpiece for foreign countries. The machine and its incriminating e-mails are real, the newpaper reported:
Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
Last week, the Post called those intelligence officials to see what they would say.
“No one actually proved The Post’s reporting was wrong,” the newspaper editorialized:
Media outlets showed up at the doorstep of the computer repairman who had gotten the laptop, and he confirmed it. People who exchanged e-mails with Hunter Biden attested to their accuracy in the days and weeks that followed.
Only after the election was safely over did Hunter tacitly admit the laptop was his. Last year, a Politico reporter confirmed that the laptop’s materials were real. And now, the coup de grace: The Times said it’s “authenticated” material from the laptop.
And, of course, what was either a dereliction of duty in reporting the truth, or straight-up lying to protect Biden and sink Trump, will not be punished.
“There have been no consequences” for the lies about the laptop, the Post continued:
Twitter and Facebook still censor information based on political bias, and Congress takes no action. Many of the letter signers continue to be used as “experts” by the media. Clapper, for instance, spent years on CNN calling Donald Trump a “Russian asset,” a lie invented and fed by political operatives of Hillary Clinton. He’s still there. Guess accuracy is not a condition of employment.
And so Posties contacted the Fabulous 51 intelligence officials. Thirty-nine “didn’t respond,” the Post reported, including Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, and John Brennan, all former directors of the CIA.
Others said they qualified their remarks at the time to say the e-mails simply weren’t authenticated.
The one intelligence official who told the truth and said the laptop was not “Russian disinformation” was Trumps DNI, John Ratcliffe.
“The intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that,” he said.
Media Lied Too
It wasn’t only the 51 who were either flat wrong or flat-out lied. They had plenty of company in the leftist media, as The New American reported on Friday.
“Good,” the Daily Beast’s Wajahat Ali tweeted when Twitter and Facebook censored the Post and even shut down its account. “Russian disinformation meant to harm our democracy shouldn’t be given mainstream platforms.”
Neocon Max Boot, who bloviates in the Washington Post, went further:
The @nypost story about Hunter Biden is false — and quite possibly part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The Ukrainian prosecutor wasn’t actually investigating Burisma. He was, in fact, complicit in corruption — which is why Biden demanded he be fired.
No, it wasn’t false. It was true. No apology necessary, apparently.
