Intelligence experts suspicious of Ratcliffe laptop story ...

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Intelligence Experts Suspicious of DNI Ratcliffe On Laptop Story

 

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Intelligence Experts Suspicious of DNI Ratcliffe On Laptop Story

Talk about wordsmithing. The man said:

“The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that.”

So there is no evidence of any foreign involvement in the thing. And there is no intelligence investigation into it. There's likely a criminal investigation into because supposedly there was child inappropriate contentography on the laptop. But that is not an intelligence investigation.

For someone to go through all that to create the lie they are trying to tell means someone is getting desperate.

 

[A_Thinker]

Talk about wordsmithing. The man said:

“The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that.”

So there is no evidence of any foreign involvement in the thing. And there is no intelligence investigation into it. There's likely a criminal investigation into because supposedly there was child inappropriate contentography on the laptop. But that is not an intelligence investigation.

For someone to go through all that to create the lie they are trying to tell means someone is getting desperate.

From the link ...

"The chief of the U.S. intelligence community appeared to pre-judge the conclusions of an active FBI investigation.

If the FBI is still working to determine whether a dubious New York Post story was the fruit of a Russian disinformation campaign, then why did the nation’s top intelligence leader denounce the notion on TV this morning?

That’s what some veteran intelligence professionals are asking after Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox Business that the Post story and a laptop that purportedly belonged to Joe Biden’s son are “not part of some Russian disinformation campaign” and “The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that.”

“If the issue is being investigated as part of Russian interference into the election, it's hard to believe it would be wrapped up yet,” said Matthew Miller, who led the Justice Department's public affairs office from 2009 to 2011. “The whole thing is utterly confusing, which is why Ratcliffe shouldn't be weighing in at all. If there is an investigation, it should be conducted quietly and the government should speak with a credible voice when they have something definitive to tell the public. Obviously, Ratcliffe isn't a credible voice, and it seems pretty clear he's just playing the political role he was appointed for in the first place.”

The DNI “violated several cardinal rules” Monday morning, said Ned Price, a former CIA intelligence analyst who served as a National Security Council spokesperson and as a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama. “Among them, he inserted himself in the middle of a partisan issue, he at the very least lent the appearance that he was boosting the President's campaign, and he appears to have gotten ahead of intelligence analysis and law enforcement investigations.”

Price noted that even if Ratcliffe’s account is true and the intelligence community has not yet found evidence directly linking the reported laptop contents to a hostile foreign actor, that didn’t mean that such evidence didn’t exist. “That's to say nothing of a reportedly ongoing law enforcement investigation into the matter, which no federal official should ever prejudge or prejudice, as Ratcliffe appeared to do,” he said."
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"Clinton Watts, a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a former FBI special agent said “I cannot imagine that the FBI would in any way be able to determine if this was [Russian] disinformation before the election. This takes at a minimum weeks or months.” He said that the FBI would probably not comment on-the-record about an active investigation."