James Clapper Claims He Didn’t Really Mean Hunter Biden’s Laptop was a Russian Plot

[rangerrebew]

James Clapper Claims He Didn’t Really Mean Hunter Biden’s Laptop was a Russian Plot

“All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation."
February 14, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 16 Comments


Hunter Biden’s laptop is so mainstream now that even the 50 former intel officials who falsely suggested that it was Russian disinformation are now backing away from that claim and blaming the media.

The Washington Post fact check by Glenn Kessler seems belated, but I suppose better late than never, and the fact check grudgingly exonerates the ex-intel officials, while laying the blame on Biden, as if the latter wasn’t just taking the bait that had been laid out by the “experts”.

And it features our old pal Jimmy Clapper trying to disavow the infamous letter.

 https://www.frontpagemag.com/james-clapper-claims-he-didnt-really-mean-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-a-russian-plot/

[rangerrebew]

This clown is an embarrassment to the Navy!

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Such a crock.

He and every other single signatory of that letter knew perfectly well how it was being spun back then.  They saw their letter repeatedly being cited as evidence that the laptop was actual Russian disinformation, and said nothing to contradict that interpretation. They said nothing then because that's exactly what they wanted the public to think - that they believed it was Russian disinformation.

Now that the tables have turned, they're trying to hide behind a literalist interpretation of their letter to deny they ever intended anyone to think they were calling it disinformation.

Complete b.s..

[Bigun]

Such a crock.

He and every other single signatory of that letter knew perfectly well how it was being spun back then.  They saw their letter repeatedly being cited as evidence that the laptop was actual Russian disinformation, and said nothing to contradict that interpretation. They said nothing then because that's exactly what they wanted the public to think - that they believed it was Russian disinformation.

Now that the tables have turned, they're trying to hide behind a literalist interpretation of their letter to deny they ever intended anyone to think they were calling it disinformation.

Complete b.s..

 

[DefiantMassRINO]

He signed a piece of paper to affirm the opposite.

People don't put their signature on written things they believe to be bull$h!t.

[mountaineer]

Clapper is just like Biden: incapable of telling the truth, ever.

[Bigun]

Clapper is just like Biden: incapable of telling the truth, ever.

 

[catfish1957]

He gives new and contradictory meaning to the term "military intelligence"

[Maj. Bill Martin]

He signed a piece of paper to affirm the opposite.

People don't put their signature on written things they believe to be bull$h!t.

If you read the letter, it never actually said the laptop was Russian disinformation.  They just said it had "all the hallmarks" of Russia disinformation.  And they added a disclaimer at the end of the letter saying that they weren't saying definitively that it was Russian disinformation.   

Of course, being intelligence types, they buried that little disclaimer deep in the letter after they knew anyone reading their letter would already have concluded that the 50 were saying it was actual disinformation.  Which is exactly what they wanted them to conclude.

They misled people deliberately so as to give themselves an out later.  Transparent as hell.

[Kamaji]

If you read the actual.letter, it never actually said the laptop was Russian disinformation.  They just said it had all the hallmarks of disinformation.  Of course, being intelligence types, they buried that little disclaimer deep in the letter after they knew anyone reading their letter would already have concluded that the 50 were saying it was actual disinformation.

They misled people deliberately so as to give themselves an out later.  Transparent as hell.

Exactly.