{"id":1397793,"date":"2022-03-24T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397793"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:15:57","slug":"top-j6-staffer-signed-letter-defaming-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-j6-staffer-signed-letter-defaming-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Top J6 Staffer Signed Letter Defaming Hunter Biden Laptop As Russian Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-j6-staffer-signed-letter-defaming-hunter-biden-laptop-as-russian-disinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Jan.-6-Committee-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A top investigator on the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 has a history of fabricating baseless claims to smear political dissidents. <\/p>\n<p>David Buckley, who formerly served as the CIA inspector general, is now leading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s probe of the Capitol riot as the committee\u2019s staff director. In October 2020, Buckley was among the dozens of former intelligence officials who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\">sought to delegitimize<\/a> stories from Hunter Biden\u2019s abandoned Delaware laptop, which implicated then-candidate Joe Biden in his son\u2019s potentially criminal overseas business activity, as Russian disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>Despite rare on-the-record statements from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/21\/fbi-doj-debunk-claims-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-is-russian-disinformation\/\">FBI, Department of Justice<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/19\/intelligence-director-john-ratcliffe-debunks-russian-disinformation-theories-on-hunter-biden-emails\/\">director of national intelligence<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/pompeo-agrees-hunter-bidens-laptop-not-part-of-russian-operation\">Department of State<\/a>\u00a0rejecting claims the laptop was a vehicle of Russian interference weeks prior to the election, legacy media ran with the false narrative from Democrats until <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/25\/politico-scoop-on-biden-laptop-proves-the-dangers-of-disinformation-police\/\">months<\/a> after Biden was elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe laptop lie did enormous damage to the credibility of \u2018ex-intelligence officials,\u2019 just like the J6 witch-hunt has hurt the credibility of congressional investigations,\u201d Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks told The Federalist in a statement. \u201cSpeaker Pelosi blocked me from serving on the Committee because of \u2018ridiculous\u2019 statements I made. Meanwhile, the committee\u2019s staff director intentionally lied to the public to keep President Trump out of the White house.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"xgiPH6L2dU\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The J6 Committee staff director&#8217;s disgraceful record of intimidating, harassing and lying makes him the perfect man for the job. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eey0u0vNPT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Eey0u0vNPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJimBanks\/status\/1506710775922311169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While claims of Russian disinformation about the laptop were delegitimized with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/30\/smoking-gun-hunter-biden-email-confirmed-with-forensic-analysis\/\">forensic analyses<\/a> of its hard drive, it wasn\u2019t until September of last year that Politico acknowledged the computer\u2019s authenticity. The New York Times took longer, waiting until last week to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/after-throttling-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-with-hacked-and-russian-disinformation-lies-propaganda-press-quietly-admit-it-was-completely-legit\/\">follow suit<\/a>. The only thing that changed to cause legacy outlets to acknowledge the laptop\u2019s legitimacy was Joe Biden\u2019s status change from Democrat candidate for president to commander in chief. <\/p>\n<p>The idea the laptop was a tool of Kremlin election meddling, however, was fueled by the more than 50 intelligence officials who said so because they felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,\u201d they wrote. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Candidate Biden even <a href=\"https:\/\/v2-9mdnszte.thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/joe-biden-repeats-debunked-claim-that-latest-email-scandals-are-russian-election-interference\/\">regurgitated<\/a> Buckley\u2019s talking points during the final presidential debate when confronted by President Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is wanting to make sure that I do not get elected the next President of the United States, because they know I know them, and they know me,\u201d Biden said on stage 18 months before President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the Jan. 6 Committee has taken the shape of the Democrats\u2019 latest hoax to excuse the state-sponsored investigation of political enemies, complete with public show trials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/jan-6-committee-prime-time-hearings-418b8cbb-6ac5-48c2-807c-a307b426ba97.html\">prime time<\/a>. While ostensibly constructed to probe the Capitol riot, less than <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/20\/only-10-percent-of-j6-committee-subpoenas-relate-to-the-capitol-riot\/\">10 percent<\/a> of the committee\u2019s more than 100 subpoenas have targeted individuals associated with the turmoil. That riot\u2019s totaled damages are estimated to cost<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/26\/estimates-george-floyd-riots-to-cost-66-times-more-than-capitol-damage\/\"> 66 times<\/a> less than the explosive carnage from nationwide Black Lives Matter riots seven months prior.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, committee members conceded to the Washington Post its work was all about the midterms, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/19\/democrats-admit-jan-6-committee-is-all-about-midterms\/\">as opposed to investigating <\/a>the security failures that forced a joint session of Congress to seek shelter. Doing so would require investigation into Pelosi\u2019s o<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/16\/nancy-pelosi-owns-january-6\/\">wn culpability<\/a>, which the committee\u2019s members, appointed by Pelosi, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/20\/politics\/january-6-probe-republican-strategy\/index.html\">pledged to avoid.<\/a> Instead, the probe operating with two Republicans hand-picked by the speaker, Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/12\/liz-cheney-is-using-the-jan-6-committee-to-persecute-an-activist-running-a-super-pac-to-unseat-her\/\">targeted<\/a> individuals with no association with the Jan. 6 events whatsoever, who are focused on unseating the committee\u2019s vice chair in Wyoming. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuckley\u2019s disgraceful record of intimidating, harassing, and lying perfectly qualifies him to lead the committee\u2019s staff,\u201d Banks told The Federalist. \u201cHe had a lot of practice before joining Democrats\u2019 norm-destroying witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top investigator on the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 has a history of fabricating baseless claims to smear political dissidents. 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