{"id":1448945,"date":"2022-04-21T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1448945"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:25:41","slug":"the-former-intel-officials-who-claimed-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-disinformation-are-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-former-intel-officials-who-claimed-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-disinformation-are-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Former Intel Officials Who Claimed Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop Was \u2018Disinformation\u2019 Are At It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fthe-former-intel-officials-who-claimed-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-disinformation-are-at-it-again%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=1448945&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><\/div>\n<p>Former national security officials who claimed the reported contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop during the 2020 presidential election appeared to be \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d announced opposition Monday to legislation targeting Big Tech, claiming it would facilitate the propagation of Russian \u201clies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta, and former CIA Director Michael Morell were among those who said in a Monday open <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Open-Letter-Cyber-Intel-Defense-HS-1.pdf\">letter<\/a> that bipartisan antitrust legislation targeting tech companies would cripple efforts to counter Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Several antitrust <a href=\"https:\/\/buck.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/house-lawmakers-release-series-bills-aimed-taking-big-tech-s-monopoly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bills<\/a> proposed in both chambers of Congress last year are designed to limit alleged anticompetitive conduct by tech companies, including by preventing online platforms from \u201cdiscriminating\u201d against users, which the former intelligence officials argue would allow \u201cforeign adversaries to gain access to the software and hardware of American technology companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panetta and Morell both have ties to major tech firms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/22\/former-security-officials-antitrust-tech-ties-513657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> reported in September 2021, and signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/big-tech-apple-amazon-leon-panetta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar letter<\/a> in September 2021 warning that antitrust legislation would expose American national security to China.<\/p>\n<p>Clapper, Panetta, and Morell also signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000\">an October 2020 letter<\/a> that claimed a bombshell New York Post report about emails from a laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden \u201chas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/nyt-admits-authenticity-hunter-biden-laptop\/\">(RELATED: The New York Times Admits Authenticity Of Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The real axis of power in the US \u2013 the one that generated so many journalistic frauds and disinformation \u2013 is the alliance between the Security State, Big Tech and corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>This letter sheds bright light on how this union functions, and for whom:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Man3HGfBR7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Man3HGfBR7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1516853334350733316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The officials also cited reports of Giuliani\u2019s ties to Russia as a means of discrediting the laptop in the October 2020 letter. Multiple media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/washington-post-daily-caller-news-foundation-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a> the authenticity of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop in March 2022, while a cybersecurity expert consulted by the Daily Caller News Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/29\/cybersecurity-expert-authenticates-hunter-biden-burisma-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">authenticated<\/a> some of the contents from the laptop\u2019s hard drive in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The officials stated that \u201cdisrupting the scourge of disinformation from Russian state media\u201d was \u201cincreasingly integral to U.S. diplomatic and national security efforts\u201d in Monday\u2019s open letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. policymakers must not inadvertently hamper the ability of U.S. technology platforms to counter increasing disinformation and cybersecurity risks,\u201d the officials said, adding that the \u201cscale and reach\u201d of \u201cU.S. technology platforms\u201d was essential to countering cybersecurity threats from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals to break up big technology companies or to require \u201cnon-discriminatory access\u201d on American \u201cdigital platforms\u201d would \u201cunintentionally curtail the ability of these platforms to target disinformation efforts and safeguard the security of their users in the U.S. and globally,\u201d the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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