{"id":1625779,"date":"2022-08-29T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625779"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:22:30","slug":"biden-taps-hunter-biden-laptop-denier-for-presidential-intelligence-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-hunter-biden-laptop-denier-for-presidential-intelligence-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Taps Hunter Biden Laptop Denier for Presidential Intelligence Board"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-taps-hunter-biden-laptop-denier-for-presidential-intelligence-board%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=1625779&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 class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">President Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">l<\/span>atest pick for his Intelligence Advisory Board is an MSNBC pundit who was among dozens of former <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/intelligence-community\">intelligence officials<\/a> to sign a letter in 2020 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/cia-veteran-who-signed-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-says-he-sarcastically-claimed-credit-for-2020-election\">claiming, without evidence, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a Russian disinformation operation.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff at the CIA and Pentagon, was picked by Biden to be part of the President\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board on Friday. Bash, along with roughly 50 other ex-intelligence officials, signed a letter in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2020-elections\">October 2020<\/a> claiming the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a> laptop saga had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,\u201d while <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/intel-official-who-signed-hunter-biden-letter-picked-for-afghanistan-commission\">Bash himself suggested on TV that the laptop story was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The biography of Bash provided by the White House noted he was the chief of staff under Leon Panetta when he was CIA director and then secretary of defense. Panetta <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/cia-michael-hayden-executing-nuclear-secrets-leakers-trump-raid\">also signed the Hunter Biden letter.<\/a> Other signatories included Obama CIA Director John Brennan, Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Obama acting CIA Director Mike Morell, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/cia-michael-hayden-executing-nuclear-secrets-leakers-trump-raid\">former George W. Bush CIA Director Michael Hayden.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/fbi-agents-controversial-hunter-biden-briefing-ordered-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI OFFICIALS BEHIND CONTROVERSIAL HUNTER BIDEN 2020 BRIEFING ORDERED TO TALK<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" \/><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/><source data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n                FILE &#8211; President Joe Biden hugs first lady Jill Biden, his son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley Biden after being sworn-in during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021. A federal grand jury has heard testimony in recent months about Hunter Biden\u2019s income and payments he received while serving on the board of an Ukraine energy company. That&#8217;s according to two people familiar with the probe. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster, File)<br \/>\n               <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">\n                Carolyn Kaster\/AP\n               <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bash\u2019s LinkedIn lists him as the founder and managing director at Beacon Global Strategies and a national security analyst at NBC News and MSNBC. He is also on the board of directors for the International Spy Museum. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board is an independent element within the Executive Office of the President,\u201d the White House <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/08\/26\/president-biden-announces-key-appointments-to-boards-and-commissions-6\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe President\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board exists exclusively to assist the President by providing the President with an independent source of advice on the effectiveness with which the Intelligence Community is meeting the nation\u2019s intelligence needs and the vigor and insight with which the community plans for the future.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/gop-condemns-big-tech-for-initially-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story\">dismissed the laptop story<\/a> as a <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia?utm_campaign=autolink&amp;utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=autolink\">Russian<\/a><\/u> disinformation operation. After the <i>New York Post<\/i> published emails belonging to his son, Joe Biden <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/white-house-wont-say-if-biden-stands-by-hunter-biden-russian-disinformation-claims\">called<\/a><\/u> the story \u201cgarbage\u201d and part of a \u201cRussian plan\u201d during an October 2020 debate with then-President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He claimed, \u201cThere are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he\u2019s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said this is, has all the \u2014 four, five former heads of the CIA. Both parties say what he\u2019s saying is a bunch of garbage.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden was referring to a <i>Politico<\/i> <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\">report<\/a><\/u> about the <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000\">letter<\/a><\/u> in an article titled \u201c<u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hunter-biden?utm_campaign=autolink&amp;utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=autolink\">Hunter Biden<\/a><\/u> story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.\u201d The title was misleading because the letter never directly called the story Russian \u201cdisinformation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The letter hedged a bit at various times, noting: \u201cWe do not have evidence of Russian involvement.\u201d Bash himself strongly suggested it was \u201cdisinformation\u201d on TV, however. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis looks like Russian intelligence. This walks like Russian intelligence. This talks like Russian intelligence,\u201d Bash <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3qVdWX76THg\">claimed<\/a><\/u> on MSNBC on Oct. 19, 2020. \u201cThis effort by Rudy Giuliani and the <i>New York Post<\/i> and Steve Bannon to cook up supposed dirt on Joe Biden looks like a classic Russian playbook disinformation campaign.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bash also called the emails \u201cmysteriously created\u201d and claimed they were \u201cprobably hacked through a Russian intelligence operation.\u201d He called it \u201ccollusion in plain sight.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a minimum, it\u2019s conspiracy to engage in computer crimes and hacking in violation of criminal laws,\u201d Bash <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/giuliani-heedless-of-intel-warnings-trump-impeachment-law-in-pushing-anti-biden-story-94193221962\">told<\/a><\/u> Rachel Maddow of the emergence of the laptop emails. \u201cIt\u2019s also potentially conspiracy to engage in election interference.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Konstantinos &#8220;Gus&#8221; Dimitrelos, a cyber forensics expert and former Secret Service agent, conducted an examination of the laptop for the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> this year, concluding \u201cthere is a 100% certainty that Robert Hunter Biden was the only person responsible for the activity on this hard drive\u201d and that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/hunter-biden-russian-escorts-joe-payments\">\u201cthe hard drive is authentic.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Whistleblower disclosures released by Senate Republicans have claimed the bureau <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/whistleblowers-hunter-biden-wrongly-labeled-disinformation-fbi\">improperly labeled evidence on Hunter Biden \u201cdisinformation\u201d<\/a> in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Bash was also <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/intel-official-who-signed-hunter-biden-letter-picked-for-afghanistan-commission\">picked to be part of the Afghanistan War Commission<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s latest pick for his Intelligence Advisory Board is an MSNBC pundit who was among dozens of former intelligence officials to sign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}