{"id":1740745,"date":"2022-11-16T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740745"},"modified":"2022-11-16T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:17:57","slug":"ex-dni-ratcliffe-biden-admin-didnt-think-elon-musk-was-national-security-threat-when-it-gave-him-our-most-sensitive-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-dni-ratcliffe-biden-admin-didnt-think-elon-musk-was-national-security-threat-when-it-gave-him-our-most-sensitive-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DNI Ratcliffe: Biden Admin Didn&#8217;t Think Elon Musk Was National Security Threat When It Gave Him Our &#8220;Most Sensitive Technologies&#8221;"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fex-dni-ratcliffe-biden-admin-didnt-think-elon-musk-was-national-security-threat-when-it-gave-him-our-most-sensitive-technologies%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=1740745&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=\"insert-box\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid insert-image image-article_medium\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"insert-article_medium-5cb6d554-3395-4648-8e57-baef37ad712d\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfiltered&#8221; Host Dan Bongino (L) interviews former DNI John Ratcliffe.(Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt has nothing to do with national security,\u201d former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe says of President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/biden-calls-for-federal-investigation-of-elon-musk-over-relationships-with-other-countries\/\">call for Elon Musk to be investigated<\/a> as a national security threat because the billionaire owner of SpaceX acquired Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I\u2019m not suggesting that. I\u2019m suggesting that it\u2019s worth being looked at,\u201d President <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/biden-calls-for-federal-investigation-of-elon-musk-over-relationships-with-other-countries\/\">Biden said<\/a> last week, when asked by a reporter if Musk should be investigated as a national security threat now that he has purchased Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the hell\u2019s going on here?\u201d Host Dan Bongino asked Ratcliffe in an interview Saturday on \u201cUnfiltered,\u201d noting that, in America, \u201cWe don\u2019t investigate people in search of crimes; we investigate crimes in search of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s absolutely right, Dan. And, you\u2019re right: I do have an informed view on this,\u201d the former Director of National Intelligence for the Trump Administration agreed. \u201cThis is clearly personal. This is clearly political. It has absolutely nothing to do with national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, it does have everything to do with weaponizing the national security apparatus for political reasons,\u201d Ratcliffe said, explaining that the Biden Administration has shared some of the nation\u2019s most sensitive technologies with Musk and given him billions of dollars of contracts over the past year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I say that Dan is, in addition to Twitter, Elon Musk owns a company called SpaceX. And, SpaceX has massive contracts with the U.S. government, where we share our most sensitive technologies in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cElon Musk wasn\u2019t a national security threat then,\u201d Ratcliffe said. \u201cHe only became a national security threat when he purchased Twitter and promised to deliver free speech and eliminate censorship from one political party to another. That is dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer completely changed based on the politics and the approach to Elon Musk,\u201d Host Dan Bongino concurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unfiltered&#8221; Host Dan Bongino (L) interviews former DNI John Ratcliffe.(Screenshot) \u201cIt has nothing to do with national security,\u201d former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe says of President Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740745","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=1740745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}