{"id":1847058,"date":"2023-02-14T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847058"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:38:31","slug":"who-me-election-meddler-james-clapper-tries-out-new-laptop-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-me-election-meddler-james-clapper-tries-out-new-laptop-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Who, Me? Election Meddler James Clapper Tries Out New Laptop Lie"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwho-me-election-meddler-james-clapper-tries-out-new-laptop-lie%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=1847058&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-->\n<p>James Clapper did not intend to say this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hunter-biden-sought-job-for-wuhan-lab-linked-scientist-studying-herpes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> Was a Russian op. It was apparently just the \u201cleast untruthful\u201d He and 50 other Trump-hating deep-state creeps could possibly think of.<\/p>\n<p>Clapper, the director of national intelligence \u2013 or chief spy \u2013 under President Obama, is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-spy-chief-accuses-politico-of-distorting-letter-on-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take that letter back!<\/a> He signed the agreement with dozens of former intel operatives more than three years earlier. It claimed that the discovery of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, with its lurid images of the president\u2019s degenerate son and troubling messages referring to the family\u2019s international influence peddling operation, bore the \u201cearmarks\u201d Russian misinformation operation.<\/p>\n<p>That letter, once reported by Politico, was all the cover the liberal press and social media platforms needed to bury the New York Post\u2019s October 2020 bombshell, lest it affect the presidential election. Mission accomplished: The Post was ignored, marginalized and ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s James Clapper talking about the story at the time it was first published in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yJ9b3W8h5J\">https:\/\/t.co\/yJ9b3W8h5J<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/91enmdU3nW\">pic.twitter.com\/91enmdU3nW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1625314986078740482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Except over the ensuing years, once it no longer mattered, Big Media admitted the laptop was legit. And if the laptop is real, then we know Hunter Biden is a venal dirtbag and his father may have facilitated and profited from his schemes. Not even Clapper can pretend the laptop was a trick now. The best he can do is pretend he never said it was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation,\u201d Clapper told The Washington Post this week. \u201cPolitico deliberately distorted what we said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the letter, also signed by former CIA directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and Michael Hayden, and written by former acting CIA Director Michael Morell,\u00a0never said the laptop caper WAS a Russian operation. It just said it sure SEEMED like one. Thomas Finger, a onetime chairman of the National Intelligence Council and co-signer of the letter, helpfully explained this week that they took great pains to try to make sure no one jumped to any conclusions. Wouldn\u2019t want that!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe statement we signed was carefully written to minimize the likelihood that what was said would be misconstrued, and to provide a clear written record that could be used to identify and disprove distortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finger and Clapper must\u2019ve been furious after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\">Politico published its article<\/a> about the letter under the headline, \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.\u201d Surely they demanded a correction, especially after realizing that this gross mischaracterization of the letter could influence an election just weeks away. And imagine the horror an intel legend like Clapper must have felt ever since, knowing all his expertise in spycraft had betrayed him into a disastrous reading of events that may have changed the course of history.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if Clapper did feel anger at Politico or shame at himself and his intel peers, he kept it under wraps until now. He never said anything until this week, when it apparently became too embarrassing to stand by the claims in the letter he signed. After all, at this point you can\u2019t defend Hunter Biden and keep the word \u201cintelligence\u201d on your resume. Plus, Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-OH), says he plans to call Clapper and his pen pals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jim-jordan-puts-a-dozen-intel-veterans-on-notice-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to testify in front of his new panel<\/a> Investigating the weaponization of federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the truth: Clapper is lying now, was lying in 2020, and even admitted he was lying way back in 2013, when he told a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee that the National Security Agency doesn\u2019t purposely collect data on millions of Americans. Clapper admits that he was lying back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, \u2018No,\u2019\u201d Clapper spoke afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Least untruthful indeed.<\/p>\n<p>There was a dirty, downright un-American intel operation designed to throw the 2020 presidential election, but it wasn\u2019t pulled off by the Russians. It was led by 51 highly unpatriotic spooks. James Clapper, spymaster, was one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Clapper never meant to say Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was a Russian op, it was apparently just the \u201cleast untruthful\u201d thing he and 50 other Trump-hating deep state creeps could think of. Clapper, the director of national intelligence \u2013 or chief spy \u2013 under President Obama, is trying to walk back that infamous letter he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1847061,"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":[541],"tags":[8994,18551,3728,5334,6880,10489,8400,18637],"class_list":["post-1847058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-who","tag-clapper","tag-election","tag-james","tag-laptop","tag-lie","tag-me","tag-meddler"],"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\/1847058","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}