{"id":1924568,"date":"2023-05-04T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-hoaxers-clapper-brennan-will-answer-to-weaponization-committee-for-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:01:18","slug":"russia-hoaxers-clapper-brennan-will-answer-to-weaponization-committee-for-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-hoaxers-clapper-brennan-will-answer-to-weaponization-committee-for-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapper and Brennan to face Weaponization Committee for dismissing Hunter Biden laptop as &#8216;disinfo&#8217; in Russia hoax."},"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\">34<\/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%2Frussia-hoaxers-clapper-brennan-will-answer-to-weaponization-committee-for-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo%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=1924568&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--><h2>Russiagate All-Stars to Testify Before House Weaponization Committee<\/h2>\n<h3>Former Intelligence Officials Claim Hunter Biden Laptop Was Instrument of Kremlin Disinformation<\/h3>\n<p>A pair of Russiagate all-stars, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, will testify before the House Weaponization Committee this month over signing the infamous 2020 letter. The letter claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was an instrument of Kremlin disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>House Republicans revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was behind the operation to discredit the laptop. Brennan will testify next week on May 11 and Clapper will appear before lawmakers on May 17, according to a source familiar with arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks before the 2020 election, 51 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-discussed-plans-for-a-business-that-would-include-joe-biden-emails-show\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Discussed Plans For A Business That Would Include Joe Biden, Emails Show\">intelligence officials signed<\/a> a letter published in Politico that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-hoaxers-clapper-brennan-will-answer-to-weaponization-committee-for-letter-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo\/\" title=\"Clapper and Brennan to face Weaponization Committee for dismissing Hunter Biden laptop as 'disinfo' in Russia hoax.\">smeared blockbuster stories sourced<\/a> to an abandoned Delaware laptop as a Russian interference campaign. Emails recovered from the laptop hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden implicate President Joe Biden in global influence peddling schemes that appear to be at the center of Hunter\u2019s potentially criminal enterprises.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Vice President Biden exploited the fabricated narrative on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-arrogant-pricks-walk-into-the-white-house\/\" title=\"Two Arrogant Pricks Walk Into the White House\u2026\">presidential debate stage<\/a>, using the letter to dismiss the allegations of corruption that surfaced from the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Biden perpetuated the claim of Kremlin interference despite the FBI, the Department of Justice, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo debunking the popular Democrat talking point before the prime-time event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clapper defended attaching his signature to the letter last fall in an interview with New York Magazine. \u201cClapper was not pleased to be asked about the letter two years after its release,\u201d the magazine reported. \u201cWhat are you trying to get me to say, that I screwed up and I shouldn\u2019t have signed the letter? I\u2019m not going to say that,\u201d Clapper told the paper. \u201cAs far as I was concerned, we were waving the yellow flag. At the time, it was fishy to me. It had the characteristics of a Russian disinformation campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Clapper accused Politico of misleading the public about the letter published in full. \u201cThere was message distortion,\u201d Clapper told The Washington Post. \u201cAll we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Weaponization Committee will bring Clapper and Brennan to Capitol Hill for sit-down interviews, following hearings the panel has held on federal censorship. In March, lawmakers heard from Substack reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger who detailed the government\u2019s wide-ranging effort to cultivate careful regulation of speech in partnership with Silicon Valley tech giants.<\/p>\n<h3>New Allegations of Presidential Corruption Surface<\/h3>\n<p>New allegations of presidential corruption surfaced Wednesday when Grassley joined House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky in sending a subpoena to the FBI for documents related to a criminal scheme involving Joe Biden and a \u201cforeign national.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States,\u201d Grassley said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat we don\u2019t know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI\u2019s recent history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-implicated-in-bribery-scheme-grassley-and-comer-allege-in-new-subpoena-demand-to-fbi\/\" title=\"Biden accused of bribery in new subpoena to FBI.\">botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay up-to-date with the latest news and analysis from The Federalist by signing up for Tristan Justice&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/newsletter\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Russiagate all-stars will testify before the House Weaponization Committee this month over signing the infamous 2020 letter in which former intelligence officials claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was an instrument of Kremlin disinformation. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan will sit for transcribed interviews after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1924569,"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":[546],"tags":[12872,10059,3620,8358,18551,4384,25875,8857,3822,6880,4280],"class_list":["post-1924568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-weaponization","tag-disinfo","tag-biden","tag-brennan","tag-clapper","tag-committee","tag-dismissing","tag-hoax","tag-hunter","tag-laptop","tag-russia"],"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\/1924568","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}