The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of \u2063Investigation (FBI) held a secret meeting with election officials in\u2062 December to discuss the potential threats posed<\/a> \u2062by Russian actors in the upcoming 2024 \u2064election. This meeting comes after false claims of “Russian interference” in\u2064 the past two\u200c presidential elections, which were used to support the Democrats. <\/p>\n

In a classified briefing called “Election Infrastructure Classified \u2062Briefing” on December \u20646, the Biden administration warned that Russia could use “misinformation” and “disinformation” to influence the election, according to\u2062 a letter obtained by the Daily\u2063 Signal<\/a>. \u2064 <\/p>\n

The terms \u2064”misinformation” and “disinformation”\u2062 have been used to discredit anyone who \u2062challenges the government and media’s\u2062 narrative. <\/p>\n

According\u2064 to the Daily Signal, a letter sent to participants invited election stakeholders to a classified briefing where they would gain a deeper understanding of the threats posed by Russian actors and how they might impact election jurisdictions across the country.<\/p>\n

These agencies \u2064have made similar claims<\/a> in the past, using false or non-existent evidence\u200c during\u200d the 2016 and 2020 elections. <\/p>\n

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2020: \u200dIntel Officials Discredit Hunter Biden Laptop Story \u2064as Russian Disinformation<\/h2>\n
In 2020, the New York Post broke a story about the Biden family’s questionable foreign business deals based on\u200c emails from Hunter Biden’s\u200d laptop. However, dozens of former intelligence officials signed<\/a> \u2063a letter suggesting that \u200cthe laptop was \u200cRussian disinformation. Instead\u2064 of verifying the laptop’s authenticity, corporate media ran<\/a> with the claim. <\/p>\n
Legacy media didn’t authenticate the laptop until \u200dyears later.\u2064 <\/p>\n
The letter claimed that the laptop had “all the\u200b classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” but the \u200dsignatories had no evidence to support this \u200cand \u2064couldn’t verify\u2064 the authenticity\u200b of the emails. It is \u200dsuspected that Antony Blinken, a senior adviser \u200cto\u2062 the Biden campaign\u200c at the time, prompted\u200c the letter. <\/p>\n
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Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, who signed the discredited letter, admitted to the Judiciary Committee that \u2064he did so to hurt former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning. He testified that there were two \u2062intents behind the letter: to \u200cshare concerns about Russian interference and to help Vice President Biden. Morrell had \u200cno intention of writing the \u200cletter until\u2064 Blinken instigated it. <\/p>\n
[READNEXT:[READNEXT:CIA Solicited Signatures For Hunter Biden Laptop Letter, Congressional Testimony Shows<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n
To make matters worse<\/a>, the FBI knew the laptop was authentic as \u2062early as 2019 \u2063but still worked with Big Tech to cast doubt on its \u2062legitimacy. <\/p>\n
According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, federal \u200cauthorities advised Facebook to be cautious about \u200dpotential “Russian propaganda.” This led Facebook to treat the story as potentially misleading and limit its reach. <\/p>\n
Twitter’s former head\u200d of trust \u2062and safety, Yoel Roth, revealed that the FBI and DHS had been \u200cwarning about potential \u200c”hack-and-leak operations” by state actors before the 2020 election. <\/p>\n
The House Judiciary Committee criticized the FBI for conditioning\u200d social media \u2063companies to believe \u2064that the laptop story was Russian disinformation, even though the FBI knew it was authentic. <\/p>\n
2016: FBI Spied on Trump\u200b Campaign Based on \u2063Clinton-Funded Russia-Collusion Hoax<\/h2>\n
A bombshell report by special counsel John Durham vindicated Trump and others who claimed that\u200d the FBI acted improperly when it launched the Crossfire Hurricane\u200d investigation \u2062into the Trump campaign\u200c for alleged Russian collusion. Special counsel \u2062Robert Mueller later found no evidence of a criminal conspiracy. <\/p>\n
Durham’s report revealed that the FBI used uncorroborated intelligence to\u2064 spy on\u200c the Trump campaign \u2062and had no actual \u200devidence of collusion \u200bat the start of\u200c the investigation. The Steele dossier, commissioned \u200dby Fusion GPS and funded by the Clinton campaign, played a significant role\u200c in the investigation. Durham also found that top officials, including Obama, Biden, Comey, Brennan, and Lynch, were aware \u2062of a\u200b plan to vilify \u200cTrump with claims of Russian interference. \u2062 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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How have the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” been used to discredit individuals challenging the government and media’s narrative, and what impact can this have \u200con election jurisdictions \u200cacross the country?<\/h2>\n
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of \u200dInvestigation (FBI) \u200crecently held a secret meeting with election \u2062officials to address\u200b potential threats posed by \u200cRussian \u200cactors in the upcoming 2024 election. This meeting follows previous claims of “Russian interference” in past presidential\u2064 elections, which were used to support the Democrats.<\/p>\n
In a classified briefing called “Election Infrastructure Classified Briefing” on December 6, the Biden administration warned that Russia could use “misinformation” and “disinformation” to influence\u2063 the election. This information was obtained through a letter obtained by\u2063 the Daily Signal.<\/p>\n
The terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” have been widely \u200cused to discredit anyone challenging the\u2063 government and media’s narrative. According to the Daily \u200bSignal, the letter invited election stakeholders to a classified briefing where they would gain a deeper \u200cunderstanding of the threats posed by Russian actors and how they might impact election jurisdictions across the country.<\/p>\n
It is important to note that these agencies have made similar claims in\u200b the\u200d past, often using false or non-existent evidence during the\u200c 2016 and 2020 \u200delections. In 2020, for example, the New York Post broke a story about the Biden\u2062 family’s questionable foreign\u2064 business deals based on emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop.\u200d However, former intelligence officials signed a letter suggesting that the laptop was Russian disinformation.\u2062 Corporate\u2062 media ran with\u200b the claim without verifying the laptop’s authenticity.<\/p>\n
Legacy media only authenticated the laptop\u200c years later. The letter claiming the laptop \u200bwas Russian disinformation had no evidence\u2062 to support\u2062 it, and the signatories were unable to verify \u200cthe authenticity of \u2064the emails. It is suspected that Antony Blinken, a senior adviser to the Biden campaign at the time, prompted the letter.<\/p>\n
Former\u2063 CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, who signed\u200b the discredited letter, admitted to the Judiciary Committee that he did so to hurt former President \u2064Donald Trump’s chances of winning. He testified that the letter had two intentions: to \u200cshare concerns about Russian interference and to help Vice President Biden. Morrell had no intention \u2062of writing\u200d the letter until Blinken instigated it.<\/p>\n
These revelations highlight a concerning pattern\u200b of using claims of “Russian interference” \u200bas \u2064a political weapon. It \u200cis\u2062 essential for election \u200cofficials and \u200dthe public to critically examine\u2063 and verify the\u200c evidence presented in classified briefings and media\u200c narratives. The integrity of the democratic \u2063process depends on transparent and accurate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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