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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI Examining Hunter's Laptop As Foreign Op, Contradicting Trump's Intel Czar
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Adam Parkhomenko
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Ratcliffe deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison
FBI Examining Hunters Laptop As Foreign Op, Contradicting Trumps Intel Czar
DNI Ratcliffe said on Monday there was no intel to support Russia being behind Hunter Bidens laptop contents. But investigators are still looking into it.
thedailybeast.com
9:07 AM · Oct 19, 2020
Adam Parkhomenko
@AdamParkhomenko
Ratcliffe deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison
FBI Examining Hunters Laptop As Foreign Op, Contradicting Trumps Intel Czar
DNI Ratcliffe said on Monday there was no intel to support Russia being behind Hunter Bidens laptop contents. But investigators are still looking into it.
thedailybeast.com
9:07 AM · Oct 19, 2020
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-examining-hunter-bidens-laptop-as-foreign-op-contradicting-john-ratcliffe-trumps-intel-czar
The FBI is investigating the purloined laptop materials from Joe Bidens son as part of a possible foreign disinformation operation, a congressional source told The Daily Beastan investigation at odds with a statement from President Trumps director of national intelligence.
John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, told Fox Business on Monday that the dissemination of materials from Hunter Bidens alleged laptop was not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that, Ratcliffe said.
But that assessment gets out in front of the FBI, which took custody of the laptop and an external hard drive as early as in December, according to the New York Post. The bureau, according to the congressional source, is looking into the provenance of the material. And among the questions they're seeking to answer is whether the laptop dump is part of what the intelligence communitys counterintelligence chief has already described as a Russian disinformation effort targeting the 2020 election.
The FBI declined comment, in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of our investigations, said spokesperson Kelsey Pietranton. But the bureaus investigation into the Hunter Biden laptop material has previously been reported by NBC, the AP and USA Today.
The office of the director of national intelligence did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.
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FBI Examining Hunter's Laptop As Foreign Op, Contradicting Trump's Intel Czar (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
OP
Next question: This is HUNTER Biden, right? And Joe is implicated in his laptop...how?
BComplex
Oct 2020
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BComplex
(8,087 posts)1. Next question: This is HUNTER Biden, right? And Joe is implicated in his laptop...how?
And isn't that a little too convenient?
LisaL
(44,982 posts)2. It looks a lot more as a part of Chinese intelligence campaign than Russian intelligence campaign.
NT
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)3. And how did you arrive at that conclusion?
crickets
(25,990 posts)4. Ratcliffe still be ratting.
John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, told Fox Business on Monday that the dissemination of materials from Hunter Bidens alleged laptop was not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that, Ratcliffe said.
The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that, Ratcliffe said.
This is the same man who said, "This impeachment is an assault on due process. Its an assault on the separation of powers. It's unconstitutional."
It seems like the rest of the intelligence community disagrees with him. Still, the FBI has been working on this since December and no news? That's disappointing. I hope they're just getting a whole flock of ducks in a row, and that dear Rudy and Steve Bannon are among them.