In a world so desperate for the truth, 51 of America's top intelligence officials are either liars or fools

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Confirmed: Intel Top Dogs Knowingly Lied When They Said

Hunter’s Laptop Was Russian Disinformation

JUN 26, 2023 7:00 AM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

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It was bad enough that 51 of the nation’s top intelligence officials declared in Oct. 2020, at the height of the presidential campaign, that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” But now the flagrant dishonesty of the whole affair has gotten exponentially worse, for any lingering doubt that these officials had access to adequate information when they published their assessment has been put to rest: it has now come to light that the FBI found the laptop to be authentic months before the intelligence officials told the world that it wasn’t. The last doubt that the 51 officials were brazenly lying to the American people has been removed.

It’s important to remember exactly who it was who lied to us. The chief signatory was James Clapper, who is listed on the letter as the former Director of National Intelligence, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

You can’t get more of a U.S. intelligence insider than James Clapper. Clapper, 82, has spent practically his entire life in the intelligence field; he has been working in intelligence since he commanded a signals intelligence detachment in Thailand during the Vietnam War. To be sure, he has previously shown his willingness to sacrifice the truth to political expediency. Back in 2011, he notoriously labeled the Muslim Brotherhood, which has repeatedly stated its goal of imposing Sharia (Islamic law) over the entire world, as “largely secular.”

That was right around the time that the Obama administration was selling Muslim Brotherhood uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa as a secular “Arab Spring” flowering of democracy, so Clapper was doubtless reflecting his boss’ agenda. Still, he showed himself to be either clueless or craven and only confirmed that by becoming the chief signatory to the Biden laptop letter even when he must have known that it itself was disinformation.

Also signing the letter were three more of the heaviest hitters in Washington’s intelligence establishment: Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, as well as of the NSA; another former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who also served as Secretary of Defense during the Obama administration; and a third former CIA director, John Brennan, who also served as White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor and Director of the Terrorism Threat Integration Center.

There were, of course, 47 other signatories, including two former CIA Acting Directors, John McLaughlin and Michael Morell; Russ Travers, former acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program.

I don't suppose an apology to both Russia and the American people is in the works? Can the Russian embassy sue in American courts? Can Americans sue for being misled during an election?

There is more. Read the rest here.

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'Questions Need Answering': British Academics Pull Apart UK's Skripal Poisoning Claims

Yulia and Sergei Skripal. © / Global Look Press

A group of British university academics researching the use of chemical weapons in Syria, has turned its attention to the Salisbury poisoning, pointing out a series of holes in the British government’s allegations against Russia.

In response to the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - made up of British academics specializing in subjects from Russian studies to medical science - concluded that “substantive questions raised need answering, especially given the seriousness of the political situation in the Middle East and UK-Russian relations.”

Among other things, the briefing suggests that:

It is not seriously disputed nerve agent A-234 can be produced in any advanced lab.

The failure of the assassination attempt suggests the perpetrators lacked competence of state-directed assassins.

No other attempted assassinations of defectors from Russian intelligence services have been recorded.

Professor Paul McKeigue from the University of Edinburgh, Professor David Miller from the University of Bath, and Professor Piers Robinson from the University of Sheffield compiled the ‘briefing note’ exploring the finer details of the Skripal case and the A-234 poison that was reportedly used on them.

Explaining their interest in the case Co-convenor of the group, Robinson, said: "Our initial attention was drawn to the possible propaganda dimensions of the Skripal incident and possible connections with the ongong and tense situation in the Middle East, especially Syria. This potential connection, in terms of the potential exploitation of the Skripal incident as part of a propaganda campaign in relation to Russia, couple with relevant knowledge re chemical and biological weapons, led us to examine the Skripal case."

The note reads: “The UK government’s case against Russia, stated in a letter to NATO, is based on asserting that ‘only Russia has the technical means, operational experience and motive for the attack on the Skripals."

“The police statement that the Skripals were exposed through contact with their front door is implausible as there are no known nerve agents that cause onset of symptoms delayed by several hours, and it is improbable that absorption through the skin would cause both individuals to collapse later at exactly the same time,” the paper says.

Furthermore, how likely is it that both Yulia and her father closed the door? That's a one-person job and it would be extremely unusual for both people to touch the door handle. 

The delayed onset has to be investigated further. Is it even possible with Novichok? Has Scotland Yard viewed all CCTV footage to look for the possibility of someone walking past the Skripals with an aerosol? Have their clothes been examined for Novichok contamination? If they were contaminated, what kind of pattern did they reveal? Or were the clothes quickly burned before they could be examined? Will we ever get answers to these and many other questions? 

“No data on the toxicity of A-234 [also referred to by the UK Government as Novichok] are available in the public domain,” the paper said, also pointing out that “similar compounds” have been synthesized by national chemical defense labs in Russia and the USA in the 1990s, and “more recently in Iran and Czech."

The Working Group also argues that, as any organic chemist with a modern lab “would be able to synthesize bench scale quantities of such a compound” like A-234, “it is therefore misleading to assert that only Russia could have produced such compounds.”

The group, recently slammed by the Times for questioning the accepted narrative on the alleged chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma - which is still to be proven - questioned whether there was reasonable motive.

“It is alleged that Russia has a track record of state-sponsored assassination, but this is not enough to support the assertion that ‘only Russia’ could have enough experience to attempt unsuccessfully to assassinate two unprotected individuals,” the academics pondered in their briefing note.

And Russia has been involved in state-sponsored assassinations; that goes without saying. I would never suggest Russia wouldn't do such a thing. But, I would suggest that if Russia decided to assassinate Sergie and Yulia Skripal, they would be dead!

“No other attempted assassinations of defectors from Russian intelligence services have been recorded,” the paper said. “Even if such an assassination campaign had been ordered, the Russian state would have good reasons not to initiate it in the first half of 2018”... such as the Russian election that was weeks away at the time of the Skripal attack.

But that would be a very good reason for Putin's enemies to stage a false flag operation.

Sergei and Yulia were discovered slumped on a bench at the Maltings Shopping Centre in Salisbury on March 4, after they were apparently poisoned with A-234 nerve agent, also known as Novichok.

The father and daughter were left in a serious, life-threatening condition in the weeks that followed. Yulia, 33, was discharged from hospital last month and is now understood to be living under the protection of the UK government. Sergei, 66, is understood to still be a patient of Salisbury District Hospital.

Russia has vehemently and repeatedly denied being behind the attack in Salisbury.

If you have read even a few of my bog posts on subjects like this you will know that I am a bit of a conspiracy theorist. Not a lunatic, but definitely someone who doesn't accept the first and most popular narrative on a situation like the Skripal poisoning or the Douma chemical weapons attack. In fact, when such a situation arises I look to see who is the first to blame Russia, or Assad, or whomever, and claim it as inviolable and incontrovertible with only the smallest pretence of an investigation. The loudest mouth demanding the strongest, most immediate response is, in my opinion, most likely to have been involved in the false flag operation at some level.

‘No One Shot at Evacuees’: Filmmaker Who Witnessed Aleppo Liberation

Another international journalist discredits MSM reporting in Aleppo

Admittedly, this comes from RT with it's built-in bias, but most of the words come from the Bolivian 

documentary maker herself. You won't see this on western MSM because that would 

insinuate that they were fooled by the fake news and guilty of very sloppy journalism.

Carla Ortiz

The Syrian army did not shoot at militants leaving Aleppo under the evacuation deal and it was even distributing food among them, Carla Ortiz, a Bolivian documentary filmmaker who spent eight months in Syria, told RT as she disputed some MSM (main stream media) narratives.

Ortiz was filming a documentary about the people caught in the Syrian conflict and had an opportunity to witness the liberation of eastern Aleppo firsthand, including the evacuation of militants and their families from the city.

She has published a video from her upcoming documentary showing the process of evacuation to contest western media claims that Syrian government forces fired on the evacuees as proof that the evacuation, which took place under the deal brokered by Russia and Turkey, was peaceful.

“Many have asked me to show proof that people and children were not shot at on the streets while the evacuation took place as some media reported. So, this is what I saw: civilians evacuated on foot from the east, then transported in buses to the shelters. I am sorry, but there was absolutely no mass shooting on the evacuation,” Ortiz wrote in a Facebook post, commenting on the video.

She added that “what the Syrian army and civilians were doing was throwing food through the windows” of the buses that transported the evacuees out of the city.

Ortiz then went on to contest some other MSM narratives by doubting the authenticity of the so-called “witness reports” from then-rebel-occupied areas of Aleppo that quickly went viral on the western media. She particularly stressed that the eastern part of the city had no internet connection that could allow those witnesses to upload their footage or send them to the western media companies.

Ortiz added that, even though she had a mobile phone with international roaming and Wi-Fi, she could not send even a short text message to her family out of eastern Aleppo.

“When I was in east Aleppo, in neighborhoods that were just liberated, there was no internet – I could not even tell my family I [had] made it alive. It is impossible to upload a video there. I had to upload a video in a hotel and it took me more than two hours,” Ortiz told RT. 

“For me it is just insane to think that this footage is happening over there,” she added. 

At the same time, she admitted that eastern Aleppo was indeed “an eye of conflict” and “an absolute devastation,” which she said was caused not just by the actions of the Syrian army or the Russian bombing raids but by the militants who held those areas.

While western Aleppo “sometimes lacked electricity and water supplies, although businesses there were still running” and people carried on with their lives, in the east of the city there was only terror and devastation.

“When you talk to someone, who just left east Aleppo… they say they had no food, no access to electricity, no medicine; their children were unable to go to school,” Ortiz said, adding that the people there had sometimes “to lock up their children because the terrorists used the children to blackmail their family members into staying quiet or doing something for them.”

Conditions the civilians lived in under the so-called rebels were “really inhuman,” she stressed, adding that most militants, who held the eastern part of the city, were foreign mercenaries.

“When you talk to someone who just left east Aleppo, they tell you that most terrorists are not even Syrians,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz said she witnessed snipers targeting civilians on the streets of eastern Aleppo when she tried to get to that part of the city.

Most Aleppo residents welcomed the liberation of the city by the Syrian army regardless of their political beliefs, as they were just happy to be finally free from the militant rule, Ortiz said.

People “were full of hope and happy when they were crossing from East Aleppo to the western part of the city. They were thanking God and the Syrian army. They had nothing to do with politics. They were not talking about supporting one side or another side, they were just happy to be free,” Ortiz said.

She also stressed that many soldiers who fought on the side of government forces in Aleppo were actually local “volunteers, who were fighting to get some of their family members out of east Aleppo.”

Ortiz also welcomed the Syrian nationwide ceasefire deal, which was recently brokered by Russia and Turkey and entered into force Friday. This agreement “could determine many things at this exact moment,” she said, adding, “It could really answer to the prayers of people.”

“I was able to communicate with all these people of any ages, of different religions – they are all praying for a real ceasefire,” Ortiz said.