President Joe Biden speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House Monday, July 1, 2024, in Washington. go beyond the recent “cheap fake” whoppers about his mental fitness. Four years ago, a far more consequential campaign of deceit was orchestrated by those on thereleased documents last week confirming Michael Morell, the agency’s former acting chief, and David Buckley, the ex-inspector general, were activeRussian President Vladimir Putin had nothing to do with Hunter’s laptop.
Mr. Morell was the primary author of the “51 intelligence officials” letter whose purpose was, as he told a House committee, “to help Vice President-Director Gina Haspel and her top staff fast-tracked approval of the mendacious missive, ensuring it was ready in time for the debate. Polls have shown many of Mr.voters would have chosen someone else had they known the truth about the emails showing “the Big Guy” was skimming 10% off the top of his son’s shady foreign transactions.
As Mr. Morell acknowledged in past testimony, “It’s inappropriate for a currently serving staff officer or contractor to be involved in the political process.” That’s why he’s now insisting he wasn’t an active contractor when he signed the letter.itself is lying. Figuring out which is which is beside the point. Everything ever said by the signatories of the deceitful dispatch — particularly with respect to Russia — must be called into question.in office.
The other bit of proof backing the Russian interference narrative is a redacted report from a Democratic technology firm, CrowdStrike, that claimed “Russians” hacked the Democratic National Committee. Otherwise, we have seen the claim asserted only by the same intelligence community officials who have just been established as unreliable partisans willing to say anything to advance their preferred candidate.as if he were secretly working under Russian influence.