They are still unrepentant.
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But they've never apologized for those intelligence failures, so it's hardly surprising they are unrepentant about lying to rig the 2020 election.
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Yes, that letter from the Dirty 51 had "all the classic earmarks" of a disinformation operation alright one designed to ensure Joe Biden won the presidency. And it was essentially a CIA operation, considering 43 of the 51 signatories were former CIA.
In the two years since, not one of them has admitted they are wrong.
David Priess at least gets marks for subjecting himself to a cross examination on Fox News one recent afternoon. He tried to defend the letter by saying people were too stupid to understand it. The letter was "still true" because it did not use the words "Russian disinformation," but concocted the weasel phrase
"earmarks of a Russian information operation."
He knows perfectly well that Biden and the media drew no distinction, that the letter he signed was used to censor and deride The Post's accurate story and deny the American people the truth about one of the two candidates for president.
"It's not my fault if people don't look up definitions," Priess said, smirking. "Those words are still true. It has all the classic earmarks," he said.
He has all the classic earmarks of a psychopath. Not saying he is but just look at him. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Never, ever vote for a Democrat. This is who they are:Quote:
Eight signatories have plum roles with the non-profit International Spy Museum in DC: Bash, Hayden, Clapper, Morell, and CIA alums John McLaughlin, Doug Wise, Kristin Wood and Jonna Hiestand Mendez, none of whom have replied to questions.
Seven are connected to George Mason University, through the Schar School of Policy and Government and the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security, named in honor of Hayden, despite the fact he lied to Congress.
The Hayden Center "is the worst" says a former senior Trump administration intelligence official.
"It is filled with people who started, supported, promoted and deliberately lied to the American people about every anti-Trump hoax from Russian collusion, the Mueller debacle, fake Russian bounties, staged impeachment whistleblowing and of course your laptop from hell.
"It's a hybrid a wing of both the Democratic Party and the Permanent Bureaucracy, joined by their fear of Trump and any other Republican who wants to break up their club."
The signatories attached to the Hayden Center are CIA alums Hayden, Bash, David Priess, Michael Morell, Larry Pfeiffer, Ron Marks and Rick Ledgett, former deputy director of the National Security Agency.
They also write for the Cipher Brief, a national security publication founded by CNN intelligence correspondent Suzanne Kelly which has a strategic partnership with the Hayden Center and ultra-hawkish view on Russia. McLaughlin, Clapper, Don Hepburn (CIA and FBI), and Emile Nakhieh (CIA) also write for it.
The Hayden Center cohosts events with the Lawfare Institute which publishes the Lawfare blog in Cooperation with the Brookings Institution and boasts Alexander Vindman of Ukraine impeachment fame as a fellow. Priess is the chief operating officer of the Lawfare Institute and publisher of the blog, which often hosts the bon mots of other signatories
Six are connected to Beacon Global Strategies, a DC-based strategic advisory firm: Panetta, Bash, Morell, Ledgett, Glenn Gerstell, and Mike Vickers.
Six are with Spycraft Entertainment, which was cofounded by signatories John Sipher and Jerry O'Shea: Wise, Wood, Paul Kolbe and Polymeropoulos.
The author is way off, imho, as to the people who wrote and signed this letter, it was a tremendous success; there is no cause in their minds to apologize for the operation/lies.Quote:
Five former CIA directors signed the letter, Mike Hayden Leon Panetta, John Brennan and Michael Morell (acting), and John McLaughlin (briefly acting), as well as a former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, eight CIA intelligence officers, seven analysts, four chiefs of staff and assorted other Washington former intelligence community grifters.
I asked the 20 most prominent signatories last week if they had any regrets: "As time has proven you wrong, do you have any apology or retraction you would like to make? Do you feel any responsibility for your letter adding to a moral panic about Russia which has heightened the danger of nuclear war?"
And I asked if they were concerned about reputational damage to the various institutions they are attached to. None have responded, other than one turning her LinkedIn profile private and another blocking me on Twitter, as retired CIA senior operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos did.
