Jeremy Bash, a Hunter Biden laptop-denier, was lately appointed to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
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If Jeremy Bash’s appointment final week to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board is any information to how the White Home picks its prime intel people, the nation can overlook about getting dependable intel.
Bash uncovered himself as a political hack keen to take advantage of his authority for partisan functions again in October 2020, when he joined 50 different former intelligence officers and signed an open letter pretending that The Submit’s reporting off Hunter Biden’s laptop computer was doubtless Russian disinformation.
It has “has the traditional earmarks of a Russian info operation,” the 51 claimed — with out really explaining how, as a result of it didn’t. It was simply data they didn’t need voters seeing prematurely of the election.
With the identical motive, The New York Occasions, Washington Submit, NPR and different retailers used the letter as an excuse to disregard and deny our scoops. “We don’t wish to waste our time on tales that aren't actually tales, and we don’t wish to waste the listener’s and readers’ time on tales which are simply pure distractions,” huffed NPR managing editor Terence Samuels.
Oops: The Occasions, WaPo and so forth have now admitted The Submit’s stories have been 100% correct. So the “consultants” have been really those pushing disinformation.
But that’s doubtless why the White Home put Bash on a board that’s supposed to guage how the US intelligence group is performing: He’ll push the “proper” views to supply “intelligence” that justifies what the administration needs to do anyway.
Or, alternately, the prez is simply rewarding a man who helped shield his son and him.
Workforce Biden is placing politics first — and so constructing extra mistrust in establishments which are supposed to serve the nation as a complete.
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