Just to be clear. Disingenuous Dick and his cronies are spinning this story by pretending the letter said something it didn’t say. Didn’t say the laptop wasn’t Biden’s but that Russia and the right wing were exploring and amplifying the story for disinformation purposes.
For those in a sweaty rage over something or other, this is called sarcasm. As if a retired dude on Twitter could swing an election of 300 million ppl over an issue that has nothing to do with said election. People like @RichardGrenell who deny election results will say anything.
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Ok @readthistwice, here are some more books I recommend that are about espionage (or at least espionage adjacent). As far as fiction I love all John Le Carre. My former colleague Jason Matthews also wrote a great trilogy - "Red Sparrow"... 1/
This is a stunningly bad take. Let me count the ways (although not all of them - it would take months). /1 washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
Rush Limbaugh used to play this game. He would create a rickety straw man to tear down, making his argument seem sensible in contrast. 2/
Hard to imagine a straw man more lame than "I heard a couple guys in the halls at CIA..." Really? You are using an overheard conversation to stand for US policy during the Cold War? Lame. 3/
Are you catching the drift, Mr. Ratcliffe? You are damaging the credibility our intelligence community, and possibly killing the ODNI itself. Thread 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/can-t…
There have been several candidates for worst intel officer who debased the profession and damaged the system itself. Michael Flynn’s poor judgment got him fired from both of his senior jobs before he could do too much damage but his legacy will nonetheless be lasting. /2
Flynn injected domestic politics into national security matters, enabled Trump’s twisted view that our intel, law enforcement and national security professionals are part of a “deep state,” willingly engaged in a Kremlin propaganda stunt, and lied to the FBI about his contacts./3