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| Friday, April 19, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
A Special Edition of Lonely Pamphleteer Review
LPR Presents, in Part, Proof of the Existence of a Deep State that Resists, Vigorously, Free and Open Elections
March 19, 2022 -- Posted below is the text of the letter from leading lights in the intel community that was used by the Deep State to protect the presidential candidacy of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., from questions that should have been raised by publication in The New York Post, October 2020, of e-mails found on his son Hunter's computer, left in a repair shop. The partisan media, led by The New York Times, succeeded in burying the story, until the Times, March 17, acknowledged, deep in a story on Hunter Biden's tax problems, that the emails on Hunter Biden's computer were authentic. This egregious letter, it should be noted, was drafted by U.S. experts in the area of Soviet disinformatsia, who employed their expertise to insure the election of Biden to the presidency. LPR proposes that the signers of the letter, including Leon Panetta, should, immediately, have revoked any security clearances that they may still hold for placing partisan propaganda above the national interest. LPR proposes, further, that either eligibility for a Pulitzer Prize be suspended for five years with respect to The New York Times — or, in the alternative, the Pulitzer committee should be disbanded, placed on the ash-heap of journalistic history, as this award has become a function of the power of the Deep State to traduce the notion of free and open objective journalism. It is nothing short of a disgrace that The New York Times should have been awarded a Pulitzer for reportlng, contrary to the truth, that President Trump was an asset of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that he owed his election to Russian meddling. It should be apparent that if a master-puppet relationship exists worthy of the people's contempt it is that of The Times as puppetmaster of the Pulitzer committee. Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails We are all individuals who devoted significant portions of our lives to national security. Some of us served in senior positions in policy departments and agencies, and some of us served in senior positions in the Intelligence Community. Some of us were political appointees, and some were career officials. Many of us worked for presidents of both political parties. We are all also individuals who see Russia as one of our nation’s primary adversaries. All of us have an understanding of the wide range of Russian overt and covert activities that undermine US national security, with some of us knowing Russian behavior intimately, as we worked to defend our nation against it for a career. A few of us worked against Russian information operations in the United States in the last several years. Perhaps most important, each of us believes deeply that American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not foreign governments. All of us agree with the founding fathers’ concern about the damage that foreign interference in our politics can do to our democracy. It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation. We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case. If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this. There are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement. Such an operation would be consistent with Russian objectives, as outlined publicly and recently by the Intelligence Community, to create political chaos in the United States and to deepen political divisions here but also to undermine the candidacy of former Vice President Biden and thereby help the candidacy of President Trump. For the Russians at this point, with Trump down in the polls, there is incentive for Moscow to pull out the stops to do anything possible to help Trump win and/or to weaken Biden should he win. A "laptop op" fits the bill, as the publication of the emails are clearly designed to discredit Biden. Such an operation would be consistent with some of the key methods Russia has used in its now multi-year operation to interfere in our democracy – the hacking (via cyber operations) and the dumping of accurate information or the distribution of inaccurate or misinformation. Russia did both of these during the 2016 presidential election – judgments shared by the US Intelligence Community, the investigation into Russian activities by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the entirety (all Republicans and Democrats) on the current Senate Intelligence Committee. Such an operation is also consistent with several data points. The Russians, according to media reports and cybersecurity experts, targeted Burisma late last year for cyber collection and gained access to its emails. And Ukrainian politician and businessman Adriy Derkach, identified and sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for being a 10-year Russian agent interfering in the 2020 election, passed purported materials on Burisma and Hunter Biden to Giuliani. Our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue is consistent with two other significant data points as well. According to the Washington Post, citing four sources, "U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence." In addition, media reports say that the FBI has now opened an investigation into Russian involvement in this case. According to USA Today, "...federal authorities are investigating whether the material supplied to the New York Post by Rudy Giuliani... is part of a smoke bomb of disinformation pushed by Russia." We do not know whether these press reports are accurate, but they do suggest concern within Executive Branch departments and agencies that mirrors ours. It is high time that Russia stops interfering in our democracy. Signed by, Jim Clapper Mike Hayden Leon Panetta John Brennan Thomas Finger Rick Ledgett John McLaughlin Michael Morell Mike Vickers Doug Wise Nick Rasmussen Russ Travers |
Andy Liepman John Moseman Larry Pfeiffer Jeremy Bash Rodney Snyder Glenn Gerstell David B. Buckley Nada Bakos Patty Brandmaier James B. Bruce Considerable work related to Russia David Cariens Janice Cariens Paul Kolbe Peter Corsell Brett Davis Roger Zane George Steven L. Hall Kent Harrington Don Hepburn Timothy D. Kilbourn Ron Marks Jonna Hiestand Mendez Emile Nakhleh Gerald A. O’Shea David Priess Pam Purcilly Marc Polymeropoulos Chris Savos Nick Shapiro John Sipher Stephen Slick Cynthia Strand Greg Tarbell David Terry Greg Treverton John Tullius David A. Vanell Winston Wiley Kristin Wood In addition, nine additional former IC officers who cannot be named publicly also support the arguments in this letter. LINK: CLICK HERE TO VIEW ORIGINAL LETTER The text of this letter was made available by Politico, October 19, 2020 in support of its hatchet-piece, that strained to use the letter to discredit the New York Post's report on Hunter Biden's e-mails. Here is the link to that Politico report: POLITICO: Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say More than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter casting doubt on the provenance of a New York Post story on the former vice president's son.
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