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Extensive background leading up to the following post here in part from Politico:

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe (R-TX) declassified and released Russian intelligence assessment that was previously rejected by Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee as having no factual basis.

The extraordinary disclosure, released to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) earlier Tuesday (October 20) rankled Democrats who said the move effectively put Russian disinformation into the public sphere in order to boost Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about the government’s efforts to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Blowback:

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) told reporters: “It’s very disturbing to me that, 35 days before an election, the director of national intelligence would release unverified Russian rumint (e.g., “rumor intelligence.”)

Several former senior intelligence officials described Ratcliffe’s move as incendiary and irresponsible, given the manner in which he was publicly releasing unverified information that originated from a foreign adversary.

Nick Merrill, a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton, said in a text message that the Ratcliffe allegations: “Were baseless büllsh*t.”

Nick Shapiro, Brennan’s former deputy chief of staff at the CIA, said: “Ratcliffe should be ashamed of his blatant politicization of his position.”

After receiving a lot of pushback against the declassified material, Ratcliffe said in a statement: “To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community. I’ll be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.”

Sen. Graham responded to his critics saying that the veracity of the Russian intelligence assessment was irrelevant, adding: “I’m not saying whether it’s true or not. I’m asking Democrats, do you give a damn whether the FBI investigated it, or do you just care only about investigating Trump? This is the ultimate double standard. They took the whole damn country through hell for two and a half years — and is it far-fetched to believe that the Hillary Clinton campaign would do something like this after Christopher Steele?”

Graham was referring to Steele, the author of an unverified “Dossier” re: claims about Trump’s connections to Russia.

A former senior intelligence official said: “This is a surprising choice to release this information — that is not new and that seems unconfirmed — now and in an unclassified letter. I don’t know what good purpose is served.”

It has long been known that the Russians were trying to stir up false narratives about Clinton through similar avenues for a very long time and now they seen to be at it again – as many experts predicted and as Robert Mueller said in his testimony to congress while discussing his final report when he was asked about Russian disinformation and interference to Congress said: “They are doing it even as we sit here (sic).”

Also, more than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter (October 10, 2020) outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, “…has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

Those who signed the letter included former Trump administration officials: Russ Travers, who served as National Counterterrorism Center acting director; Glenn Gerstell, the former NSA general counsel; Rick Ledgett, the former deputy NSA director; Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA senior operations officer; and Cynthia Strand, who served as the CIA’s deputy assistant director for global issues.

Former CIA directors or acting directors: John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Gen. Michael Hayden, John McLaughlin, and Michael Morell also signed the letter, and so did more than three dozen other intelligence veterans.

The letter concerns a batch of documents released by the NewYork Post (October 14) that purport to tie Joe Biden to his son Hunter’s business dealings.

The NY Post’s headline was: “Biden Secret E-mails.” They said they were given a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. 

He said he got it from a Mac shop owner in Delaware who also alerted the FBI.

Questions remain unanswered on that story e.g:

1. Why did the laptop repair shop give Giuliani the hard drive from the laptop?

2. What purpose if any does revealing what is in any private citizen’s computer hard drive and emails (if proven not to be national security, etc.) in this campaign? 

Simple: Smear Joe Biden via his son to enable Trump’s greed for power to stay in office – just that simple.

Related: The NY Times raised questions about the rigor of the NY Post’s reporting process, revealing that several of its reporters had refused to put their name on the Biden stories because they were concerned about the authenticity of the materials. 

The NY Post, however, stood by its reporting, saying it was vetted before publication.

The release of the material, which POLITICO has not independently verified, has drawn comparisons to 2016, when Russian hackers dumped troves of emails from Democrats onto the internet via WikiLeaks and that whole mess, that produced few damaging revelations but fueled accusations of corruption by Trump.

While there has been no immediate indication of Russian involvement in the release of emails the Post obtained, its general thrust mirrors a narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies have described as part of an active Russian disinformation effort aimed at denigrating Biden’s candidacy.

More: While the letter’s signatories presented no new evidence, they said their national security experience had made them “deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case, and they cited several elements of the story that suggested the Kremlin’s hand at work,” adding: “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.”

Nick Shapiro, a former top aide under CIA director John Brennan, provided POLITICO with the letter and he noted: “The IC leaders who have signed this letter worked for the past four presidents, including Trump,” adding: “The real power here however is the number of former, working-level IC officers who want the American people to know that once again the Russians are interfering.”

My 2 cents: Continue this reporting at both the Politico links and links to related material within those two sites - all very good reporting and background.

The B/L:  This stinks and has one purpose as stated “Smear Joe Biden anyway possible to please Trump’s appetite for his greed to stay in office also anyway possible by using anything or anyone to help him in that nasty, ugly, possibly illegal endeavor,” we shall see in the end about that. 

As for me and my years of experience with Russian dealing and such, this is a classic Russian ploy and boy oh, boy, it’s working… just listen, watch, and read. 

Shame on those who trust and believe the Russian and GOP denials – makes you ask “Who do Republicans today really serve: The nation and all Americans, or Putin and only Russians?”

Finally, this is the worse I’ve ever seen and 10 times worse than in 2016… and we still have two weeks to go, so hang on tight.

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