Mayorkas unaware that Clapper, Brennan signed Hunter Biden laptop disinformation letter
It's easy to see how The Swamp protects and rewards its own by lying and pretending to be stupid of big news stories that most Americans have read or heard . . .
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress on Wednesday that he didn’t know that three people he appointed to a new intelligence experts panel had spread disinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop just ahead of the 2020 election.
James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence; John Brennan, the former CIA chief in the Obama administration, and Paul Kolbe, a long-time CIA official, were among dozens who signed the letter calling a New York Post report on the laptop Russian disinformation. In fact, the laptop was authentic — something the FBI knew at the time.
Mr. Mayorkas in September named them to his intelligence experts board, drawing fierce pushback, given their role in the laptop letter.
Rep. Kat Cammack, at a hearing, challenged Mr. Mayorkas on whether he was aware that they signed the letter.
“I don’t know the answer to that,” he replied.
“They did,” she retorted.
She then asked if he was aware of the role that the letter played in censoring the Biden laptop story.
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“I am not tracking that,” Mr. Mayorkas replied.
Ms. Cammack, Florida Republican, called that “shocking.”
Mr. Mayorkas went on to defend his decision to appoint the three, calling them “distinguished former members of the intelligence community.”
The experts group is intended to give advice to Mr. Mayorkas on national security matters facing the country. It will meet four times a year.
The department said the full group is bipartisan. It pointed to members such as John Bellinger and Michael Leiter, who served in senior national security roles in the George W. Bush administration.
The department said it wanted a wide range of views from the panel.
• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.
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The ass is not doing the job he was sworn to do, just like the vast majority of other leftist globalist implanted into our government. It has become quite clear to thinking people that the liberal left has been infiltrated with insidious operatives bent on the destruction of America's national sovereignty. Doing so to pave the way for globalism, the benign title given to cover for the new world order. Global socialism, where "you will own nothing and be happy", sound familiar? Biden is a plant and so are a vast many of others, that need to be dismissed form any form of governing authority, lest America dies.
It is always amazing what these agency, bureau, directorate, etc. heads do not know. It is his duty to vet his appointees, have them vetted, look at the full background and all actions. The fact that they have or may have worked in the federal government or prominent civilian does not obviate their duties.
I am always amazed that despite direct, specific letters and requests from Congress, and the subjects sometimes (many times) having been brought up in prior hearings, that they still claim lack of knowledge. The cabinet members have Chiefs of Staff to keep them on top of evolving subjects, who also can access Congressional staffers to scope out likely areas of pending inquiry. I remember Wray smirking at some of his questioners - his smirks are becoming less subtle in their resemblance to Peter Strzok's.