New in PJ Media:
Former CIA acting director Michael Morell has been named by Washingtonian magazine as one of “Washington D.C.’s Most Influential People of 2023.” This is worth noting because Morell’s claim to fame is being one of the 51 senior intelligence officials who assured the world in Oct. 2020 that Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop was Russian disinformation. Yet instead of being rightly excoriated as a liar and a partisan hack who deliberately tried to mislead the American people in order to ensure the election of Old Joe Biden, Morell is being laden with honors by his friends and allies among the political and cultural Left. And why not? He performed an important and valuable service for them, did he not?
Being part of the Leftist establishment in Washington is one of the most plum positions in the entire world. Not only is the pay terrific, but no matter how much of a dishonest little weasel like Morell you may be, you get lionized as “courageous” and “visionary” by the Left’s propaganda arm known as the mainstream media. If you’re part of the Leftist establishment and you should happen to break a law or two in your pursuit of your just financial rewards, or get caught lying while exercising your office of public trust, your friends and allies in the “Justice” Department will do everything they can to cover for you and make sure that you face no adverse consequences for your actions. They’ll even shower you with awards and praise.
As it named him one of the most influential people in our nation’s capital in 2023, Washingtonian hailed Morell for another aspect of his valuable service to the Leftist establishment: his ardent cheerleading for the U.S. bankrolling of the war in Ukraine: “The CIA veteran, who advises on international policy and homeland security, rallied political support for continued US military assistance to Ukraine as skepticism began to fester among right-wing voices and some progressives.” Washingtonian didn’t say anything about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but the timing was hard not to notice: Morell revealed in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in April that he had a huge role in the statement claiming that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation.
It was Morell who actually crafted the statement, which was signed by 51 senior American intelligence officials and published on October 19, 2020. It asserted 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.” It wasn’t, but its purpose was to ensure that Old Joe Biden would defeat Donald Trump, and so the operation has to be marked a success.
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Phil Copson says
“…has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
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Freudian slip there – surely Mendacious Morrell meant to say “DIS-information”? That the e-mails are “information” is something we can all agree on.
David M says
Tells you a lot about the CIA doesn’t it when 5 or 6 former CIA bosses are happy to outright lie about this. They would have known exactly what they were saying was a lie as well.
But then the CIA is the caring organisation that gave us such things as MK Ultra, so what do you expect. I bet they are taught how to lie effectively in their training.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
These days, I look at the CIA and the FBI w/ the same contempt that I once used to look at the KGB and the Stasi. Not only do they need to be disbanded, but every employee of theirs needs to be dishonorably discharged. I no longer buy the urban myth that only the top brass is corrupt but the rank & file are fine people. Everybody who works for them needs to go!
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
To your point, if I were now in a situation that involved “see something say something”, I’m not sure who I would contact…