New in PJ Media: It was bad enough that 51 of the nation’s top intelligence officials declared in Oct. 2020, at the height of the presidential campaign, that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” But now the flagrant dishonesty of the whole affair has gotten exponentially worse, for any lingering […]
James Clapper Claims He Didn’t Really Mean Hunter Biden’s Laptop was a Russian Plot
“All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation.” Hunter Biden’s laptop is so mainstream now that even the 50 former intel officials who falsely suggested that it was Russian disinformation are now backing away from that claim and blaming the media. The Washington Post fact check by Glenn […]
Hey, What Happened to the 51 Intel Agents Who Assured Us Hunter’s Laptop was Russian Disinformation?
New in PJ Media: The whole world knows now that Hunter Biden’s legendary laptop is real, and as Matt Margolis noted Friday, “all that’s left is anger — anger at how the media and Big Tech deliberately suppressed this damaging story about Hunter Biden to protect Joe Biden in the waning weeks of the presidential campaign.” Foremost […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Clueless Clapper Calls It Quits
The era of fantasy-based policymaking is drawing to a close. My latest in FrontPage: Barack Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday, and the next day he told the House Select Committee on Intelligence that doing so “felt pretty good….I have 64 days left and I’d have a […]
National Intelligence Director: Islamic State exploiting migrant crisis, has training camps in Europe
This is why Clapper makes the big bucks: he doesn’t hesitate to state the blazingly obvious. And give the man credit: he has come a long way toward a realistic appraisal of the world since the days when he labeled the Muslim Brotherhood “largely secular.” “National Intelligence Director Clapper: Islamic State Exploiting Migrant Crisis In […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Islamic State Attacks Russia
In FrontPage today I discuss how the Islamic State is taking the jihad against the non-Muslim world to a new level: The likelihood that the Russian Metrojet Flight 7K9268 was downed by an Islamic State (ISIS) bomb planted on board demonstrates anew that the free world’s response to the self-styled caliphate so far remains woefully […]
Director of National Intelligence: Islamic State claim to have downed Russian jet “unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out”
“The United States, Germany and Britain all had overflight warnings in place for Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula” — that in itself is serious indication that they think there is a strong possibility that jihadis took down the plane. “The Latest: Countries warned of dangers flying over Sinai,” Associated Press, November 2, 2015: The latest developments after […]
U.S. omits Iran and Hizballah from terror threat list
Barack Obama is still at it, relentlessly turning allies into enemies and enemies into allies. “U.S. Omits Iran and Hezbollah From Terror Threat List,” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, March 16, 2015: An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant […]
180 US Muslims have joined jihad in Syria; 40 have already returned
What could possibly go wrong? “180 Americans Joined Islamic Militants in Syria, 40 Have Already Come Home,” Reuters, March 2, 2015: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 180 Americans have traveled to Syria to join Islamist militants and around 40 of them have returned to the United States, the U.S. National Intelligence director, James Clapper, said on […]