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James Clapper’s Disinformation

Politico ‘distorted’ the 2020 letter signed by 51 ex-intel officials? Now he tells us.

By Kimberley A. Strassel
Journal Editorial Report: Republicans open up the politics of Twitter. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly

Whether or not GOP House oversight yields answers about 2020 election meddling, it is at least producing some fantastical squirming and finger pointing. See this week’s incredulous Clapper defense.

That would be James Clapper, the Obama director of national intelligence, one of 51 former intelligence officials who in October 2020 issued a highly consequential letter. The New York Post had revealed contents of a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden. The information raised ugly questions about his use of the Biden family name in his foreign business dealings and the extent to which his father knew about them. With weeks to go in a close presidential campaign, the laptop bomb might have derailed Joe Biden’s White House bid.

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