Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others have spoken out against Politico’s reporting on the laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop.
The intelligence chief said that a letter from government agencies questioning the origins of the laptop cited by the news organization was “deliberately distorted” to cast doubt, according to The Washington Post.
“All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation,” Clapper told the Post. “Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.”
The paragraph of the letter signed by 50 former senior intelligence officials mentioned by Clapper stated, “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President [Donald] Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.”…