threat was so closely associated with other politics. ben rhodes, your reaction to this news this morning? well, as you mentioned, in my last book i deal with the global spread of this kind of far right nationalist ideology that we see on both sides of the atlantic. what this demonstrates is how much we live in a global information space. 10 or 15 years ago, an american conspiracy theory like qanon or other american conspiracy theories about a deep state probably would have been contained in certain corners of american discourse. but now, this stuff travels globally on facebook, on youtube, on twitter. so people who are susceptible to the same grievances in germany are consuming the same things that far right people are consuming in the united states. it speaks to the globalization of these conspiracy theories and ideologies. another interesting note in the reporting around the german
current and former u.s. intelligence officials should be deeply troubling to americans on the left and right. they have the authority by dint of access to information than isn t confirmable by the press which takes their spin as gospel. it s a form of political corruption that needs to be exposed and perhaps the twitter documents will help unlock this story. they mention james clapper and john brennan individually in this story for putting the taint on this material that oh, it must be russian disinformation and it would be manipulative in the election for this to get out prior to it. people, brennan and clapper, really should no longer be included in public discourse. they basically came forward with disinformation themselves and came forward in a dishonest way, approvably dishonestly way.
twitter before the 2020 election to expect hack and leak operations involving hunter biden. that from the social media giants s former safety chief after the election. miranda divine says this post lays bear how the fbi was involved in prebunking the story of the laptop, which had been in the bureau s possession for almost a year. but former federal prosecutor and fox news contributor andy mccarthy says stop looking for a smoking gun to prove. that is not how this game works. and he joins me now. andy, good to have you with us. how are you. i m doing well. thanks. how does this game work? you have sophisticated people on both sides of this, on twitter s side as they got weeks of briefing from the fbi, one of the top lawyers at twitter is jim baker, who was the fbi s general counsel. we remember hearing his name in connection with the russia gate stuff. so both sides here know how this works.
opposition sort of effort? well, no. i ve heard those rumors paraded around. i had no doubt in my mind that the person that came in to my shop with those devices was the same person that was starring in a lot of the homemade material that was on the computer. i had no doubt in my mind. when i went to pursue clearing my name and pursuing twitter and the court of law, one of the first things we had to do is prove that i wasn t a hacker and the easiest way to do that is to verify that this was hunter biden s signature. the first thing we did is get a retired fbi professional of 30 years to exam 9 the signature. came back 99.8% positive. he gave us a rundown of the mental condition the person would have signed it in. so it s i ve known for the facts for so long, i just have been trying to figure out who started the rumor that this was
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