Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
OPINION Newly-installed Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said President Biden “will want to know what information we have that actually conflicts with his policy positions,” during her confirmation hearing last Tuesday before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Biden, when interviewing Haines about the job, “made it clear we will provide truth to power…he’s been adamant about this,” she said at one point.
The former White House press secretary argues the lack of media interest in the Hunter Biden story is ‘troubling.’
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday laughed off a question about the federal investigation of his son Hunter, in what s become part of a pattern for him to mock or belittle reporters who broach the topic.
As Biden ended his press conference Tuesday, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy shouted a question on whether he still believed the stories by the New York Post and other outlets about his son s business affairs were a Russian disinformation campaign and a smear campaign.
Biden chuckled, then said, Yes! Yes! Yes! God love you, man. You re a one horse-pony, meaning to say one-trick pony for the repeated questions on the subject.
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President-elect Joe Biden said in a press conference Tuesday that his son Hunter’s business dealings had not come up in discussions about his highly anticipated pick for attorney general. Has the issue of investigations with your son come up with your team and with candidates about (sic) attorney general? a reporter asked. No, no I guarantee you I m going to do what I said, Biden responded. The attorney general of the United States of America is not the president s lawyer. I will appoint someone I expect to enforce the law as the law is written, not guided by me.
16 Dec 2020
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is considering not signing an intelligence report to Congress if it does not accurately reflect an ongoing debate among intelligence community career analysts over Chinese attempts to influence American voters in the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the issue.
The intelligence report on foreign efforts to influence the 2020 election is due to Congress on Friday, but Ratcliffe is concerned it will not accurately reflect the debate among senior intelligence community analysts as to the extent of China’s influence operations during the election, according to the source.
There is allegedly “ample” raw intelligence about China’s intentions and actions related to the election, with more intelligence reporting coming in everyday. Some of the influence operations include social media campaigns seeking to amplify messages such as that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist.