Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Intelligence Agencies Warn That Conspiracy Theories Pose Threat To Election

NBC News reports that "Extremists inspired by conspiracy theories pose major threat to 2024 elections, U.S. intelligence warns." Based on the headline alone, you might be forgiven if you thought it was about the 51 intelligence officials who signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story was fake immediately before the crucial final debate between Trump and Biden in 2020. Of course, the laptop and the information contained therein were real. Even the government admits as much: during the prosecution of Hunter Biden for gun and tax crimes, both the FBI and Department of Justice confirmed that the laptop’s contents were authentic. But the letter likely helped Biden eke out a win over Trump. It was, in effect, part of a larger intelligence community operation to take down Trump and manipulate the outcome of the election--our own "color revolution" you could say. It begs the question of why should we ever again trust the intelligence community?

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Weekend Reading -- A New Weekend Knowledge Dump

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