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(FreedomWire.org) – Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is no fan of the U.S. spy network and on Wednesday tweeted a picture of President John F. Kennedy, Jr. while calling for the CIA, NSA, and FBI to be split “into a thousand pieces” and their remains scattered “into the winds.”

Dorsey has been a relatively quiet public figure since stepping down from the company he founded and ceding control to Elon Musk. His latest message indicates deep reservations about the nation’s intelligence gathering services which have come under heavy scrutiny for political bias and invasion of American’s privacy.

Attacks on the agency have been buoyed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a candidate for president and the nephew of President Kennedy who was assassinated in 1963. RFK recently claimed that the CIA had a role in his uncle’s murder and has proposed a three-step plan if elected to dismantle state censorship, citing efforts by the FBI to isolate dissenters on Twitter and conduct “mass surveillance” on citizens.

Dorsey’s comments are in line with those of Musk and others in the tech community who have publicly complained about interference from the FBI as the agency conducts domestic surveillance during its efforts to ostensibly root out threats of terrorism. In December, Musk tweeted that the government “paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor info from the public,” retweeting a message about the FBI’s involvement in sowing doubt about information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Congressional oversight of the intelligence community has intensified as well. House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) continues to pressure the FBI to release details of a meeting that he alleges showed how President Joe Biden is tied to a bribery scandal involving members of his family. Last week whistleblowers from the agency testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the repercussions they have suffered after coming forward to claim that the Bureau and Department of Justice have become “weaponized” against perceived enemies of the president. Separately, a group of veteran former FBI agents have slammed the agency as “politicized” and in need of reform.

(FreedomWire.org) – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan claims that former CIA Director John Brennan’s testimony before the panel confirms the infamous letter signed by 51 intelligence officials portraying Hunter Biden’s laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ was a political operation.

In that letter, the authors argued that the laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

“If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this,” they said of the New York Post’s bombshell story at the time.

Then-candidate Joe Biden used the letter as a means to blunt attacks by Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential debates. The media used it as an excuse not to run the story and inform the public.

“[Brennan] sat for a four-hour interview and he further confirmed that this thing was all political,” Jordan (R-OH) told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Brennan was one of the signatories of the letter. He refused to apologize or even comment when the laptop was subsequently confirmed as real by multiple sources.

Representative Jim Jordan also told Watters that President Biden used the letter as a “talking point” for his NBC debate against Trump.

“When Trump brought up the laptop report, Biden cited the letter, which led the incumbent to remark how the public apparently must now be led to believe the laptop is “another ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ [hoax],” Jordan asserted.

Emails show former acting CIA Director Mike Morrell had recruited Brennan to sign onto the letter specifically as a means to provide Biden with “a talking point to push back on Trump.”

Morrell in turn and prior to that, in a transcribed interview with the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, testified that he received a call from now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussing the laptop story.

Morrell claimed the conversation spurred him to gather various signatures from intel officials to help discredit the very real Hunter Biden laptop story.

Prior to the communication with Blinken, Morrell testified that he “did not” have any intent to write the public statement that would lead to a massive media blackout of the story.

“His call triggered that intent in you?” a committee interviewer asked, to which he replied: “It did, yes.”

The Biden campaign was the impetus for the letter, intel officials swore to it, the media dutifully refused to cover it, and those who did were shut down by social media.

It was a coordinated propaganda campaign so President Biden could gain power.

“And he presented it as if it was all organic — just shazam!” Jordan continued. “It just happened out of the goodness of all these individuals’ hearts. They wanted to do this as if there was no political motivation whatsoever, and we know that was not accurate.”

Jordan told Watters that next up for the Judiciary Committee will be former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who will testify later this week.

Clapper also signed the letter and strongly doubled down on it when given the chance to apologize once the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop had been verified.

Though Jordan better be on his A-game, since Clapper already famously lied to Congress in 2013 about mass, unconstitutional spying programs. (He was obviously not held accountable, despite all the “no one is above the law” rhetoric from Democrats.)

“Yes, I stand by the statement made AT THE TIME, and would call attention to its 5th paragraph,” he told the Post over a year after the letter had gone out and the misinformation campaign and collusion had been plotted.

“I think sounding such a cautionary note AT THE TIME was appropriate.”

After nearly two-and-a- half years, however, Clapper suddenly claimed the letter had been taken out of context and “distorted.”

“There was message distortion,” Clapper told the Washington Post. “All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation.”

No, all Clapper, Brennan, and the other 49 unintelligent intel officials were trying to do was taint an election. It was a political operation one would expect to see in third-world countries.

(FreedomWire.org) – According to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden’s current CIA chief, William Burns, is among a number of other names of people who met on more than on occasion with the convicted pedophile.

“The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules,” the WSJ report begins.

“William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan,” the report adds.

The newly released documents show that despite not appearing in Epstein’s “black book” or flight logs, multiple high-profile individuals met with him after he served jail time in 2008 for a sex crime involving a teenage girl and was registered as a sex offender. The outlet added that the documents, consisting of thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017, have not been previously reported.

The documents do not reveal the purpose of the meetings, and the WSJ reported that it could not verify whether every scheduled meeting occurred.

According to the Journal’s interviews with most of the individuals mentioned in the documents, their visits to Epstein were primarily related to his wealth and connections. Some believed he had rehabilitated himself after serving time for his previous sex crime conviction.

According to CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp, Burns met with Epstein about a decade ago as he was preparing to leave government service. She stated: “The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector. They had no relationship.”

In 2014, when Burns, a career diplomat, served as Deputy Secretary of State, he had meetings with Epstein. According to the documents, there was a lunch scheduled in August at the office of the law firm Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, as well as two evening appointments at Epstein’s townhouse in September. After one of the meetings, Epstein arranged for his driver to take Burns to the airport.

Thorp said that Burns recalls meeting Epstein once briefly in New York and being introduced in Washington by a mutual friend. She added that the director doesn’t recall any further contact with Epstein, including receiving a ride to the airport.

“The following month, October 2014, Mr. Burns stepped down from his role at the State Department to serve as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank. He ran the Carnegie Endowment until he was nominated in early 2021 by President Biden to serve as CIA director,” the WSJ added.

In 2006, Epstein faced public accusations of sexually abusing girls in Florida who were as young as 14 years old. Following investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and police, Epstein made a deal with prosecutors in 2008 that allowed him to avoid federal charges. Instead, he pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, registered as a sex offender, and served about 13 months in a work-release program.

The media extensively covered Epstein’s case, with numerous reports from the U.S. and around the world detailing accusations of abuse from underage girls and young women. In 2006, several politicians returned donations they received from Epstein, and some of his associates attempted to distance themselves from him. His largest known client, retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, announced in 2007 that he had cut ties with Epstein. In 2013, JPMorgan Chase & Co. closed Epstein’s accounts, although some bankers reportedly continued to meet with him for several years afterward, the WSJ noted.

“In 2015, Virginia Giuffre publicly accused Epstein of sexually abusing and trafficking her when she was a teen and forcing her to have sex with influential people, including Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew has denied the allegations and last year settled a sex-abuse lawsuit by Ms. Giuffre,” the report continued.

(FreedomWire.org) – Extraordinary admission by career intelligence officer Mike J. Morell provides stunning evidence that the now-infamous letter from 51 security officials in October 2020 was not an organic intelligence community event but rather a political dirty trick.

According to new testimony, former acting CIA director Mike Morell says that he was told by the Biden campaign to squash the Hunter Biden laptop story in October of 2020.

With pressure from the Biden, Morrell then orchestrated the infamous letter from “50 intel agencies” claiming that the story was nothing more than “Russian disinformation”.

In an effort to influence the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden, under the direction of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Morell admitted to Congress that he organized the letter that falsely portrayed Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation according to a letter released Thursday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.

Jordan sent a letter demanding Blinken answer a series of questions about Morell’s stunning testimony, as lawmakers weighed the enormity of America’s top diplomat being willing to accuse a nuclear-armed superpower of interfering in the 2020 election without evidence. That letter included major snippets of Morell’s testimony.

Morell, who retired as deputy CIA director after a long and storied career and served as its acting chief, was on the short list in fall 2020 to be Biden’s CIA director when he became involved in the letter. He ultimately did not receive the job.

In a transcribed interview with the House Judiciary government weaponization subcommittee, Morell admitted he got involved with the letter at Blinken’s request and later received a call from the Biden campaign thanking him when Joe Biden used the letter and its false implication to blunt criticism of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

The transcript of Morell’s interview showed he had no intent to write the statement and that Blinken’s “call triggered” his actions. 

The same day Blinken reached out to Morell, an article was published in USA Today alleging that the FBI was looking into the laptop as part of a “disinformation campaign.” 

“Morell testified that his communication with you was one of a few communications he had with the Biden campaign, explaining that he also received a call from Steve Ricchetti, Chairman of the Biden campaign, following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing the letter,” Jordan wrote Blinken. 

Included in Jordan’s letter was Morell’s recollection of the call.

“After the debate — I think it was after the debate — in fact, I’m pretty sure it was after the debate — I got a phone call from Jeremy Bash, who I work with at Beacon and who is active politically,” Morrell told the Committee. “And Jeremy said: Do you have a minute to talk to Steve Ricchetti? I said: Of course. He was the head of the Biden campaign at the time. And Jeremy got him on the line, and Steve thanked me for putting the statement out. And that was the extent of the conversation.” 

He also testified that the Biden campaign team coordinated to release the statement on the laptop to a specific reporter at the Washington Post and admitted that he got involved to help give Biden a leg up on Trump during the debates. 

“There were two intents,” he said. “One intent was to share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue; and, two, it was [to] help Vice President.” When asked why he wanted to help Biden, he replied, “because I wanted him to win the election.

Jordan wrote that based on this testimony, “it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election. 

(FreedomWire.org) – Ron Paul, the former Republican presidential candidate and libertarian icon, believes a coup has already occurred in American politics, beginning on the day John F. Kennedy (JFK) was “murdered by our government.”

Paul made the bombshell statement during Tuesday’s two-hour interview with the “TimCast IRL” podcast.

In the interview, Paul pivoted to selective outrage directed toward Republican George Santos, the embattled congressman currently ensnared in numerous local and federal probes due to a history of lying.

“I got to thinking, well, how many of these people that were complaining about this guy telling lies, how many of them lied when they raised their hand up and swore to uphold the Constitution?” Paul wondered.

“Now, that’s a lie that really has consequences.”

He described those swearing to uphold the Constitution but refusing to do so as fomenting “the real lies.”

“I do believe there has been a coup, and it’s been taken over,” continued Paul.

“And if I want to if I can, I want to just put the date in my mind, and anybody could pick probably any date in the last hundred years. But I have picked November 22, 1963.”

When asked by the interviewer what that date symbolizes Paul replied: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”

The Ron Paul Insititute seemed to recognize that its chairman had “stirred up some attention” with his assertion that the United States government murdered JFK.

“The assassination Paul describes as a coup that helped dramatically changed the nature of America,” they told readers.

While the media attempts to paint people who believe as Paul does as radical malcontents, polls consistently show that a majority of Americans believe President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy, not a lone gunman.

Since the assassination, Paul believes America has reached a point where “we don’t have honest money, we don’t have integrity, we don’t even have people in Washington that even pretend that you’re supposed to tell the truth.”

Fox News host Tucker Carlson several months ago made a similar assertion about JFK being murdered, alleging President Richard Nixon was removed from office because he apparently knew the CIA was involved.

Nixon, Carlson claimed, was asking too many questions.

“On June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then–CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House,” Carlson explained.

“During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew ‘who shot John,’ meaning President John F. Kennedy.”

“Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy’s assassination, which we now know it was,” he added. “Helms’s telling response? Total silence.”

Richard Helms, of course, was the CIA Director of Plans starting in 1962.

The Fox News host has pushed the claim previously, even going so far as to suggest an unnamed source has informed him that the CIA was involved in JFK’s assassination.

(FreedomWire.org) – In 1977, the first full year of Carter’s tenure as commander-in-chief, American lawyer Ted Sorensen never got past the Senate confirmation process, largely stemming from his question-and-answer session with Biden, then a U.S. senator from Delaware.

Biden reportedly played an integral role in Carter’s decision to withdraw his selection to lead the CIA, over the apparent mishandling of classified documents.

Sorenson had admitted to taking boxes of classified records home with him after leaving the White House in 1964, and using the materials for his work in writing a biography of former President John F. Kennedy. Sorenson’s admission to this came in affidavits used in cases involving the Pentagon Papers.

At the time, Biden considered the affidavit and joined with Republicans to block Sorenson from being confirmed by the Senate. Biden also suggested Sorenson may have violated the Espionage Act.

Then-Sen. Biden claimed the “real issue” during Sorensen’s confirmation hearing was “whether Mr. Sorensen intentionally took advantage of ambiguities in the law, or carelessly ignored the law.”

“If he did so, can he now bring the activities of the intelligence community within the strict limits of the law?” Biden asked. “We will expect that in the future of intelligence agencies. If that is to be the case, then we must hold the Director — DCI — accountable as well.”

Although Sorensen defended his handling of the classified documents, Carter ultimately withdrew his nomination. Sorensen claimed his “handling of classified information was at all times in accordance with the then-existing laws, regulations and practices,” according to a 1977 Washington Post report.

Biden’s role in tanking Sorensen’s nomination resurfaced this month after Biden found himself in a scandal stemming from his own handling of classified government documents.

Multiple stashes of classified documents were found in two separate locations, including the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC, and the garage of his Wilmington, DE, home.