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OUR ONCE-STELLAR INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY HAS MORPHED INTO AN
INTELLIGENCE CABAL
Pete Hoekstra
Fox News 
Having spent 10 years on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, including more than six years as either the Chairman or
Ranking Republican, I developed a deep appreciation for the work of
what is often called the "Intelligence Community" (IC). I also was
thoroughly impressed by the quality of the men and women who worked in
the trenches, often in hostile and very dangerous locales. They were,
and I suspect most still are, great patriots. 
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Sadly, that cannot be said about many of the higher-level
professionals who lead the community as demonstrated by their actions
over the last number of years. The Hunter Biden laptop episode is just
the latest dagger in the side of the Intelligence Community, but it
needs to be put into a larger context regarding the IC leadership’s
shift in focus. The partisan behavior of so much of the past and
current leadership of the Intelligence Community is so bad, it might
be more accurate to call it the "Intelligence Cabal." It is a rot that
continues to expand.
Consider the unfortunate answer that the Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper provided to Senator Wyden in a 2013. Asked
the simple question of whether the IC was conducting mass surveillance
of Americans, Clapper falsely answered, "No sir. Not wittingly." As
revealed a few months later, the National Security Agency had been
collecting the metadata for nearly every call and text on American
networks. While not necessarily partisan, this deceitful behavior by
Clapper would become a disturbing pattern for him and other IC
leaders.
In 2017, efforts clearly designed to undermine and perhaps collapse
the administration of incoming President Donald Trump were executed by
leading FBI and intelligence officials, including DNI Clapper, FBI
Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and former CIA
Director Gen. Michael Hayden. They embraced the phony Steele Dossier
and talked with the media to bolster its credibility and damage Trump.
They pedaled this narrative until it collapsed under the weight of its
own lies when a key Russian source of Christopher Steele was arrested
and charged with lying to the FBI. It also was revealed the dossier
had been a hoax bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign,
with Steele pocketing almost $170,000 from the campaign.
But far from being chastened after promoting the politically funded
lies of the Steele Dossier, the individuals continued their partisan
behavior and attacks. In another blow to the credibility of these
much-ballyhooed former IC leaders, The New York Times finally admitted
the contents of the abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden first revealed by
the New York Post in October of 2020 were real and had been
authenticated by the paper. 
This after discussion about the laptop had been banned from many
social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook as being Russian
misinformation or the result of a hack. 
And after the mainstream media dismissed the New York Post’s
reporting out-of-hand and even refused to look into it, dismissing it
as a waste of time and not really a story.
And after these vaunted former intelligence officials, joined with 51
former IC colleagues and leaders, to write a letter stating:
"All of us have an understanding of the wide range of activities of
Russian overt and covert activities that undermine U.S. national
security … Perhaps most important, each of us believes deeply that
American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not
foreign governments." 
"… has 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 Americans need to be
aware of this."
Well, they were wrong, and in an ironic twist, they were doing exactly
what they accused Russia of doing—engaging in a classic partisan,
political information campaign to influence the outcome of an
election. They had, wittingly or not, made themselves tools of the
Biden presidential campaign.
Signatories of the letter included many familiar and some not so
familiar names: Clapper, Hayden, Brennan, and David Buckley. Why do I
mention Buckley? He was at one-time staff director for the minority
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, and I know him and can
attest that he is a personally nice guy.
The partisan behavior of so much of the past and current leadership of
the Intelligence Community is so bad, it might be more accurate to
call it the "Intelligence Cabal." It is a rot that continues to
expand.
So why bring up someone I like? It’s to demonstrate that the
"Intelligence Cabal" never quits. They went after Trump before he
assumed office, while he was in office, and during the 2020 election.
Their ongoing information operation, which started with the Steele
dossier, continues to today. The latest chapter, David Buckley, who
signed the laptop letter, is now the staff director for the January 6
Committee. 
Many of us have raised questions about the January 6 Committee,
including its construct, its membership, and scope just to mention a
few. This latest revelation about the role of its staff director in
influencing the 2020 election through a partisan disinformation
campaign is the latest major red flag. 
The questions that need to be asked now are: Who will investigate the
51 intelligence officials who signed the Hunter Biden laptop letter
about what they knew when signing, and who will investigate whether
this created any conflicts for the lead investigator of the January 6
Committee? The sorry thing is we all know the likely answer—no one
will.
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