Fake “Intelligence” Analysts

In the past two days, the Washington Post has finally determined what the rest of us knew 17 months ago – Hunter Biden’s laptop was real; the information in it was damning; and it was not the product of Russian disinformation. The Post published the list of so-called “former intelligence community officials” all of whom had attested that the laptop was Russian disinformation. Of course, not one of these “intelligence” people had even seen the laptop much less reviewed its contents. That did not stop them from stating categorically that it was false information. The Washington Post and numerous other media outlets echoed that opinion, damaging the credibility of the reporters for the New York Post who had worked diligently to document their reportage. Twitter joined in and banned the New York Post account, depriving millions of readers of the truth.

Now we know for sure that these “intelligence” experts flatly lied to protect Joe Biden. There is no doubt of that. The record is plain and unambiguous. A few of them continue to claim that the laptop was, in fact, disinformation, but their claims are as false today as they were in October 2020. Only today, their claims are intended as self-justification. Each of the intelligence experts possessed [and most still possess] security clearances that allow them access to highly classified information denied to the rest of us. Ratcatcher believes it is imperative that these clearances be terminated at once. Further, if there is any means to do so, these experts who claimed, without any evidence, that the laptop was Russian disinformation, ought to be prosecuted or penalized in some manner.

The Post listed the names of the so-called intelligence officials. Since few, if any, of Ratcatcher’s readers also read the Washington Post, we have felt it necessary to list all of the “experts” identified by the Post here for your reading. Consider writing to your Congressmen and Senators demanding the withdrawal of security clearances for these people.

Mike Hayden, former CIA director, now analyst for CNN; Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, now CNN pundit; Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary; John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC; Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University; Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank; John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University; Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University; Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems; Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at University of New Mexico; Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism; Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director; Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director; John Moseman, former CIA chief of staff; Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group; Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC; Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff; Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel; David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager; Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis; Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer; Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer; John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer; David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer; Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard; David Buckley, former CIA inspector general; Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer; James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence officer; David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst; Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer; Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer; Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst; Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer; Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer; Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer; Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer; Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC; Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis; Ron Marks, former CIA officer; Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum; Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico; Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer; Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director; John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer; Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs; Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues; Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director; David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman; Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis.

These people should never again be allowed near classified information and anything they say about national affairs ought to be discounted at once. They are disgraced. They misled America in service of Joe Biden. Look what it got them!

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