“If you want to understand why John Sipher’s New York Times attack on Bill Pulte landed the way it did, start with what the paper chose not to tell you.
Sipher left the CIA in 2014. In 2017 he publicly defended the Steele dossier’s collusion framework as generally credible. In 2019 he argued it was entirely plausible that the sitting president had been compromised by Russian intelligence. In October 2020 he signed the letter from former officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop carried the hallmarks of Russian disinformation … a letter later tied by investigators to outreach from Antony Blinken to Michael Morell for the purpose of giving the Biden campaign debate material. This spring he wrote in The Bulwark that the current administration was doing structural damage to American intelligence. In May he attacked Tulsi Gabbard’s leadership at ODNI and called Richard Grenell an unserious loyalist.
Then, this week, the New York Times introduced him to readers as a 28-year CIA veteran and former station chief offering sober analysis of a Trump nominee.
His advisory roles with the Lincoln Project and National Security Leaders for Biden did not appear. His history of opposing every previous Trump intelligence appointee did not appear. The laptop letter did not appear.
Sipher is free to hold and express whatever views he wants. That is not the issue. The issue is that the Times presented a decade-long record of partisan engagement as if it were the detached perspective of a recently retired professional. Readers were given only the credential that flatters the argument and denied the context that would let them judge it honestly.
That is not an oversight. It is a choice about what the audience is permitted to know before being asked to trust the opinion.(article below)”
“Early this morning, @FBI and partners arrested 7 individuals on a 10 count indictment for allegedly targeting University of Michigan leaders and businesses in the Eastern Michigan region with violent threats and attacks.
The indictment alleges that after the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, these individuals – a group of college-aged adults – engaged in a coordinated campaign of violent, criminal acts seeking to pressure University of Michigan leaders and other businesses in the Eastern District of Michigan to cut off all ties with Israel.
The subjects allegedly vandalized the victims’ property, spray painted their homes with messages like “Intifada” and “Free Palestine,” left threatening notes on their doors, and even broke windows of the victims’ homes – throwing glass jars filled with chemicals while children slept inside. “
“We found 146,000 kids so far. Some of these kids claimed that they were raped over 600 times. I don’t care who you are. If you can’t stand for law enforcement to go find these kids, who are you?” @SecMullinDHS”
“@DAGToddBlanche announces the indictments of 3 illegal aliens who took part in a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States.
“There are over 15,500 ‘super sponsor’ cases that we have identified.”
Never forget what Joe Biden allowed to happen at our borders.”
“BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities.
Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent.
Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔
One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt.
Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.”
Wandering Views 
The NY Times, not even good enough to use as bird cage liner anymore.
https://x.com/i/status/2064857596310503651
“If you want to understand why John Sipher’s New York Times attack on Bill Pulte landed the way it did, start with what the paper chose not to tell you.
Sipher left the CIA in 2014. In 2017 he publicly defended the Steele dossier’s collusion framework as generally credible. In 2019 he argued it was entirely plausible that the sitting president had been compromised by Russian intelligence. In October 2020 he signed the letter from former officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop carried the hallmarks of Russian disinformation … a letter later tied by investigators to outreach from Antony Blinken to Michael Morell for the purpose of giving the Biden campaign debate material. This spring he wrote in The Bulwark that the current administration was doing structural damage to American intelligence. In May he attacked Tulsi Gabbard’s leadership at ODNI and called Richard Grenell an unserious loyalist.
Then, this week, the New York Times introduced him to readers as a 28-year CIA veteran and former station chief offering sober analysis of a Trump nominee.
His advisory roles with the Lincoln Project and National Security Leaders for Biden did not appear. His history of opposing every previous Trump intelligence appointee did not appear. The laptop letter did not appear.
Sipher is free to hold and express whatever views he wants. That is not the issue. The issue is that the Times presented a decade-long record of partisan engagement as if it were the detached perspective of a recently retired professional. Readers were given only the credential that flatters the argument and denied the context that would let them judge it honestly.
That is not an oversight. It is a choice about what the audience is permitted to know before being asked to trust the opinion.(article below)”
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“Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, per CNN.”
https://x.com/i/status/2064914959092322813
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You smell that?
https://x.com/i/status/2064830307765821662
“Voter rolls in LA country increased by 691,000 people since 2018 despite the county losing 366,600 residents…
I can understand why people have serious questions about ballot harvesting, voter registration, and election results in LA county.”
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Good. More.
https://x.com/i/status/2064732631166509260
“Early this morning, @FBI and partners arrested 7 individuals on a 10 count indictment for allegedly targeting University of Michigan leaders and businesses in the Eastern Michigan region with violent threats and attacks.
The indictment alleges that after the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, these individuals – a group of college-aged adults – engaged in a coordinated campaign of violent, criminal acts seeking to pressure University of Michigan leaders and other businesses in the Eastern District of Michigan to cut off all ties with Israel.
The subjects allegedly vandalized the victims’ property, spray painted their homes with messages like “Intifada” and “Free Palestine,” left threatening notes on their doors, and even broke windows of the victims’ homes – throwing glass jars filled with chemicals while children slept inside. “
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“8 anti-Israel activists have been charged for allegedly conspiring to intimidate UMich leaders and others by vandalizing their homes and offices.
“They also discussed methods by which to harm the targets and their families, including poison, bombs, and psychological torture.”
https://x.com/i/status/2064771955362869498
They’re terrorists.
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“We found 146,000 kids so far. Some of these kids claimed that they were raped over 600 times. I don’t care who you are. If you can’t stand for law enforcement to go find these kids, who are you?” @SecMullinDHS”
https://x.com/i/status/2065074366279266439
Every Democrat voted against the funding to rescue more.
We. Are. Not. The. Same.
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They seek to hide their complicity in it all. They simply gave these kids over to traffickers. That’s a fact.
https://x.com/i/status/2065070392574615980
“@DAGToddBlanche announces the indictments of 3 illegal aliens who took part in a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States.
“There are over 15,500 ‘super sponsor’ cases that we have identified.”
Never forget what Joe Biden allowed to happen at our borders.”
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Move along peasants….
Nothing to see…
https://x.com/i/status/2065032801737478589
“BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities.
Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent.
Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔
One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt.
Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.”
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