(08-29-2024 08:00 PM)TripleA Wrote: Hey Tanq, I'm not quoting all that word salad from Post #253 above.
1. You are malevolently disingenuous, Counselor.
Im impressed that you correctly denoted my comment on your exclusive use of tweets negatively, and then decided to go on with the above. <slow clap>. (as a side note, you might note I even omitted that snide aside kind of right at your response to me on it..... Just saying..... )
I wont focus on that. Ill do what you did not do, and actually answer your questions.
Quote: If they weren't trying to influence people to believe that the laptop could be bogus, then why the hell did they say anything at all?
To explicitly people that sometimes the initial viewpoint is *not* the correct one, and to not go off half-cocked. The way that some did with Russiagate, to our detriment, mind you.
Quote:They sure as hell weren't trying to convince anybody that the laptop was real.
And *what* they said is 'be suspicious'. Kind of what the mantra is on this board, funnily.
Quote:From the House Judiciary Committee:
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the...med-hunter
Can you point out in the first link what exactly is pertinent? All the article details is questioning the listed positions of some signers of the letter. And what does this have to do with the price of tea in China in our discussion here?
Quote:2. The FBI knew the laptop was genuine BEFORE the letter went out on October 19, 2020.
From the same Committee:
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...about-hack
A few issues.
Who exactly in the FBI was noting the issues about the laptop in the FBI/Twitter conversation ?
The Facebook conversation?
Can you point to *any* evidence *when* the FBI made any determination from that post?
Can you point to *any* on the Congressional Record testimony as to that issue?
Sorry, nothing in your post really looks or seems determinative, aside from some unnamed person being referenced in a transcript.
Second, as to the drafters of the letter, can you point to *any* evidence that the drafters of the letter had such knowledge before the date of the letter? Not some unnamed person at the FBI that is being denoted in an oblique manner, mind you.
The issue isnt even what the FBI might have known, the issue at hand is the intent of the authors of the letter.