In the Shadow of Mockingbird
In the Shadow of Mockingbird By B.B. Dade LOTUS EATERS Remember that time Joe Biden told the world that Hunter’s laptop was a Russian ‘plant’, a foreign misinformation stratagem, and, as if to prove that assertion, he reminded us that more than fifty former senior intelligence officials had signed their name to an open letter confirming it as such? Remember that? Senior intelligence officials including many of the most powerful and connected spooks the ‘deep state’ could muster. Men who had been directors—or acting directors—of the CIA. Men like Leon Panetta , John Brennan , Mike Hayden , John McLaughlin , Michael Morell ; along with many of their chiefs of staff. Men who have been at the very heart of the vast US national intelligence apparatus and policy-forming cabals; men like James Clapper , Thomas Fingar , Rich Ledgett , and Mike Vickers . The list is a veritable litany of American Intelligence Community royalty. It was, of course, a matter of undisputed fact within