Former CIA Director John Brennan got into a verbal altercation at a George Mason University event Thursday with a counterintelligence expert who asked him why he described some reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as bearing “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Thomas Speciale, a national security consultant and former senior advisor to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, twice confronted Brennan on his decision to cosign a letter from 51 intelligence officials deeming October 2020 reporting on the content of Biden’s laptop by the New York Post as evidence of Russian election interference.
“Why sign that?” Speciale asked Brennan, a video posted Saturday to X shows. Brennan then appears to move toward Speciale and point at his chest.
“We never said it was disinformation. We said it was Russian influence operations, which is what they do. There’s a big difference,” he said.
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