The House Judiciary Committee says Morrell “explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement” smearing the laptop story as a Russian conspiracy. Who was the ultimate vehicle for that public release? Natasha Bertrand, who only just turned 30, who was then a national security correspondent (in her mid-twenties) for POLITICO.
The question of why the Biden campaign and its allies in the security state community chose German-owned POLITICO seems an obvious one. It lives mainly online, with little traction among the general public and even news junkies often unaware that its low-circulation print edition exists. But POLITICO has a great deal of traction among political insiders, and relies on “anonymous sources” among them for much of its reporting.
Bertrand is the archetypal DC insider, having cut her teeth at Business Insider, followed by the Atlantic, NBC News, POLITICO, and now CNN. Her role appears to be that of official information launderer on behalf of America’s ruling class. Hardly a Walter Cronkite figure, she was only in her mid-twenties when she was tasked with hamstringing the laptop story — but had more experience with such hatchet jobs than one might expect.
[Source.](https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/04/24/how-security-state-sausage-made-steele-laptop-hell-natasha-bertrand/)
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The House Judiciary Committee says Morrell “explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement” smearing the laptop story as a Russian conspiracy. Who was the ultimate vehicle for that public release? Natasha Bertrand, who only just turned 30, who was then a national security correspondent (in her mid-twenties) for POLITICO.
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The question of why the Biden campaign and its allies in the security state community chose German-owned POLITICO seems an obvious one. It lives mainly online, with little traction among the general public and even news junkies often unaware that its low-circulation print edition exists. But POLITICO has a great deal of traction among political insiders, and relies on “anonymous sources” among them for much of its reporting.
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Bertrand is the archetypal DC insider, having cut her teeth at Business Insider, followed by the Atlantic, NBC News, POLITICO, and now CNN. Her role appears to be that of official information launderer on behalf of America’s ruling class. Hardly a Walter Cronkite figure, she was only in her mid-twenties when she was tasked with hamstringing the laptop story — but had more experience with such hatchet jobs than one might expect.
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