The Intercept and James Risen have almost no credibility left with anyone who has payed attention to their devolution over the years, culminating in them forcin

The Intercept and James Risen have almost no credibility left with anyone who has payed attention to their devolution over the years, culminating in them forcing Glenn Greenwald's hand in resigning, funnily enough over the now known to be true Hunter Biden laptop story. [1] Risen has long been a mouthpiece for military industrial complex CIA-esque talking points, and nobody should trust anything he says. I wouldn't be surprised if this story is some strange cover for him designed to make him seem like a "real" journalist, but even in this story he admits he used this dubious lawyer frequently. He says he doesn't know when the lawyer started informing on him, but an educated guess would say he always was! Was the source ever even real, or a honeypot in the first place? (source didn't go to this meeting why?) Risen fails to do even fundamental reporting on how he got the information in this story (he obtained audio recordings... how?!) Risen says this lawyer gave a masterful performance to the FBI. Risen could at least try to do the same when trying to blow smoke at the public. This story makes no sense and Risen should be considered useless as journalist. For what it's worth, I've been reading The Intercept since it started and he was always raked across the coals in the now disabled-unless-logged-in comments for methods like this since he came over from the NYT. The Intercept itself is now barely even a shadow of it's former self. 1. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-biden-laptop https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-bide...