One of the ex-intel officers who signed the infamous “Russian Disinformation” letter regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell is now changing his tune; he says he and his co-signers knew some of the content had to be real.
“All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,” Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director and former senior CIA operations officer, told The Australian.
From Fox News:
Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director and former senior CIA operations officer, was among the over 50 former intel officials who claimed that the content of the laptop first reported by the New York Post in October 2020 “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
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According to The Australian, Wise had no regrets signing onto the letter and said it was “no surprise” that the emails were genuine.
The open letter, first published by Politico, was widely cited by Democrats and members of the legacy media to downplay the findings from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was largely being taken seriously solely in conservative media.
“We are all individuals who devoted significant portions of our lives to national security… We are all also individuals who see Russia as one of our nation’s primary adversaries,” the ex-intel officials began. “All of us have an understanding of the wide range of Russian overt and covert activities that undermine US national security, with some of us knowing Russian behavior intimately, as we worked to defend our nation against it for a career… Perhaps most important, each of us believes deeply that American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not foreign governments.”
“It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” they wrote.
In polls since the 2016 election, many Americans say it may have impacted their vote if they had known about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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Ex-intel official who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter admits significant portion of emails 'had to be real' https://t.co/HhHrb3i5Zt
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