One of the intelligence officials who signed an open letter casting doubt on the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 is now conceding he knew large swaths of it had to be real at the time.
Douglas Wise, who served as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s deputy director, was one of 51 former senior intelligence officials to sign the letter saying they were “deeply suspicious” that the laptop story had ties to Russian disinformation. In the time since, much of the content in the original story was corroborated by other media outlets, including the Washington Examiner.
“All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,” Wise told the Australian over two years after signing the letter. Read more…
