Posted on 01/16/2023 3:00:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
WASHINGTON – A former top intelligence official who signed on to a letter attacking The Post’s bombshell 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation has now admitted he knew a “significant portion” of the recovered files “had to be real” – but doesn’t regret dismissing the exposé.
...
The Oct. 19 letter — whose signatories included former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former Director of National intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan — went out of its way to cast doubt on the legitimacy of The Post’s scoop, devoting five paragraphs to explaining “factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement” while slipping in the caveat that “we do not know if the emails … are genuine or not and … we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.”
The letter was picked up by Politico, who ran a story about it under the headline: “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”
In turn, the letter’s pronouncement that the recovered laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was used by Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and other media outlets to quell outcry over suppression of the story by Facebook and Twitter.
Since then, the information recovered from the laptop has been belatedly confirmed by the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post and CBS News, all of whom only acknowledged the computer’s contents were authentic last year.
Wise...insists that its critics, “whether they‘re members of the conservative journalist community, conservative politicians or just ultra-right wing extremists, they haven’t paid attention to the content.”
“Russians or even ill-intended conservative elements could have planted stuff in there,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Just another LIAR.
Lock them up and throw away the key. We need to start taking this banana republic stuff seriously. Banana republics have two sides and the sides take turns making people disappear.
Douglas H. Wise retired from CIA as a member of CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service on 30 August 2016 completing nearly three decades of service. He finished his career with CIA in a Joint Duty Assignment as the Deputy Director of the Defense intelligence Agency. As the Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Doug was the Chief Operating Officer for a 20,000 employee, global defense enterprise supporting senior Defense and National policymakers and the war fighting commands.
He currently serves on a number of corporate boards and provides management/leadership coaching/mentoring to the leadership teams of large corporations. He also engages on risk, security and cyber threats for senior corporate executives. He is a technical and leadership advisor to Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is a Partner with Wychwood Partners, an international risk advisory company and is a senior risk advisor to the world’s largest law firm.
(Oh, you can trust Doug...)
He did it for the cause, comrade.
Wise and Wychwood Capital Partners: Founded in 2012 as a CIA front, Wychwood is a secrative private equity firm based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
... and TRAITOR.
DC Swamp Scumbag - bump for later....
Has anyone asked why?
If there were any that doubted the existence of Deep State and absolute collusion and corruption, this is another in the many revelations that keep bubbling to the top through the scum layers.
“Has anyone asked why?”
We all know that you are too sane to even ask that rhetorical question.
WISE he is NOT! Just another Government LIAR!
bkmk
Every one of them that signed that letter should lose their clearances and pensions.
Wise is also involved with Bode Air, just another curious outfit with unknown investors.
Maybe because Douglas is nothing but a yes man? They’re a dime a dozen.
He admits he can easily be compromised.
Their Biden Laptop memo PROVES that WE are now their enemy.
These former “Intel officials” must have studied Goebbels.
"I'm a Democrat, so the ends justifies the means. By the way, f*** you!"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.