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Government Corruption
Ex-intel Official Doug Wise Admits 2020 Hunter Biden Story Is ‘Real’ After Calling It Russian Disinformation’
2023-01-18
[AAN] Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director and former senior CIA operations officer, was one of the over 50 different intelligence officials who claimed the content in the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was part of a "Russian information operation." Wise and the over 50 different signatories claimed that the story initially published in 2020 by The New York Post "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Wise would go on to have an interview with The Australian this week, where he told them:

"All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible," adding he had "no surprise" that The New York Posts story, as well as the emails, were largely genuine.
So he figured the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop was so important it had to be surrounded by a body of lies? A properly trained journalist would have followed that statement up by asking why. I wish I could cuss properly to express my feelings about the lot of them.
In 2020, multiple left-wing signatories were among those who signed the open letter claiming the 2020 Hunter Biden email story was Russian disinformation, including multiple guest speakers on MSNBC and CNN, such as John Brennan, James Clapper, and Michael Hayden.
Related:
Earmarks of a Russian information operation: 2022-12-07 WSJ: Musk's Twitter files shows real 'disinformation' threat is America's former intel leaders
Earmarks of a Russian information operation: 2022-05-20 Justice coming for the ‘Dirty 51' Hunter Biden laptop liars
Earmarks of a Russian information operation: 2022-03-30 CIA veteran who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter says he sarcastically claimed credit for 2020 election
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  Charro’s favorite snack.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-01-18 22:10  

#14  Maybeit was the charcuterie board on intelligence.

"Pronounced: Shark-Cootchie"
Posted by: Frank G   2023-01-18 19:27  

#13  Wise is pure swamp. West Point, military, DIA, CIA, CIA to DIA. Retired and associated with some very spooky outfits in New Mexico and Colorado. Assuredly, would attack anyone trying to reign-in the intelligence outfits.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2023-01-18 18:09  

#12  There was a term for it. It was like preponderance of intel or the mosaic of intelligence. All the pompous bozos used it during SpyGate. Brennan used it most. Maybe it was the charcuterie board on intelligence.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-01-18 17:24  

#11  Now think about how you came out in full-throated support of Ukraine just because they told you. Sobering, isn't it?

Some of us do not seem to be able to connect the dots. Sobering indeed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-18 14:36  

#10  Probably predates the earliest Pharaohs in some form or another.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-01-18 11:13  

#9  "A Tyrant does not make a tyranny, rather it is all the minions abusing power in his name." --a quote I do not recall the original source
Posted by: magpie   2023-01-18 10:09  

#8  Hunter Biden laptop-denier now admits emails are real. Don't let him get away with it
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-18 08:38  

#7  Apologies to the late US Senator from Wisconsin.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-01-18 07:55  

#6  Power is self rationalizing and self justifying. Power by any means necessary.

No special trust should be given to any of these men. Your best defense is to remove the power that they so crave.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-01-18 07:33  

#5  It doesn’t help that we’ve been watching the Antifa, founded and funded for decades as a Soviet project, rampaging cities as the militant arm of the Democratic party.

You've got some words, Girl.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-18 07:07  

#4  #1 think about how you came out in full-throated support of Ukraine

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Posted by: Whump Whinetle9496   2023-01-18 04:31  

#3   They did what they had to do to get you to support Biden. Lying, censorship, blaming the Russians...it worked, didn't it?

No, it didn’t. Without cheating he did not win.

support of Ukraine just because they told you.

Russia’s history is its own worst enemy. It doesn’t help that we’ve been watching the Antifa, founded and funded for decades as a Soviet project, rampaging cities as the militant arm of the Democratic party.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-01-18 02:06  

#2  Ach! "Befehl ist Befehl."
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-01-18 01:14  

#1  They did what they had to do to get you to support Biden. Lying, censorship, blaming the Russians...it worked, didn't it? They're not sorry at all.

Now think about how you came out in full-throated support of Ukraine just because they told you. Sobering, isn't it?
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987   2023-01-18 01:10  

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