A former top U.S. intelligence official has confessed that he knew the Hunter Biden laptop wasn’t “Russian disinformation” when the New York Post disclosed its damning contents. But he’s still glad he signed the mendacious letter that permitted Joe Biden and the leftist media to make the false claim.
Douglas Wise told The Australian that he knew the laptop and its contents “had to be real.”
But then again, Deep-Stater Wise also knew Donald Trump had to be removed from the presidency, and if he had to sign a Big Lie to help that effort, so be it.
Truth was, no one had any evidence that the laptop was “Russian disinformation,” as then Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said.
But Joe Biden’s campaign had to be saved from the laptop from hell.
Thus, the letter from the 51 intelligence aristocrats. Trump had to go.
The Letter
Wise and his gang of disloyalists passed a letter to Politico that flat-out called the laptop a Russian ploy.
The 51 opened the letter with claims of great patriotism and agreement with the “founding fathers’ concern about the damage that foreign interference in our politics can do to our democracy.” Thus, it was their duty to say that the “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.”
Of course, the 51 added a disclaimer to cover their behinds. They didn’t know if the laptop and its contents “are genuine or not,” and though “we do not have evidence of Russian involvement … our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.”
For another almost 500 words, the letter explained why the laptop was Russian disinformation.
That letter became the basis for the leftist, pro-Biden media’s refusal to report the story. Traitor Joe himself used it in a debate against Trump. It was a “bunch of garbage,” Biden said. The 51 say so.
In fact, it wasn’t garbage. More than one email recovered from the laptop showed that Biden lied when he said he knew nothing of his son’s suspiciously lucrative business activities, not least those that led to the Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scheme.
Wise Confesses
That didn’t matter to the 51. Again, Trump had to go. Wise didn’t say that to The Australian, but he did say he had no regrets in helping the troubled Biden campaign survive the storm.
“All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,” Wise told the paywalled newspaper. The New York Post and other outlets, like The Australian, owned by newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch, published the details.
Reported the Post:
“The letter said it had the earmarks of Russian deceit and we should consider that as a possibility,” Wise told The Australian. “It did not say Hunter Biden was a good guy, it didn’t say what he did was right and it wasn’t exculpatory, it was just a cautionary letter.”
In fact, the letter referred to “[o]ur view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue” and concluded with the message: “It is high time that Russia stops interfering in our democracy.”
Despite the letter’s black-and-white statements, 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.”
“I don’t regret signing it because the context is important,” he added. “Remember [former mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy] Giuliani had just been in Ukraine trying to dig up evidence on the Bidens and he met with a known Russian intelligence official” — an apparent reference to pro-Moscow Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach.
Then Wise tossed in legal lingo, speaking like the attorneys for O.J. Simpson, who claimed that the chain of custody of evidence found at the site of Nicole Brown Simpson’s and Ron Goldman’s murder was problematic.
The laptop’s “chain of custody” left it open to alteration, the Post reported. Said Wise, “Russians or even ill-intended conservative elements could have planted stuff in there.”
Wise’s focus on conservatives is telling. His Twitter feed reveals him to be a leftist propagandist and hate-GOP, hate-Trump fanatic.
Get Trump
But again, Wise had no evidence that Russian spies or “ill-intended conservatives” or “ultra-right wing extremists” planted the laptop or the material on it, which included salacious photos and evidence of crimes. Indeed, DNI Ratcliffe said U.S. intelligence had no evidence that the laptop was “Russian disinformation.” And one of his deputies tried, to no avail, to explain that to Politico.
Still, the leftist media suppressed the story, as did social-media platforms, including Twitter.
That enabled Biden, his handlers, and the leftist media information ministry to falsely claim that the laptop was a Russian plant through the final weeks of the campaign. Recall that CNN’s top honchos refused to touch it.
The disinformation claim, of course, evoked memories of the “Russia Collusion” hoax concocted by the Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential campaign. The message: Trump hooked up with the Russians in 2016, and he’s doing it again.
The story about and letter from the 51, who mulishly refused to admit the truth even after the The New York Times confirmed the authenticity of the laptop and its incriminating emails and other information, remains uncorrected at Politico’s website.
The man the signers helped elect has wrecked the nation’s economy, released some two million illegal aliens into the country, and done everything but invite Russia to launch nuclear missiles either in Ukraine or at the United States.
Wise and the 51 can be proud.
