One of the signatories of the now-discredited open letter attempting to discredit the findings from the Hunter Biden laptop made a stunning admission more than two years after it surfaced in the public eye. 

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."

But in an interview with The Australian published Sunday, Wise now admits most of what was found in the reported emails had to be based in reality. 

"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.

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. 

Among the signatories were outspoken Trump critics John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta and Jeremy Bash, many of whom can be often found on MSNBC and CNN. 

Source: Fox News - Telegram