Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified documents revealing what she described as "overwhelming evidence" demonstrating that, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump/Russia collusion probe.
As Fox News, Breitbart, and other news outlets have reported, the documents reveal a calculated effort to manufacture intelligence and peddle the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, a fiction designed to undermine the will of the American people after Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory over Hillary Clinton.
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Trump’s unexpected victory sent shockwaves through the establishment, and the Obama administration, unwilling to accept the electorate’s choice, went into overdrive. According to Gabbard’s declassified documents, the intelligence community had consistently assessed before the election that Russia “lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections.” A December 8, 2016, Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) clearly stated:
“Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”
Yet, this inconvenient truth was buried. Obama’s top brass—James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, Susan Rice, and others—allegedly orchestrated a rewrite of the narrative.
The Gabbard-released docs expose a chilling sequence. After Trump’s win, Obama directed his intelligence chiefs to craft a new assessment claiming Russian interference favored Trump. This directly contradicted prior findings and relied on the discredited Steele dossier, a piece of political fan fiction filled with the “internet rumor” that Brennan pushed into the utterly nonsensical 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). Subsequently, the FBI, under Comey, used this dossier to justify FISA warrants against Trump aide Carter Page, launching the Trump-Russia probe. Internal dissent from the FBI and NSA, which expressed low confidence in attributing DNC leaks to Russia, was suppressed. The PDB, set for release on December 9, 2016, was delayed after “new guidance” from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI - Clapper was DNI at the time), ensuring the public never saw the original findings.
Speaking Saturday on Fox & Friends, Gabbard called it a “years-long coup” to delegitimize Trump’s presidency, fueled by leaks to a complicit media. The Washington Post, fed by anonymous intelligence sources, ran stories claiming Russian election meddling, setting off a frenzy that led to the Mueller investigation, two impeachments, and heightened U.S.- Russia tensions.
Now, Gabbard notes, criminal referrals have been sent to the DOJ, targeting Brennan, Comey, and others.
Whether this criminal referral comes to prosecutions is a matter of speculation, but, yes, Americans can learn, and decide for themselves.
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