"Both before and after Democrat Hillary Clinton’s loss, the US Intelligence Community assessed that Russia played no significant role influencing the election."
those findings were suppressed after the FBI — led by Director James Comey — said it was going to “dissent” from the draft’s conclusions “based on some new guidance.”
Clapper then spearheaded an alternative intelligence report claiming the Kremlin orchestrated hackings of Democratic National Committee emails, thousands of which were later posted online by Wikileaks, and intervened in the presidential contest in favor of Trump.
Several officials — including CIA Director John Brennan, Secretary of State John Kerry, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — met at the White House on Dec. 9, 2016, where Obama began “tasking” each to look into “Russia Election Meddling.”
Career professionals told them the answer.
They didn't like it.
They scrambled to get a different answer, like: Keep working until you say what we want.
assessment[s...] ended up including the [long]-debunked dossier produced by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele.
An executive assistant for Clapper wrote in an email later the same day that the new intel assessment must describe the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”
The final product was a Jan. 7, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment that “directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months,” according to Gabbard.
Earlier this month, CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a bombshell review of the 2016 assessment that concluded Clapper, Brennan and Comey deliberately corrupted it
“As for the 2017 ICA’s judgement of a decisive Russian preference for then-candidate Donald Trump,” [a] whistleblower stated in one of their emails. “I could not concur in good conscience based on information available, and my professional analytic judgement.”
assumes WSJ has something.
