Last Thursday, Oct. 15, DNI John Ratcliffe formally requested the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to conduct an investigation of the “Intelligence Community Assessment” of January 2017, which Fox News accurately described as “a worthless put-up job that purported to confirm Russian `meddling.’” They also report that the CIA’s inspector general ignored an earlier such request.
The investigation will start with a review of the referral written in 2018 by then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes about “concerns” with the fake Assessment, which the traitors originally claimed was compiled by all 17 of the U.S. intelligence institutions, as is the normal policy, but later admitted it was only three, handpicked by Clapper to be certain of the desired result — CIA, FBI and NSA. The report was almost entirely redacted, other than an annex which was nothing but quotes from Russian media.
Ratcliffe wrote a letter, which was obtained by Fox News, to Acting Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Thomas Monheim, saying: “Pursuant to the request of Ranking Member Nunes, and consistent with my obligation to transmit allegations of wrongdoing to your office for review, I am attaching the enclosed Oversight Investigation and Referral regarding concerns with the completion of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election published on 5 January 2017 for your review. This referral was first provided to the Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General in December 2018 by the then-majority members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Since then, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has received numerous requests from senior oversight officials for the Intelligence Community IG to review whether all portions of the aforementioned ICA adhered to proper analytic tradecraft.”
