Actions were taken on December 8-9, 2016 not only to poison the results of the presidential election the month before, but also to lock the United States into a geopolitical confrontation with Russia. Today, DNI Tulsi Gabbard doubled down on her previous release of the documentation that the intelligence community’s December 8, 2016 assessment that Russia did not have the capability or the intent to alter the election was ditched, and the next day, President Barack Obama presided over a national security meeting ordering the manufacture of a new assessment that would come to the opposite conclusion.
Today, Gabbard announced the declassification and release of the 46-page September 18, 2020 report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). That report examined the infamous January 6, 2017 assessment, “Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, manufactured under the order of then-President Obama and executed under the lead control of CIA Director John Brennan.
Gabbard also provided a succinct summary of that HPSCI report in a ten-minute video](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114904101463878663). In short, on Dec. 8, 2016, the intelligence report for President Obama and for President-elect Trump found that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts in the November presidential election; but that document was pulled hours before its release, as “new guidance” had appeared.
The next day, Obama’s national security meeting included CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper, and others. Gabbard stated: “Following that secret meeting, DNI Clapper’s assistant sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line, ‘POTUS Tasking on Russian Election Meddling,’ tasking ODNI leaders to create a new assessment per the President’s request.’”
Gabbard continued: Following that, there were unusual directives from the President and senior aides, and especially from Brennan. The latter pushed forward material, judged previously as substandard, over the objection of veteran CIA officers that the material was from “unclear” or from “unknown sources.” Brennan overruled objections, such as that they had no actual information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected. Yet, on January 6, they published: “We assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help” get Trump elected. Further, even though Brennan relied and used the infamous Steele dossier, when the matter was brought up, he simply denied doing so. He knew it was a politically-motivated document. And when confronted with its many flaws, he said, “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”
Otherwise, the 2020 report found Brennan’s 2017 assessment “substandard” and “potentially biased,” with “implausible” intelligence and that it had been prepared, not by a normal process of the intelligence community, but simply by “just five CIA analysts” and “rushed” through before Trump’s inauguration. “Hurried coordination and limited access to the draft reduced opportunities for the IC to discover misquoting of sources and other tradecraft concerns.” The FBI is now investigating both Brennan and Comey in regards to their actions in the Russia probe.
In short, an outgoing President took actions to undermine the election victory of the incoming President, according to Gabbard.
