Bombshell Review Finds Obama’s CIA Cooked Up Trump-Russia Narrative

_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

A bombshell CIA review just revealed that the Obama administration's 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian election interference was deliberately corrupted by top intelligence officials.

The review, ordered by Trump CIA Director John Ratcliffe, found that then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were "excessively involved" in drafting the assessment and rushed its completion through a "chaotic" and "atypical" process.

_THE FACTS_

• President Barack Obama ordered the Intelligence Community Assessment on Dec. 6, 2016 — just six weeks before leaving office — and rushed it out before Trump took power.

• The new CIA review found “multiple procedural anomalies,” including a frantic timeline giving analysts less than a week to write it.

• Brennan handpicked the analysts for the ICA and cut out 13 of 17 intel agencies — including the key Defense Intelligence Agency.

• CIA’s Deputy Director for Analysis warned Brennan by email that adding the now-discredited Steele dossier would sink “the credibility of the entire paper.”

• Brennan forced the dossier in anyway, claiming “the information warrants inclusion.”

• FBI brass said they’d only join the ICA if the dossier stayed in — and pushed to embed it throughout.

• Two CIA Russia mission chiefs jointly pushed back, arguing the claim that Putin “aspired” to help Trump was flimsy and risky.

• Media leaks before drafting even started suggested the IC had “already reached” conclusions, likely biasing analysts to fit the leaks.

• By 2018, two-thirds of Democrats believed Russia literally changed votes to elect Trump — thanks to the bogus ICA and endless “collusion” claims.

• After Trump won, Obama officials scrambled to share Trump-Russia “intel” far and wide, even if it was classified, to fuel the scandal.

• Trump CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the ICA scandal a preview of the 51 ex-intel officials’ fake Hunter Biden laptop letter in 2020.

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