_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
Newly released documents, declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, show that the infamous 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that launched the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was based on flimsy, politicized, and in some cases entirely fabricated intelligence.
Worse, a prior internal assessment directly contradicted the ICA’s conclusions — but was buried.
_THE FACTS_
A December 8, 2016, Presidential Daily Brief stated that Russian actors “did not impact recent US election results” — but it was never published.
A new intelligence assessment was crafted the very next day at a meeting led by Susan Rice, with Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, reversing the original findings.
The January 6, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win was based on just four sources, including the discredited Steele Dossier.
Another source was a “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment” of a sentence, initially excluded until Brennan ordered it in.
A third was an anonymous, undated, unclassified email with no sender or recipient.
CIA analysts handpicked by Brennan objected to the key evidence and told him, “We don’t have direct information that Putin wanted Trump” — but Brennan overruled them.
More credible intelligence, including a Putin confidant saying he didn’t care who won, was suppressed because it contradicted the narrative.
Russia’s foreign intelligence service reportedly had damaging material on Hillary Clinton, including DNC communications stating she suffered from “intensified psychoemotional problems,” violent mood swings, and was on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.
This intelligence, however, was not released publicly by the Russians.
Before the ICA assessment was made, a majority of Democrats already believed that Russia manipulated votes to give Trump the win in 2016; that number later increased.
By 2018, a supermajority of Americans were worried about the fake Russian election interference, with 72 percent calling themselves “alarmed” over the prospect.
_INSIGHTS_
Gabbard’s release of these documents is a full exposé of how the Obama administration's top intelligence officials — Brennan, Comey, Clapper, and Rice — concocted and politicized intelligence to fabricate the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
The goal was clear: to delegitimize Trump's presidency with a manufactured scandal. As polling shows, they succeeded: in the years after, Americans became concerned over interference operations which, if they happened, were ineffective at best.
But now we have proof it was a lie. This release lays bare how unelected bureaucrats manipulated national security processes to wage war on a sitting president.
