Former CIA Director John Brennan overruled warnings from veteran officers and pushed out a “substandard” intelligence report claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election, according to a bombshell congressional report released Wednesday.
The House Intelligence Committee had flagged the CIA’s “egregious” errors back in 2020, including the suppression of intelligence suggesting the Kremlin was also preparing for a possible Hillary Clinton victory, according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The report also reveals that “fabricated” material from the discredited Steele Dossier—funded by Clinton’s campaign and compiled by a former MI6 agent—was forced into the CIA assessment despite objections from senior officials.
“Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director [James] Comey, DNI [James] Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used,” Gabbard said, calling the move “the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history.”
“In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him,” she added.
“The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.”
More over at The New York Post:
John Brennan ignored ‘veteran’ CIA officers to push claim Putin wanted Trump to win in 2016: bombshell House intel report https://t.co/oef3bWYKMF pic.twitter.com/AGVmf3Y80e
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