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Posted on 07/06/2025 5:54:51 AM PDT by Twotone
You may have read about the report that the Deputy Director of the CIA for Analysis recently submitted to CIA Director John Ratcliffe on the CIA’s anti-Trump effort at the end of 2016. The report is dated June 26, 2025, and is embedded below. I am not sure who wrote it. Google’s AI says that the Deputy Director for Analysis position is currently open.
Maybe Michael Ellis, the Agency’s Deputy Director, was responsible. Ellis is a friend of Paul Mirengoff, and we wrote about him here and elsewhere as he rose in the intelligence world. It is safe to say that Ellis is extremely well qualified and solidly conservative.
This is how the report begins:
In May 2025, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DCIA) John Ratcliffe tasked CIA’s Directorate of Analysis (DA) to conduct a lessons-learned review of the procedures and analytic tradecraft employed in the highest classified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, dated 30 December 2016. The review focused particular attention on the ICA’s most debated judgment—that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help then-candidate Donald Trump win the election. Drawing on CIA materials provided to congressional oversight investigations, the DA examined whether any procedural anomalies or tradecraft weaknesses may have affected the soundness and objectivity of this key judgment and the overall assessment.
Some have criticized this June 2025 report as not being sufficiently harsh in its critique of what John Brennan, the CIA Director in 2016, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence at that time; and FBI Director James Comey did. But it is plenty harsh. Here are some excerpts. Emphases in the quotes below are mine:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
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If there aren’t prosecutions for treason, the “critique” hasn’t been critiquy enough.
I wonder what the statute of limitations is on treason. It’s all pretty disgusting. I just hope that something can be done about these people.
I believe there isn’t one.
This was Peter Strzok’s “insurance policy” that would stop Trump from taking office, or failing that, would contribute to his impeachment and removal. Strzok must have known what Brennan had ordered be drafted to condemn the President, which suggests a large-scale conspiracy among the privileged elites within our intelligence and law enforcement structures.
These agencies need to be pulled apart at the seams and rebuilt so this cannot happen again.
that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help then-candidate Donald Trump win the election
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That was clearly such a lie.
Just logically, why would Putin wanted Trump in there?
Hillary proved to be just a pawn, her performance as Secretary of State was so pitiful, Putin could manage her any way he wanted.
So why would Putin liked some unknown, unmanageable guy in there?
Clearly, Hilary was his candidate!
That’s why most people, except for gullible media, did not buy the collusion, ever.
Frankly, this story made me really thinking, what idiots are in charge of deep state?!
“That’s why most people, except for gullible media, did not buy the collusion, ever”.
Well, the people of the West Coast, the Northeast, and Illinois (Chicongo)bought it hook, line , and sinker.
The US Govt bought it.
Or was actually peddling it.
That’s cause to obliterate it and start from scratch.
But I’m sort of still in the 1776 mood..
“...what idiots are in charge of deep state?!...”
They are globalists and true America haters...Their wish is for one world socialism, with themselves at the head....
One of the great things about that blog is the comments section. Now you have to pay to comment. You can read them but that's it.
Sorry, but I don't pay to comment (a la Townhall, Red State).
CIA has been dirty in regards the Donald
Why Zero arrests?
DOJ is crappola
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