Posted on 07/24/2025 9:23:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard said Wednesday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” that she couldn’t have gotten past the “deep state obstacles” to release files exposing the Russiagate hoax without a whistleblower coming forward to provide “critical pieces” to the story.
On Friday, Gabbard released newly declassified documents regarding allegations that President Donald Trump’s first campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor. While discussing the files with Fox’s Jesse Watters, the host asked Gabbard how she found evidence showing former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” in the Russia hoax.
“This was obviously important to President Trump, but, again, is an issue of importance to every single American in this country and the future of our country as a republic. So shortly after coming into this position as Director of National Intelligence, I formed a special team to investigate this issue. I’ve got to tell you, it wasn’t easy,” Gabbard said. “There were a lot of deep state obstacles that exist still within the intelligence community.”
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“But, ultimately, we had a whistleblower who came forward that brought some critical pieces to this story, and we were able to discover these documents and find these documents that really pointed to President Obama directing his national security leaders in James Clapper and John Brennan to manufacture this January 2017 intelligence community assessment,” Gabbard added. “The investigation that I led at ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] that we released last week, Friday, provided a lot of those foundational building blocks and proof for what we know happened.”
During the Russiagate push in 2016, the infamous Steele dossier was eventually used as a roadmap for the investigation. While a handful of intelligence officials at the time backed the allegations, the probe ultimately failed to find any evidence proving collusion.
With questions still lingering about the continued push of the Russia hoax, Gabbard released a memo stating the agency found that Obama’s DNI James Clapper and the Department of Homeland Security withheld an FBI and NSA press release issued just weeks before the 2016 election, which said they had “low confidence” in Russia’s role in the data leaks.
Additionally, the memo said that deep state intelligence officials began leaking “blatantly false intelligence to The Washington Post” following the 2016 election.
Gabbard went on to say that the new files released Wednesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, taken from the January 2017 House Intelligence Committee Oversight Majority Staff report, dissect the assessment that Obama had “manufactured with fake intelligence in order to achieve knowingly using false intelligence in order to get to the conclusion that he wanted to promote to the American people that Putin had acted in favor of President Trump winning that election in 2016.”
“The report we released today, line by line, goes through it, dissecting and debunking the knowing falsehoods and lies that were included in that assessment with the specific intent to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, to subvert the will of the American people who had just voted to elect Donald Trump in 2016, and to, in essence, launch this years-long coup against President Trump that lasted throughout the four years of his administration back in 2016,” Gabbard said.
While Obama’s spokesperson on Tuesday said that Trump’s White House was asserting “outrageous” allegations, Gabbard said she will refer the former president to the Department of Justice for criminal charges.
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Many thanks to W. Blower. Without you this assault on ALL citizens of this country may not have come to light. Shouldn’t matter what party you belong to, you should be uber pissed at this. I’m pretty sure if it were republicans behind it a certain party would be screaming at the top of their lungs. Instead we hear this Is all a distraction from Epstein files. 🤔
Read yesterday that these documents were kept in a secret vault that very few people even knew existed.................
All they have to do is go out, arrest Valerie Jarrett, and take her into a dark room that has a wooden chair, short rope, several water buckets and a couple of thick cotton towels stashed in the corner.
She will start squealing!!
The Dems are all clamoring for the files to be made public.
They are so consumed with hate and anger at Trump that they forget that there may be many of their own people implicated.
Be careful of what you wish for. You might just get it..............
What I learned from Matt Taibbi’s research is that on the day the “No Russia interference” Presidents Daily Brief was to be issued, it was James (The Rat) Comey who said the FBI would not go along with it and would issue it’s own dissenting report. That caused DNI Clapper to say ok, we’re killing that PDB and the meeting was then held at Obama’s request with all his top people with the outcome being a 180 degree flip to “Russia Russia Russia”.
It’s always the FBI at the heart of every “get Trump” operation. That Comey threw a shoe says Obama and he were probably already colluding on the new narrative and that’s why he couldn’t go along with the original (truthful) PDB.
They ALL belong in federal prison, but Comey - most of all.
Nice.
This is still so fake. Low confidence? They knew it was a fabricated lie [and no that is not repetitious even if it sounds that way].
All well and good- but how to atone for turning six pack Joe against Russia ?….
the Russian Derangement Syndrome is still infecting millions.
While Obama’s spokesperson on Tuesday said......
mystery person or media?
Prof. Hanson says whistleblowers are now coming out of the woodwork. Probably hoping to save their butts.
John Roberts runs the FISA court.
After they admitted they leaked fake stories to WAPO and the New York Times and then used those planted stories as justification in FISA’s. They appointed someone to review Deep State FISA procedures. The man appointed previously wrote Op-Ed’s in the WAPO stating Trump was a Russian agent.
So, you tell me. What did John Roberts have to gain by such a selection? It’s about Power.
Kash said in late May on Maria’s Sunday show that truckloads of dox on Crossfire Hurricane and J6 were coming. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/this-time-its-not-a-cover-up-fbi-director-kash-patel-promises-truckloads-of-files-will-be-made-public-says-give-us-a-week-come-mcabe-strzok/articleshow/121252481.cms
Sounds like lots of people need to be downsized out of their jobs...
It’s very surprising those docs were not destroyed.
I know a fair amount about records management, but I have no deep knowledge of how the Intelligence Community is required to handle their data.
I would say in general, all of us have left the paper world behind, and I don't really picture a vault filled with paper records as the only record of what has gone on.
I would expect a lot of electronic records which could be stored in an "electronic vault".
I would hope that safeguards are in place to block any deletion of electronic records and that frequent snapshots and backups are made so that if funny business were attempted it would be possible to identify anomalies:
1) Records have unique IDs such that you can see records 1,2,3,5,6,7 <-- HEY! What happened to number 4?!?!
2) A record dated Dec 10, 2016 never appeared in the vault until May 13, 2023 <-- what's up with that?!?!
I don't know how well the federal government guards itself from unauthorized additions, deletions, changes or omissions. Based on my past experience, I suspect that they do a poor job even when required by law to be perfect.
Sounds like Tulsi did good work and also got a little lucky by finding a whistleblower. That's great. But I would hope that we could have a records system where this was all as easy as pie. It can be done. They just don't want it done.
Watch out for Lindsey and Grassley.
They both had multiple bites at this apple. They refused to issue Subpoenas that would put people under oath. They threatened for four years, and never did it.
How are Federal Investigations handled?
Put people under oath. Current employees must cooperate.
Expand those Investigations of them personally. No one ever did it. No pressure, no oath, no nothing.
What did John Roberts have to gain by such a selection?
He got to keep breathing....................
>>>>>>>>>>>>>They just don’t want it done.<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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