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Posted on 07/03/2025 9:22:33 AM PDT by Signalman
A review of CIA activity surrounding the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion hoax paints a damning portrait of its upper echelon, who were obsessively involved in crafting the conclusion that candidate Donald Trump conspired with Russian assets to influence the election that year.
On Thursday CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a new report, titled “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” and which examined the involvement of then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in crafting the original report on Trump and Russia.
Passages in Ratcliffe’s report describe “excessively involved” Obama appointees in early drafts of the first document, which was rushed to completion in a “chaotic” and “atypical” process that he calls “markedly unconventional.”
The swift creation of the first Trump-Russia collusion report raised the potential for “potential political motive,” Ratcliffe wrote in a letter releasing his review.
Thursday’s report was completed by career agents in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by Ratcliffe in May.
A “lessons-learned review” section describes how, six weeks before leaving office, former President Barack Obama ordered the CIA to draft up their assessment of Russia’s involvement in Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. The report concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help Trump win.
“[M]ultiple procedural anomalies” litter the original report and undermine the CIA’s credibility, including a “a highly compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentation, and excessive involvement of agency heads.”
In addition, the Obama CIA’s findings may have been tainted by the exclusion of other law enforcement organizations in its creation, as well as media leaks that may have pressured analysts to conform to narratives in the press.
“The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline,” Ratcliffe’s report reads.
Involvement by Brennan, Comey, and Clapper, the ICA analysts write, was “highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.”
Other findings include that Brennan kept 13 of the 17 U.S. intelligence agencies out of the report’s commissioning, which he restricted to only the ODNI, CIA, FBI, and NSA.
One of the sidelined groups included the National Security Council, and Brennan overrode objections about his including the Steele dossier in a final batch of evidence submitted as part of the probe.
“This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump,’” said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview with the NY Post.
“It was, ‘We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.’ They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.”
“This led to Mueller [special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, which concluded after two years that there was no Trump-Russia collusion]. It put the seal of approval of the intelligence community that Russia was helping Trump and that the Steele dossier was the scandal of our lifetime. It ate up the first two years of his [Trump’s first] presidency,” he continued.
“You see how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.”
Ratcliffe’s findings show that even though “the ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers — including the two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia — strongly opposed including the Dossier, asserting that it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards,” Brennan insisted it be included.
“CIA’s Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) warned in an email to Brennan on December 29 that including it in any form risked ‘the credibility of the entire paper.’”
Brennan defended his decision, replying, “My bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.”
Brennan showed “a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness,” said the review.
“When confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center leaders — one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background — he appeared more swayed by the Dossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.”
“The decision by agency heads to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment. The ICA authors first learned of the Dossier, and FBI leadership’s insistence on its inclusion, on December 20 — the same day the largely coordinated draft was entering the review process at CIA,” according to the review. “FBI leadership made it clear that their participation in the ICA hinged on the Dossier’s inclusion and, over the next few days, repeatedly pushed to weave references to it throughout the main body of the ICA.”
In the end, the report included a two-page summary of the Steele dossier in an “annex” to ensure that it did not contribute to reaching the “analytic conclusions.”
However, the review says that “by placing a reference to the annex material in the main body of the ICA as the fourth supporting bullet for the judgment that Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win, the ICA implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical integrity of the judgment.”
Ratcliffe’s CIA review concludes: “With analysts operating under severe time constraints, limited information sharing, and heightened senior-level scrutiny, several aspects of tradecraft rigor were compromised — particularly in supporting the judgment that Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win.”
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I'm guessing it was ignored.
You’re guessing correctly.
Yeah, nothing but “potential political motive,” and “[M]ultiple procedural anomalies”.
Nothing but weasel words. Come on, Ratcliffe. Call it what it is.
…..aaaand nobody will go to jail
Anyone involved still working at the agency should of course be fired. At the least.
“The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline,” Ratcliffe’s report reads.
Involvement by Brennan, Comey, and Clapper, the ICA analysts write, was “highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.”
There was no peaceful transfer of power in 2017 and it’s happening again!
All the rest of the discussion is just noise.
The left is overthrowing 2 elections.
That’s right, it WAS ignored unfortunately.
Which proves our justice system is rife with rampant corruption.
Purely treasonous actions with no accountability invites more treasonous actions because there’ll be no accountability.
“Passages in Ratcliffe’s report describe “excessively involved” Obama appointees in early drafts of the first document, which was rushed to completion in a “chaotic” and “atypical” process that he calls “markedly unconventional.”
Like thieves and liars do.... “nothin’ up my sleeve...” sickening, truly.
So when do we get to hang them all for HIGH TREASON??
In the first place there is no way in hell that Putin would have preferred Trump over the treasonous Hilary Clinton. No way Jose. The operation to torpedo Trump was an act of desperation. Of course we have the CIA controlled media to carry the deep state water. The CIA and FBI have volumes of blackmail data on the scum that infest the MSM and wire services. Same same MI6, MI5 and the Commonwealth press.
So much evidence and not one damn arrest. What a shame.
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - “MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!?!” - PART 1 - EP.437
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“Let’s not forget that Barack Obama is related to the George Bush family.”
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Is Brennan above the law?
Is Comey?
Hillary?
According to them, no one is above the law.
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