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The Analyst Who Knew Too Much:
American Thinker ^ | 23 Jul, 2025 | Charlton Allen

Posted on 07/23/2025 4:41:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What one whistleblower’s dissent reveals about the Russia hoax.

When senior Obama officials demanded a new Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in December 2016—one month after Election Day—they were aware that dissenting voices existed within the intelligence community (IC), as they sought to suppress them.

One such voice came from a senior ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) analyst who spearheaded the September 12, 2016, ICA on cyber threats. His refusal to bend the facts rattled the intelligence apparatus.

His voice had to be silenced.

At the time, the Intelligence Community’s (IC) consensus was clear: foreign adversaries did not have—and probably would not soon gain—the capabilities to “execute widespread and undetected cyberattacks” on U.S. election infrastructure.

This judgment drew upon a substantial body of classified analysis developed over time by experts monitoring cyber threats from Russia and other geopolitical adversaries.

Then came a White House directive—issued on December 9, just one month after the 2016 presidential election—tasking the intelligence community with producing a new Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian election interference. This wasn’t a routine update. It followed closely on the heels of a terminated intelligence product.

Just hours earlier, a draft of the December 8 President’s Daily Brief (PDB) had been quietly withdrawn, reportedly under protest from the FBI.

That PDB had stated unequivocally that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”

Now, the directive that arrived in the DNI’s inbox—titled “POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling”—was more than a request for a fresh look. It was a politically ordered deliverable.

DNI Clapper now led a charged effort: to produce a new assessment that would ultimately sideline dissent, insert discredited material like the Steele dossier, and pivot the official conclusion to claim Russia acted

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 201609; 20160912; 20161209; clapper; ica; leftism; pdb

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1 posted on 07/23/2025 4:41:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It looks like the dissenters could become prosecution witnesses.


2 posted on 07/23/2025 4:41:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

All of this is good stuff. I have a question: what about the spying on Trump BEFORE the 2016 vote? Planting a spy in his campaign and listening to some of their calls. As much as I want heads to roll for the treason committed AFTER the vote, the beyond Watergate level of spying BEFORE the vote to me is even worse.


3 posted on 07/23/2025 4:48:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

Quite obvious now why there was an all out press by deep state to keep PDJT out of office

To quote shifty shiff “piss off” deep state, this isn’t Mayberry and Barney fife isn’t the deputy.

Your media shield is gone and I pray your reckoning is at hand!


4 posted on 07/23/2025 4:51:51 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: MtnClimber

what about mike rogers?

he warned Trump about the spying


5 posted on 07/23/2025 4:56:57 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: blitz128
... there was an all out press by deep state to keep PDJT out of office.

I'm not sure that was the intent at all.

I speculated back in early 2017 that the main purpose of fabricating the whole "Russian election interference" fiasco was to establish an ex post facto narrative that would be used to retroactively justify the illegal surveillance that had already been in place for months, if not longer.

6 posted on 07/23/2025 5:07:28 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")
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To: blitz128

+1


7 posted on 07/23/2025 5:07:45 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Will it ever get that far?


8 posted on 07/23/2025 5:08:01 AM PDT by bgill
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To: MtnClimber

People need to be punished for this. There must be accountability. If these criminals skate this republic is finished.


9 posted on 07/23/2025 5:31:00 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Tell It Right

“ As much as I want heads to roll for the treason committed AFTER the vote, the beyond Watergate level of spying BEFORE the vote to me is even worse.”
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Speaking of Watergate, the cover-up is what will really get you in the end - it’s otherwise known as “obstruction of justice.” That’s what forced Nixon out of office and put a number of his underlings in jail. Ironically, the Clinton witch worked briefly long or a Congressional committee investigating those crimes (before being fired for lying and other misdeeds, so she CLEARLY know what she was doing. Anyway, Obama should be impeached and convicted, to stop his pension, open him up to civil liability and ruin his reputation forever - that’s the least that this traitorous asswipe deserves.


10 posted on 07/23/2025 6:04:52 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: MtnClimber

This is a very well written understandable account by Mr. Allen of the attempted Obozo coup - and there’s no mistake about it, it was conspiratorial treason on high to overthrow our government - the duly elected Trump Administration. No longer are guns and bullets needed to effect a governmental overthrow. This internal color revolution was conducted by Obozo and his henchmen by commandeering and weaponizing the institutions of government to overthrow the Trump Administration. It was conceived and orchestrated by Obozo, who is the cunning grand master of evil, conniving deceit, and deception.


11 posted on 07/23/2025 6:15:34 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

12 posted on 07/23/2025 6:24:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


13 posted on 07/23/2025 7:18:41 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

Almost resembles the plot of a 1967 era movie.

The Presidents Analyst staring James Coburn.

A favorite of mine. A tour de force of the culture, paranoia, fashion, music and politics of the 60’s. With a surprising “villain” that is also very contemporary.


14 posted on 07/23/2025 8:01:45 AM PDT by sjmjax
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