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Miranda Devine: Bumbling Obama aides actually admit Russiagate was a smear campaign against Trump
NY Post ^ | 8/13/25 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 08/14/2025 1:47:37 AM PDT by Libloather

“That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.”

It’s hard to believe that the Russiagate plotters are so stupid, but the declassified documents tumbling out of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s files show that, while they had a lot of power and managed to hide their nefarious activities for almost a decade, President Barack Obama’s henchmen were none too bright.

The latest tranche of declassified emails has Obama’s DNI, James Clapper, telling then-Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers essentially to shut up and put his name to the intelligence community assessment (ICA) that Clapper and then-CIA Director John Brennan were cooking up, at Obama’s direction, to concoct a narrative that Russia had tilted the 2016 election to help Trump win.

“Understand your concern,” Clapper wrote to Rogers on Dec. 22, 2016, in the waning days of the Obama administration.

“It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page and are all supportive of the report — in the highest tradition of ‘that’s OUR story, and we’re sticking’ to it.’ ”

Rogers had kicked off the conversation by laying out his concerns that normal tradecraft was being compromised and that his team had not had “sufficient access to the underlying intelligence and sufficient time to review that intelligence.”

“I’m concerned that, given the expedited nature of this activity, my folks aren’t fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments,” Rogers wrote.

“I know that you agree that this is something we need to be 100% comfortable with before we present it to the President — we have one chance to get this right, and it is critical that we do so."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 201612; 20161222; aides; biden; brennan; bs; clapper; clinton; coup; domesticenemies; fusiongps; hitlery; hussein; obama; rinos; russiagate; smear; subversion

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Has anyone asked Hussein about all this?
1 posted on 08/14/2025 1:47:37 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The Won...

His election, and (tThis Guy’s Opinion) subsequent Jan 6 sanation, bringing him from being a non-NBC, to being an NBC for all Constitutional intents and purposes (including the office of POTUS), certainly had consequences.


2 posted on 08/14/2025 2:06:47 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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MIRANDA: It’s hard to believe that high echelon presidential Russiagate plotters are so stupid

Oh, I don’t know—you have to be pretty stupid
to think you could get away w/ screwing Trump.


MIRANDA:.”declassified docs from Tulsi’s files show they managed to hide their
nefarious activities for a decade, but that then-Pres Obama’s henchmen were none too bright....


3 posted on 08/14/2025 2:11:06 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: Liz

It would be interesting to know why these documents were not uncovered in the first Trump term. How did Gabbard discover them?


4 posted on 08/14/2025 2:41:52 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Libloather

later


5 posted on 08/14/2025 2:59:00 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Libloather

On the very day Obama ordered the ICA, Dec. 9, 2016, The Washington Post ran an anon­ymously sourced story that claimed “the CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency.”

How prescient of them.


6 posted on 08/14/2025 3:06:37 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Libloather
“I’m concerned that, given the expedited nature of this activity, my folks aren’t fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments,” Rogers wrote.

Translation: "I read your report and it smells like BS."

7 posted on 08/14/2025 3:53:48 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Trump had people around him in his first term that were playing for the other team


8 posted on 08/14/2025 4:27:23 AM PDT by digger48 (Mp)
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To: Libloather

They never expected to not get away with it and that DJT would prevail once again to become the 47th POTUS to go hunting for them.

“Stupid” is not the right word.


9 posted on 08/14/2025 5:06:28 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Libloather
Even some freepers spouted as to how smart O'Bummer is and masterminded the collapse of America. The man is a fool. A small time ChiCongo ghetto grifter who was tapped to be point man by some globalist cabal. They stole the election for him. They gave him his orders.

He's got his coming, as do they. But he's still a fool.

10 posted on 08/14/2025 5:42:50 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: Libloather

Pin the tail on the donkey.


11 posted on 08/14/2025 5:56:29 AM PDT by FreedBird (p)
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To: DeplorablePaul

You’re kidding, right? Trump had No DECENT PEOPLE the first term. He had NO idea they could be so bad.


12 posted on 08/14/2025 6:19:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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You’re kidding, right? Trump had No DECENT PEOPLE the first term. He had NO idea they could be so bad.


And the good people weren’t willing to put up with the abuse they and their families would receive that came with working for Trump.


13 posted on 08/14/2025 6:22:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ann Archy

You’re exactly right. Even Trump admitted it. He said that he had worked with shady characters before he went to DC but had no idea how evil the people down there are.


14 posted on 08/14/2025 6:26:40 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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It would be interesting to know why these documents were not
uncovered in the first Trump term. How did Gabbard discover them?


The cover story is that everyone knew about them for a decade......
but Tulsi was “the first” who was “able” to declassify them.


15 posted on 08/14/2025 6:38:17 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: DeplorablePaul
When we look at who was running the IC during Trump's first term, we find people like Christopher Wray, Gina Haspel and Bill Barr. No wonder the documents were hidden, and no telling what was destroyed.

During that first term, Trump was learning the ropes of politics as well as the inside Washington beauracracy. At the same time, he's trying to implement an agenda, and all the while, he's being attacked from within by the FBI. And when that didn't stop him, they brought out COVID.

16 posted on 08/14/2025 6:39:23 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Libloather; All

BUMP


17 posted on 08/14/2025 7:29:05 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Liz
They aren't stupid, they are uber arrogant because they think nothing will happen to them (and they might be right).
18 posted on 08/14/2025 10:46:16 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

They aren’t stupid, they are uber arrogant because they
think nothing will happen to them (and they might be right).


They’re stupid and arrogant.....and a lot more.


19 posted on 08/14/2025 11:50:18 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: DeplorablePaul
How did Gabbard discover them?
My guess is at the direction of a whistleblower(s).
20 posted on 08/14/2025 12:34:21 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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