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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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.
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....
It would be interesting to know why these documents were not uncovered in the first Trump term. How did Gabbard discover them?
later
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.
Translation: "I read your report and it smells like BS."
Trump had people around him in his first term that were playing for the other team
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.
He's got his coming, as do they. But he's still a fool.
Pin the tail on the donkey.
You’re kidding, right? Trump had No DECENT PEOPLE the first term. He had NO idea they could be so bad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BUMP
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.
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