Posted on 12/09/2019 2:01:47 PM PST by Red Badger
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Brennan Lied About Not Including Steele Dossier In Intelligence Community Assessment On 2016 Russian Election Interference
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The new report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about whether the dossier authored by Christopher Steele was used in the Obama administration’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).
The ICA, a report conducted by intelligence officials in 2016 on Russian election interference, was used to brief President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in January 2017. According to the IG report, there was significant discussion by top intelligence officials as to whether the unverified Steele dossier should be included in the main body of the ICA report, summarized in an appendix, or even included at all.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said that “he felt strongly that the Steele election reporting belonged in the body of the ICA, because he feared that placing it in an appendix was ‘tacking it on’ in a way that would ‘minimiz[e]’ the information and prevent it from being properly considered.”
Ultimately, the ICA included a short summary and assessment of the dossier, which was incorporated in an appendix. “In the appendix, the intelligence agencies explained that there was ‘only limited corroboration of the source’s reporting’ and that Steele’s election reports were not used ‘to reach analytic conclusions of the CIA/FBI/NSA assessment,'” the IG report states.
A few months later, on May 23, 2017, when testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Brennan categorically denied that the CIA relied on the Steele dossier for the ICA report. Here is the full exchange with former Rep. Trey Gowdy:
Mr. Gowdy: Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as any — as part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings?
Mr. Brennan: I have no awareness.
Mr. Gowdy: Did the CIA rely on it?
Mr. Brennan: No.
Mr. Gowdy: Why not?
Mr. Brennan: Because we — we didn’t. It wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community assessment that was done. It was — it was not.
Brennan claimed the unverified dossier was not “part of the corpus of intelligence information we had.” On page 179 of the IG report, IG investigators asked former FBI Director James Comey if he remembered discussions with Brennan on presenting the dossier to Obama. Comey said Brennan and other officials argued it was “important” enough to include in the ICA — clearly part of the “corpus of intelligence information” they had.
Brennan was the “fixer” that got rid of inconvenient documents and people to clear the way for the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
But only Roger Stone gets the SWAT team raid and a rigged trial.
And no doubt the harshest sentence the Bolshevik activist “judge” can hand down.
No wonder. Brennan is a Commie and a Muslim....................
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Just a wild hair coincidence, is all.
Overflowing with ‘em coincidences.
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It’s okay John, these things happen. Besides lying to Congress is no big deal, just ask Roger Stone.
The Steele dossier was know to be fraudulent but DOJ launched the spying anyway? So fraudulent it would not even be reported by any of the Fake News outlets? Even MSNBC refused to take it seriously. The report even quotes Comney as saying it could not be taken seriously.
Yet the DOJ Dept of Cover Ups can find no illegality or corruption in launching the spying? It clear all IGs need to be abolished. The partisan rot has set too deep, the Govt cannot investigate itself anymore It will have to be done by outsiders from now on
Call me when John Brennan is on a high platform with a rope around his neck, and they are reading out his treason and coup-related charges.
Until then, I’ll be over here napping.
“No wonder. Brennan is a Commie and a Muslim....................”
That needs to be repeated time and again.
Brennan could have easily fit into Stalin or Hitler’s inner circles. Now he is in as evil of an inner circle.
Brennan? Lie? Color me not the least bit surprised. I worked with that Richard Cranium back in the 2001-2003 timeframe; he was a piece of excrement then and he still is.
What I would give to see that......
A Muslim and a Commie, did you know that then?...................
Okay Mr Durham, arrest this bastard and charge him with attempted coup, perjury and trying to rig an election.
ARREST him NOW.....
It’s OK for Brennan to lie to Congrift “because reasons”.
They’ll probably arrest him tonight while he’s doing his CNN gig.
/sarc
So nobody is asking the obvious! Did Trump get a different ICA briefing than Obama? Was the appendix included just in Obama's version?
He looks like a SS man or someone who worked for Stalin. He’s an evil bastard.
Taqiyya??????
I had one for lunch...................
When any of these corrupt lying cheating...people go to jail...let me know.
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