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CIA conduct during Russia assessment may be next boomerang in probe of investigators
justthenews.com ^ | 8/31/2020 | john Solomon

Posted on 09/01/2020 6:45:24 PM PDT by bitt

DNI hints new declassification coming soon. Some want it to be a congressional complaint to the CIA inspector general questioning the Obama intelligence assessment on Russian intentions.

By his own admission, ex-CIA Director John Brennan chafed at being questioned earlier this month by federal prosecutor John Durham about the Obama administration's intelligence assessment that Russia’s meddling in 2016 election was designed to help Donald Trump.

Brennan "questioned why the analytic tradecraft and the findings of the ICA are being scrutinized by the Department of Justice, especially since they have been validated by the Mueller Report and the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Review," a statement issued by his spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

The answer, according to multiple officials familiar with the evidence, is that the House intelligence committee in 2018 sent a secret report to the CIA inspector general that called into question the tradecraft used in the Brennan-led assessment.

Specifically, the officials said, it highlighted dissent and doubts by some intelligence community analysts about Vladimir Putin's intentions in intervening in the 2016 election. Some believed it was to help Trump; others believed it was simply to sow chaos without picking a winner, and still others saw evidence Putin might have preferred Hillary Clinton, the officials said.

In other words, an assessment that was portrayed as unanimous when it was made public in early January 2017 was anything but at the analyst level, according to Fred Fleitz, a longtime intelligence officer who was briefed on the House intelligence committee's concerns when he served as chief of staff in the National Security Council.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 201701; brennan; cia; connecticut; fredfleitz; hillaryclinton; ica; intelcommunity; johnbrennan; johndurham; johnsolomon; nickshapiro; russia

1 posted on 09/01/2020 6:45:24 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/01/2020 6:45:37 PM PDT by bitt (Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it)
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To: bitt

The Mueller report and the Senate Select committee had to begrudgingly admit that there was no collusion.
Yet Brennan continues to propagate the lie.


3 posted on 09/01/2020 6:49:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

Brennan wants to know why the IC work product is being scrutinized by DOJ? Maybe because the intelligence Community does not operate outside of us law?

The very fact that he could ask that question is an amazing look into how they see themselves.


4 posted on 09/01/2020 6:55:07 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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” John Brennan chafed at being questioned earlier this month “

Of course he did. The first Provo head of the CIA is above all this. Besides, as Bill Clinton said, Deny Deny Deny, make counter accusations.


5 posted on 09/01/2020 6:55:58 PM PDT by Regulator
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l8r


6 posted on 09/01/2020 6:59:46 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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So far the only “boomerang” has been on those of us who believed in our justice system and that justice would prevail.

The joke is on us. Brennan is laughing all the way to the bank.


7 posted on 09/01/2020 7:02:03 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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Becuase the “intel commmunity” are largely bumbling prostitutes who write garbage reports to personally benefit themselves.


8 posted on 09/01/2020 7:03:54 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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Brennan knows that the GOP has to cover for all of the crimes of the Kenyanesian Usurpation because they enabled it.


9 posted on 09/01/2020 7:06:48 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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This stuff happened in 2015 and 2016.

It’s the end of 2020.

Run out the clock and you’ll hear soon - this is old news.

If they were interested, Lawyer’s offices would be raided, and Bleachbit. Hillary would’ve been charged long ago.


10 posted on 09/01/2020 7:10:57 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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Best Defense is a Good Offense = Mueller Report


11 posted on 09/01/2020 7:17:10 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Time to fetch the block and axe.

12 posted on 09/01/2020 8:12:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Will they ever get to Taqquiya John Brennan, the muzzie convert, or will they let him escape because of his circle of friends?


13 posted on 09/01/2020 10:06:16 PM PDT by 353FMG
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Wonder if this ties into the FR posts concerning the release of the Misfud 302.


14 posted on 09/01/2020 10:07:34 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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