Posted on 07/18/2025 5:45:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats denounced a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as politically motivated and error-ridden.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday issued the latest in a series of reports from the Trump administration attempting to undermine the eight-year-old assessment that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said the information she was releasing showed a “treasonous conspiracy in 2016” by top Obama administration officials to harm Mr. Trump.
Democrats denounced the effort as politically motivated, error-ridden and in contradiction with previous reviews of the assessment.
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Ms. Gabbard’s accusation of treason “baseless.”
Intelligence agencies and Senate investigators spent years reviewing the work, and concluded that during the 2016 election, the Russians conducted probing operations of election systems to see if they could change vote outcomes. While they extracted voter registration data in Illinois and Arizona, and probed in other states, there was no evidence that Moscow’s hackers attempted to actually change votes.
The Obama administration assessment never contended that Russian hackers manipulated votes.
Russia also conducted influence operations to change public opinion. That included using fake social media posts to sow division among Americans and leaking documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee to denigrate Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.
Multiple reviews, including a Republican-led Senate report, backed the findings of American spy agencies in late 2016 that Russia was trying to influence the election by damaging Ms. Clinton’s campaign and bolstering Mr. Trump.
Among the Republican senators on the Intelligence Committee that produced the various reports on Russian influence operations was Marco Rubio of Florida, now the secretary of state.
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Pretty obvious.
They did undermine him. They dogged him the whole four years along with two impeachments, and then weaponized law fare once he left office.
Lighten up, Frances. Blondi's DOJ is the Bermuda Triangle of criminal investigations.
Could say the same thing about Trump for the past, oh, nine years.
It didn’t take long for the DNC to get its team at The New York Times into full defense mode.
Poor Barry has a smoking gun in his dirty hand.
Hannity just had Gabbard on, and she gave a good account of how Obama’s “intelligence leaders” used patently false information to support their claims of Trump’s “Russia Collusion”!
The entire democrat party deserves prison.
I am sick of the corruption in our government. Story after story. But nothing ever happens . People need to go to prison. This crap MUST Stop.
I believe Gabbard.
maybe now Chief Justice John Roberts finally can do his job and toss out the fraudulent Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi articles of impeachment against Trump and hold them in criminal contempt
Tell me something new. When are the arrests happening?
nyt playing defense
as we knew they would
They did try to undermine Trump and the Times is filthy Democrat propaganda. We’re right about that too.
Jim Himes is a “reliable source”.
It’s another BS fabricated Times article. Someone at the DNC calls Jim Himes to give a statement to the Times about Gabbard’s statement. That’s the way the news media actually works.
A democrat accusing Obama of sedition...That is going to leave a scar.
its like they had a heads up
and had this ready to roll
i believe the receipts
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