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Tulsi Gabbard calls for Obama to be prosecuted over 2016 election claims
The Guardian ^ | July 20 | The Guardian

Posted on 07/20/2025 12:03:37 AM PDT by RandFan

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them of a “treasonous conspiracy” intended to show that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win was due to Russian interference.

She said Obama and senior officials in his administration had “[laid] the groundwork for … a years-long coup” against Trump after his victory over Hillary Clinton by “manufacturing intelligence” to suggest that Russia had tried to influence the election. That included using a dossier prepared by a British intelligence analyst, Christopher Steele, that they knew to be unreliable, Gabbard claimed.

The post-election intelligence estimates contrasted with findings reached before the election, which indicated that Russia probably was not trying to interfere.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; coup; dni; fafo; fusiongps; j6; obama; russiagate; treason

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Arrest Obama? This is huge.

Is there enough evidence to sustain a prosecution? The DOJ need to decide this now.

1 posted on 07/20/2025 12:03:37 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Nixon was driven out of office on much less.

If Obama and his Merry Band of Marxist Ruffians escape justice, then not only will this happen again, and again and again, but it will become the standard and permanent operating procedure for the hard left from now on.

There must be very heavy consequences for their treason, first to provide justice for those of us who suspected this all along, secondly to make sure the
‘Bloom is off the Rose’ with Obama so that EVERYBODY can see who and what he’s always been, and lastly to ensure this never happens again.


2 posted on 07/20/2025 12:16:52 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: Thapsus_epiphany

At the very least, Obama and his minions need to be thoroughly investigated for Sedition, Treason and a host of other major crimes and force them to lawyer up and spend millions defending themselves, many of them will be forced into bankruptcy much like the Republicans they fraudulently investigated.

The only hope for justice in this case should it go to trial is to get the case moved to some jurisdiction outside of Washington DC.


3 posted on 07/20/2025 12:43:36 AM PDT by srmanuel
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4 posted on 07/20/2025 12:44:33 AM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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foxnews.com

Obama admin ‘manufactured’ intelligence to create 2016 Russian election interference narrative, documents show

“There was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government,” Gabbard said

By Brooke Singman Fox News/Published July 18, 2025

pic—Trump slams ‘very dishonest’ Brennan, Comey amid FBI probe
President Donald Trump reacted to Fox News Digital’s reporting that former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation related to the Russia probe.

EXCLUSIVE: The Obama administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned.
On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence” that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump–Russia collusion probe.

FBI LAUNCHES CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF JOHN BRENNAN, JAMES COMEY: DOJ SOURCES

Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was “probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means.”

pic——Tulsi Gabbard testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee-—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

One instance was on Dec. 7, 2016, weeks after the election. Then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s talking points stated: “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome.”

Fox News Digital obtained a declassified copy of the Presidential Daily Brief, which was prepared by the Department of Homeland Security, with reporting from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and open sources, for Obama, dated Dec. 8, 2016.

“We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure,” the Presidential Daily Brief stated. “Russian Government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states.”

pic-—July 19, 2016: President Barack Obama, center, with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, left, and FBI Director James Comey, right, sit during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press)

But the brief stated that it was “highly unlikely” the effort “would have resulted in altering any state’s official vote result.”

EX-OBAMA INTEL BOSS WANTED ANTI-TRUMP DOSSIER INCLUDED IN ‘ATYPICAL’ 2016 ASSESSMENT DESPITE PUSHBACK

“Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes,” it stated. The brief noted that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed that any Russian activities “probably were intended to cause psychological effects, such as undermining the credibility of the election process and candidates.”

The brief stated that cyber criminals “tried to steal data and to interrupt election processes by targeting election infrastructure, but these actions did not achieve a notable disruptive effect.” Fox News Digital obtained declassified, but redacted, communications from the FBI on the Presidential Daily Brief, stating that it “should not go forward until the FBI” had shared its “concerns.” Those communications revealed that the FBI drafted a “dissent” to the original Presidential Daily Brief.

The communications revealed that the brief was expected to be published Dec. 9, 2016, the following day, but later communications revealed that Office of the Director of National Intelligence, “based on some new guidance” decided to “push back publication” of the Presidential Daily Brief.

“It will not run tomorrow and is not likely to run until next week,” wrote the deputy director of the Presidential Daily Brief at Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whose name is redacted. The following day, Dec. 9, 2016, a meeting convened in the White House Situation Room, with the subject line starting: “Summary of Conclusions for PC Meeting on a Sensitive Topic (REDACTED.)”

WHITE HOUSE WANTS OBAMA INTEL OFFICIALS ‘HELD ACCOUNTABLE’ FOR ROLE PEDDLING 2016 RUSSIA HOAX

The meeting included top officials in the National Security Council, Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, among others, to discuss Russia.

pic——Then National Security Adviser Susan Rice in a March 21, 2014, file photo.

The declassified meeting record, obtained by Fox News Digital, revealed that principals “agreed to recommend sanctioning of certain members of the Russian military intelligence and foreign intelligence chains of command responsible for cyber operations as a response to cyber activity that attempted to influence or interfere with U.S. elections, if such activity meets the requirements” from an executive order that demanded the blocking of property belonging to people engaged in cyber activities.

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5 posted on 07/20/2025 12:51:37 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: RandFan

It won’t happen. The blacks would riot to a degree that has never been seen.


6 posted on 07/20/2025 12:53:26 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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The genesis of Obama’s depraved anti-Trump plot began with Hillary Clinton.
<><>On July 26, 2016, Hillary allegedly approved an illicit scheme to sully her political opponent
<><>she fabricated a plot about Trump “colluding with Russia” to rig the election.
<><>Hillary’s bogus smear was intended to distract from her own burgeoning email scandal.
<><>Hillary’s campaign commissioned and funded a lie-filled dossier supplied by Clinton confederates.
<><>The CIA discovered what Hillary had done and immediately alerted the Obama White House.
<><>two successive meetings took place on July 28 and Aug. 3, 2016,
<><>then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-president Obama and other top officials,
<><>including VP Biden, Dir of Natl Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey
<><>Brennan’s handwritten notes recounted Clinton’s nefarious plan
<><> she would vilify Donald Trump claiming interference by the Russian security service
<><>From that point on, it was a closely guarded high level Democrat secret.
<><>It was all a Democrat hoax, and the above-named participants well knew it.
<><>Yet, none of them had the integrity to step forward to tell Congress or Americans the truth.
<><>they dumbly colluded in silence
<><>Comey’s FBI acolytes launched a bogus investigation dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane.”
<><>They shamelessly weaponized US govt authority and contorted the law to persecute Trump.
<><>the fake “collusion narrative” was leaked to the Trump-hating media.
<><>yet the carefully planned Russia hoax failed to prevent Trump from winning the presidency,
<><> thus the same malevolent Democrat adversaries doubled down on the Clinton-financed scheme.

The new documents released by Gabbard show that a Dec. 8, 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) assessed that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”

But that conclusion, compiled by top intelligence agencies, did not conform to the vengeful Hillary’s “Trump collusion narrative.” Comey and the others apparently scuttled the PDB and concocted an alternative “get Trump” plan.


7 posted on 07/20/2025 12:58:58 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: RandFan

BTTT


8 posted on 07/20/2025 12:59:08 AM PDT by nopardons
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With the judges and juries we have these days probably no amount of evidence would bring a conviction. I still would love to see them try though.

Half of me is thinking this is a purposeful distraction to take our eyes off of something else, so nothing will come of it... I hope I’m wrong.


9 posted on 07/20/2025 12:59:12 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Thapsus_epiphany
Nixon was driven out of office on much less.

Nixon had some integrity, Obama has none.

11 posted on 07/20/2025 1:00:43 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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(Half of me is thinking this is a purposeful distraction to take our eyes off of something else)

Let me guess, the Epstein list/files?


12 posted on 07/20/2025 1:02:33 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: thegagline

Let them riot.


13 posted on 07/20/2025 1:05:36 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!


14 posted on 07/20/2025 1:07:13 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: thegagline

Shoot to kill rioters has worked in every country with law and order regimes.


15 posted on 07/20/2025 1:40:58 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPT CAREER POL ITIiCIANS. )
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To: RandFan

Umm, wasn’t the current President already prosecuted by his political opposition umpteen times? What makes Obama so special other than the fact that he actually did what he is accused of doing?


16 posted on 07/20/2025 1:51:51 AM PDT by chuckee
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Exactly!

“Umm, wasn’t the current President already prosecuted by his political opposition umpteen times? What makes Obama so special other than the fact that he actually did what he is accused of doing?“


17 posted on 07/20/2025 1:55:39 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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18 posted on 07/20/2025 1:57:52 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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What makes Obama so special other than the fact that he actually did what he is accused of doing?“

He is special, because he has two levels of protection. He is a rat, and has pigment protection.

19 posted on 07/20/2025 2:13:25 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: RandFan

she’s just the latest in a long line of people demanding treasonous a-holes be charged for their acts

this should also include the clintons and their treasonous bs in the 90s which resulted in the chinese getting an up to date manufacturing base and all the military tech they could carry in the form of hard drives


20 posted on 07/20/2025 2:19:25 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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