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EXCLUSIVE: Clapper Crew Threatened Whistleblower Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated Intel Assessment
The Federalist ^ | July 30, 2025 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 07/30/2025 4:21:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

‘You need to TRUST ME on this,’ Clapper’s crony told the analyst, saying he ‘would need to demonstrate [his] ability to “outgrow”’ the refusal to sign off on assessments he did not concur with.

A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.

The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.

The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA that outgoing President Barack Obama ordered, which falsely assessed that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election. An earlier release by the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed the senior intelligence official — whom her office identified as an ODNI whistleblower — had been charged with conducting a “scrub,” which is a review, of the intelligence in the non-compartmented ICA. Emails released last week by Gabbard show the top analyst expressing shock over the ICA’s reliance on the Steele dossier because the versions the analyst reviewed included no intel relying on the Hillary Clinton-based fairy tale of opposition research.

According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 — more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist’s source explained, occurred because the analyst’s efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clapper; dni; domesticenemies; fusiongps; ica; jamesclapper; russiagate

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1 posted on 07/30/2025 4:21:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No name given in the article. Therefore it didn’t happen.


2 posted on 07/30/2025 4:23:58 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

sounds like a real den of thieves.


3 posted on 07/30/2025 4:33:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“No name given in the article. Therefore it didn’t happen.”

I used to think that this kind of comment was just obtuseness. The last few years have taught me to agree with it.


4 posted on 07/30/2025 4:40:27 PM PDT by happyathome
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Very good article. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 07/30/2025 4:45:08 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To the crapper with Clapper.


6 posted on 07/30/2025 4:47:14 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

7 posted on 07/30/2025 6:08:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Horrifying threat from Clapper to a whistleblower being held by both arms:

I Shall Be Free No. 10
by Bob Dylan (1964)

… I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day
🥊🥊
I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay
I said, “Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay, here I come
26, 27, 28, 29, I’m gonna make your face look just like mine
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, you better run
99, 100, 101, 102, your ma won’t even recognize you
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen”
🥊🥊
/////////////////////////////

Imagine making someone look like Clapper.


8 posted on 07/30/2025 6:37:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any of them arrested yet?


9 posted on 07/30/2025 7:27:09 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.,)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

p


10 posted on 07/30/2025 7:55:33 PM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

There are things that don’t happen on TV, that must remain out of the public eye, at least temporarilly. Otherwise, bad things happen.


11 posted on 07/31/2025 8:20:53 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand thhere we CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Clapper used to be the commander of my current organization. The chief scientist went to prison for child porn, and his picture disappeared from the leadership wall. I am looking forward to the day when I can walk into the front office and remove the Clapper picture from the “past leaders” wall. He’s a disgrace.


12 posted on 07/31/2025 9:02:17 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct!)
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