Posted on 08/01/2025 1:13:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For all of their supposed concern about ‘misrepresentations and disinformation,’ Clapper and Brennan are some of their biggest perpetrators.
After declassified documents further exposed their roles in fomenting the baseless Trump-Russia collusion hoax, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are out with a new op-ed effectively trying to tell the public, “Don’t believe your lying eyes.”
Published by The New York Times — a known co-conspirator in the hoax — the rambling screed from the former Obama intel chiefs represents a pathetic attempt to dismiss findings in recently disclosed records released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. In summary, the materials show there was no credible underlying intel demonstrating Russia wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 election and that such falsehoods were forcibly shoehorned into the Obama team’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of figures like Brennan.
Brennan and Clapper predictably use their op-ed to try and draw attention away from the bombshell findings. One way they attempt to do this is by citing a past Senate Intelligence Committee report on the drafting of the ICA, which claimed, “analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions.” (That talking point was dismantled by The Federalist’s Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway in a recent episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour.”)
The most humorous part of the op-ed, however, comes in the latter half, in which Clapper and Brennan try their hardest to “set the record straight” on several key points regarding the 2017 ICA. Unsurprisingly, none of the major claims they make are anywhere close to the truth.
The first subject they choose to tackle is the...
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The left worships the master of lies.
Okay....Who was supposed to burn them.
I would love to see a list of the things Clapper and Brennan have said that are NOT lies.
Probably a pretty short list.
list of the things Clapper and Brennan have said that are NOT lies./
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LOCK ‘EM UP!
LOCK ‘EM UP!
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Paging Inspector Renault...
Their lips were moving.
The more they say about this, the more they paint their defense into a corner.
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