Obama ordered the ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started. This was an influence operation that Obama and Hillary schemed, and the CIA and FBI ran.
Paul Sperry (Real Clear Investigations)
For months, Democrats have been trying to get ahead of the “grand conspiracy” investigations now hitting the news, screaming of an “imperial presidency (and) Trump retributions” and protesting “fascism” outside federal agencies under DOGE review. Meanwhile, Obama-Biden loyalists are so deeply rooted in intelligence agencies, DNI Tulsi Gabbard made it her key talking point at the Turning Point USA conference last weekend:
I can attest personally that in my work as Director of National Intelligence, the deep state is fighting us every step of the way. It exists in every federal agency. We are pushing hard. Know that they are pushing hard back.
Democrats weaponizing the government against Donald Trump is not breaking news, but July has been eye-opening. Two weeks ago, a CIA after-action report debunked the Obama administration’s claim that Russia interfered on behalf of candidate Trump in the 2016 election. A week later, the FBI opened an investigation into inter-agency collusion to bolster the Democrat and derail Trump in three elections. Friday, Gabbard gave the DOJ evidence that President Obama precipitated a “years-long coup against President Trump.”
Russiagate Un-Packed
Real Clear Politics confirms that senior members of the ODNI and DOJ met in the White House last Sunday to discuss “new information on Russiagate” that would strengthen a criminal conspiracy case against several Obama aides (who’ve all publicly accused Trump of treason). This led to Gabbard’s Friday disclosures, which should result in the appointment of a special prosecutor with the resources to prove a conspiracy that won’t be bound by statutes of limitations, and – because of the raid on Mar a Lago – a grand jury empaneled in Florida (anywhere but DC). Here’s the treasonous timeline:
August 31, 2016 – a DHS official tells DNI James Clapper that there was “no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count.”
September 9, 2016 – an ODNI official recommends that the presidential daily briefing should explain that Russia “is probably not trying to influence the election by using cyber means” to target election infrastructure; an opinion that was corroborated by other intelligence community officials.
December 9, 2016 – Obama held a meeting with National Security Council principals (John Brennan, James Clapper, Avril Haines, John Kerry, Andrew McCabe and Susan Rice) to discuss the “did not impact” memo. This resulted in the President “requesting a new assessment” before Trump took office.
December 10, 2016 – the meeting recap from Clapper’s executive assistant requested a new Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) detailing the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” It instructed recipients that the “ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS.”
December 14, 2016 – intelligence community officials made the first leaks to the press that they believed “with a high level of confidence” that “Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the U.S. Election Hack.”
December 30, 2016 – the finalized classified ICA referred in its body to a footnote describing the Steele dossier; thereby ensuring the allegation asserting “Trump was beholden to the Kremlin” would be read by IC recipients (whose numbers were suspiciously increased to 200).
January 6, 2017 – the finalized public version of the ICA did not include the dossier material, but alluded to it as “sensitive sources and materials” that could “imperil the ability to collect critical foreign intelligence in the future.” This version of the ICA’s conclusion: Russian activities represent a “significant escalation (to) undermine public faith, denigrate Secretary Clinton, harm her electability, and contrast her unfavorably to (Trump).”
The Smoking Guns
Last week’s ODNI and DOJ meeting focused on three key evidential reports: (1) the years-old inspector general probe of Hillary Clinton’s improper email server, (2) annexed “Clinton plan evidence” from Special Counsel John Durham’s final report, and (3) secret 200-page congressional audit. These included some incriminating revelations:
- records tying the CIA’s drafting of the ICA to the FBI’s discredited “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation
- emails showing Brennan intervened to add the Steele dossier to the ICA over objections from his Russia analysts
- information strengthening a criminal case against CIA Director John Brennan for giving false testimony to Congress
To wit, after an email from his Deputy Director for Analysis (“including the dossier in any form risked the credibility of the entire paper”), Brennan’s email reply read, “My bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.” This email contradicts Brennan’s lie about the dossier to NBC News in 2018: “It did not play any role whatsoever in the ICA that was done and presented to then-President Obama.”
A much bigger problem for Brennan are his sworn statements to the House Judiciary Committee in 2023: “The CIA was not involved at all with the dossier…I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all…It wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence that we had…It was not in any way used as a basis for the ICA that was done.” Doesn’t add up does, it?
The Truth Must Out
Paul Sperry (see quote up top) has found that sworn testimony from Comey, McCabe, Brennan, and Clapper (all denied either knowing or recalling the Clinton campaign was behind the dossier when they drafted Obama’s ICA) is contradicted by CIA documents that prove they all knew of the Clinton campaign “plan” to tie Trump to Russia in order to deflect attention from her illegal use of a private server while serving as secretary of state.
Who knows where Gabbard’s criminal referral ends, but the guess here is that a special prosecutor will gather enough incriminating evidence for a Florida grand jury to indict, and a Florida trial jury to convict, at least Brennan, Clapper and Comey, after which the appeals process ends up in the Supreme Court. There, six conservative justices are likely to deliver a blow for Truth, Justice, and the American Way by upholding the jury’s guilty verdict.