There’s no doubt the new intelligence assessment was a political hit that had been ordered by President Obama.
Senator Chuck Grassley
Last week, Real Clear Investigations (RCI) alleged that President Obama weaponized federal agencies in “a conspiracy to protect Hillary Clinton and influence the election by smearing Trump at the same time.” One of their sources was an FBI assistant director (Chris Swecker), who saw Obama at the center of the partisan investigations of Clinton and Trump: “I don’t think there’s any doubt Obama was the mastermind behind the whole conspiracy. The problem is proving it.” That problem, according to Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley, exists because of “a complete cover-up” that began when the FBI “got thumb drives that dealt with all these [Clinton emails] they didn’t even bother to go through.”
The RCI report is heart-stopping, primarily because of the conspiracy’s perpetrators, beginning with the men atop the Democrat Party for the last 20 years; Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Plus those responsible for America’s safety and security; Attorney General Loretta Lynch, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and NSA Director James Clapper. Plus assorted bureaucrats; National Security Adviser Susan Rice, FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe, lead Trump-Russia FBI agent Peter Strzok, and (his lover) FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Real proof emerged in Clapper’s 2018 CNN interview: “If it weren’t for President Obama, we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today, notably, Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that.” In Sen. Grassley’s words, Obama is utterly Nixonian – “With all these red lights flashing STOP, the Obama administration went full speed ahead” – because Grassley has declassified evidence of Obama ordering Clapper to pressure the NSA to get “on the same page” and be “supportive” of the conclusion that Putin personally intervened in the election to help Trump.
Getting “on the same page” with the President meant the CIA, FBI and NSA “would all have to ‘compromise’ their normal standards for intelligence-gathering to rush out the report to meet Obama’s deadline” (source: Clapper email). Clapper and former CIA director Brennan have subpoenas from a grand jury because evidence suggests they conspired with Obama and Hillary Clinton to kill Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency (source: RCI).
That conspiracy began in May 2016, when Comey learned of eight thumb drives containing thousands of unexamined Clinton emails, but did not conduct a “thorough and complete investigation” to “assess the national security risks,” and Lynch was secretly communicating with Clinton’s campaign staff to assure “campaign officials that the FBI would go easy on her” (source: DNC emails).
And go easy they did. On July 5, Comey exonerated Clinton, and Obama flew her on Air Force One to whole-heartedly endorse her at a rally in Charlotte (a trip Secret Service sources say “took weeks of advance work, which means Obama knew she was going to be cleared and not charged”). Two weeks later, the FBI shut down its investigation of the Clinton Foundation to avoid creating “any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons” (source: RCI). If you think the Clintons are snubbing the subpoena from Congress to avoid talking about Epstein, think again.
In late July, with Clinton cleared, the big dogs were able to hunt on live TV at the DNC’s convention, with Obama claiming Trump “cozies up to Putin” and Biden accusing Trump of “embracing dictators like Vladimir Putin.” RCI researchers trace those comments back to the Clinton Campaign; foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith devised the plan to “smear” and “demonize” Trump as a Putin stooge, and got a special assistant in the White House to go “as far as she could” in divulging sensitive information about Trump and Russia (source: declassified emails).
In August, Peter Strzok texted Lisa Page that “the White House is running this” (i.e. the Trump-Russia investigation). In early September, Strzok, while helping Comey prepare for a meeting with Obama, texted Page: “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing.” In October, Obama called Senator Tim Kaine, Clinton’s running mate, to warn him that Trump was in bed with Putin: “Tim, remember, this is no time to be a purist. You’ve got to keep a fascist out of the White House” (source: the “Hillary” documentary film from 2020).
In late October, after McCabe had denied FBI field agents access to the infamous Abedin-Weiner laptop, FBI agent John Robertson forced Comey to reopen Clinton’s email case: the FBI’s New York office had found over 300,000 Clinton State Department emails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s laptop. “The only reason Comey reopened the investigation is because the New York office threatened to go straight to the Department of Justice” (source: whistleblower Chris Swecker).
On November 7, a day before the election, Brennan sent Obama the “Fusion Cell” memo to summarize the CIA’s intelligence on Trump and Russia: it “made no mention of Putin ‘aspiring’ for a Trump victory” because “Putin expected [Clinton] to win.” In its latest review of de-classified evidence, Congress found that “the ICA did not cite any [classified] report where Putin directly indicated helping Trump win was the objective” (source: RCI). Which is to say Obama had been presented with the truth (i.e. no Putin link to Trump).
Still, Obama ordered US intelligence agencies in late November to re-consider the assessments that had found no evidence of Russia trying to swing the election to Trump. And, guess what? The CIA found new evidence in “one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports” (source: RCI). This helped Obama overcome the objections from career analysts and explain Trump’s victory without revealing the assessment was based on the dossier Clinton had ordered, funded and provided
One of those analysts is now a whistleblower helping the DOJ investigation, who’s testified that he was “threatened” by superiors to change his pre-election assessment to advance the “Putin stole the election for Trump” narrative. Congressional reports now show the Obama administration prevented analysts from seeing evidence that debunked the Trump-Russia collusion story, claiming it was withholding the material “on grounds of executive privilege” (source: RCI).
The smoking gun appeared on December 15, when Obama casually proclaimed the verdict of the Trump-Russia intelligence assessment: “So what the CIA is now assessing – which was, it was done purposefully to tilt the election in the direction of a particular candidate – shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody.” Seeing National Security Adviser Susan Rice re-direct the President back to the podium, NPR’s Steve Inskeep asked Obama, “You had something to add?” The NPR video shows Obama clearly discomfited and his voice cracking as he spins:
“It is worth noting that when it comes to the motivations of the Russians, there are still a whole range of assessments taking place among the agencies; different agencies are still looking at all that stuff, gather it together and hopefully putting it into a single package. And so when I receive a final report, you know, we’ll be able to, I think, give us a comprehensive and best guess as to those motivations.”
That’s called “walking a statement back” in DC, because the truth was that only 3 of 17 federal intelligence agencies were “looking at all that stuff” (CIA, FBI and NSA), and Obama’s CIA director (Brennan) had hand-picked only five analysts to draft the final intel report. Declassified emails now prove the NSA had dissented from the CIA’s key conclusion (NSA analysts claimed Putin never “personally tilted” the election to Trump).
On January 5, Obama and Biden met with FBI Director Comey to discuss using the Logan Act against incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, resulting in Flynn being caught in Peter Strzok’s perjury trap. They also discussed Comey presenting the false claims of the Steele dossier as “evidence” to President-elect Trump the next day, the same day the White House released the unclassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to the public, and the same day that details of Trump’s briefing were leaked to the press. Hmmm.
Those White House leaks lent credibility to the Steele Dossier, which was published in its entirety by Buzzfeed, becoming front-page news across America. Shame on Comey, because he’d learned from Steele’s primary researcher, Igor Danchenko, that the dossier was bogus, but still mislead the president-elect and ordered a wiretap warrant renewed – allowing the FBI to continue spying on Carter Page (the dossier was the basis for spying on Page) 90 days into Trump’s presidency.
Bringing Obama to justice is a long shot – and incredibly divisive – but America is either a “nation of laws” that are enforced, or not. The evidence from Grassley, Tulsi Gabbard, and investigative reporters is compelling. The truth will out only if they continue digging, so let the digging continue.