In a move that’s sending shockwaves through D.C., former Democratic Congresswoman and now Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped a trove of government documents that expose serious irregularities in how the U.S. intelligence community assessed Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Hidden deep within the 114-page release is a chilling email exchange that sheds new light on the infamous Steele dossier — and it’s raising serious questions about what top intel brass knew, and when.
Gabbard’s explosive document release landed last Friday and included internal communications, draft assessments, and intelligence briefings from the final days of the Obama administration. But it’s the disturbing contradictions within those materials that have sparked new scrutiny.
Early briefings — including a Presidential Daily Brief dated before December 8, 2016 — concluded that Russian cyberattacks had “no impact on recent U.S. election results” and that evidence of interference was minimal at best.
But, according to Gabbard, that briefing was suspiciously yanked from circulation. “That PDB was removed and never distributed,” she stated. Just weeks later, a newly revamped intelligence report suddenly appeared — this time with bold claims of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. According to Gabbard, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper began assembling this updated assessment the very next day after the original report was pulled.
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