A scathing internal review has blown the lid off how deep the Obama-era intelligence community went in engineering the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion narrative. The report, recently released by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, points directly to top-level figures like John Brennan, James Comey, and James Clapper as being deeply entangled in what appears to be a politically driven and rushed intelligence assessment aimed at undermining Donald Trump’s candidacy.
The 2024 report, titled “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian Election Interference,” exposes an “atypical,” “chaotic,” and “excessively involved” process by Obama’s intelligence chiefs in preparing the original collusion assessment. According to Ratcliffe, the speed and intensity with which the report was pushed through raises serious concerns about a political motive behind its creation.
“The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline,” the report states bluntly.
Ratcliffe’s review, produced by experienced CIA analysts, traces the origins of the ICA back to just six weeks before Obama left office. That’s when the outgoing president allegedly ordered the agency to draft a report assessing Russia’s supposed role in Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. The result? A claim that Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help Trump win — a finding now under intense scrutiny.
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