Unpacking Obama’s Russian Ruse
The Salty Citizen
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Hillansky Clintonsky. Barakovich Obamavich. FBIsov Ben Lyingassov.
Layer upon layer, everything opened up and aired out by DNI Tulsi Gabbard reveals the real Russian saboteurs of the 2016 election were… American. The “Russian Collusion” narrative is about as legitimate and authentically Russian as the above names. Made-up rubbish that should have never passed the smell test. If only anyone had been willing to sniff around.
Here’s how the new information released breaks down.
- October 31, 2016: New York Times article stating FBI sees NO LINK between Russia and Trump.
- December 8, 2016: The Intelligence Community prepares a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) stating that RUSSIA DID NOT use cyberattacks on U.S. election infrastructure to alter vote counts, DID NOT change election outcomes, DID NOT intend to help Donald Trump, and DID seem consistent with Russia’s agitation in prior elections. Obama’s own intelligence totally dismissed “Russian Collusion.” Period.
- December 8, 2016: The PDB would have included Trump as President Elect and was canceled.
- December 9, 2016: A different and separate meeting occurs involving President Barack Obama, DNI James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, AG Loretta Lynch, and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. Obama orders a new intelligence assessment.
- December 9, 2016: After this meeting, the narrative changes entirely. Before the new assessment even begins, there are White House leaks to WaPo, NYTimes, and CNN that same night, indicating that there had been Russian interference specifically to help Trump. The NYT 12/09/16 headline was “Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election.”
- December 10, 2016: DNI Clapper sends email to meeting attendees asking them to “produce an assessment per the president’s request, pulling together information on tools Moscow used to influence the election, how this interference was different than Russia’s previous tactics…” The email also tasked CIA and Brennan with articulating Russia’s motives and making the connection between Moscow and Trump.
- This is important because a few weeks earlier, Brennan overrode the objections of his own deputy director and Russia experts to his conclusions. Brennan’s analysts found the Steele Dossier absolutely unreliable and that Russia did not want Trump elected, but Clinton. Russia felt Hillary would be manageable/able to manipulate based on info that was believed to be leverage over her. Brennan’s analyst, who objected, went so far as to put their objection in writing, stating, “We cannot prove that Moscow was trying to get Trump elected.”
- December 30, 2016: The dissenters in the CIA and DNI are called in by Brennan and rebuked for putting their objections in writing, for declaring the Steele Dossier of “low confidence” and continuing to object to its use, for reporting their concerns over the rushed and unusual nature of Obama’s requested new assessment.
- The Intelligence Community was already in an uproar over the Steele Dossier being used to justify FISA warrants to spy on Trump in September and August of 2016. The analysts who evaluated it thought it was ridiculous and entirely discredited. Their superiors gave it unwarranted validity. The new Obama assessment relied heavily on the Steele Dossier.
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January 6, 2017: The Obama Assessment is released, and because of lingering objections in Intelligence…not even in the primary assessment, but in a classified addendum, the theory about Putin specifically helping Trump to win 2016 election is included and sites the Steele Dossier as proof.
And let the games begin. The media did their duty and pledged their fealty to The Cause–whatever it takes to take down Trump. We have since heard that Brennan when responding to the objections of his own officers, stated about the Russia Trump Collusion, “But doesn’t it ring true?” Journalists who questioned it were castigated and those who leaked it were rewarded. Literally. With Nobel Prizes in Journalism.
The “smoking gun” as Tulsi Gabbard sees it and the recently released documents confirm, this was done at the direction of President Obama. We know that because James Clapper says so in his directive email to meeting attendees. Per the President’s request. A little CYA, eh Clapper? Susan Rice did the same.
On January 20, 2017–Inauguration Day– Susan Rice sent an email to herself addressing a January 5, 2017, Intelligence meeting. (Peep the release date above.)
“Obama emphasized his commitment to ensuring the issue was handled “by the book” by intelligence and law enforcement communities, stressing he was not asking about, initiating, or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective.”
