Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released newly declassified emails that place former DNI James Clapper at the center of the Obama-era intelligence report aiming to link President Donald Trump with Russia.
In 2016, then-National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers expressed concern that the intelligence community was not “fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments.”
Clapper responded by saying that officials “may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities,” noting “more time is not negotiable.”
“This is one project that has to be a team sport,” Clapper added.
“The leading figures in the Russia Hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence,” Gabbard said in a statement on the declassified materials, explaining that the email “reinforces what we already exposed: the decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top. Clapper’s own words confirm that complying with the order to manufacture intelligence was a ‘team sport.’”
“Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax,” Gabbard wrote on social media, sharing the emails. “Clapper admits that it was a ‘team sport’ that required “compromise on our ‘normal modalities.'”
Gabbard previously released documents that flipped the narrative that narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help President Donald Trump win in 2016. “The judgment that Putin developed a ‘clear preference’ for candidate Trump and ‘aspired to help his chances of victory’ did not adhere to the tenets of the ICD (Intelligence Community Directive) analytical standards,” the declassified report said.
