[ April 19, 2024 ]
CIA Director Brennan suppressed facts or analysis that showed why it was not in Russia’s interests to support Trump and why Putin stood to benefit from Hillary Clinton’s election. They also told Fred Fleitz that Brennan suppressed that intelligence over the objections of CIA analysts.
From the very first, John Brennan was Obama’s muscle who worked outside the law, to put it kindly. Brennan handled the nasty things that needed to be done. If you recall, during the presidential election, I ran a number of stories on the breach of Obama’s passport at the Department of State. There were always questions about Obama’s citizenship status and what kind of passport he used to he travel to Pakistan during his college years as a foreign student.
Back in March 2008, the State Department launched an investigation of improper computer access to the passport records of Barack Hussein Obama. The investigation was focused on John Brennan’s company (here). Brennan’s employee was accused of tampering with the passport files.
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You will also recall that the key witness in the presidential passport tampering case was murdered. Shot in the head, in his car, in front of his church.
Fred Fleitz: Here’s what’s behind the Senate-House disputes on Russian meddling in 2016 election
While the nation is focused on the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a bipartisan report Tuesday that challenges House conclusions about former CIA Director John Brennan cooking intelligence for political purposes.
At issue is a controversial January 2017 intelligence community assessment that concluded that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump win. That assessment supported the basic premise of the widely discredited Steele Dossier that, according to recently declassified FBI documents, contained Russian disinformation.
In March 2018, the House Intelligence Committee issued a report saying the intelligence community assessment had been politicized to hurt Trump. I am a former CIA analyst and House Intelligence Committee staff member who expressed such views in Fox News op-eds in January and May 2017.
The report released Tuesday was the second Senate Intelligence Committee report contradicting the findings of the House and other intelligence experts. The first Senate report was issued in July 2018.
Naturally, the political establishment and anti-Trump journalists gloated about the new Senate Intelligence Committee report as bolstering their biases. NBC reporter Ken Dilanian breathlessly tweeted that it “confirmed the accuracy of the 2017 US intelligence assessment on Russian election interference, undercutting far right conspiracy theories.”
According to the latest Senate Intelligence Committee report, proper procedures were dutifully followed in drafting the intelligence community assessment.
The Committee did not discover any significant analytic tradecraft issues in the preparation or final presentation of the ICA,” the Intelligence Committee report says, adding that “The ICA reflects proper analytic tradecraft despite being tasked and completed within a compressed timeframe.”
However, the House Intelligence Committee came to a different conclusion in its March 2018 report, finding that the intelligence community assessment’s judgments on why Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election did not employ proper analytic tradecraft.
So who is right?
Accusing the intelligence community of improper “analytic tradecraft” in analyzing Russia’s strategic intentions is an extremely grave indictment for a congressional oversight committee to make. In my opinion, there is no question the House Intelligence Committee is right for the reasons in its 2018 report and other subsequent findings.
The House committee found the intelligence community assessment violated protocols for drafting such assessments. This major finding shows why America needs strong legislative oversight over the intelligence services.
For example, although the protocols require intelligence community assessments to be “community products” and vetted with all intelligence agencies and analysts with equities in a given subject, only three intelligence agencies were asked to draft this assessment: the CIA, National Security Agency and FBI.
With the 14 other intelligence agencies left out, the three participating agencies included only two dozen “handpicked” analysts. Other intelligence agencies working on this issue, such as the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, were excluded.
In addition, House Intelligence Committee staff revealed the actual drafting of the intelligence community assessment was done by three close associates of former CIA Director Brennan, who has proven to be the most politicized intelligence chief in American history.
Contrary to common practice for controversial intelligence community assessments, Brennan’s team allowed no dissenting views or even an annex with reviews by outside experts.
These were extraordinary violations of intelligence community rules to ensure that analysis is accurate and trusted. The Senate committee reports ignored these foundational violations.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report falsely claims that “all analytical lines are supported with all-source intelligence” and that analysts who wrote the intelligence community assessment consistently said they “were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions.”
House Intelligence Committee staff members found the opposite. They told me there was conflicting intelligence evidence on Russian motivations for meddling in the 2016 election.
More gravely, they said that CIA Director Brennan suppressed facts or analysis that showed why it was not in Russia’s interests to support Trump and why Putin stood to benefit from Hillary Clinton’s election. They also told me that Brennan suppressed that intelligence over the objections of CIA analysts.
House Intelligence Committee staff told me that after an exhaustive investigation reviewing intelligence and interviewing intelligence officers, they found that Brennan suppressed high-quality intelligence suggesting that Putin actually wanted the more predictable and malleable Clinton to win the 2016 election.
Instead, the Brennan team included low-quality intelligence that failed to meet intelligence community standards to support the political claim that Russian officials wanted Trump to win, House Intelligence Committee staff revealed. They said that CIA analysts also objected to including that flawed, substandard information in the assessment.
So why did the Senate and House Intelligence Committees come to such starkly different conclusions? Why would professional intelligence officers give different accounts to these committees?
Democrats and their left-wing media allies claim the House Intelligence Committee’s findings are not credible because they were solely the work of what was then the Republican majority under then-Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
On the other hand, the Democrats and their media allies contend that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s findings must be believed because they are bipartisan and endorsed by the committee’s Republican Chairman Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina.
I strongly disagree for several reasons.
First, I’ve carefully reviewed the unclassified House Intelligence Committee reports and spoken to committee members and professional staff about their Russia investigations. I found their work credible, aggressively researched, and soundly analyzed.
The unprecedented partisanship of the present chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his staff’s apparently authorized leaks, made a bipartisan report impossible. It is unfair to reject the House Intelligence Committee report out of hand just because it was written by Republican members.
Second, it is more reasonable to regard any bipartisan report on this subject as suspicious. Democratic lawmakers have been fanatically united in promoting the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative. So it is impossible to believe that a Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee member would allow any references in the panel’s reports that intelligence was slanted and weaponized to undermine Trump’s presidency.
If information ever reached the Senate Intelligence Committee about Brennan suppressing intelligence in the intelligence community assessment that Putin favored Clinton instead of Trump, its Democratic members and staff certainly would have demanded that those crucial facts never be known.
Third, it is well known that Sen. Burr has been an extraordinarily weak Senate Intelligence Committee chairman. Some on Capitol Hill quip that the CIA oversees Burr, not the other way around.
Burr basically has allowed Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., to run the committee. Burr refused to cooperate with President Trump’s attempts to name a new director of national intelligence last summer because of Warner’s objections.
Finally, intelligence officers likely told different stories to Republican House Intelligence Committee and bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigators because of the strong political bias within intelligence agencies against President Trump.
The intelligence officers probably felt free to level with Republican staff members about how the intelligence community assessment was weaponized. But they would not level with the bipartisan Senate investigation because they worried that their honest assessments that countered the narrative would get back to their supervisors and damage their careers.
I witnessed this problem several times during more than two decades in government.
So what happens next? Acting Director of National Intelligence Rick Grenell is trying to get to the bottom of problems with the 2017 Russia intelligence community assessment. He has asked to see all of the intelligence on which it is based.
More importantly, federal prosecutor John Durham reportedly is looking into the drafting of the intelligence community assessment as part of his investigation of possible government wrongdoing before and after the last presidential election.
One anticipates that a tough lawman like Durham, with confidence from both sides of the political aisle, will finally answer whether the 2017 intelligence community assessment was rigged to hurt Trump politically.
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38 Comments
3 years ago
“One anticipates that a tough lawman like Durham, with confidence from
both sides of the political aisle, will finally answer whether the 2017
intelligence community assessment was rigged to hurt Trump”
Wasn’t Durham appointed by Fat Willy? And, do you truly believe that he’s going to do a damned thing?
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
The same thing was said about our fragile A.G. Barr.
Barr tends to shadow Durham.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
“…..will finally answer whether the 2017
intelligence community assessment was rigged to hurt Trump” Ha, ha! My dog “Sam” just told me that, yes, it was rigged against Trump. So, I guess Durham and friends can pack it in and go on to the next fiasco, er, investigation.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
The only problem, santashelper, is that your dog Sam has FAR more integrity and honesty than Durham.
3 years ago
Brennan is so mad in that picture, it makes it appear that was taken when this news was released.
3 years ago
Reply to
The Rodeo Clown
He has the permanent look of someone who is deeply angry for no discernable reason.
3 years ago
No intelligent person is surprised at that news.
3 years ago
Reply to
The Rodeo Clown
“This message was paid for by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign. with contributions from Chinese surrogates.”
3 years ago
No Mr. Obozo “Climate Change Hysteria” is not the biggest threat to the USA! Your Anti-American DNC-MSM Resistors & Intel Deep State Spooks like this MSNBC POS that you installed & supported to spy on & overthrow the POTUS are the real threat to our Republic & the reason we are in the mess we are now! #walkaway from the Leftist Loons & Control Freak Elitists that not only want to suspend the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Right but to take your freedom of choice, your body & your very soul! Vote them all out in Nov.2020! MAGA!
3 years ago
Reply to
Pat Henry's Ghost
Kim Kardashian is more interesting than Global warming Google Trends tracks online searches for any topic since 2004. A comparison between the search terms “Kim Kardashian” and “Global Warming” for the last 10 years, shows Kim Kardashian vastly outnumbering Global warming for every consecutive year. And the searches have declined every year. People just don’t care about it anymore.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2010-04-01%202020-04-09&q=Kim%20Kardashian,Global%20warming,Killer%20bees,Acid%20rain
Kim Kardashian also wipes the floor with ‘Acid rain’, and ‘Killer bees’.
3 years ago
the only indication we will have that the gig is up is if soreass invests in trees and rope factories
3 years ago
What is truly disconcerting after reading Pamela Geller’s report citing Stanford Professor’s who claim the statistics do not support the notion the Corona virus or Wuchon Flu warrants being treated any more seriously than any seasonal flu the sa fact is people die in the tens of thousands every year from the flu. So the question has to be how did we get to where we are? I suspect our hospitals and clinic are over taxed because they no better document undocumented migrants who are in the USA as a public school I substitute taught in ten years ago. In some of my classes 10% of the “students” 7th and 8th grade did not speak English and did not appear on the attendance roster nor was I supposed to write them in. It is one issue to have compassion for the needy legal or illegal, even some compassion for hard criminals in those categories, its another thing to have system that requires public servants to lie as to the numbers and amount of resources being devoted to them as if that would be a bad thing to know what the facts are. I just received a flash that Governor Cuomo no longer requires the presence of the US hospital Ship in NYC? It reminds me of an old joke about a politician who spoke at a reservation to get tribal members to vote for him, after every pause they would chant “Hoya” at the top of their lungs. He thought it was applause but as he was leaving a tribal elder steered him around a pile of canine waste and said, “Don;t step in the Hoya”.
3 years ago
Proof again that B.O. was never eligible to run for POTUS.
3 years ago
Wait! What! He did?!?! Gee, I’m so surprised.
3 years ago
Over the last 2 years, I have forgotten how horrendous and perverse the Obamallah administration was – all the things they did, and how horrible it was to read the (real) news during that time. Whenever I read a story about them, it was painful for me to observe how basically every one of his White House operatives was a seething, America hating goon – how every one of his cliqué was like a 50 or 60-something (or OLDER) malcontent, who had the puny, stunted, twisted “brains” and personalities of insane left-wing college students or teenagers.
Do you know why I forgot? Cause I was busy being disappointed that nothing seems to have changed re: the global Pisslam situation – Trump has not done any kind of war on radical Islam. The travel ban didn’t help us poor schmucks here in Europe, did it? Damn you Trump, apologise for any time you ever mindlessly insulted or dissed Pamela, and let Tommy Robinson into the USA for fú_ck’s sake.
3 years ago
Reply to
Sewer Maintenance
All Trump can do is LIMIT them from coming in here. He can’t say, NO MUSLIMS allowed UNLESS someone more neutral highlights what Islam is. Ms. Geller has been smeared and unfortunately isn’t given the credibility she deserves. She is viewed like Tommy Robinson.
I don’t know if you are aware of this but in D.C. many representatives have tried to form a committee to “explore Islam” to see what they problem is. Each time it is shot down. This was pre Omar and Tlaib time.
Trump can’t just BAN a “religion”.We have freedom of religion here! What Trump can do and has done is slow down the taking of Muslims into our country and favor Christians and others who are truly being persecuted by Muslims.
You might want to ask yourself why people like phony Ted Cruz are not making an issue out of Islam? He knows what Islam is and so does Rubio in a sober moment. THIS is where the SUPPORT for banning Islam should come from because Trump alone can not do it.
3 years ago
Over the last 2 years, I have forgotten how horrendous and perverse the Obamallah administration was – all the things they did, and how horrible it was to read the (real) news during that time. Whenever I read a story about them, it was painful for me to observe how basically every one of his White House operatives was a seething, America hating goon – how every one of his cliqué was like a 50 or 60-something (or OLDER) malcontent, who had the puny, stunted, twisted “brains” and personalities of insane left-wing college students or teenagers.
Do you know why I forgot? Cause I was busy being disappointed that nothing seems to have changed re: the global Pisslam situation – Trump has not done any kind of war on radical Islam. The travel ban didn’t help us poor schmucks here in Europe, did it? Damn you Trump, apologise for any time you ever mindlessly insulted or dissed Pamela, and let Tommy Robinson into the USA for fú_ck’s sake.
3 years ago
Over the last 2 years, I have forgotten how horrendous and perverse the Obamallah administration was – all the things they did, and how horrible it was to read the (real) news during that time. Whenever I read a story about them, it was painful for me to observe how basically every one of his White House operatives was a seething, America hating goon – how every one of his cliqué was like a 50 or 60-something (or OLDER) malcontent, who had the puny, stunted, twisted “brains” and personalities of insane left-wing college students or teenagers.
Do you know why I forgot? Cause I was busy being disappointed that nothing seems to have changed re: the global Pisslam situation – Trump has not done any kind of war on radical Islam. The travel ban didn’t help us poor schmucks here in Europe, did it? Damn you Trump, apologise for any time you ever mindlessly insulted or dissed Pamela, and let Tommy Robinson into the USA for fú_ck’s sake.
3 years ago
Lest we forget, John Brennan once voted for the Communist Party presidential candidate. Maybe he’s not just deep state, but a Soviet agent. That would explain a lot.
3 years ago
Reply to
pfwag
I think you are onto something. The Soviet Union fell in 1995 and he’s still angry he’s not getting his monthly stipend for spying.
3 years ago
What can you say? He has that Neanderthal low brow demeanor, is married to a raghead, and worked for the Halfrican.
Strike three!
3 years ago
Brennan has a face full of hatred and evil.
3 years ago
Reply to
Martina Vaslovik
Remember that one press officer Trump had who chewed gum all the time. Can’t remember his name, it’s not important. The media called him “crazy” but never said anything about this absolute clown.
3 years ago
Criminal syndicate.
3 years ago
Brennan is as ugly inside as he looks on the outside.
3 years ago
John Brennan looks like he eats manure. just look at his face in this Geller article.
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/jbrennan_.jpg
Probably one of the turds who told Obama that ISIS was the “JV Team”. keep those borders open Obama and Merkel to refugees while ISIS infiltrated them.
3 years ago
Brennen is Durham’s top target. He knows where the skeletons are buried. Bet his life insurance is paid up. The Arkanciders are lurking in the background.
3 years ago
There is zero reason why this Boso is not in Prison or better in GITMO.
3 years ago
Brennan knows too much. I’m surprised he has not been Arkancided. Probably has an “insurance policy” buried somewhere to be released on his demise.
3 years ago
The Senate Intel Committee unanimously concluded that this guy is wrong.
3 years ago
America’s faith in our law and intelligence agencies will not be restored until the likes of Brennen are behind bars where they belong!
