Declassified Docs: Handwritten Notes From John Brennan, 2016 CIA Referral On Clinton’s Collusion Hoax, Obama Fully Briefed Prior

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This is incredible, made only more so by the fact that no one has been indicted.

It will happen again. But next time — vanishing point.

Imagine rogue intel and law enforcement agencies using their immense power to take down political rivals. Third World America.

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It’s the biggest, most sinister political scandal in American history.

BREAKING: DNI Declassifies Handwritten Notes From John Brennan, 2016 CIA Referral On Clinton Campaign’s Collusion Operation

On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released to Congress handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan as well as a CIA investigative referral to James Comey and Peter Strzok requesting that they investigate Russian knowledge of Hillary Clinton’s anti-Trump collusion smear operation.

By:By Sean Davis, The Federalist, October 6, 2020

Top U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned heading into the 2016 election that the Russians were aware of and potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s plans to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent that they personally briefed President Barack Obama on the matter, newly declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents show. CIA officials also requested that the FBI investigate Russian knowledge of the Clinton campaign’s collusion smear operation.

Newly declassified handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan show that the U.S. intelligence community knew in 2016 that Russian intelligence was actively monitoring, and potentially injecting disinformation into, Clinton’s anti-Trump collusion narrative. The intelligence concerning Russia’s knowledge of Clinton’s campaign plans was so concerning to Brennan and other national security officials that they personally informed Obama of the matter in the Oval Office in the summer of 2016. The handwritten notes from Brennan were declassified by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe and provided to Congress on Tuesday afternoon.

According to the declassified notes, Brennan and the U.S. intelligence community knew months prior to the 2016 election that the collusion smear was the result of a campaign operation hatched by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activites from [REDACTED],” Brennan’s handwritten notes state. “Cite alleged approval by Hillary Clinton–on 26 July–of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to villify [sic] Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”

The notes appear to have been prepared by Brennan to memorialize a meeting held at the White House with the president and his top national security advisers. Included in Brennan’s notes are the responses of other participants in the briefing — including those of former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, and former DNI James Clapper, but those responses are redacted.

At one point, Obama asked whether there was any evidence of collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia, but any response that may have been recorded in Brennan’s notes is redacted.

 

Moreover, the CIA and other intelligence agencies also suspected early on that many of the key claims underpinning the collusion narrative could themselves be the product of deliberate Russian disinformation. Last week, Ratcliffe released a declassified memo, based in part on Brennan’s notes, noting that Russian intelligence was aware of the Clinton campaign’s plan, increasing the likelihood that it would be tainted by Russian disinformation.

While the Clinton campaign hired Christopher Steele, a foreign agent in the pocket of a sanctioned Russian oligarch, to concoct a dossier of allegations against Trump, the primary source of the most salacious and damning allegations of treasonous collusion came from a suspected Russian spy named Igor Danchenko. Last month, Attorney General William Barr informed Congress that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was so concerned about Danchenko, who had been dubbed the “Primary Sub-Source” used by Clinton campaign sub-contractor Christopher Steele in his thoroughly debunked Steele dossier, that it had previously deemed him a national security threat and investigated him to determine if he was a Russian spy. The bureau called off the investigation once Danchenko left the United States and was no longer within the purview of the FBI’s domestic counterintelligence mission.

Although Democratic lawmakers have claimed, without evidence, that the latest declassifications are themselves the product of Russian disinformation, multiple senior intelligence officials told The Federalist that the CIA remains convinced that Russian intelligence sincerely believed as early as summer of 2016 that the Clinton campaign launched its anti-Trump collusion smear operation to distract from Clinton’s e-mail scandal. In October of 2017, the top lawyer for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee finally confessed publicly that he had personally hired the Democrat opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which paid Steele to peddle allegations that Trump was a secret Russian agent working on behalf of Vladimir Putin.

Ratcliffe also declassified on Tuesday portions of a formal CIA investigative referral sent on Sept. 7, 2016, to fired former FBI Director James Comey and fired former counterintelligence official Peter Strzok asking them to investigate the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump collusion smear operation in light of Russia’s knowledge of the plan and the likelihood it could be tainted by deliberate Russian disinformation. Rather than act on the CIA investigative referral in the same manner they had launched a full-blown counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, Strzok and Comey refused to initiate an investigation.

“Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date,” the memo states. “An exchange [REDACTED] discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of private e-mail server.”

The cover note of the memorandum stated that the information within was provided to the FBI “for the exclusive use of your Bureau for background, investigative action, or lead purposes, as appropriate.”

There is no evidence the FBI ever took any action to ensure that Russian knowledge of Clinton’s plans did not lead to infiltration of that campaign’s operation by Russian intelligence agents. The CIA referral, specifically its reference to a “CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell,” suggests that the Obama administration’s anti-Trump investigation may not have been limited to the FBI, but may have included the use of CIA assets and surveillance capabilities, raising troubling questions about whether the nation’s top spy service was weaponized against a U.S. political campaign.

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

NOW WE KNOW why “Big Mike” was so angry at Trump yesterday. He/she knew this was coming, and he/she knew that he/she would soon have to move to Qatar.
AND notice to men, when you go dancing, keep it from flopping around. ‘Michelle’ was not so careful on TV.
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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Good point.

ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Michael gets excited when he dances. It reminds him of when he was dancing in the gaaaay bar and Hussein walked in and got lap dances from Michael all night…..

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  ed

Yes Big Mike is an amazing example of what people can get away with if they have enough PR, money and MSM support. The Dems could run a dog for President and make it work.

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Anthony Silvio

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Trump is hammering it home tonight: Crooks should not run for President, and Biden is a crook.

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2bgreat
2bgreat
3 years ago

I need to see many many arrest and soon. Come on DOJ.

dingo
dingo
3 years ago

I can Only Guess,
Our Phoenix Presidents, administration, is gonna wait till After the Nov. 3rd Landslide.
A Parade of Indictments, with these few days left, till the Landslide.
would Likely be Counter Productive. Yes?
Either way, I feel even More Confident,
that Barry barak Hussein is gonna be introduced to the hoosegow

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  dingo

That’s the plan BUT we have rampant fraud going on in states we need.

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Gina Haspel is Muhammad Brennan’s acolyte and Smug Wray is Gestapo Mueller’s lap dog. What makes you think these conspirators are not planning conspiracy 2.0 this time around. Durham is in with them, delaying again, hoping they cheat enough to get China Joe in and cover everything up again.

This is the greatest conspiracy in world history. This makes operation Valkyrie look like amateur night. This was vast and complex, involving international participants.

We have seen only the tip of the iceberg. And this is hardly over. The swamp is getting ready for Act 3. Durham stalled it out to give them opportunity to act. Remember, Lincoln’s conspirators were caught, tried and executed within four months. Four months.

It is all for nought.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

Shame them into submission.
I hope Trump tweets the evidence.
I’m fed up with it too.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

NO REDACTIONS to hide the evidence!
Release all of it.
Taxpayers PAID for this.
We pay for their salaries, benefits, perks, expense account, sex slush fund etc..
We want our moneys worth.
Pay up with that TRANSPARENCY you always talk about.
It’s the least you can do.

patd
patd
3 years ago

Fake news… as I remember the videos of the ubumer claiming that he doesn’t know or get into what the DOJ & FBI are doing. So another lie that will go unanswered because they will never hold the moron responsible for anything.

fedup666
fedup666
3 years ago

As usual, no prosecutions as the far-left media will protect these traitors and Barr is asleep.

steve craig
steve craig
3 years ago

The swamp is being drained and it is only a matter of time or jail time for crooked Hillary and perhaps Obama.

tjke
tjke
3 years ago
Reply to  steve craig

Obama must be also indicted and jailed. He is the evil Kenyan muslim who nearly destroyed the US

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Almost sounds like iraq –

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

Time for DoJ to file indictments, before November 3.

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

TREASON – the penalty for TREASON is DEATH.
The PROOF is in hand – let JUSTICE be done.

Badger
Badger
3 years ago

If someone tells me something has been declassified I do not expects to see huge parts of the document redacted.

Joseph111
Joseph111
3 years ago

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there could be numerous videos and hundreds of witnesses to barry sotero breaking the law in broad daylight, and the left would still revere barry as a god simply because he is black
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arthur facteau
arthur facteau
3 years ago

I most certainly hope and pray that Trump can hold onto office for another 4 years. this is what really scares them the most, and why they are trying to get him out to the point of a coup attempt, he gets another 4 years, gloves off, no more playing around, he has all the evidence he needs to simply round them all up and just have them shot. Period. And they know it. He’ll do it too, most like, thinking he’s pretty pissed as this point, and don’t blame him and it’s about damn time.

DVader
DVader
3 years ago

Despite you attempt to spin this as an FBI/Clinton scandal it’s actually a Trump/Ratcliffe scandal. https://www.lawfareblog.com/john-ratcliffes-dangerous-declassification-game

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