Obama Conspirators Threatened Whistleblower Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated Russia Hoax Intel Assessment

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a whistleblower’s account detailing the pressure an Obama-era intelligence official applied on a subordinate to get them to sign off on an assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.

“I was pressured to alter my views,” the senior intelligence analyst-turned-whistleblower claimed in documents Gabbard used as evidence in her bombshell report earlier this month, detailing the “treasonous conspiracy” Obama officials engaged in “to subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory.”

All made possible by a complicit media.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard just said that Operation Mockingbird never ended and that it’s still in fully operational.

Operation Mockingbird is a covert CIA program, active from the late 1970s to today, aimed at influencing and infiltrating U.S. media to shape public opinion in favor of the agency’s demonic objectives.

Declassified documents, particularly from the 1975 Church Committee investigations, reveal the CIA’s efforts to recruit journalists, editors, and media executives, placing them on payroll and ordering them to publish agency-approved false narratives. The operation involved major outlets like MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS, Time Magazine, and countless others, with estimates of tens of thousands of journalists involved.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard just said that Operation Mockingbird never ended and that it’s still in fully operational.

Operation Mockingbird is a covert CIA program, active from the late 1970s to today, aimed at influencing and infiltrating U.S. media to shape public opinion in favor of the agency’s demonic objectives.

Declassified documents, particularly from the 1975 Church Committee investigations, reveal the CIA’s efforts to recruit journalists, editors, and media executives, placing them on payroll and ordering them to publish agency-approved false narratives. The operation involved major outlets like MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS, Time Magazine, and countless others, with estimates of tens of thousands of journalists involved.

SCARY: Tulsi Gabbard CONFIRMS That ‘Operation Mockingbird’ is STILL Ongoing inside the CIA and she is actively trying to Shut it Down.

Tulsi says Deep State intel agents are still actively colluding with left-wing media outlets to attack President Trump from within:

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 31, 2025

🚨Update: Operation Mockingbird is a covert CIA program, active from the late 1970s to today, aimed at influencing and infiltrating U.S. media to shape public opinion in favor of the agency’s demonic objectives.

Declassified documents, particularly from the 1975 Church… https://t.co/rdLWrYSkjA

— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) July 31, 2025

NEW: Whistleblower reveals how they were threatened by a supervisor to go along with the Obama-directed Russia hoax “intelligence” assessment, even though they knew it was not credible or accurate. The Whistleblower refused.

Yesterday we released the Whistleblower's firsthand… pic.twitter.com/Oc6mwgSmMq

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 31, 2025

Whistleblower reveals how they were threatened by a supervisor to go along with the Obama-directed Russia hoax “intelligence” assessment, even though they knew it was not credible or accurate. The Whistleblower refused.

Yesterday we released the Whistleblower’s firsthand account of what happened in the crafting of the January 2017 ICA, their yearslong efforts to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence carried out at the highest levels of government and the IC (detailed in our previous releases) and how they were repeatedly ignored.

Thank you to this courageous whistleblower, and others who are coming forward now, putting their own well-being on the line to defend our democratic republic, ensure the American people know the truth, and hold those responsible accountable.

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Read the Whistleblower’s explosive story (with emails) here.

The country was in serious trouble. Without Trump, we were going down in flames.

‘You need to TRUST ME on this,’ Clapper’s crony told the analyst, saying he ‘would need to demonstrate [his] ability to “outgrow”’ the refusal to sign off on assessments he did not concur with.

By: Margot Cleveland, The Federalist, August 2025;

A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.

The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.

The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA that outgoing President Barack Obama ordered, which falsely assessed that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election. An earlier release by the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed the senior intelligence official — whom her office identified as an ODNI whistleblower — had been charged with conducting a “scrub,” which is a review, of the intelligence in the non-compartmented ICA. Emails released last week by Gabbard show the top analyst expressing shock over the ICA’s reliance on the Steele dossier because the versions the analyst reviewed included no intel relying on the Hillary Clinton-based fairy tale of opposition research.

According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 — more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist’s source explained, occurred because the analyst’s efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC), and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections.

Those notes capture the analyst claiming in early January that his supervisor told him, “There is reporting you are not allowed to see,” adding that “if you saw it, you would agree” with the ICA. After noting he concurred “with varying confidence with most of the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgements,” the analyst explained that he “would need to review any reporting myself in order to consider it.”

“You need to TRUST ME on this,” Clapper’s crony countered, stating to the analyst he “would need to demonstrate [his] ability to ‘outgrow’” his refusal to sign off on assessments he did not share, in order to be recommended for a promotion. The analyst remained firm, according to the notes, which led his exasperated superior to reply, “I need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!”

The DIA is the Department of Defense’s “Defense Intelligence Agency,” and the notes explain that ODNI sought “to bring DIA on board as an additional IC Agency signing on to the 2017 ICA.” The ODNI whistleblower then relayed that the conversation turned to the “DIA’s supposed trust in me, and the necessity of me proving my ‘corporate IC officer’ bona-fides by doing what it took to bring DIA on board …” The analyst refused to alter his assessment, and the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) in signing off on the final non-compartmented versions of the ICA.

“I remember this conversation very clearly,” the analyst explained, stressing “it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care.” “I was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Officer’s] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft, and ethics,” the notes concluded.

In addition to withholding a promotion to pressure the analyst to change his assessment, the notes show that Clapper’s mouthpiece attempted to sway the analyst by telling him “to TRUST ME on this,” while indicating that other intel supported the ICA’s conclusions.

The notes also capture the superior asking, “Isn’t it possible Putin has something on Trump, to blackmail and coerce him?” That query sounds strikingly similar to former Director Brennan’s “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?” response to criticisms over using the Steele dossier in the ICA.

There is one inconsistency in the notes, however, with the analyst referencing Clapper, Brennan, and Comey’s briefing of the ICA to Obama, and its inclusion of the dossier, as having occurred weeks before his superior pressured him to sign off on the assessments. But the briefing to Obama about the ICA occurred on Jan. 5, and the analyst’s notes indicate his conversation with his superior occurred in early January. The notes also addressed the finalizing of the ICA, but it was already finalized at the time of the Jan. 5, 2017, briefing.

A source familiar with the notes and the whistleblower’s claims stated that the analyst based his notes on his six-year-old memory of the timing, but added that he remains confident that the DNI had claimed Comey had surprised the team by inserting a reference to the dossier in the ICA presented to Obama.

Until September of 2019, when he received a request to search for emails related to the Steele dossier in response to a FOIA request, because the “dossier was a factor in the 2017 ICA,” the analyst claims he had no idea the ODNI had relied on Steele’s reporting in the ICA. Contemporaneous emails capture those claims, which are otherwise consistent with the notes he drafted in March 2023 to memorialize his recollection of the events surrounding the final review of the ICA.