Holy moly.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just declassified documents showing that the Obama administration knew the allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to cause Hillary Clinton to lose was a lie, as was the narrative that Trump was an agent of Russia.
Document 1:
This document was prepared in 2016 for former president Barack Obama.
The full text (at least the unredacted part):
For the President
8 December 2016
Cyber Manipulation Of US Election Infrastructure To Remain A Challenge
We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.
Russian Government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states.
Election monitoring and the type of systems targeted - infrastructure not used to cast or count votes-make it highly unlikely it would have resulted in altering any state's official vote result. Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes. New election technology in the future that decreases diversity in systems and expands computer-enabled functions provides additional avenues to manipulate votes, but it will remain a significant challenge to sway elections through cyber means.
• Possible Russian Government-affiliated cyber actors extracted voter data, mostly containing names and addresses of voters, from Illinois's Board of Elections registration database in July that lacked adequate security safeguards. We also observed scanning and similar efforts against Secretary of State systems and websites in up to 20 more states from servers operated by a Russian-owned company with ties to Russian military cyber actors-the same infrastructure used against Illinois
Document 2:
From a Homeland Security official about its join analysis with the CIA: "There is no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means."
From the FBI: "We have definitive information that Russia does not intend to disrupt our elections and we are uncomfortable making that assessment at this point."
More from Gabbard herself:
Gabbard says that the DHS, CIA, and FBI analysis were ignored by the Obama admin. Top-level members of his administration met the following day and Obama directly ordered them to fabricate a narrative (!!), according to her.
This was then leaked to the media, which gladly took up Obama's cause:
More:
On January 6, 2017, just days before President Trump took office, DNI Clapper unveiled the Obama-directed politicized assessment, a gross weaponization of intelligence that laid the groundwork for a years-long coup intended to subvert President Trump's entire presidency. According to whistleblower emails shared with us today, we know Clapper and [CIA Director John] Brennan used the baseless discredited Steele Dossier as a source to push this false narrative in the intelligence assessment.
Former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan are now under investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Gabbard's final assessment?
Remind me who the traitors to "democracy" are again?
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