BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassifies report revealing CIA had no 'direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected' in 2016

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a 2020 report regarding the 2016 election that has revealed intelligence officials under President Barack Obama did not have "direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected."

The report found that the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) titled "Russian Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election" had "failed to acknowledge that key judgements on Putin’s intentions were based on raw intelligence that did not meet tradecraft standards."

The report later added, "One scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from a single HUMINT [human source intelligence] report—published under OCIA Brennan’s December 2016 order—constitutes the only classified information cited by the ICA for the judgment that Putin 'aspired to help Trump’s chances of victory when possible."

The ICA "did not cite any report where Putin directly indicated helping Trump win was the objective. That judgment rests on a questionable interpretation of this one unclear fragment of a sentence."

The fragment referenced stated, "Putin had made this decision [to leak DNC emails] after he had come to believe that the Democratic nominee had better odds of winning the US presidential election, and that [candidate Trump], whose victory Putin was counting on, most likely would not be able to pull off a convincing victory."

One senior CIA operations officer said of the fragment, "we don’t know what was meant by that," and that "five people read it five ways." Another senior CIA operations officer said, along with another senior colleague, they had argued to the director of the CIA that "we don’t have direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected."

"A senior CIA operations officer described concerns about relying upon unclear reporting as the only evidence for the significant judgment that Putin 'aspired' to help Trump," the report stated. 

"Unlike routine IC analysis, the ICA was a high-profile product ordered by the President, directed by senior IC agency heads, and created by just five CIA analysts, using one principal drafter," the report stated. "Production of the ICA was subject to unusual directives from the President and senior political appointees, and particularly DCIA. The draft was not properly coordinated within CIA or the IC, ensuring it would be published without significant challenges to its conclusions."

Gabbard wrote, "Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept's June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex" released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump."

The ICA also included a summary of the Steele dossier, of which the report stated, "The dossier's most significant claims-that Russia launched cyber activities to leak political emails-were little more than a regurgitation of stories previously published by multiple media outlets prior to the creation of the dossier."

"Contradicting public claims by the DCIA that the dossier 'was not in any way’ incorporated into the ICA, the dossier was referenced in the ICA main body text, and further detailed in a two-page ICA annex."

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