July 24, 2025 • 16 mins
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Criminal Referral and Allegations Against Obama:
- Tulsi Gabbard claims that Obama has been referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation.
- She accuses the Obama administration of manufacturing intelligence to falsely suggest Russian interference in the 2016 election to benefit Trump.
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Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA):
- Gabbard criticizes the January 2017 ICA ordered by Obama, alleging it was politically motivated and based on unreliable sources, including the discredited Steele dossier.
- Claims are made that senior intelligence officials like John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey knowingly misled the public and Congress.
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Evidence and Documents:
- Gabbard references newly declassified documents and reports from the House Intelligence Committee and Senator Chuck Grassley.
- These documents allegedly show manipulation of intelligence and suppression of contradictory evidence.
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Accusations of Treason:
- Gabbard uses the term “treasonous” to describe the actions of Obama and his team.
- She asserts that the intelligence was fabricated to launch a coup against Trump.
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Hillary Clinton’s Involvement:
- The audio claims Clinton’s campaign was in direct contact with the Obama administration to dig up dirt on Trump.
- Allegations include psychological issues and tranquilizer use, based on supposed Russian intelligence.
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Media and Public Reaction:
- Mentions pushback from Obama’s spokesperson and criticism from figures like Senator Mark Warner.
- Emphasizes the importance of public awareness and sharing the information.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbert, has unveiled shocking new
evidence that former President Barack Obama, in top aids in
the Obama administration, conspired to subvert President Trump's twenty sixteen
election victory. In undermine the democratic will of the American people.
The Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence, which was later used
(00:24):
as the justification for baseless smears against President Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good Thursday morning. It is the forty seven Morning Update,
and we have shocking evidence now that there is a
former president by the name of Barack Obama who decided
to fabricate intelligence to go after and undermine not only
Donald Trump when he was coming into office in twenty sixteen,
(00:53):
but also to get him out of office. Tulsi Gabbert,
the Director of National Intelligence, all of this out at
the White House Press Briefing Room and we have it
all for you. But first I want to talk to
you about starting my day. I do it every morning
with an amazing cup of Crockett coffee. If you want
(01:14):
unbelievable coffee every morning, then I got to introduce you
to Krocket Coffee and I just had my first cup
a few moments ago. I've got a cup of coffee
every moment when I'm doing this show. Crockett Coffee is
roasted perfection in small batches on purpose by experts that
love the taste of amazing coffee. It's roasted in our
nation's heartland and delivered fresh to your home or office.
(01:36):
And if you want to drink coffee every morning that
makes you feel like you're outside by a campfire, then
you gotta check out the aroma of Krocket coffee. It
brews in your home or your office and you're going
to love it. Now, this is premium coffee. If you
want an average cup of coffee, do not order Krockett coffee.
There is also one other thing I love. It is
(01:58):
owned by great concer conservatives, fellow Patriots, Buck Sexton and
Clay Travis. They came up with this idea and they're
two guys that never sell out. So if you're ready
to have a great cup of coffee, then choose between
the fresh ground, the whole bean, or the K cups.
And if you're instead of mushroom coffee and the positive
benefits that come with that, You can also check that
(02:21):
out at Crocket Coffee.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I want to save you some money right now, go
online to Crockettcoffee dot Com. Use my name Ben, You're
gonna get twenty percent off your first order. That's Crocketcoffee
dot Com. Use my name Ben, You're gonna get twenty
percent off your first order. You are going to love
your coffee every morning.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Try it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You'll be hooked just like I am. And you're gonna
go man. I love supporting great conservatives who are willing
to go out there and start new businesses for conservatives
just like you. Crockettcoffee dot Com promo code Ben, get
you twenty percent off your first order. Try it right now.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
(03:00):
Number one, it was a bombshell press conference at the
White House, Tolci Gabbard coming out and talking about this
possible criminal referral to the Department of Justice for an investigation,
and it all revolves around Russia collusion, and now it
involves a former president by the name of Barack Obama.
(03:21):
I want you to take a listen to what Tulsi
Gabbard had to say at the White House press briefing room.
She's the Director of National Intelligence, and she is now
officially hinted former President Barack Obama has in fact been
referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation. Now,
she did not address the constitutional obstacles or a prosecution,
(03:45):
but what she did do is lay out the facts. Here.
She is, in her own words at the White House podium.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Thank you very much, good afternoon. At President Trump's direction
and with the support and coordination with the House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Rick, today we've released a declassified oversight Majority
staff report that was produced in September of twenty twenty.
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
(04:14):
This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic
republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
(04:35):
knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today's shows in
great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that
(04:58):
disproved their false claim, as they disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence
community standards and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of
the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners
in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine
(05:20):
the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be
a year's long coup against him and his administration. We're
here today because the American people deserve the truth, they
deserve accountability, and they deserve justice. The records that we
released on Friday that were ODE and I records Senator
Chuck Grassley's release on Monday of what is known as
(05:42):
the Clinton Annex, which was an appendix to the Department
of Justice Office of Inspector General's twenty eighteen report, as
well as the House Intelligence Committee's Oversight Majority Oversight report.
That we're releasing today all come back to and confirm
the same report. There was a gross politicization manipulation of
intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump
(06:05):
even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of
the American people. I'm going to go over the key
findings from the House Intelligence Report, which investigated the claims
that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by
President Obama and published in January of twenty seventeen. First,
Putin's principal interests relating to the twenty sixteen election were
(06:26):
to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show
any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report
shows Putin held back leaking, held back from leaking compromising
material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning
to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow
viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency. In the January twenty
(06:50):
seventeen intelligence Community assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan,
whose CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community
intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most
damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary
Clinton until after her potential and likely victory. The report
(07:11):
goes into great detail about the information that Russia and
Putin had which on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal
acts like secret meetings with multiple named US religious organizations
in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting
Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing
(07:33):
from the State Department. They also had documents that showed
the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees
who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There
were high level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's
quote psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,
(07:53):
and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily
regiment of heavy tranquilizers. THEIA director Brennan and the intelligence
community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious, substandard sources to
create a contrived, false narrative that Putin developed a quote
unquote clear preference for Trump. Brennan and the ICEE misled
lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele dossier to assess quote
(08:17):
unquote Russia's plans and intentions. Falsely suggesting that this dossier
had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited.
The Intelligence community excluded significant intelligence and ignored or selectively
quoted reliable intelligence that contradicted the Intelligence community assessment's key
findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump. Including this intelligence
(08:40):
reporting would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if
not ridiculous. The Intelligence Community assessment omitted reliably sourced information,
such as how some Russian intelligence officials were quote unquote
planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither
Trump nor Clinton would respect Russia's interests, as was reflected
(09:02):
in the od and I documents that we released on Friday.
Multiple intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up
to the November twenty sixteen election concluded that Russia had
neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of
the US election. On December fifth of twenty sixteen, the
FBI and ODIE and I gave the House Intelligence Committee
its first post election classified briefing, in which there was
(09:25):
no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency.
The Presidential Daily Brief drafted on December eighth of twenty
sixteen stated that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts.
This document was pulled just hours before it was to
be published due to quote unquote new guidance. If it
had been published, it would have been briefed to both
(09:47):
President Obama and President elect Donald Trump. On December ninth,
twenty sixteen, a National Security Council meeting was called to
gather President Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA
Director Brennan, then Obama, d and I, James Clapper, Susan Rice,
and others. Following that secret meeting, DNI, Clapper's assistant sent
an email to the intelligence community with the subject line
(10:09):
potus tasking on Russia election medaling, tasking OD and I
leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request.
The House Intelligence Committee oversite report that we released today
reveals that, quote unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the Intelligence
Community assessment was a high profile product ordered by the
President President Obama. It directed senior Intelligence community agency heads
(10:34):
and created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five
analysts using one principal drafter. This is not something that
occurs in the normal path of producing an Intelligence Community
assessment that reflects the views across the intelligence community. The
production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual
(10:56):
directives directly from the President and senior political appointee, especially
the former Director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House
Intelligence Committee oversite report also shows how later that same day,
on December ninth, Brennan ordered the publication of quote unquote
substandard reporting on Russian activities. Some of the information later
used in the Obama ordered assessment, over the objections of
(11:20):
veteran CIA officers, was quote unquote unclear or from unknown sources.
The Intelligence Committee's oversite report reveals that CIA Director Brennan
overruled senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama ordered intelligence assessment, stating, quote,
we don't have direct information that Putin wanted to get
Trump elected. Yet the Obama directed assessment was published on
(11:44):
January sixth, twenty seventeen, which explicitly stated, quote, we assess
Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President elect
Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and
publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. Quote. The CIA and FBI,
then led by John Brennan and James Comy expressed high
(12:06):
confidence in this judgment, while the NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet,
as the report we released today shows, the ICA the
Intelligence Community Assessment did not cite any report where Putin
indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is
true with regards to the Steele dossier. We now know
(12:26):
that one of the source documents that the Obama administration
used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January
of twenty seventeen was none other than the discredited, unverified
Steele dossier. The House Intel report states, quote, contradicting public
claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the dossier was
not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The
(12:49):
dossier was referenced in the intelligence assessment's main body text
and further detailed in a two page assessment annex. John
Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this
intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered because he knew it
was discredited, it was a politically motivated, manufactured document. He
directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway. CIA officer
(13:14):
told the House Intelligence Committee staff as they investigated this quote,
the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove it, and,
when confronted with the dossier's many flaws, responded, quote, yes,
but doesn't it ring true? Even the bipartisan Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence report published in twenty twenty, criticized the
(13:35):
FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, noting its completely unverified
nature and purposeful side stepping of intelligence community procedures in
its use. Now President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper,
James Cobe, and others, including their mouthpieces in the media,
knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was
(13:56):
created in this January twenty seventeen intelligence Community assessment with
high confidence, as though it were fact. John Brennan, as
CIA Director, stated in a memo to his agency staff
in December of twenty sixteen, saying quote, there is strong
consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of
Russian interference in our presidential elected election. This was reported
(14:20):
by NBC News confirming that Brennan, along with James Clapper
and James Comey, agreed with the CIA's assessment that Russia
intervened to help Trump win the presidency. As Obama's Director
of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was tasked with overseeing the
creation of this assessment in January of twenty seventeen by
President Obama, and he expressed confidence in its findings. In
(14:42):
a twenty eighteen interview with the Harvard Gazette, he talked
about how he provided Trump with the same classified assessment
that President Obama received, which included the high confidence judgment
that putin directly ordered the hacking and election interference. Clapper
then went on to add, I think they the right
Oshans actually influenced the outcome. This is a brief summary
(15:03):
of the details that you'll find within the House Majority
Staff's report in their investigation into the Obama directed January
twenty seventeen Intelligence community assessment that leads us to the
very same conclusion that we announced in the release of
our documents on Friday. The implications of this are far
reaching and have to do with the integrity of our
(15:25):
democratic republic. It has to do with an outgoing president
taking action to manufacture intelligence to undermine and usurp the
will of the American people in that election and launch
what would be a year's long coup against the incoming president.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Election This is shocking but also not surprising based on
what we know about what the left has done to
try to take out Donald Trump. But we are hearing
the name of Barack Obama and exactly what he was
trying to do. And if you look at the shocking
main points here, the Director our National Intelligence is accusing
(16:01):
the former president Barack Obama and his team of a
treasonous conspiracy, saying that they clearly manufactured intelligence assessments accusing
Russia of aiding Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and intentionally,
as she described it, intentionally was the word that she
(16:21):
used to mislead the American people.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbert, has unveiled shocking new
evidence that former President Barack Obama, in top aids in
the Obama administration, conspired to subvert President Trump's twenty sixteen
election victory. In undermine the democratic will of the American people.
The Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence, which was later used
(00:24):
as the justification for baseless smears against President Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good Thursday morning. It is the forty seven Morning Update,
and we have shocking evidence now that there is a
former president by the name of Barack Obama who decided
to fabricate intelligence to go after and undermine not only
Donald Trump when he was coming into office in twenty sixteen,
(00:53):
but also to get him out of office. Tulsi Gabbert,
the Director of National Intelligence, all of this out at
the White House Press Briefing Room and we have it
all for you. But first I want to talk to
you about starting my day. I do it every morning
with an amazing cup of Crockett coffee. If you want
(01:14):
unbelievable coffee every morning, then I got to introduce you
to Krocket Coffee and I just had my first cup
a few moments ago. I've got a cup of coffee
every moment when I'm doing this show. Crockett Coffee is
roasted perfection in small batches on purpose by experts that
love the taste of amazing coffee. It's roasted in our
nation's heartland and delivered fresh to your home or office.
(01:36):
And if you want to drink coffee every morning that
makes you feel like you're outside by a campfire, then
you gotta check out the aroma of Krocket coffee. It
brews in your home or your office and you're going
to love it. Now, this is premium coffee. If you
want an average cup of coffee, do not order Krockett coffee.
There is also one other thing I love. It is
(01:58):
owned by great concer conservatives, fellow Patriots, Buck Sexton and
Clay Travis. They came up with this idea and they're
two guys that never sell out. So if you're ready
to have a great cup of coffee, then choose between
the fresh ground, the whole bean, or the K cups.
And if you're instead of mushroom coffee and the positive
benefits that come with that, You can also check that
(02:21):
out at Crocket Coffee.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I want to save you some money right now, go
online to Crockettcoffee dot Com. Use my name Ben, You're
gonna get twenty percent off your first order. That's Crocketcoffee
dot Com. Use my name Ben, You're gonna get twenty
percent off your first order. You are going to love
your coffee every morning.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Try it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You'll be hooked just like I am. And you're gonna
go man. I love supporting great conservatives who are willing
to go out there and start new businesses for conservatives
just like you. Crockettcoffee dot Com promo code Ben, get
you twenty percent off your first order. Try it right now.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
(03:00):
Number one, it was a bombshell press conference at the
White House, Tolci Gabbard coming out and talking about this
possible criminal referral to the Department of Justice for an investigation,
and it all revolves around Russia collusion, and now it
involves a former president by the name of Barack Obama.
(03:21):
I want you to take a listen to what Tulsi
Gabbard had to say at the White House press briefing room.
She's the Director of National Intelligence, and she is now
officially hinted former President Barack Obama has in fact been
referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation. Now,
she did not address the constitutional obstacles or a prosecution,
(03:45):
but what she did do is lay out the facts. Here.
She is, in her own words at the White House podium.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Thank you very much, good afternoon. At President Trump's direction
and with the support and coordination with the House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Rick, today we've released a declassified oversight Majority
staff report that was produced in September of twenty twenty.
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
(04:14):
This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic
republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
(04:35):
knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today's shows in
great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that
(04:58):
disproved their false claim, as they disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence
community standards and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of
the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners
in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine
(05:20):
the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be
a year's long coup against him and his administration. We're
here today because the American people deserve the truth, they
deserve accountability, and they deserve justice. The records that we
released on Friday that were ODE and I records Senator
Chuck Grassley's release on Monday of what is known as
(05:42):
the Clinton Annex, which was an appendix to the Department
of Justice Office of Inspector General's twenty eighteen report, as
well as the House Intelligence Committee's Oversight Majority Oversight report.
That we're releasing today all come back to and confirm
the same report. There was a gross politicization manipulation of
intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump
(06:05):
even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of
the American people. I'm going to go over the key
findings from the House Intelligence Report, which investigated the claims
that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by
President Obama and published in January of twenty seventeen. First,
Putin's principal interests relating to the twenty sixteen election were
(06:26):
to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show
any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report
shows Putin held back leaking, held back from leaking compromising
material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning
to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow
viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency. In the January twenty
(06:50):
seventeen intelligence Community assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan,
whose CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community
intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most
damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary
Clinton until after her potential and likely victory. The report
(07:11):
goes into great detail about the information that Russia and
Putin had which on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal
acts like secret meetings with multiple named US religious organizations
in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting
Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing
(07:33):
from the State Department. They also had documents that showed
the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees
who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There
were high level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's
quote psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,
(07:53):
and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily
regiment of heavy tranquilizers. THEIA director Brennan and the intelligence
community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious, substandard sources to
create a contrived, false narrative that Putin developed a quote
unquote clear preference for Trump. Brennan and the ICEE misled
lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele dossier to assess quote
(08:17):
unquote Russia's plans and intentions. Falsely suggesting that this dossier
had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited.
The Intelligence community excluded significant intelligence and ignored or selectively
quoted reliable intelligence that contradicted the Intelligence community assessment's key
findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump. Including this intelligence
(08:40):
reporting would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if
not ridiculous. The Intelligence Community assessment omitted reliably sourced information,
such as how some Russian intelligence officials were quote unquote
planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither
Trump nor Clinton would respect Russia's interests, as was reflected
(09:02):
in the od and I documents that we released on Friday.
Multiple intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up
to the November twenty sixteen election concluded that Russia had
neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of
the US election. On December fifth of twenty sixteen, the
FBI and ODIE and I gave the House Intelligence Committee
its first post election classified briefing, in which there was
(09:25):
no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency.
The Presidential Daily Brief drafted on December eighth of twenty
sixteen stated that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts.
This document was pulled just hours before it was to
be published due to quote unquote new guidance. If it
had been published, it would have been briefed to both
(09:47):
President Obama and President elect Donald Trump. On December ninth,
twenty sixteen, a National Security Council meeting was called to
gather President Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA
Director Brennan, then Obama, d and I, James Clapper, Susan Rice,
and others. Following that secret meeting, DNI, Clapper's assistant sent
an email to the intelligence community with the subject line
(10:09):
potus tasking on Russia election medaling, tasking OD and I
leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request.
The House Intelligence Committee oversite report that we released today
reveals that, quote unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the Intelligence
Community assessment was a high profile product ordered by the
President President Obama. It directed senior Intelligence community agency heads
(10:34):
and created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five
analysts using one principal drafter. This is not something that
occurs in the normal path of producing an Intelligence Community
assessment that reflects the views across the intelligence community. The
production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual
(10:56):
directives directly from the President and senior political appointee, especially
the former Director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House
Intelligence Committee oversite report also shows how later that same day,
on December ninth, Brennan ordered the publication of quote unquote
substandard reporting on Russian activities. Some of the information later
used in the Obama ordered assessment, over the objections of
(11:20):
veteran CIA officers, was quote unquote unclear or from unknown sources.
The Intelligence Committee's oversite report reveals that CIA Director Brennan
overruled senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama ordered intelligence assessment, stating, quote,
we don't have direct information that Putin wanted to get
Trump elected. Yet the Obama directed assessment was published on
(11:44):
January sixth, twenty seventeen, which explicitly stated, quote, we assess
Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President elect
Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and
publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. Quote. The CIA and FBI,
then led by John Brennan and James Comy expressed high
(12:06):
confidence in this judgment, while the NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet,
as the report we released today shows, the ICA the
Intelligence Community Assessment did not cite any report where Putin
indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is
true with regards to the Steele dossier. We now know
(12:26):
that one of the source documents that the Obama administration
used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January
of twenty seventeen was none other than the discredited, unverified
Steele dossier. The House Intel report states, quote, contradicting public
claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the dossier was
not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The
(12:49):
dossier was referenced in the intelligence assessment's main body text
and further detailed in a two page assessment annex. John
Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this
intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered because he knew it
was discredited, it was a politically motivated, manufactured document. He
directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway. CIA officer
(13:14):
told the House Intelligence Committee staff as they investigated this quote,
the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove it, and,
when confronted with the dossier's many flaws, responded, quote, yes,
but doesn't it ring true? Even the bipartisan Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence report published in twenty twenty, criticized the
(13:35):
FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, noting its completely unverified
nature and purposeful side stepping of intelligence community procedures in
its use. Now President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper,
James Cobe, and others, including their mouthpieces in the media,
knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was
(13:56):
created in this January twenty seventeen intelligence Community assessment with
high confidence, as though it were fact. John Brennan, as
CIA Director, stated in a memo to his agency staff
in December of twenty sixteen, saying quote, there is strong
consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of
Russian interference in our presidential elected election. This was reported
(14:20):
by NBC News confirming that Brennan, along with James Clapper
and James Comey, agreed with the CIA's assessment that Russia
intervened to help Trump win the presidency. As Obama's Director
of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was tasked with overseeing the
creation of this assessment in January of twenty seventeen by
President Obama, and he expressed confidence in its findings. In
(14:42):
a twenty eighteen interview with the Harvard Gazette, he talked
about how he provided Trump with the same classified assessment
that President Obama received, which included the high confidence judgment
that putin directly ordered the hacking and election interference. Clapper
then went on to add, I think they the right
Oshans actually influenced the outcome. This is a brief summary
(15:03):
of the details that you'll find within the House Majority
Staff's report in their investigation into the Obama directed January
twenty seventeen Intelligence community assessment that leads us to the
very same conclusion that we announced in the release of
our documents on Friday. The implications of this are far
reaching and have to do with the integrity of our
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democratic republic. It has to do with an outgoing president
taking action to manufacture intelligence to undermine and usurp the
will of the American people in that election and launch
what would be a year's long coup against the incoming president.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Election This is shocking but also not surprising based on
what we know about what the left has done to
try to take out Donald Trump. But we are hearing
the name of Barack Obama and exactly what he was
trying to do. And if you look at the shocking
main points here, the Director our National Intelligence is accusing
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the former president Barack Obama and his team of a
treasonous conspiracy, saying that they clearly manufactured intelligence assessments accusing
Russia of aiding Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and intentionally,
as she described it, intentionally was the word that she
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used to mislead the American people.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
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