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Clapper Pressured NSA Chief To Sign
Onto Erroneous Russia Intel Assessment

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Posted By: FlyRight, 8/16/2025 3:42:30 AM

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper pressured a fellow intel community chief to sign onto a fabricated intelligence assessment that pushed the baseless claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, according to declassified documents released Wednesday. Published by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, the bombshell Dec. 22, 2016, emails further demonstrate how former President Obama and his intel chiefs weaponized a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to launch the infamous Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Declassified documents previously released by Gabbard showed how the ICA’s “key judgement” that Russia’s 2016 interference was designed “to help President-elect Trump’s election chances” was based on weak and uncorroborated intel —

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog 8/16/2025 5:06:20 AM (No. 1991132)
And by erroneous we mean fraudulent.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Strike3 8/16/2025 6:44:05 AM (No. 1991152)
Clapper, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, let's get them all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Hazymac 8/16/2025 6:48:53 AM (No. 1991155)
Well, then, Clapper needs to go to prison.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: billa57 8/16/2025 7:02:32 AM (No. 1991160)
Wrong on so many levels and a betrayal of the American people. Starting to feel like they should get the same treatment as Lincoln's conspirators got.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: BarryNo 8/16/2025 7:28:10 AM (No. 1991174)
"Erroneous"? You mean "Falsified"! "Manufactured"! and "Deceitful" !
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 8/16/2025 8:03:44 AM (No. 1991192)
Poor, poor NSA chief. He had no options, you know, like having a press conference and resigning under protest. But then, he may have had cause to fear Arkancide.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: felixcat 8/16/2025 8:45:06 AM (No. 1991213)
Okay, misuse/abuse of federal agencies while in their office capacity to conduct Unofficial vendettas against a duly elected President - c'mon DOJ....
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Zigrid 8/16/2025 10:03:57 AM (No. 1991244)
If WE look at this whole coup to get President Trump out of the White House ...the players are vicious and twisted people who liked controlling Washington DC and were not about to give the reins to an outsider...no matter how much the American people wanted him....I'm glad Tulsi and Kash are working on this...WE need a dedicated President Trump staff to leave no "burn bad" hidden....WE the people deserve all the news...even if it's bad....
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Reply 9 - Posted by: jasmine 8/16/2025 11:50:22 AM (No. 1991292)
Such irony! It was important during Russia Gate to get General Michael Flynn removed from his position as DNI. General Flynn was made out to be dishonest and unworthy of trust He lost his house trying to defend himself from lawfare. So unfair!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/16/2025 12:19:47 PM (No. 1991305)
Looks like Clapper gets to serve HIS prison sentence for him!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 8/16/2025 12:54:43 PM (No. 1991325)
This was a month after Rogers - a 4-star admiral - made a clandestine visit to Trump Tower to inform the President-elect that he was under surveillance by our intel community (the suspected "wire tapping" that everyone mocked). I can only assume that he put up a token resistance and then signed on to the assessment to avoid any suspicion that he, alone, was on Trump's side.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JimBob 8/16/2025 11:45:58 PM (No. 1991592)
If THIS does not 'qualify' as a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization, then what does?
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