What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?
“Obama commissioned this. There was no basis by which it had to be done [before the end of] the Obama administration. [Obama said] ‘I want this done,’ ” Ratcliffe said.
On June 28, 1973, Sen. Howard Henry Baker Jr., the leading Republican on the committee investigating the Watergate scandal surrounding President Nixon, asked the seminal question at the hearings: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
I’ll call him “Mark,” a fellow employee at the drive-dairy I worked at during high school to purchase my first van, who kept us abreast of Watergate, relentlessly told us we were watching history. He was correct, and I steadfastly have been against government corruption since Watergate and CIA involvement at that time.
Today, we are seeing a far more insidious corruption process and endangering of American peace that Watergate does not rival. The internal workings of Obama's three terms are much more corrupt and have led America to the disastrous Ukraine support while engaging us against the evil nuclear power of Putin.
Miranda Devine, our Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, has done democracy a great service with her investigative reporting about the corruption of Obama, adding to him being the most unconstitutionally president in American history. A bombshell new CIA review of Obama’s claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help President Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive. Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment. The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May.
The “lessons-learned review” found that, on December 6, 2016, six weeks before his presidency ended, Hussein Obama ordered the assessment, which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election.
The review questioned the exclusion of key intelligence agencies and said media leaks may have influenced analysts to conform to a false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion. Not surprisingly, there are many Americans who bought the media account and still maintain that Trump is Putin’s puppy.
This is a lie.
“The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline.”
The review found that Brennan, Comey’s, and Clapper’s “direct engagement in the ICA’s development was highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.”
Brennan excluded intelligence agencies, sidelined the National Intelligence Council, and forced the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier despite objections from the authors and senior CIA Russia experts. The result was to promote a false narrative that Russia secured Trump’s 2016 victory.
Obama decided ‘We’re going to screw Trump,’” said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview.
Intelligence officials declared a false assessment of Russian collusion and then classified the reality so the American voters could not see it.
Robert Mueller’s inquiry, which concluded after two years that there was no Trump-Russia collusion, stymied the first two years of President Trump’s first term.
Media leaks suggesting that the Intelligence Community had already reached definitive conclusions against Trump created the leaked narrative rather than conducting an objective analysis. American democracy’s journals of record, the Washington Post and New York Times, by December 9, 2016, reported the intelligence community had “concluded with high confidence that Russia had intervened specifically to help Trump win the election.”
This is a lie.
The Post cited an unnamed US official describing this as the IC’s “consensus view.”
The “highly compressed timeline was atypical for a formal IC assessment, which ordinarily can take months to prepare, especially for assessments of such length, complexity, and political sensitivity,” the review found. “CIA’s primary authors had less than a week to draft the assessment and less than two days to formally coordinate it with IC peers before it entered the formal review process at CIA on December 20.”
When the draft ICA was completed and sent for review to Intelligence Community “stakeholders,” the timeline was “compressed to just a handful of days during a holiday week [which] created numerous challenges …”
Obama’s “direct engagement” of agency heads, similar to Nixon’s plumbers, Brennan, Comey, and Clapper in the ICA’s development, was “highly unusual in both scope and intensity.“ This exceptional level of senior involvement likely influenced participants, altered normal review processes, and ultimately compromised analytic rigor.
The review criticizes the ICA for including the Steele dossier, a salacious and discredited opposition-research product written by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign, which claimed Russia possessed sexually compromising blackmail material on Trump.
The Russian CIA experts strongly opposed including the Dossier, asserting that it “did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards,” but Brennan insisted it be included.
The CIA’s Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) warned Brennan that including it in any form risked ‘the credibility of the entire paper.’” Brennan responded that “my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report. Brennan showed “a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness,” said the review.
Comey’s “FBI leadership made it clear that their participation in the ICA hinged on the Dossier’s inclusion and, over the next few days, repeatedly pushed to weave references to it throughout the main body of the ICA.”
Brennan himself unwittingly admits his corruption of the process, which served Obama’s interests in his memoir “Undaunted.” He revealed that he “established crucial elements of the process with the White House before NIC involvement, stating he informed them that CIA would ‘take the lead drafting the report’ and that coordination would be limited to ‘ODNI, CIA, FBI, and NSA.’ ” The actual Russian experts in the American intelligence community were excluded to promote the political narrative against President Trump. Ratcliffe said the career professionals at the CIA who conducted the review are “just appalled.”
Ratcliffe drew the comparison between the bogus ICA and the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop by 51 former intelligence officials, who falsely claimed before the 2020 election that it was Russian disinformation.
The democratic process in 2020 was interfered with by the CIA. In a close election, and only a 4.4% point difference between Trump and Biden, a greater number of American voters, if they had known about the Hunter Biden laptop, would have voted against Joe Biden.
The main polls cited show:
17% (MRC/Techno Metrica poll)
53% (among those following the story)
19.6% (when adjusted for the total sample)
4% would flip to Trump + 5% wouldn't vote + 4% third party = 13% total change
48% believe it would have changed the election outcome
If democracy had not died in darkness, President Trump would have been recognized as the winner of the 2020 election.
CIA lied to interfere with the democratic process to elect a figurehead during Obama’s Third Term, Autopen Biden; in addition, Biden was mentally incompetent according to Special Counsel Robert Hur, and research done by CNN's Jake Tapper.
Americans were rightly concerned about Biden. A September 2023 CNN poll showed that "more than half (56%) of Democrats — and nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%) said they were seriously concerned for Biden's physical and mental competence."
Obama’s politicization of intelligence and fraudulent Third Term is unprecedented in American history.
“Obama commissioned this. There was no basis by which it [intelligence review) had to be done [before the end of] the Obama administration. [Obama said] ‘I want this done,’ ” Ratcliffe said.
The subsequent fallout resulted in an incredibly wasteful amount of Autopen’s aid going to Ukraine to defeat the Russian advance. To date, the Autopen Administration has used these three mechanisms to send a total of $53.7 billion to Ukraine.
Finally, the American people were unwittingly endangered by Obama’s undemocratic actions toward President Trump, against a nuclear power, in which elites claimed a bogus Russian interference in our election process.
