Declassified: Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence to Push Fake Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative

The Obama administration's top officials have been accused of committing a "treasonous conspiracy" by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe. According to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, senior officials in former President Barack Obama's National Security Council (NSC) played a crucial role in shaping this false narrative.

Announcing that "Americans will finally learn the truth" about shady actions taken by Obama's NSC officials, Gabbard dropped damning documents that revealed how they laid the groundwork for "what was essentially a years-long coup" against President Donald Trump. Despite the intelligence community's consensus that Russia "lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections" prior to Trump's 2016 win over Hillary Clinton, Obama's officials changed their tune soon after the president won, ignoring the evidence.

A Critical Shift in Intelligence Assessment

On December 8, 2016, a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) was declassified that showed how intelligence officials reassessed their views on Russian interference in the U.S. election. The briefing stated: "We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure." This assessment contradicted previous intelligence assessments, which had concluded that Russia's attempts to influence the election were unsuccessful.

The PDB also noted that "Russian Government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states." However, intelligence officials said that election monitoring combined with the fact that neither vote-counting nor -casting infrastructures were harmed made it "highly unlikely" that any results were altered. The briefing also stated that "criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes."

A Politicized Intelligence Community

Recently-uncovered communications revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) moved to "push back publication" of the PDB, citing "some new guidance." This came just days after Clapper's December 7 talking points stated: "Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome."

Declassified communications from the FBI stated that the PDB "should not go forward" until the bureau had shared its "concerns" and drafted a "dissent." On the day the PDB was supposed to be published, NSC officials including Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and others, met in the White House Situation Room to discuss Russia. The meeting's subject line stated: "Summary of Conclusions for PC Meeting on a Sensitive Topic (REDACTED.)"

A Conspiracy Uncovered

Declassified meeting records showed that principals "agreed to recommend sanctioning of certain members of the Russian military intelligence and foreign intelligence chains of command responsible for cyber operations as a response to cyber activity that attempted to influence or interfere with U.S. elections, if such activity meets the requirements" from a 2015 executive order Obama related to "Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities."

Following the meeting, Clapper's assistant emailed intelligence leaders telling them to create a new assessment "per the president's request," detailing the "tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election." "ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS," the documents state. The original PDB was "never published," Gabbard said.

A Treasonous Conspiracy Unveiled

In an even more alarming twist, she found that Obama officials "immediately leaned on their allies in the media to advance their falsehoods," with anonymous sources within the intelligence community leaking classified information to the Washington Post, claiming that Russia had intervened in the election to help Trump. By January 6, 2017, a new assessment that "directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months" was released, according to Gabbard's ODNI.

"These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people and try to usurp the President from fulfilling his mandate," Gabbard wrote on X: "This betrayal concerns every American." She continued, "The integrity of our democratic republic demands that every person involved be investigated and brought to justice to prevent this from ever happening again."

A Call for Accountability

Gabbard announced that she is providing all of the documents to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to "deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve." ODNI officials told Fox News this Friday that the intelligence was "politicized," and then "used as the basis for countless smears seeking to delegitimize President Trump's victory, the years-long Mueller investigation, two Congressional impeachments, high level officials being investigated, arrested, and thrown in jail, heightened US-Russia tensions, and more."

Gabbard told the outlet that this "is not a partisan issue," reiterating that it "concerns every American." "No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again," she said. "The American people's faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it."