[Hot Air] Real Clear Investigations has a story up today which sheds some light on Former CIA Director John Brennan and the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which he helped produce. Specifically, it reveals that Brennan’s claims that the dossier was not used in the creation of the ICA appear to be false. Also, Brennan hand-selected the authors of the assessment including anti-Trump partisan Peter Strzok. In case you’ve forgotten some of the details, the January 2017 ICA reached this conclusion about the goals of Russian interference in the 2016 election:
There’s no way Brennan could have missed an appendix to the ICA, so why did he tell the House Intelligence Community the dossier was, "not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community’s assessment?" The fact that he has become an outspoken anti-Trump presence on Twitter certainly doesn’t help his case that he was always acting as a non-partisan professional.
The story goes on to point out that when it came to the writing of the ICA, DNI James Clapper "limited input to a couple dozen chosen analysts from just three agencies ‐ the CIA, NSA and FBI." Why would he do that instead of letting all 17 intel agencies weigh in on it? Fred Fleitz a former CIA analyst who worked for the agency for 19 years believes Clapper wanted to skew the results: |