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2020-04-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Ex-FBI officials: Obama order drove push to include Steele dossier in report on Russian interference

From a comment line post yesterday by our very own Woodrow:
[Washington Examiner] Former top FBI officials pointed to an order from President Barack Obama to explain an effort to include British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s salacious and unverified dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The new revelations were contained in the heavily redacted 158-page bipartisan report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, which concurred with the January 2017 assessment by the FBI, National Security Agency, and CIA that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential contest to help then-candidate Donald Trump and to harm former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

But also contained within the mostly blacked-out tome were new details about the effort by the FBI’s leadership to use Steele’s unproven allegations in the Russian interference assessment. The revelations are especially relevant days after declassified footnotes from a Justice Department watchdog report strongly suggested the FBI was warned in 2016 and 2017 about the possibility of Russian intelligence services compromising Steele’s work through a Kremlin disinformation campaign. Although officials stressed that Steele’s research was not used as a basis for the 2017 Russian meddling assessment, at least some of the dossier claims made their way into a still-classified, two-page annex attached to the spy community report.

The Senate report revealed the Intelligence Community Assessment began at the behest of Obama himself in early December 2016 during a meeting of the National Security Council, with the president instructing then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to prepare a comprehensive report on Russian interference. The report stated Obama "directed that the report include everything the IC knew about Russian interference in the 2016 elections."

Clapper told the committee, "I don’t think we would have mounted the effort we did, probably, to be honest, in the absence of presidential direction, because that kind of cleared the way on sharing all the accesses."

The Senate report noted that Obama asked for the intelligence assessment to cover a wide range of Russia-related topics and be completed by the end of his second term in late January 2017. The report notes, "There was no document memorializing this presidential direction."

The committee found that the information Steele gave to the FBI "was not used in the body of the ICA or to support any of its analytic judgments." However, "a summary of this material was included in Annex A as a compromise to FBI's insistence that the information was responsive to the presidential tasking." What exactly that summary says is classified.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 03:14|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Soetoro is the bottom of this, he has been all along.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 03:19|| 2020-04-23 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Zero's fingerprints are all over the garbage ICA "assessment" -- really a high school-caliber brief report on the television station RT - that was released Jan. 6, 2017. It's all of 25 pages, full of white space and even screen grabs of RT. Get that: screen grans of a fooking broadcasting network. This is the sum and substance of these shitheads' "evidence" of massive subversion of our democratic election system. A TV STATION.

The other half of the report is the repetition of the bizarre conclusion - unsupported by either logic or evidence - that Putin wanted Hillary to lose to OrangeMan.

Right: the guy who's done more than US president, ever, to pressure Russia on every front, who expanded the sanctions, who sold missile defense systems to the Poles and even Sweden, whose pressure forced the allies to increase their anti-Russian defense spending...

The fact that this "Assessment" is so retarded is the smoking gun.

Only Zero could have been stupid enough to demand such a transparently stupid, unwarranted, obviously politicized conclusion based on such ridiculously thin reeds.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-23 04:17|| 2020-04-23 04:17|| Front Page Top

#3 And now they're trying to claim it was Wascally Wusskies' dezinformatsiya to blame.

No: the disinformation came from Zero, his girl Hillary, our idiot "ICA" and their army of shitheads across cable and print media and Congress. That's the subversion campaign and the troll farm that we need to focus on.

We've listened to their retarded nonsense for nearly four f---ing years. ENOUGH.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-23 04:24|| 2020-04-23 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 While Champ was responsible as the presumptive leader and certainly this all bears the Alinsky tactics of community organizing that are his hallmarks, or not lose sight of the ValJar Rice, Brennan and islam linkages that weave into this traitorous miasma. Our government weaponized against its people for political transformation and corruption. Can even the hackneyed race card keep them from Justice?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-04-23 11:15|| 2020-04-23 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 "There was no document memorializing this presidential direction."

This alone is proof. What honest person would mount such a massive and illegal effort without a documented order? How are you going to justify hiring, expenses and payrolls? Or does it not work that way?

Posted by gorb 2020-04-23 12:26|| 2020-04-23 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sick of all this shit being "redacted", classified and blacked out. I want to know what they're hiding. The people have a right to know what their government is doing.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-23 12:27|| 2020-04-23 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe after the election. [crosses fingers]

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-23 14:43|| 2020-04-23 14:43|| Front Page Top

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