90 Miles From Tyranny : Report: John Brennan Edited Out Intel Suggesting Russia Wanted Hillary Clinton to Win

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Report: John Brennan Edited Out Intel Suggesting Russia Wanted Hillary Clinton to Win















Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations reported Thursday that former CIA Director John Brennan edited out intelligence assessments that suggested Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election.

Sperry wrote:

Former CIA Director John Brennan personally edited a crucial section of the intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and assigned a political ally to take a lead role in writing it after career analysts disputed Brennan’s take that Russian leader Vladimir Putin intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump clinch the White House, according to two senior U.S. intelligence officials who have seen classified materials detailing Brennan’s role in drafting the document.

The Obama administration publicly released a declassified version of the report — known as the “Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections (ICA)” — just two weeks before Trump took office, casting a cloud of suspicion over his presidency.

RealClearInvestigations has learned that one of the CIA operatives who helped Brennan draft the ICA, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, financially supported Hillary Clinton during the campaign and is a close colleague of Eric Ciaramella, identified last year by RCI as the Democratic national security “whistleblower” whose complaint led to Trump’s impeachment, ending in Senate acquittal in January.

The two officials said Brennan, who openly supported Clinton during the campaign, excluded conflicting evidence about Putin’s motives from the report, despite objections from some intelligence analysts who argued Putin counted on Clinton winning the election and viewed Trump as a “wild card.”
Sperry noted that U.S. Attorney John Durham is using the ICA report in his probe of the Obama administration’s investigation of the Trump campaign for alleged “collusion” with Russia, which was later shown not to exist...

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