Tulsi Takes the Gloves Off
Documents released seem to show that Obama ordered the CIA and FBI to produce information on Russian election meddling in 2016 that everyone knew hadn't happened, starting the Russiagate hoax.
Official photo of the 8th Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard (photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence)
Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat and presidential candidate, and now Trump’s DNI, has released classified documents that seem to directly implicate former US President Barack Obama in initiating the Russiagate media hoax while he was still the sitting president.
It seems that Obama ordered CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and his DNI James Clapper to create an intelligence assessment that alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. This was despite CIA analysts believing the contrary and Clapper preparing a presidential intelligence briefing for Obama that stated that there were no “cyber attacks” on, or “cyber manipulation” of, the 2016 election by “Russian and criminal actors”. This briefing was to be delivered to the President on 8 December 2016, but was instead pulled. The next day, Obama tasked Brennan, Comey and Clapper to produce an intelligence assessment to show the opposite. This assessment became the kernel for the Russiagate hoax.
The documents Gabbard disclosed on X
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who has in the past mentioned several times that he has sources in the intelligence community, some of them close to Gabbard, because of his Twitter Files investigation, has commented on the document release by saying:
With this material, she and the rest of this team are taking on a long list of powerful predecessors, and it’s expected she’ll be made the focus of an all-out negative publicity campaign. “Will be a wild ride,” is how one source put it tonight.
More material is coming.
Like myself, Taibbi doubted the Russiagate story from the very beginning. We both immediately had our journalistic bullshit detectors go off and said this publicly. And both of us got immediately, and viciously, criticised by other colleagues in our profession. Which is why, I guess, Taibbi is now not letting go of this story. I’ll plan to do the same.
Gabbard obviously takes this whole thing personally as well. She said in her confirmation hearing as DNI that she would root out the failures in the US intelligence community and she seems to be doing exactly that. Her personal experiences as a combat medic in Iraq, enlisting after 9/11 and being horrified at the intelligence failures that let to the WMD press scandal and to millions of deaths in the Middle East in its wake, have obviously given her a strong dislike for these kinds of shenanigans.