Deep State Buried Evidence Russia Did Not Want Trump To Beat Hillary In 2016

Senior intelligence community officials suppressed evidence contradicting the finding that Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to a long-buried congressional probe Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified Wednesday.

The 46-page report had for years been locked away at Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, with the intelligence community not permitting it to be transported to Capitol Hill until recent weeks. The House Intelligence Committee spent 2,300 hours reviewing the underlying intelligence and interviewed 20 individuals. The declassified report was first published by Fox News.

“The judgement that Putin developed a ‘clear preference for candidate Trump and ‘aspired to help his chances of victory’ did not adhere to the tenets of the ICD (Intelligence Community Directive) analytical standards,” the report reads.

Reliable intelligence challenged and undermined the premise of a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) directed by President Barack Obama concluding Russia had conspired to undermine Clinton’s chances.

The newly declassified report puts a spotlight particularly on John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director.

Brennan “ordered the post-election publication of 15 reports containing previously collected but unpublished intelligence, three of which were substandard – containing information that was unclear, of uncertain origin, potentially biased or implausible – and those became foundational sources for the ICA judgements that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton,” the report reads.

One “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of these substandard reports constitutes the only classified information cited to suggest Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win,” it states.