Team Obama Quietly Trying To Stop Americans From Hearing About ‘Russiagate’ Revelations

President Barack Obama’s former aides reportedly hope to conceal rapidly unfolding revelations about the apparent conspiracy between Obama and his top intelligence chiefs to pin President Donald Trump to Russia from the wider American public, according to an NBC report.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified documents in recent days revealing the spun or manufactured intelligence undergirding a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment — directed by Obama and executed by his top intelligence officials, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — concluding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to secure a win for Trump. The ICA touched off years of “Russiagate” media frenzy, in part by elevating the outlandish claims in the Steele dossier, an opposition research file funded by rival Hillary Clinton.

Gabbard said that she had made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice related to the domestic intelligence operation against the then-president-elect, which she described as a “years-long coup and treasonous conspiracy against the American public.”

Now Obama’s allies hope the American public never learns the details, according to NBC, citing anonymous sources in the former president’s camp.

“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official told the outlet.

The same former Obama aide told NBC that they are counting on “mainstream Republicans” to listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as “beyond the pale.”