Manufacturing scandals to detract from actual scandals
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This dead horse must be tired of getting exhumed:
The Trump administration pushed to unveil a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secrecy, which ended in late July when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a minimally redacted version of the report, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Gabbard, with the blessing of President Donald Trump, overrode arguments from the CIA and other intelligence agencies that more of the document should remain classified to obscure U.S. spy agencies’ sources and methods, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity, like others interviewed for this report, because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Attorney General Pam Bondi have released a slew of intelligence and law enforcement reports over the last month that they claim prove that spy agencies’ finding that Moscow intervened in the 2016 presidential contest to help Trump was a “hoax” concocted by the Obama administration.
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Obama officials, and Bondi has ordered a grand jury to potentially hear evidence in the case.
The document that Gabbard ordered released on July 23 is a 46-page report stemming from a review begun in 2017 by majority Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. It takes issue with U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding earlier that year that Russian President Vladimir Putin developed a preference for Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton and aspired to help him win the election.
Multiple independent reviews, including an exhaustive bipartisan probe by the Senate Intelligence Committee, have found that Putin intervened in part to help Trump. Two former CIA officials who led the intelligence agencies’ assessment told The Washington Post they stood by their sourcing and analysis.
The report linked in the last graf gets far less attention than the Mueller Report, but is much more important — it establishes without question that Russia materially ratfucked the 2016 election, and obviously did so in support of Trump and against Clinton. This is something you would have to be some combination of liar and moron not to see in any case. I mean, imagine thinking it’s just a coincidence that hacked emails were released at critical stages like the DNC and the Access Hollywood story, often with dishonest pro-Trump spin from Wikileaks. This has always been the real “Russiagate” no matter how many snipe hunts hacks like Tulsi set up.