DNI Gabbard declassifies House report on Russia collusion narrative

FIRST ON FOX: The intelligence group didn’t have any direct data that Russian President Vladimir Putin wished to assist elect Donald Trump through the 2016 presidential election, however, on the “uncommon” course of then-President Barack Obama, printed “doubtlessly biased” or “implausible” intelligence suggesting in any other case, the Home Intelligence Committee discovered.

Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a report ready by the Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence again in 2020.

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The report, which was based mostly on an investigation launched by former Home Intelligence Neighborhood Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was dated Sept. 18, 2020. On the time of the publication of the report, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was the chairman of the committee.

The report has by no means earlier than been launched to the general public, and as an alternative, has remained extremely categorized inside the intelligence group.

Fox Information Digital obtained the unredacted and fully-sourced limited-access investigation report that was drafted and saved in a limited-access vault at CIA Headquarters.

The committee targeted on the creation of the Intelligence Neighborhood Evaluation of 2017, during which then-CIA Director John Brennan pushed for the inclusion of the now-discredited anti-Trump file, regardless of figuring out it was based mostly largely on “web rumor,” as Fox Information Digital beforehand reported.

FILE – President Barack Obama nominates John Brennan, to be CIA director throughout an occasion within the East Room on the White Home on Jan. 7, 2013, in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson/Getty Photographs)

In line with the report, the ICA was a “high-profile product ordered by the President, directed by senior IC company heads, and created by simply 5 CIA analysts, utilizing one principal drafter.”

“Manufacturing of the ICA was topic to uncommon directives from the President and senior political appointees, and notably DCIA,” the report states. “The draft was not correctly coordinated inside CIA or the IC, guaranteeing it could be printed with out important challenges to its conclusions.”

The committee discovered that the 5 CIA analysts and drafter “rushed” the ICA’s manufacturing “so as to publish two weeks earlier than President-elect Trump was sworn-in.”

“Hurried coordination and restricted entry to the draft decreased alternatives for the IC to find misquoting of sources and different tradecraft considerations,” the report states.

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The report states that Brennan “ordered the post-election publication of 15 experiences containing beforehand collected however unpublished intelligence, three of which have been substandard—containing data that was unclear, of unsure origin, doubtlessly biased, or implausible—and people grew to become foundational sources for the ICA judgements that Putin most well-liked Trump over Clinton.”

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“The ICA misrepresented these experiences as dependable, with out mentioning their important underlying flaws,” the committee discovered.

“One scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of many substandard experiences constitutes the one categorized data cited to recommend Putin ‘aspired’ to assist Trump win,” the report states, including that the ICA “ignored or selectively quoted dependable intelligence experiences that challenged-and in some instances undermined—judgments that Putin sought to elect Trump.”

The report additionally states that the ICA “failed to contemplate believable different explanations of Putin’s intentions indicated by dependable intelligence and noticed Russian actions.”

The committee additionally discovered that two senior CIA officers warned Brennan that “we don’t have direct data that Putin wished to get Trump elected.”

Regardless of these warnings, the Obama administration moved to publish the ICA.

FILE – Former CIA Director John Brennan seems on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., Sunday, April 15, 2018.  (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs)

The ICA “didn’t cite any report the place Putin straight indicated serving to Trump win was the target.”

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The ICA, in response to the report, excluded “important intelligence” and “ignored or selectively quoted” dependable intelligence in an effort to push the Russia narrative.

The report additionally consists of intelligence from a longtime Putin confidant who defined to investigators that “Putin instructed him he didn’t care who gained the election,” and that Putin “had typically outlined the weaknesses of each main candidates.”

The report additionally states that the ICA dedicated context displaying that the declare that Putin most well-liked Trump was “implausible—if not ridiculous.”

The committee additionally discovered that the ICA suppressed intelligence that confirmed that Russia was really planning for a Hillary Clinton victory as a result of “they knew the place [she] stood” and believed Russia “may work together with her.”

The committee additionally famous that the ICA “didn’t handle why Putin selected to not leak extra discrediting materials on Clinton,” at the same time as polls tightened within the closing weeks of the election.”

The committee additionally discovered that the ICA suppressed intelligence displaying that Putin was “not solely demonstrating a transparent lack of concern for Trump’s election destiny,” but additionally indicated “that he most well-liked to see Secretary Clinton elected, figuring out she could be a extra weak President.”

The declassification of the report comes simply days after Gabbard declassified and launched paperwork that included “overwhelming proof” that demonstrated how, after President Donald Trump gained the 2016 election in opposition to Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his nationwide safety crew laid the groundwork for what could be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe.

Tulsi Gabbard, Director of Nationwide Intelligence, throughout a cupboard assembly on the White Home in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.  (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

In the meantime, Fox Information Digital, in 2020, completely obtained the declassified transcripts from Obama-era nationwide safety officers’ closed-door testimonies earlier than the Home Intelligence Committee, during which these officers testified that they’d no “empirical proof” of a conspiracy between the Trump marketing campaign and Russia within the 2016 election, however continued to publicly push the “narrative” of collusion.

The Home Intelligence Committee, in 2017, carried out depositions of prime Obama intelligence officers, together with Director of Nationwide Intelligence James Clapper, Nationwide Safety Advisor Susan Rice and Legal professional Common Loretta Lynch, amongst others.

The officers’ responses within the transcripts of these interviews align with the outcomes of former Particular Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation – which discovered no proof of felony coordination between the Trump marketing campaign and Russia in 2016, whereas not reaching a willpower on obstruction of justice.

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The transcripts, from 2017 and 2018, revealed prime Obama officers have been questioned by Home Intelligence Committee lawmakers and investigators about whether or not they had or had seen proof of such collusion, coordination or conspiracy – the difficulty that drove the FBI’s preliminary case and later the particular counsel probe.

“I by no means noticed any direct empirical proof that the Trump marketing campaign or somebody in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” Clapper testified in 2017. “That’s to not say that there weren’t considerations in regards to the proof we have been seeing, anecdotal proof…. However I don’t recall any occasion the place I had direct proof.”

Lynch additionally mentioned she did “not recall that being briefed as much as me.”

Former Director of U.S. Nationwide Intelligence James Clapper listens to former CIA Director John Brennan. (REUTERS/Gary Cameron )

“I can not say that it existed or not,” Lynch mentioned, referring to proof of collusion, conspiracy or coordination.

However Clapper and Lynch, and Vice President Joe Biden, have been current within the Oval Workplace on July 28, 2016, when Brennan briefed Obama and Comey on intelligence he’d acquired from certainly one of Hillary Clinton’s marketing campaign international coverage advisors “to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian safety service.” 

“We’re getting extra perception into Russian actions from (REDACTED),” Brennan’s handwritten notes, completely obtained by Fox Information Digital in October 2020, learn. “CITE (summarizing) alleged authorised by Hillary Clinton a proposal from certainly one of her international coverage advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian safety service.”

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In the meantime, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Energy, in response to the transcript of her interview to the Home Intelligence Committee, was requested whether or not she had or noticed any proof of collusion or conspiracy.

Energy replied: “I’m not in possession of something – I’m not in possession and didn’t learn or take up data that got here from out of the intelligence group.”

When requested once more, she mentioned: “I’m not.”

Rice was requested the identical query.

Former President Barack Obama and James Comey on the day he was sworn in as FBI director in 2013. (Reuters)

“To the very best of my recollection, there wasn’t something smoking, however there have been some issues that gave me pause,” she mentioned, in response to her transcribed interview, in response as to whether she had any proof of conspiracy. “I don’t recall intelligence that I might think about proof to that impact that I noticed… conspiracy previous to my departure.”

When requested whether or not she had any proof of “coordination,” Rice replied: “I don’t recall any intelligence or proof to that impact.”

When requested about collusion, Rice replied: “Identical reply.”

Former Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor Ben Rhodes was requested the identical query throughout his Home Intelligence interview.

“I wouldn’t have acquired any data on any felony or counterintelligence investigations into what the Trump marketing campaign was doing, so I might not have seen that data,” Rhodes mentioned.

When pressed once more, he mentioned: “I noticed indications of potential coordination, however I didn’t see, you recognize, the particular proof of the actions of the Trump marketing campaign.”

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In the meantime, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was not requested that particular query however relatively questions in regards to the accuracy and legitimacy of the unverified anti-Trump file compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

McCabe was requested throughout his interview in 2017 what was probably the most “damning or vital piece of proof within the file that” he “now is aware of is true.”

McCabe replied: “Now we have not been in a position to show the accuracy of all the knowledge.”

“You don’t know if it’s true or not?” a Home investigator requested, to which McCabe replied: “That is appropriate.”

Robert Mueller, former particular counsel for the U.S. Division of Justice.  (AP | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs | Mike Cohen/Getty Photographs for The New York Instances)

After Trump’s 2016 victory and through the presidential transition interval, Comey briefed Trump on the now-infamous anti-Trump file, containing salacious allegations of purported coordination between Trump and the Russian authorities. Brennan was current for that briefing, which happened at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis in January 2017.

The file was authored by Steele. It was funded by Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign and the Democratic Nationwide Committee by way of the legislation agency Perkins Coie.

However Brennan and Comey knew of intelligence suggesting Clinton, through the marketing campaign, was stirring up a plan to tie Trump to Russia, paperwork declare. It’s unclear whether or not the intelligence group, on the time, knew that the file was paid for by Clinton and the DNC.

Brennan and Comey are actually beneath FBI felony investigation associated to their actions related to the Russia probe, after a felony referral was despatched by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to FBI Director Kash Patel.

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Gabbard additionally despatched the DOJ felony referrals for these concerned within the effort to create “manufactured” and “politicized” intelligence that led to the spreading of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

November 18, 2011: U.S. President Obama stands with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as he publicizes that she’s going to journey to Burma, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. (AP)

The Obama-era officers have been mum on the brand new revelations, however a spokesman for Obama on Tuesday made a uncommon public assertion.

“Out of respect for the workplace of the presidency, our workplace doesn’t usually dignify the fixed nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White Home with a response,” Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush mentioned in an announcement. “However these claims are outrageous sufficient to benefit one.” 

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“These weird allegations are ridiculous and a weak try at distraction,” Obama’s spokesman continued. “Nothing within the doc issued final week undercuts the broadly accepted conclusion that Russia labored to affect the 2016 presidential election however didn’t efficiently manipulate any votes.”

He added: “These findings have been affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”