CIA Director John Ratcliffe just confirmed what many Americans have suspected for years: the intelligence community under Barack Obama didn't just botch its assessment of the 2016 election — it weaponized it. Criminal referrals have now been made for former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among others.
“That’s why I made the referrals. DNI Gabbard has made referrals,” Ratcliffe stated bluntly. “We are seeking indictments.”
It’s a colossal announcement — and not just because of who’s implicated. If indictments come down, it will mark the first time in American history that a former president’s intelligence chiefs are prosecuted for politically targeting a presidential candidate using foreign intelligence.
And the evidence? It’s damning.
The Intelligence Community Assessment Was Rigged
At the center of it all is the now-discredited 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), produced under Obama’s orders and shaped by Brennan, Comey, and then-DNI James Clapper. That document claimed — with “high confidence” — that Vladimir Putin had a clear preference for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
But as newly declassified material confirms, that central claim rested on a single, vague fragment from an unverified source whose access to Putin was unknown. Not only did the ICA authors omit this context — they elevated that claim to the top-line judgment in a report used to brief both President Obama and President-elect Trump.
This was not just bad intelligence. It was a deliberate distortion.
Even more damning: that same ICA included content from the Steele Dossier, the Clinton campaign-funded opposition research that falsely accused Trump of being a Russian agent. Despite its origins, despite the fact that Steele himself couldn’t verify a word of it (even when the FBI offered him $1 million), the dossier’s contents made it into the ICA — and were briefed to the president as though they were legitimate intelligence.
Brennan testified under oath that the dossier wasn’t used in the ICA. That was a lie. CIA analysts objected to including it. Brennan overruled them.
One intelligence official later recalled Brennan saying, “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”
That’s not intelligence analysis. That’s narrative-building. And it was used to justify surveillance of a presidential campaign, launch a Special Counsel investigation, and undermine a sitting president.
Tulsi Gabbard Blows the Lid Off
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has now declassified documents showing that Brennan and Clapper not only cherry-picked intelligence, they ignored a presidential directive to contextualize Russian interference historically — particularly in 2008 and 2012. Why? Because any serious examination of that history would’ve demolished the claim that Putin preferred Republicans.
The Kremlin has repeatedly targeted Republican candidates for decades:
Richard Nixon (1960, 1968)
Barry Goldwater (1964)
Ronald Reagan (1976, 1984)
George H.W. Bush (1988)
John McCain (2008)
Mitt Romney (2012)
Declassified files show that the Soviets backed Democrats or left-leaning third-party candidates in many of those races — including Henry Wallace, Adlai Stevenson, and Hubert Humphrey. In 1968, Moscow even offered to fund Humphrey’s campaign to stop Nixon.
Obama’s ICA ignored that entire record.
Instead, it pushed a claim — lifted from a subsource’s hearsay — that “Putin’s inner circle preferred Republicans historically” because they were “less focused on democracy and human rights.” That’s laughable. Reagan literally told Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” George W. Bush invaded Iraq under the banner of spreading democracy. Trump, for all his bluster, imposed some of the toughest sanctions on Russia to date.
Let’s not forget that Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda ran directly contrary to the preferences of the Kremlin. And Trump’s proposal to “drill, baby, drill” and to increase exports of LNG to Europe was a direct threat to Russia’s energy dominance.
The Russia Hoax never made any sense. But America’s “journalists” pushed it like it was gospel with breathless coverage on a daily basis for years.
The House Intelligence Committee’s newly declassified analysis calls the ICA’s tradecraft “deeply flawed” and notes that the central claim about Putin’s alleged preference for Trump "does not make sense in historical context."
A refreshing bit of truth from the American intelligence community for a change.
Steele Dossier Was Planted in the ICA — Then Hidden
Brennan, Clapper, and Comey made sure the dossier — a product of Clinton-funded political opposition research — ended up in the classified version of the ICA shown to Obama and Trump. Then they excluded it from the version released to Congress and the public, concealing its use.
This is fraud at the highest level of national intelligence.
Former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers — the only agency head who refused to sign off with “high confidence” — now looks like the only adult in the room. Rogers assessed the Putin-Trump claim with only “moderate confidence.” He wasn’t buying it. And he was right not to.
The CIA’s own Russia analysts were shut out. One later said: “We could not imagine any previous director allowing such information [the Steele Dossier] to be included in a presidential product.”
This Wasn’t “Sloppy” — It Was Coordinated
The timeline shows coordination at the highest levels:
Obama orders the ICA in December 2016 — but tasks it with providing historical context the final report never includes.
The FBI simultaneously uses the Steele Dossier to justify illegal FISA warrants against Trump advisor Carter Page.
The CIA and Brennan bypass normal tradecraft standards to elevate unverifiable intelligence.
The dossier is used to brief both Obama and Trump, with Comey later leaking the details to media outlets.
The result? The press exploded with claims of Russian collusion. Trump’s presidency was immediately undermined. And an investigation based on lies consumed the country for years.
Now we know it was all based on disinformation — some of it originating in Russia and passed to Clinton campaign operatives via Steele. In other words, the Obama administration took in Russian disinformation, legitimized it through U.S. intelligence, and then used it to interfere in a presidential transition.
That’s not just abuse. That’s a national security threat from inside our own government.
The Corrupt FBI Has Become America’s “KGB”
As explained in a recent post at Conservative Treehouse breaking down the “institutional corruption” at the FBI, there is ample reason for Bongino to be disturbed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
What the Federal Security Service (FSB) is to the internal security of the Russian state, so too is the FBI in performing the same function for the U.S. federal government.
The FBI is a U.S. version of the Russian “State Police”; and the FBI is deployed -almost exclusively- to attack domestic enemies of those who control government, while they protect the interests of the U.S. Fourth Branch of Government. That is the clear and accurate domestic prism to contextualize their perceived mission: “domestic violent extremists pose the greatest threat” to their objective.
Put another way, “We The People”, who fight against government abuse and usurpation, are the FBI’s actual and literal enemy…..
….. Yes, Deputy Director Dan Bongino seems to understand that now!
Hyperbole? If you examine the FBI’s track record, the corruption becomes breathtaking. The author’s explanation? It’s not a “bug,” but a “feature” designed to protect corrupt Washington elites from legal accountability.
It’s really not that difficult an assessment to make because even though I knew the FBI was fraught with corruption, it was not until I was intercepted in Washington DC and told specific details about the agency operation that I realized this was more than just a DC or field office issue.
As it was outlined to me and evidenced clearly in the six years since that original series of conversations, the FBI has a very specific recruitment profile they follow that ensures the current legacy within it. The psychological tests, entry reviews and ongoing HR assessments continually excise any individual that does not meet a specific and corrupt profile.
DEA agents, CBP agents, former IC operatives, sketchy state police officers and other federal law enforcement agents who have engaged in bribes, kick-back schemes and outright theft are generally prioritized in the recruitment process. The INSD officials who hold sway over the internal dynamics/investigations within the FBI are the ones who guarantee the system perpetuates.
It is far worse than most would understand or believe…
Bongino’s alarm is justified. The corruption runs so deep in our intelligence agencies, law enforcement arms, and state-connected media operations that it takes the breath away.
It was always going to take time to reform these institutions. But first, it takes time to get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about what has been going on.
Are Criminal Indictments Coming, At Last?
According to Ratcliffe and Gabbard, criminal referrals are already in motion.
Brennan, Comey, and Clinton are named. There’s every indication Obama himself could be implicated in the broader conspiracy to politicize intelligence, smear an opponent, and obstruct the peaceful transition of power.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, now running internal investigations, recently came forward with a post about extremely disturbing information he has uncovered:
During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening.
The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core.
We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned. We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH.
For years, Americans were told Trump colluded with Russia.
Now we know the real Russia collusion was carried out by Obama’s top intelligence officials, funded by the Clinton campaign, and perpetrated with the help of willing bureaucrats inside the DOJ, CIA, and FBI.
This wasn’t a scandal. It was a coup.
The only question left: will anyone be held accountable?
America’s trust in its institutions depends on the answer.
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