A brief 🧵 on the new report released by @DNIGabbard today, which conclusively blows up core Russiagate myths:

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A newly released intelligence report by Director Gabbard reveals that the 2016 Russian interference assessment concluding Putin preferred Trump was based on only four pieces of flimsy evidence: the discredited Steele Dossier, an unclear intelligence fragment interpreted five different ways, an undated email with no clear sender/recipient, and unverified liaison reporting from 2014. CIA analysts reportedly were ordered to include dubious material despite internal objections, drawing parallels to the Iraq War WMD intelligence failures.

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A brief 🧵 on the new report released by @DNIGabbard today, which conclusively blows up core Russiagate myths: racket.news/p/in-brutal-do…
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On December 9th, 2016, @BarackObama ordered a new Intelligence Community Assessment to find out: "what happened" that election year? News outlets within hours leaked the answer: Vladimir Putin "aspired" to help Donald Trump, for whom he had a "clear preference."
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The report released today, which was conducted eight years ago and has been locked at Langley ever since, reveals that conclusion was based on just four pieces of evidence:
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One was the Steele Dossier:
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"FIVE PEOPLE READ IT FIVE WAYS" The second was a “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment” of one sentence that the report’s five CIA authors read “five ways” and left out. @JohnBrennan ordered it back in
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"IMPLAUSIBLE - IF NOT RIDICULOUS" The third was an email with “no date, no identified sender, no clear recipient, and no classification":
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And the fourth was an assertion supposedly corroborated by multiple sources - all absent. The "liaison reporting" didn't mention Trump and was anyway from 2014, before he was a candidate.
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"WE DON'T HAVE DIRECT INFORMATION" The report was written by just five CIA analysts hand-picked by Brennan. “We don’t have direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected," two pleaded.
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"WE WERE TO PUSH THIS" Analysts pleaded with the intelligence chiefs to leave out the Steele material, but orders were clear. “Our instructions were that anything we had was to be used,” an FBI source said. “We were to push this.”
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When @JohnBrennan was confronted with the Steele Dossier's flaws, he replied: "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"
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FBI Director James Comey said the Dossier was "important" to keep in:
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This story is an exact sequel to the WMD affair, when analysts were ordered by Dick Cheney to "find the WMD sites." It even involved some of the same people.
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"WE FOUND WHAT WASN'T REALLY THERE" James Clapper was in charge of image analysis before the Iraq war, and boasted his images "carried the day" for Colin Powell in his speech to the UN. He copped to finding things that "weren't really there."
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Fifteen years later, he did the same thing:
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This obnoxious story ruined lives, divided families, and paralyzed the country. And it was all, demonstrably now, based on a lie. for more see Racket.news