Gabbard Releases Info Showing 2016 Russia Collusion Narrative Lacked Credible Intelligence
“Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.”
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard dropped documents on Friday showing former President Barack Obama’s administration crafting the Russian collusion narrative well before the 2016 presidential election.
🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the… pic.twitter.com/UQKKZ5c4Op
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
Gabbard’s memo highlighted the key information within the 114-page report, starting on August 31, 2016: “A DHS official tells former DNI James Clapper that there was ‘no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count.’”
On September 2, an email from someone suggested edits that would plant the seed that Russia planned to hijack the 2016 election, since, well, as we know, the intelligence community had no evidence it would happen.
On page 5, under the “(U//[blacked out]) Adversaries with Intent” section, we would prefer for the first sentence regarding Russia’s intent to be softened. The way it currently reads, it would indicate that we have definitive information that Russia does intend to disrupt our elections and we are uncomfortable making that assessment at this point. We would suggest editing the sentence to read as the following (changes highlighted): “([blacked out]) We judge Russia to be the only nation state with the current means and possible motivation to use cyber attack to disrupt the 2016 election or deny political legitimacy to US presidential candidates.” We would also suggest editing the title of that section to instead read something along the lines of “(U//[blacked out]) Evaluation of Likely Adversaries” so that it doesn’t mislead the reader to believe that the IC currently has information indicating Russia has a known intent to influence the elections.
But then the IC went the original route in its September 12 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) report: “We judge that foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks on the diverse set of information technologies and infrastructures used to support the November 2016 US presidential election.”
Did ODNI and DHS listen? Of course not!
Instead, they both told everyone they had “confidence” that Russia was responsible for the hacks on the DNC and DCCC.
Then Trump beat Hillary.
The intelligence community discussed drafting the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), which would tell Obama that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”
The authors at first gave themselves a decent timeline to publish it but due to the media frenzy chose to publish it the next day for Obama.
The authors drafted a PDB but received information that the FBI, helmed by James Comey, would not longer coordinate with them and would draft a dissent.
The PDB that stated Russia had no hand in Trump’s victory? Yeah, never published.
Catherine Herridge has a great summary:
Newly declassified records from @DNIGabbard are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.
Gabbard has taken the rare and transparent step of declassifying a December 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Brief or PDB.
This highly classified record, which is a daily national security analysis for the President, assessed that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against (election) infrastructure.”
But after push back from the FBI, then led by James Comey, the PDB was spiked “based on new guidance.”
After a White House Principals meeting, a new intelligence assessment was commissioned, and media leaks followed, reinforcing a new narrative that “Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.”
TIMELINE
December 8, 2016
Draft PDB – Russia “did not impact US election results”Hours later, FBI withdraws support
PDB is killed “based on new guidance”
December 9, 2016 Obama White House Gathers Top Cabinet Officials including Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe and others.
New Intelligence Assessment is commissioned
January 6, 2017 New Intel Assessment : Russia interfered to help Trump
Breaking…
Newly declassified records from @DNIGabbard are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.
Gabbard has taken the rare and… pic.twitter.com/D1WoG7fs2G
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) July 18, 2025
“Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people,” Gabbard said. “Their egregious abuse of power and blatant rejection of our Constitution threatens the very foundation and integrity of our democratic republic.”
“No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again,” Gabbard continued. “The American people’s faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it. As such, I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.”
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The level of discourse on this subject is devolving to homeopathic levels. We wonks read the headlines and see a small but crucial fact established (that certainly will be noisily countered tomorrow anyway, by the usual gang of idiots). The rest of the country reads this headline and says, “wot… wot?” It’s at the level of inside baseball. Anybody dim enough to still believe in Crossfire Hurricane (and that’s about 50% of the country) isn’t going to have their minds changed by this (or anything).
who gives an f
this time its based on facts and not political with hunts
correction:
witch hunts
Wake me when the first witch gets convicted. Hell, even indicted, We’re seeing the live application of Hillary’s Maxim: “What difference at this point does it make?” As far as results go, this will make no difference at all.
Try to downplay this all you want. It won’t work. This is documentary evidence of a criminal conspiracy by the One and his administration. And it’s a little late for someone to autopen some pardons.
Hey, I’m all for it. Just don’t forget to wake me when something MATERIAL happens. And by MATERIAL, I mean somebody gets caught and punished.
and network bosses were in collusion with lefty to subvert maga
This is as bad as when Blondie released “new” Epstein files,..stuff we already knew
Not exactly. Poor defense there. The actual evidence is coming out and you cannot pretend it away.
If nothing else, The Obama-Clinton-Biden crowd will godown in history as the most corrupt and anti-American ever.
And now the Democrats becoming confederates. Only a matter of time before they design and fly their own bars and stars.
Becoming?
They never stopped.
No it isn’t. Not even close.
ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.
The funny thing is, if they spent half of that effort before the election in support of Hillary, like holding rallies in the upper Midwest and doing interviews on local TV stations, Hillary would probably have won. Their course of action demonstrates how entitled they feel and the extent of what they will do if they don’t get their way.
Lee Smith, a friend and author of The Hunting of the President, has for years been saying: While you guys talk about Comey and Brennan and Clapper, you’re ignoring the man who actually ordered the coup against Trump:
Barack Hussein Obama.
Tulsi Gabbard just released a report proving him right.
You should credit Ace of Spades for that.
I refer to this Gary Larson cartoon (which I have on a tee shirt).
If Obama were in the room instead, these cops would need Sherlock Holmes to find their answer. And it probably would turn out not to be Obama.
At this point the issue is best handled by lawyers. At best a fight in the court of public opinion means a juror rejected for taking right wing news sources making Comey get an acquittal, and at worst we distract ourselves and lose future elections by looking in the past.
Comey is going to prison unless the jury pool is tainted, so lets hope this is the last we hear about this from official sources till after the trial.
Do we get to prosecute them anywhere in the country? Their misinformation and the attempted overthrow of a POTUS had nationwide effects. Surely some smart prosecutor can cook up a reason to move the trials out of the D.C. area, at least.
Considering their actions, their lies, their falsehoods how do these people live with themselves?! This is a rhetorical question. I know how the live themselves. 1) Money and power. 2) Power and money. 3) They believe they are serving the greater good (i.e. themselves).
Because they have convinced themselves they are right and anyone who disagrees with them is evil.
It bothers them not because they have no fear of God….
I’m sure some do believe in god. Those types probably believe god is on their side. Most tyrants in history have been believers in god. Didn’t stop them from being tyrants.
Note Comey’s pained look, as if to say, “Why are you mean people picking on me? I didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Evil portrays itself, almost without exception, as injured innocence, fighting back.”
Lance Morrow in Evil: An Investigation