[ April 25, 2024 ]
Brennan and the U.S. intelligence community knew months prior to the 2016 election that the collusion smear was the result of a campaign operation hatched by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
And not one person has been indicted.
DNI Declassifies Handwritten Notes From John Brennan, 2016 CIA Referral On Clinton Campaign’s Collusion Operation
Story continues below advertisementOn Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released to Congress handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan as well as a CIA investigative referral to James Comey and Peter Strzok requesting that they investigate Russian knowledge of Hillary Clinton’s anti-Trump collusion smear operation.
By: The Federalist, December 15,2020:
Top U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned heading into the 2016 election that the Russians were aware of and potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s plans to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent that they personally briefed President Barack Obama on the matter, newly declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents show. CIA officials also requested that the FBI investigate Russian knowledge of the Clinton campaign’s collusion smear operation.
Newly declassified handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan show that the U.S. intelligence community knew in 2016 that Russian intelligence was actively monitoring, and potentially injecting disinformation into, Clinton’s anti-Trump collusion narrative. The intelligence concerning Russia’s knowledge of Clinton’s campaign plans was so concerning to Brennan and other national security officials that they personally informed Obama of the matter in the Oval Office in the summer of 2016. The handwritten notes from Brennan were declassified by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe and provided to Congress on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the declassified notes, Brennan and the U.S. intelligence community knew months prior to the 2016 election that the collusion smear was the result of a campaign operation hatched by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activites from [REDACTED],” Brennan’s handwritten notes state. “Cite alleged approval by Hillary Clinton–on 26 July–of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to villify [sic] Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”
The notes appear to have been prepared by Brennan to memorialize a meeting held at the White House with the president and his top national security advisers. Included in Brennan’s notes are the responses of other participants in the briefing — including those of former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, and former DNI James Clapper, but those responses are redacted.
At one point, Obama asked whether there was any evidence of collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia, but any response that may have been recorded in Brennan’s notes is redacted.
Moreover, the CIA and other intelligence agencies also suspected early on that many of the key claims underpinning the collusion narrative could themselves be the product of deliberate Russian disinformation. Last week, Ratcliffe released a declassified memo, based in part on Brennan’s notes, noting that Russian intelligence was aware of the Clinton campaign’s plan, increasing the likelihood that it would be tainted by Russian disinformation.
While the Clinton campaign hired Christopher Steele, a foreign agent in the pocket of a sanctioned Russian oligarch, to concoct a dossier of allegations against Trump, the primary source of the most salacious and damning allegations of treasonous collusion came from a suspected Russian spy named Igor Danchenko. Last month, Attorney General William Barr informed Congress that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was so concerned about Danchenko, who had been dubbed the “Primary Sub-Source” used by Clinton campaign sub-contractor Christopher Steele in his thoroughly debunked Steele dossier, that it had previously deemed him a national security threat and investigated him to determine if he was a Russian spy. The bureau called off the investigation once Danchenko left the United States and was no longer within the purview of the FBI’s domestic counterintelligence mission.
Although Democratic lawmakers have claimed, without evidence, that the latest declassifications are themselves the product of Russian disinformation, multiple senior intelligence officials told The Federalist that the CIA remains convinced that Russian intelligence sincerely believed as early as summer of 2016 that the Clinton campaign launched its anti-Trump collusion smear operation to distract from Clinton’s e-mail scandal. In October of 2017, the top lawyer for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee finally confessed publicly that he had personally hired the Democrat opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which paid Steele to peddle allegations that Trump was a secret Russian agent working on behalf of Vladimir Putin.
Ratcliffe also declassified on Tuesday portions of a formal CIA investigative referral sent on Sept. 7, 2016, to fired former FBI Director James Comey and fired former counterintelligence official Peter Strzok asking them to investigate the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump collusion smear operation in light of Russia’s knowledge of the plan and the likelihood it could be tainted by deliberate Russian disinformation. Rather than act on the CIA investigative referral in the same manner they had launched a full-blown counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, Strzok and Comey refused to initiate an investigation.
“Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date,” the memo states. “An exchange [REDACTED] discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of private e-mail server.”
The cover note of the memorandum stated that the information within was provided to the FBI “for the exclusive use of your Bureau for background, investigative action, or lead purposes, as appropriate.”
There is no evidence the FBI ever took any action to ensure that Russian knowledge of Clinton’s plans did not lead to infiltration of that campaign’s operation by Russian intelligence agents. The CIA referral, specifically its reference to a “CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell,” suggests that the Obama administration’s anti-Trump investigation may not have been limited to the FBI, but may have included the use of CIA assets and surveillance capabilities, raising troubling questions about whether the nation’s top spy service was weaponized against a U.S. political campaign.
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57 Comments
3 years ago
Jail for Joe.
3 years ago
Release whatever you have on imbecile Joe Biden! He needs to be destroyed and ideally hung in public, filmed live for all the world to see, as far as I am concerned.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
he breys just the same. we do not know what the jackass is breying about and neither from him.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
@felix1999
You do have a knack for finding some hilarious images. This one is definitely spot on! LOL!
3 years ago
The filthy lying bast ards.
Put the lot up against a wall and give me a sub-machine gun and i will dispatch them to hell, worthless scum.
3 years ago
Reply to
Gary Ashe
How about we put them against a wall and we give you a flame thrower and you reduce them to ash?
3 years ago
Why did so many people in so many positions of power risk everything to put a sadistic psycho like Hillary in the WH?
They were already guilty of treason before the 2016 election cycle even started.
3 years ago
The CIA and FBI and DOJ need to be cleaned out. fire them all. what a cesspool.
3 years ago
Reply to
SplineSpider
Brennan and Clapper sandbagging the doors and and windows in Langley!
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
When the war starts, Brennan will be off to Iran with no extradition treaty. Clapper will be stuck here.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
Hellfire missiles from drones don’t need treaties. Obama was certainly using them often enough.
3 years ago
Reply to
SplineSpider
Anytime this country or Israel wants to turn Iran into a pile of glass, they don’t need for me to sign off. I signed off a long time ago.
3 years ago
Reply to
Crippled by UK State goons
Really? There have been plenty of people who think I am Irish, Italian, Catholic, etc.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
I’d prefer to see the muslum collaborating traitor swinging from a lamp post or in front of a firing squad.
3 years ago
Reply to
SplineSpider
Easier said than done and Trump did try but he encountered deep state resistance. Our federal govt is infested with Leftists but they all love reminding each other that they’re just unheralded patriots doing the right thing for America. Hogwash. In fact, many of them, particularly in the State Dept, and CIA work for the special interests of Pentagon defense contractors and overseas “interests”. Why do you think these folks supported the Iraq WMD lie or more recently the Iran Nuclear Deal when all the evidence screamed that the sanctions were working. Because the WMD lie opened the door to the never-ending War in Iraq, the most profitable war in US history and the absurd Iran Nuclear Deal deal they hoped would open the floodgates to multibillion dollar contracts between Iran and Europe. With Leftists and Globalists, one dirty hand washes the other.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
A little late but finally getting rid of Barr… he needs to get rid of Wray and the CIA head as well. And God willing, the next one in those positions won’t be a swamp creature because cleaning house has to start at the top.
3 years ago
Reply to
created4el
just 3 weeks left to clean up the swamp what he not could do in 4 years ?
You need a lot more than god and praying !
3 years ago
Reply to
created4el
at least sessions, I mean, Barr, 2 fine backstabbing democrats are gone
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
That left right dogma is kept alive and fueled by the nwo forces to keep us divided .
the nwo give a rats behind about left or right as long they can accomplish their goal.
3 years ago
Reply to
toedeladokie says hello
The biggest deception is that the Dems are left and the Republicans are right. In truth, while there are more Leftists associated with the Dems, there are plenty hiding in plain sight in the Republican party. Mitt Romney is the poster child for Leftist Republicans as were the Bush’s. Did I mention Richard Nixon!
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
The “Iraq WMD lie” eh? What do you call mustard gas and use of same? A muslum party favor?
3 years ago
Reply to
SplineSpider
The CIA needs to be gone period. They were meant to operate outside the USA only, but have stuck their noses into domestic affairs. Former President Truman supposedly said, after the assassination of JFK, that if he had known how the CIA was going to operate, he never would have approved of the department.
3 years ago
Biden’s cabal will make sure that The Durham investigation into the Hillary/Brennan/FBI coup attempt never sees the light of day. The DOJ will issue an innocuous summary that says it was all just “errors in judgement by patriots”. Just another day in Deep State DC.
3 years ago
Not Impressed! The F#@& DNI is 4 years late!
3 years ago
BINGO and oh yes John Durham had a lovely conversation with Brennan just within the 60 cut-off period before the election. Thanks senior AG Barr and company…
3 years ago
You think this is bad, Trudeau is training Chinese pilots in Alberta. (rebelnews)
3 years ago
Reply to
Truthhurts
Does he still want to build a pipeline out to BC, and sell oil to the heathen Chinee?
3 years ago
Will anyone ever be indicted on charges of treason? It seems that the agencies put in place to defend this country are in fact turned against the Nation they are sworn to defend.
I have lost all belief in our institutions; they are run by traitors out to cover up systemic treason.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fount
Not sure which agencies you are referring to but our govt has been corrupt for many years. Congress just approved over 700 Billion in annual defense appropriations. As they do every year, they spent money we don’t have because the federal defecit in 2020 will easily exceed 2 TRILLION. Our annual defense budget is over 4 times what China, our greatest adversary with over 4 times our population, spends on its defense.
As bad as election fraud is, the staggeringly annual inflated sum spent on our “defense” is the greatest corruption in human history.
Why doesn’t anyone complain and why does Congress rubbertstamp approve it every year. Because the money is spread around to virtually all 50 states. It’s easy to point the finger at the guys in charge but the river of corruption runs deep. Too many Americans benefit from this corruption and have for a long time. Follow the money even if it is borrowed.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
700 BILLION? HALF OF IT PROBABLY GOES TO PAY-OFFS (PAY TO PLAY?)!
3 years ago
Like the perpertrators of the stolen election, they walked away as free as a bird on the open range.
3 years ago
Great!!! Keep them coming.
3 years ago
…are these people above the law??? can they do whatever they will, without repercussion??? looks like it on every front. that is why they fight tooth and nail to get into their political positions. money calls and talks. like the majority of politicians, promise you the world and give you nothing.
3 years ago
For the great majority of American Jews, leftism is their true religion, with the evil democrat party as their temple. Wake up people: the dems hate Israel and Jews, and, hate the USA, so, it`s well past time to leave this bastion of hate and evil!!
3 years ago
Too little too late, no one will see a jail from inside !
3 years ago
Heard of ” too big to fail ” ? How about too big to jail –
3 years ago
Heard of ” too big to fail ” ? How about too big to jail –
3 years ago
Why are intelligence agencies using systems they do not trust?
(SIPRNET and JWICS)
3 years ago
So, John has been lying all this time hoping Gina Haspel would maintain the plausible deniability behind the closed curtain. Awww, so sad, too bad for you John. Oh, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain you say?
3 years ago
3 years ago
Looks more like an attempt at CYA in case the coup went belly up, just like Susan Rice’s email to herself before Trump took office.
3 years ago
Indict, Prosecute and JAIL, NOW.
3 years ago
The CIA “may have been part”…come on man, they were primary to it. That said, it appears the lower folks actually tried to tell the truth to their uppers and got shot down. And once again, who was in the middle of that, that scumbag comey. I can’t believe that POS is not in jail for the rest of his life. Brennan too. And why would obama’s responses be redacted? What the heck.
3 years ago
Reply to
kgolfinghawaii
Two-tiered justice system. The primary reason we need a strong PDJT in office and en even stronger AG.
3 years ago
I hate those fucking scumbags! The Democrat party destroyed my country. As a matter of fact the Demorat party morphed into: Atheism, anti Semitism, anarchist, black racist and communism.
3 years ago
“…her foreign policy advisers to villify [sic] Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.” That policy adviser is….. Paul Begala.
3 years ago
Any and all redactions are there to protect the guilty POS moronic libturd criminals from exposure!!!! Time to release it in a complete format!
3 years ago
This information has been Classified as Too True to Be Real by Leftist Media…and Democrat Traitors
3 years ago
Communist Inspired Treason at the Highest Levels of ALL Departments. THE CIVIL WAR IS ALREADY ONGOING
3 years ago
The context of the memo looks like it was saying the information about the Clinton “smear” came from Guccifer 2.0, which would mean it was Russian disinformation. Since the CIA and FBI knew that, there would be no reason to investigate Clinton.
Large portions of the memo were redacted. Since Ratcliffe was put in office to protect Trump, it is all too reasonable to expect that the redacted parts damage the claims he and Trump want made.
Also, the Trump campaign-Russia connection wasn’t a smear, since it’s been documented that Manafort was working with the Russians while he was Trump’s campaign manager.
3 years ago
I recall brennan converted to islam
