Left/Right view of past year: Election 11/8/16- The Day the Earth Stood Still/Star Wars: A New Hope; Inauguration 1/20/17- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest/Singin' in the Rain; Tax Bill 12/20/2017- Apocalypse Now/It's a Wonderful Life. On 12/25/2017, let's ALL sing "Silent Night"
.@SecRubio: "The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."
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🔥 Dr. Mike Claims RFK Jr is ‘Decimating Public Health’, Gets Lit Up by a MAHA Supporter
“Look at the state of America and you tell me that the public is actually healthy. What RFK is doing is he is saying enough is enough, something has to change. I will say this very politely, but I think that you have to be f**king insane to say more is somehow going to get us out of the current public health crisis we have right now.”
@DNIGabbard@realDonaldTrump Ah yes, the ‘Russia hoax’ that led to over 30 indictments, 7 guilty pleas, and a detailed report confirming Russia interfered. But go off, DNI Facebook Law School.
Bottom line: Did the Obama Administration manufacture false intelligence to implicate Russian interference in the 2016 election?
No.
The documents show a methodical, multi-agency process, all concluding Russia was behind the DNC hacks and intended to influence perceptions surrounding the election. Internal emails show open debate, requested edits for accuracy, and even pushback from the FBI urging softer language where intelligence was not definitive. This shows a clear intent to avoid politicization, not to fabricate Intel.
The Obama Administration did not generate intelligence from thin air. It commissioned a community assessment in response to mounting cyber activity and growing concerns from state officials. The reports repeatedly emphasize the limited impact Russia could have on the actual vote, while also noting the psychological and political effects of leaks and disinformation.
These documents don't show the Obama Administration cooked up fake intel to blame Russia. They reflect a serious, cautious, and collaborative process across agencies, with multiple layers of review and disagreement. What they found was cyber interference and information warfare designed to mess with our heads, not our ballots.
Russia got inside the DNC, released damaging info, and aimed to create chaos. That’s what the intel says, nothing more, nothing less. And they don’t link Trump’s team to it in these pages, nor do they try to.
These declassified intelligence documents show internal communications and assessments among senior officials across the IC, with the purpose of evaluating cyber threats related to the 2016 presidential election.
The findings can be broken down like this:
- Capability Assessment: The IC judged with moderate confidence that no foreign adversary, including Russia, had the capability to carry out widespread, covert cyber operations that could alter the vote count or outcome of the 2016 U.S. election.
- Russian Activity: Russia was identified as the most capable and likely actor interested in undermining the election. High-confidence assessments attributed the hacks of the DNC and DCCC to Russian intelligence.
- Intent vs. Impact: The most likely threat, according to the documents, was not manipulation of vote totals but cyber activity designed to sow distrust and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the electoral process. That includes theft and release of information, cyber intrusions into voter databases, and media disinformation.
- Local Intrusions: Voter registration systems in Illinois and Arizona were breached, but no evidence showed tampering with actual votes. 20 other states experienced probing or vulnerability scans, most traced to Russian-operated servers. Still, none of the observed activity suggested an actual alteration of results.
- No Evidence of Manipulated Vote Counts: Multiple safeguards, decentralized systems, and lack of evidence led the IC to conclude with high confidence that no vote manipulation occurred through cyber means.
- Trump Campaign: No direct link between the Trump campaign and Russia is mentioned in the documents. The documents focus strictly on cyber activities, infrastructure vulnerabilities, foreign intentions, and information operations.
This declassification vindicates the Obama administration and makes DNI Gabbard look foolish.
Obama officials immediately leaned on their allies in the media to advance their falsehoods. Anonymous IC sources leaked classified information to the Washington Post and others that Russia had intervened to hack the election in Trump's favor.
On Dec 8, 2016, IC officials prepared an assessment for the President's Daily Brief, finding that Russia "did not impact recent U.S. election results" by conducting cyber attacks on infrastructure.
Before it could reach the President, it was abruptly pulled “based on new guidance.” This key intelligence assessment was never published.
For months preceding the 2016 election, the Intelligence Community shared a consensus view: Russia lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections.
But weeks after President Trump’s historic 2016 victory defeating Hillary Clinton, everything changed.
🧵 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 will of the American people and undermining our democratic republic. Here’s how:
In Oct 2023, Jeb Boasberg sentenced a couple convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors for Jan 6 to prison. The husband, Christopher Price, had just learned his cancer returned--Boasberg sentenced him to 45 days in federal prison.
Boasberg sent his wife, Cynthia Bellinger, to federal prison for four months on same misdemeanors.
Boasberg: "And while I completely agree that your actions were not violent, you didn't assault anyone, you didn't destroy anyone, you didn't steal anything, you were part of that mob. And a mob is only a mob if it has numbers. If it is three people or five people or seven or fifty, they don't get anywhere because the Capitol Police is able to resist them."
He then berated the couple for not having remorse over their nonviolent participation in the protest:
"The conduct of you folks, if you had accepted responsibility and been remorseful early on, you wouldn't be here. But you weren't. You haven't accepted responsibility. You never accepted responsibility. You fought everything. And even today I don't hear remorse."
Boasberg is now very worried about the well-being of Venezuelan gang bangers in an El Salvador prison and defending the due process "rights" of those illegals.