Gabbard Bombshell: DNI Clapper Pressed NSA Chief Rogers To Sign on to Phony Report on DNC Hack
Aug. 16—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released declassified intelligence documents Aug. 13 demonstrating the treasonous role of former DNI James Clapper in concocting false intelligence assessments to “prove” that Russia had intervened in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump. The release of two emails, dated Dec. 22, 2016, exchanged between Clapper and Mike Rogers, then head of the National Security Agency, reveal Clapper’s insistence that unverified intelligence on Russia’s alleged role in hacking the DNC/DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) be rammed through and incorporated into the 2017 intelligence community assessment to be presented to President Barack Obama.
This, despite Rogers’ argument that his team hadn’t had time “to fully access all the underlying intelligence or had an opportunity to review and weigh in … given the expedited nature of this activity,” and doesn’t feel “100% comfortable [with it] before we present it to the President.” To be clear, he continued, “I am not saying that we disagree substantively, but I do want to make sure that, when we are asked in the future whether we can absolutely stand behind the paper, that we don’t have any reason to hesitate because of the process.”
“We have one chance to get this right and it is critical that we do so,” Rogers warned, particularly if the final product is jointly authored by the CIA, FBI, ODNI and NSA. In the latter case, he stipulated, “I personally expect to see even the most sensitive evidence related to the conclusion.” He added, however, that if the final product is intended to be a CIA-only, or a CIA/FBI-authored product “then I will stand down on these concerns.”
Clapper dismissed Rogers’ concerns. In an e-mail reply to him the same day, which also included CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey, he underscored that it is essential that “we (CIA, NSA, FBI, ODNI) be on the same page and are all supportive of the report in the highest tradition of it’s ‘OUR story and we stick to it.’” He added that that very day, the CIA had already provided the “complete draft of the ad hoc fusion group”—the small group John Brennan had created to draft the 2017 intelligence community assessment—to the national intelligence community. “We will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as we complete the report,” Clapper responded, “but more time is not negotiable. We may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities since we must do this on such a compressed schedule. This is one project that has to be a team sport.”
Former NSA Technical Director William Binney, who, along with a team of cyber security experts, conducted a forensic analysis of the alleged DNC/DCCC hack and concluded in 2017 that it was not a hack at all, conducted by the Russians or anyone else, but an inside job, with the materials transferred to a thumb drive.
Commenting on the declassified e-mail exchange, DNI Gabbard replied Aug. 13: “The leading figures in the Russia hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence. The email released today reinforces what we already exposed: the decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top.”