Obama Implicated In New ‘Russiagate’ Bombshell Released By Gabbard
A bombshell declassified report from the House Intelligence Committee has confirmed what many conservatives have long suspected: the U.S. intelligence community had no direct evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to help Donald J. Trump in the 2016 election — but they pushed that false narrative anyway, and they did it at the direction of President Barack Obama.
The report, dated September 18, 2020, had been kept hidden in a classified CIA vault—until now. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified the report, which stems from an investigation launched under then-House Intel Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). At the time of its finalization, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was chairing the committee, though he took no public steps to release it.
According to Fox News Digital, which obtained the report, this “fully-sourced, limited-access investigation” was stored at CIA Headquarters and includes redacted portions. The revelations inside directly contradict the core narrative pushed by the Obama administration, the intelligence community, and legacy media outlets since 2017.
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View PlansThe report centers on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)—the infamous product that claimed Putin “aspired” to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. But the House Intelligence Committee found that the ICA was “rushed,” “improperly coordinated,” and directed by Obama’s political appointees, including then-CIA Director John Brennan.
“Production of the ICA was subject to unusual directives from the President and senior political appointees,” the report states. “The draft was not properly coordinated within CIA or the IC, ensuring it would be published without significant challenges to its conclusions.”
According to the committee, just five CIA analysts, led by a single drafter, wrote the ICA — and rushed to release it two weeks before President Trump’s inauguration.
“Hurried coordination and limited access to the draft reduced opportunities for the IC to discover misquoting of sources and other tradecraft concerns,” the report notes.
The committee found that Brennan ordered the post-election release of 15 intelligence reports that had not been previously published. Of those, three were so poorly sourced that the committee called them "substandard" — yet those were the ones used to justify the claim that Putin preferred Trump.
“One scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard reports constitutes the only classified information cited to suggest Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win,” the report reveals.
Even worse, the committee discovered that reliable intelligence contradicting the Putin-Trump claim was intentionally excluded or selectively quoted.
“The ICA ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence reports that challenged — and in some cases undermined — judgments that Putin sought to elect Trump.”
The report also included statements from a Putin confidant who said the Russian leader had “no preference” in the 2016 race and regularly criticized both Clinton and Trump. Additional intelligence cited by the committee indicated that Russia was preparing for a Clinton win, believing they could “work with her” because they already knew where she stood.
Two senior CIA officers even warned Brennan that the claim about Putin wanting Trump to win was unsupported by any direct evidence.
But those warnings were ignored — and the Obama White House moved forward with releasing the flawed ICA anyway.
The report makes it abundantly clear: the intelligence community did not act independently in 2016 and 2017. The narrative that Putin backed Trump was a product of political manipulation, not unbiased intelligence. The ICA, commissioned under Obama’s watch, was produced under "unusual" orders to create a high-profile document that could cast doubt on Trump’s legitimacy.
This wasn’t analysis — it was opposition research stamped with the CIA’s seal of approval.
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View Plans“The ICA committed context showing that the claim that Putin preferred Trump was implausible — if not ridiculous,” the committee concluded.
The report's release adds more fuel to the already surging firestorm over the weaponization of government agencies against President Trump, and it further vindicates what conservatives have argued for years: The Russia hoax wasn’t just baseless — it was deliberate.