https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/2057898594162688429

https://nitter.poast.org/C__Herridge/status/2057898594162688429

“ LEGACY:
@DNIGabbard declassified highly sensitive records and internal documents from the Obama White House.

The records make an even stronger case that the 2016 Russia collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence.

Rather, intelligence was manipulated by the outgoing Obama Administration in coordination with IC leadership to fit a preferred political narrative.

As of May 2026, DNI Gabbard has declassified well over half a million pages of government records that were previously withheld from the American people.”

https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf

(U) Memo To: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

(U) From: Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis

(U) Subject: Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference

(U) Reference: Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, 30 December 2016

In May 2025, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DCIA) John Ratcliffe tasked CIA's Directorate of Analysis (DA) to conduct a lessons-learned review of the procedures and analytic tradecraft employed in the highest classified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) Russia's Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, dated 30 December 2016.

[excerpts]

(U) Timeline Impact: The highly compressed timeline was atypical for a formal IC assessment, which ordinarily can take months to prepare, especially for assessments of such length, complexity, and political sensitivity. CIA’s primary authors had less than a week to draft the assessment and less than two days to formally coordinate it with IC peers before it entered the formal review process at CIA on 20 December. • (U) Multiple IC stakeholders said they felt “jammed” by the compressed timeline. Most got their first look at the hardcopy draft and underlying sensitive reporting just before or at the only in-person coordination meeting that was held on 19 December to conduct a line-by- line review.

[Admiral Rogers] • (S//NF) Following the coordination meeting,then-Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers wrote to then-DCIA John Brennan to say that his analysts were not “fully comfortable” with the time they had been given to “review all of the intelligence” and “be absolutely confident in their assessments.”

…

[John Brennan] • (S//NF) Central to the judgment that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win was one highly classified CIA report. Brennan had tightly restricted access to this information within CIA; it had been collected in July but not disseminated in CIA serialized reporting until the week of 19 December.

…

(S//NF) Despite these objections, Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness. When confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center leaders—one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background—he appeared more swayed by the Dossier's general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns. Brennan ultimately formalized his position in writing, stating that “my bottomline is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report. ”

…

[NSA] (S//NF) However, NSA and a few other participants were not comfortable with ascribing “high confidence” to the “aspired” judgment. They cited the limited source base, lack of corroborating intelligence, and “the possibility for an alternative judgment” as driving their discomfort.

Good post, OP, thanks for breaking this down. I wonder if ANY of the normies will ever understand what's happening if arrests begin happening? Especially at the very top level of Obama, Hillary, etc? Or will they just believe that it's political revenge?