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Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS

Jul 23, 79 tweets

🧵Holy BEEP! Wading through the HPSCI report on ICA which I had previously exclusively reported revealed corruption was much worse than what CIA report on ICA revealed. Hitting points here.

2/ Here's the link if you want to read along, but there are so many threads that need to be wove together to understand, which I'll do below. justthenews.com/sites/default/…

3/ NOTE: Media is STILL lying about this.

4/ This would be Brennan. Waiting to see what this is:

5/ Were any of these 5 whistleblowers? We know there are several, including one talking to Gabbard, one talking to Grassley, one talking to Ratcliffe.

6/ I never knew this...or if I did, I forgot I did. Was this previously known?

7/ Problems were thus of the drafters of ICA.

8/ Main fake intel was this: I don't remember the Putin not giving up on Hillary losing point before. Did I miss this or was it in a more redacted version that hadn't been released yet?

9/ HPSCI notes that the ICA cited controlling tradecraft standards but then violated all of them.

10/ IT was all part of the plan from the start!

11/ Interestingly, this HPSCI report said problems were not systemic:

12/ I'm confused on what this means. I'll circle back later once I gain some clarity.

13/ Holy BEEP!

14/ @#$@#: So, AFTER Obama ordered ICA, Brennan went back and ordered creation of 3 reports to provide support for conclusions in ICA even though CIA had previously concluded no reports should issue because the intel wasn't good!!!!

15/ In other words, not only did Brennan fake the ICA, he faked the underlying intel reports on which the fake ICA was based!!!

16/ And of the three, Brennan hid 2 and those could make up whatever shit about the shit he made up in those reports.

17/ Here's the made up intel to support the fake ICA: Brennan demanded it be used.

18/ So was that from the Steele dossier? Or another made up source? This description sounds like Steele but then again, it could be 80% of IC.

19/ Recall from Gabbard's release that ICA folks didn't know of Steele dossier until 12/20.

20/ Correction that was @CIADirector report:

@CIADirector 21/ Intel analysts said remove that fake info & it was misleading.

@CIADirector 22/ WAIT! Is this what the ICA actually said? Was this redacted before? I don't remember it being this expressed re the source for the supposed intel.

@CIADirector 23/ I think this is the Steele dossier, then, right? And as the HPSCI report says this black box warning is woefully insufficient.

24/ More problems.!

@CIADirector 25/ HOLY CRAPPOLA! The timing of intel was re Trump winning the REPUBLICAN NOMINATION!

@CIADirector 26/BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!

@CIADirector 27/ And thus EVEN if Putin said "expected" at that time, because it was shortly before RNC, it would say nothing of whether Putin wanted Reset Hillary to win or Trump!!!

@CIADirector 28/ Under standards, no way in hell to say with "high confidence" Putin wanted Trump to win! And NSA wouldn't go with it even under Obama Administration.

@CIADirector 29/ Scope and sourcing in ICA was misleading too:

@CIADirector 30/ Assuming that is about Steele, it is so blatantly fraudulent and ALSO inconsistent with Comey, et. al. were saying about their view of the reporting!!

@CIADirector 31/ Steele dossier wasn't only thing invented!! Again, I don't remember the ICA revealing these details before...Did I miss it or does this report provide more info re what ICA said?

@CIADirector 32/ So bad was the reporting it was "ridiculous". What was this February 2016 note?

@CIADirector 33/ Was this just another part of dossier? thinking as reviewing.

@CIADirector 34/ So it appears an anonymous email. Doesn't appear then Steele dossier but still piecing together what it was!

@CIADirector 35/ Third report invented to support fake ICA: Same problems.

@CIADirector 36/ And even then they lied about what the fake reporting said:

@CIADirector 37/ Other intel actually suggested a Trump win was bad for Russia:

@CIADirector 38/ Clapper standby the claptrap!

@CIADirector 39/ Note the use of circular confirmation of press reporting to confirm what was leaked to press.

@CIADirector 40/ HPSCI report then details all contrary intel that shows Putin was at best indifferent.

@CIADirector 41/ HPSCI report also notes that intelligence analysts had access of key documents withheld. Note: Think tanks helped with much of the anti-Trump, and later pro-Biden spins.

@CIADirector 42/ Need to revisit this to understand what was withheld/ignored.

@CIADirector 43/ Holy BEEP: Obama kept intel from analysts!!!

@CIADirector 44/ ICA ignores Putin had a chance to help Trump but didn't!

@CIADirector 45/ HOLY CRAP!

@CIADirector 46/ OMgosh!!!!

@CIADirector 47/

@CIADirector 48/ The additional scandals re Clinton here are huge!

@CIADirector 49/ Just got some clarification from source that the 3 documents Brennan ordered prepared were not dossier or components of it.

@CIADirector 49/ Re Clinton scandals...

@CIADirector 50/ This is a nutso explanation for why Putin didn't keep releasing documents if it wanted to sink Hillary and help Trump!

@CIADirector 51/ Again, is this previously unknown info since we've been told RNC was hacked too and this shows IC didn't conclude that!

@CIADirector 52/ Cyber operations isn't same as saying they obtained the info.

@CIADirector 53/ Putin held back and likely had more intel on Clinton then IC even knew.

@CIADirector 54/ ICA reporting wasn't only thing fake...briefing on the ICA was also fraudulent.

@CIADirector 55/ ICA misrepresented underlying text of a report it relied upon. Need to determine what this was:

@CIADirector 56/ HPSCI now trashes ICA's use of Steele dossier:

@CIADirector 57/ This passage explains that the ICA folks didn't all see the Steele dossier.

@CIADirector 58/ And Gabbard's release reveals the significance of this point as one of main guys on ICA didn't even see the dossier.

@CIADirector 59/ And yet the media acts like this is a non-story!!!

@CIADirector 60/ Comey wouldn't let other FBI folks be interviewed. Seems kinda problematic!

@CIADirector 61/ Steele is slayed here!

@CIADirector 62/ Next section of HPSCI report destroys Steele report but info is already well covered. . . except in legacy press. BUT this hits ICA.

@CIADirector 63/ Brennan and Comey destroyed next:

@CIADirector 64/ HPSCI highlights further issues with ICA re the dossier. Oh, and the defensive brief was bull shit!

@CIADirector 65/ Trump was right:

@CIADirector 66/ This reference to "compartmented" reports is important given @DNIGabbard release on Friday that references the same issue. I'm still piecing it together though so need to follow-up on this point after thinking through/talking to sources.

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 67/ Here again referencing limited access to supposedly corroborating info.

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 68/ Comey now lies about why dossier included in ICA when pushed by Trump Administration.

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 69/ Liar, liar, Comey's pants on fire:

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 70/ So after Brennan fed media lie Putin wanted to help Trump, that became the judgment.

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 71/ Clarification now on how many ICA versions: Note this "compartmentalization point" because Gabbard's putative whistleblower didn't see it!

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 72/ This was really Putin's plan:

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 73/ These rallies sound familiar!

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 74/ Seems suss!

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard Suss part:

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 75/ Here is impact of rush & why there was no reason for the rush!

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 76/ How horribly manipulated the ICA was is shown by these facts:

@CIADirector @DNIGabbard 77/78 Timeline on pp 45-46 helpful. So, that's yourplay-by-play. Big picture: Report provides vivid picture of exactly what went down & how corrupt ICA was, both by what was in & what wasn't in ICA. More specifically, several new facts revealed, prefaced ⬆️w/ "Holy" & BEEP.

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