Thread by @EpochTimes

The @CIA's #InspectorGeneral has taken over a year to clear the release of a House Intelligence Committee report which contradicts the key conclusion of the intelligence community assessment on #Russian interference in the 2016 election. (Thread👇) theepochtimes.com/cia-watchdog-s…

The January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), prepared at the behest of President @BarackObama, claimed that #Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.

The House Intelligence Committee’s public report on #Russia had already challenged the analytic tradecraft behind this central claim and suggested that the process of arriving at the assessment was not free of political interference. republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…

A separate, classified report holed up at the office of the @CIA Inspector General (IG) sheds damning light on the role then-CIA Director @JohnBrennan played in the preparation of the report.

The report states @JohnBrennan overruled agency analysts who wanted to include strong intelligence in the assessment to show that President #VladimirPutin wanted @HillaryClinton to win the election, Fleitz says, citing conversations with House Intelligence Committee staffers.

“So Brennan actually slanted this analysis, choosing anti-Trump intelligence and excluding anti-Clinton intelligence.”

#Brennan also rejected analysts who wanted to strike weak intelligence from the report which suggested that #Russia favored Trump, Fleitz said.

The existence of the House report on the ICA, which has not been previously reported, comes to light less one month after newly declassified documents revealed that @FBI was aware that a key part of the infamous #SteeleDossier could have been the product of #Disinformation…

…by #Russian intelligence services. The dossier played a key role in the @FBI’s decision to obtain a #FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate @CarterWPage.

The @HillaryClinton campaign and the @DNC funded the dossier. theepochtimes.com/fbi-knew-steel…

A summary of the #SteeleDossier was included in a top-secret attachment to the ICA—Annex A.

The @FBI pushed to include the dossier in the ICA, according to a Senate intelligence committee report on the assessment released last month. intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

The @FBI told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) that they “would have had a major problem if Annex A had not been included.”

Former #FBI Director James @Comey told the SSCI that he personally insisted that the #SteeleDossier be included.

“I insisted that we bring it to the party, and I was agnostic as to whether it was footnoted in the document itself, put as an annex,” @Comey said.

The Senate report’s conclusions about the ICA clash with those reportedly in the classified House report.

“Every witness interviewed by the Committee stated that he or she saw no attempts or pressure to politicize the findings.”

The SSCI found no issues with the process that led to the issuance of the ICA and found no witnesses to support the claim that the process was politicized.

The @CIA IG office is currently led by Acting Inspector General Christopher Sharpley, a holdover from the @BarackObama administration who was reappointed by President Trump.

Sharpley withdrew his nomination after allegations surfaced that he misled the Senate about his awareness of #Whistleblower reprisal complaints against him. theepochtimes.com/ukraine-compla…

Fleitz said he had personally reached out to Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grennell about releasing the House report.

The @ODNIgov did not respond to a request for comment.

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