{"id":1833,"date":"2025-08-22T00:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:29:55","slug":"obama-era-intel-official-was-pressured-to-back-trump-russia-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Obama-Era Intel Official Was \u2018Pressured\u2019 To Back Trump-Russia Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a whistleblower\u2019s account last week describing how an Obama-era intelligence official pressured a subordinate to approve a phony assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was pressured to alter my views,\u201d the senior intelligence analyst-turned-whistleblower said in documents that the DNI is using as evidence to support bombshell claims she made in July when detailing the \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d involving Obama-era officials who allegedly attempted \u201cto subvert President Trump\u2019s 2016 victory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analyst, who took part in a 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which determined \u201cforeign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome,\u201d explained that \u201cmy concurrence was sought to enable [redacted] to sway the views of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)\u201d so that the Defense Intelligence Agency would agree to on a revised ICA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2017 intelligence community assessment (ICA) relied heavily on the discredited Steele dossier and asserted that the Kremlin orchestrated the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails and intervened in the presidential election to support Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is reporting you are not allowed to see, if you saw it, you would agree,\u201d the analyst said a supervisor told him in early January 2017 when the analyst was asked to review the new reporting in the alternative assessment, the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read : <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=1783\">Rhode Island Democratic Prosecutor Arrested For Trespassing, Threatens Cops<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t it possible Putin has something on Trump, to blackmail and coerce him?\u201d the supervisor continued. \u201dYou need to TRUST ME on this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the whistleblower refused to sign off on the new assessment, the \u201cvisibly frustrated\u201d supervisor stated: \u201cI need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember this conversation very clearly, as it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care,\u201d the whistleblower wrote in the account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Office\u2019s] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to [Intelligence Community] standards, tradecraft, and ethics,\u201d the analyst testified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency in signing off on the altered Intelligence Community Assessment that became the centerpiece of the \u201cRussiagate\u201d hoax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documents also reveal that the whistleblower made repeated efforts to raise concerns about the information used in the 2017 ICA to various government officials, including the intelligence community\u2019s inspector general, former Special Counsel John Durham, and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), but these attempts were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Whistleblower put their own well-being on the line to defend our democratic republic and ensure the American people learned the truth about how President Obama directed the creation of [an] Intelligence Community Assessment that knowingly promoted falsehoods claiming Russia helped President Trump get elected in 2016,\u201d Gabbard said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn doing so, the Obama Administration sought to delegitimize the 2016 election and President Trump\u2019s presidency, subverting the will of the American people and enacting essentially a years-long coup against President Trump and the American people,\u201d she added. \u201cThanks to this individual and other courageous whistleblowers, the American people are finally learning the truth about the dangerous consequences of weaponized intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTruth and accountability will help in ensuring this doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/jd-vance-doj-94052\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201ca lot of people\u201d are about to be indicted as a result of the Obama administration\u2019s actions in the so-called Russiagate scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Vance did not reveal any specific names of people whom he thinks will be charged, but he did cite recent disclosures from Gabbard as conclusive evidence that there had been \u201can aggressive violation of the law\u201d about Russiagate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a whistleblower\u2019s account last week describing how an Obama-era intelligence official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}