Putin's REAL Puppet Finally Revealed

Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag, "CIA 'Cooked The Intelligence' To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump, In 2016, Sources Say"

The Russians didn't fear a Hillary Clinton presidency. “It was a relationship they were comfortable with,” CIA analysts believed

The Trump-Russia scandal made its formal launch on January 6th, 2017, when the office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper published what’s called an “Intelligence Community Assessment,” or “ICA,” as it’s universally known in Washington.

Release of the ICA dominated headlines, fixed Donald Trump in the minds of millions of Americans as a Manchurian candidate controlled by Vladamir Putin, and upended his in-coming administration.

The report declared that Russia and Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to “denigrate” Hillary Clinton and “harm her electability,” thanks to their “clear preference for President-elect [Donald] Trump.”

It was powerful stuff. And it was dead wrong.

The documents make it quite clear that the evidence showed that the Kremlin wanted Hillary Clinton to win, but partisans in the intelligence community wanted to get Trump. So Brennan, an Obama partisan, handpicked his intelligence analysts, who would then cherrypick intelligence to reach the conclusion that Brennan wanted. 

How they accomplished this was incredibly disturbing:

Former CIA Director John Brennan and the ICA authors “embellished” their conclusion by upgrading unreliable sources to reliable, the source said. “They upgraded in the writing of their report to let those sources have more credibility and a higher rating. We caught them on 3-4 items where those people didn’t have a credible historic reporting line and changed the source rating for that Brennan report.”

Dissent, even within Brennan’s group of 24 “hand-picked” analysts — not from 17 agencies but just four, and really just three, when one considers the ODNI is just a coordinating agency — was overruled. 

None of this information that Public and Racket shared was publicly available until now. And the story continues down a very disturbing path. According to Public, "Multiple sources said Brennan’s exclusion of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence Research (INR) were and are red flags pointing to a manipulated conclusion."

Former CIA official Ray McGovern said, “The real story is that Brennan and [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper succeeded in marginalizing both the State Department and the DIA, which has primary responsibility for the GRU.”