EXCLUSIVE: Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s top intelligence official, leveled allegations against Obama that no U.S. spy chief has ever made against a former president or administration. – NBC News
No previous U.S. spy chief has made such an allegation against a chief executive, yet the Democrats dismissed it as “a weak attempt at distraction” from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Gabbard announced she had declassified a five-year-old report by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee about the 2016 election. The Republican report was emphatically rejected at the time by Democratic lawmakers on the panel who played no role in its creation.
The Republican report sought to cast doubt on an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in a bid to boost Trump’s candidacy. The Republican report found that the bulk of the 2017 intelligence assessment — which assessed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to damage Hillary Clinton’s candidacy — was “sound.”
The House committee report also accused the director of the CIA at the time, John Brennan, of pushing to keep the finding about Putin in the assessment.