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Tulsi Gabbard Joins White House Press Briefing After Bombshell Accusation Against Obama
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7/23/2025
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke about documents declassified following President Trump accusing former President Obama of treason.
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Tulsi thank you for being here. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. At President Trump's
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direction and with the support and coordination with the House Intelligence Committee Chairman
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Rick Crawford, today we've released a declassified oversight majority staff report
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that was produced in September of 2020. The stunning revelations that we are releasing today
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should be of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats or Republicans. This has to do
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with the integrity of our Democratic Republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
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will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national
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security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew
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was false. They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016
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election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
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It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out. They
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manufactured findings from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence
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that disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence community
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standards and withheld the truth from the American people. In doing so, they conspired to subvert the
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will of the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election in November of 2016. They worked with
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their partners in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump
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and launching what would be a years-long coup against him and his administration. We're here today
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because the American people deserve the truth, they deserve accountability, and they deserve justice.
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The records that we released on Friday that were ODNI records, Senator Chuck Grassley's release on Monday of what is
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known as the Clinton Annex, which was an appendix to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General's 2018 report,
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as well as the House Intelligence Committee's majority oversight report that we're releasing today,
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all come back to and confirm the same report. There was a gross politicization and manipulation
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of intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump even before he was
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inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of the American people. I'm going to go over the key
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findings from the House Intelligence Report, which investigated the claims that were made by an
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intelligence community assessment ordered by President Obama and published in January of 2017.
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First, Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.S.
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democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report shows Putin
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held back leaking – held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election,
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instead planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency.
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In the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered,
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John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community, intentionally suppressed
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intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession
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about Hillary Clinton until after her potential and likely victory.
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The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had which – on Hillary Clinton,
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which included possible criminal acts, like secret meetings with multiple named U.S. religious organizations,
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in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign
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for the presidency, significant increases in financing from the State Department.
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They also had documents that showed the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees
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who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high-level DNC emails that
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detailed evidence of Hillary's, quote, psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression,
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and cheerfulness, and that then-Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.
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Then-CIA Director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious
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substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a, quote, unquote,
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clear preference for Trump. Brennan and the IC misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele dossier
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to assess, quote, unquote, Russia's plans and intentions, falsely suggesting that this dossier
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had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited. The intelligence community excluded
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significant intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence that
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contradicted the intelligence community assessment's key findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump,
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including this intelligence reporting, would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible,
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if not ridiculous. The intelligence community assessment omitted reliably sourced information,
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such as how some Russian intelligence officials were, quote, unquote, planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's
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victory, while others assessed neither Trump nor Clinton would respect Russia's interests.
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As was reflected in the ODNI documents that we released on Friday, multiple intelligence community
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assessments released in the months leading up to the November 2016 election concluded that Russia had
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neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the U.S. election. On December 5th of 2016,
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the FBI and ODNI gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post-election classified briefing in
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which there was no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency. The presidential daily brief
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drafted on December 8th of 2016 stated that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts.
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This document was pulled just hours before it was to be published due to, quote, unquote,
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new guidance. If it had been published, it would have been briefed to both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump.
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On December 9th, 2016, a National Security Council meeting was called to gather President Obama's senior national security officials,
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which included CIA Director Brennan, then Obama DNI James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others.
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Following that secret meeting, DNI Clapper's assistant sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line,
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POTUS tasking on Russia election meddling, tasking ODNI leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request.
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The House Intelligence Committee oversight report that we released today reveals that, quote,
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unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the intelligence community assessment
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was a high-profile product ordered by the President, President Obama.
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It directed senior intelligence community agency heads and created an intelligence community assessment
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limited to just five analysts using one principal drafter.
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This is not something that occurs in the normal path of producing an intelligence community assessment
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that reflects the views across the intelligence community.
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The production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives,
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directly from the President and senior political appointees, especially the former Director of the CIA, John Brennan.
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The House Intelligence Committee oversight report also shows how later that same day, on December 9th,
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Brennan ordered the publication of, quote, unquote, substandard reporting on Russian activities,
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which had previously been withheld from publication of prior assessments because the information was judged,
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quote, to have not met longstanding publication standards.
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Some of the information later used in the Obama ordered assessment over the objections of veteran CIA
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officers was, quote, unquote, unclear or from unknown sources.
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The Intelligence Committee's oversight report reveals that CIA Director Brennan
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overruled senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama-ordered intelligence assessment,
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stating, quote,
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We don't have direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected.
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Yet, the Obama-directed assessment was published on January 6th, 2017, which explicitly stated,
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quote,
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We assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances
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when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him,
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end of quote.
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The CIA and FBI, then led by John Brennan and James Comey, expressed high confidence in this judgment,
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while the NSA expressed moderate confidence.
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Yet, as the report we released today shows, the ICA, the Intelligence Community Assessment, did not cite
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any report where Putin indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is true.
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With regards to the Steele dossier, we now know that one of the source documents that the Obama
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Administration used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January of 2017
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was none other than the discredited, unverified Steele dossier.
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The House Intel report states, quote,
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Contradicting public claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the dossier was not in any way
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incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The dossier was referenced in the intelligence
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assessment's main body text and further detailed in a two-page assessment annex.
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John Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this intelligence assessment that President
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Obama ordered because he knew it was discredited. It was a politically motivated, manufactured
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document. He directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway.
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CIA officer told the House Intelligence Committee staff as they investigated this, quote,
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the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier's
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many flaws, responded, quote, yes, but doesn't it ring true? Even the bipartisan Senate Select Committee
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on Intelligence Report published in 2020 criticized the FBI's handling of the Steele dossier,
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noting its completely unverified nature and purposeful sidestepping of intelligence community
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procedures in its use. Now, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper,
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James Comey, and others, including their mouthpieces in the media, knowingly lied as they repeated the
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contrived narrative that was created in this January 2017 intelligence community assessment with high
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confidence as though it were fact. John Brennan, as CIA director, stated in a memo to his agency
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staff in December of 2016, saying, quote, there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature,
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and intent of Russian interference in our presidential elected election. This was reported by NBC News,
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confirming that Brennan, along with James Clapper and James Comey, agreed with the CIA's assessment
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that Russia intervened to help Trump win the presidency. As Obama's Director of National
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Intelligence, James Clapper was tasked with overseeing the creation of this assessment in January of
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2017 by President Obama, and he expressed confidence in its findings. In a 2018 interview with the Harvard
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Gazette, he talked about how he provided Trump with the same classified assessment that President
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Obama received, which included the high confidence judgment that Putin directly ordered the hacking
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and election interference. Clapper then went on to add, I think they, the Russians, actually influenced
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the outcome. This is a brief summary of the details that you'll find within the House majority staff's
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report in their investigation into the Obama-directed January 2017 intelligence community assessment.
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That leads us to the very same conclusion that we announced in the release of our documents on
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Friday. The implications of this are far-reaching and have to do with the integrity of our Democratic
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Republic. It has to do with an outgoing President taking action to manufacture intelligence,
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to undermine and usurp the will of the American people in that election, and launch what would be
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a years-long coup against the incoming President of the United States, Donald Trump. Thank you.
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