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   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2024-02-20, Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   > The Central Intelligence Agency manipulated intelligence information to make   
   > it look like Russia wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential election   
   > despite having more credible information showing that Russia wanted Hillary   
   > Clinton to win, according to a new report.   
   >   
   > The effort to manipulate the information was headed up by John Brennan,   
   > Obama’s CIA director, who disregarded evidence that the Russians preferred   
   > Clinton because she was more predictable and highlighted questionable   
   > evidence claiming Russia favored Trump, sources told independent journalists   
   > Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag.   
   >   
   > “They cooked the intelligence,” a source close to a House Permanent Select   
   > Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal   
   > told the journalists. “They made it look like Putin supported Trump.”   
   >   
   >      The U.S. government said in January 2017 that Russia favored Trump   
   >      as president. But now, sources reveal for the first time that the CIA   
   >      "cooked the intelligence" to hide that Vladamir Putin wanted Hillary   
   >      Clinton, not Donald Trump, as president. pic.twitter.com/WFJsW1erqb   
   >   
   >      — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 15, 2024   
   >   
   > The source said that the evidence pointed the other way, showing Russia   
   > wanted Clinton to win because “it was a relationship they were comfortable   
   > with.” According to the source, the CIA had evidence showing Russia viewed   
   > Trump as “unreliable,” “mercurial,” and “not steady,” while viewing   
   Clinton   
   > as “manageable and reflecting continuity.”   
   >   
   > HPSCI looked further into the sourcing of the claims from Brennan and the   
   > Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Russia wanted Trump and found   
   > contradictory information.   
   >   
   > “We looked at the report and the sourcing they used to evaluate the   
   > sourcing,” a source said. “When we dug further to look at the data   
   available   
   > to them that they didn’t use, and it overwhelmingly contradicted their   
   > conclusions that Russia supported Trump.”   
   >   
   > According to a source, Brennan and other intelligence agents “embellished”   
   > their Trump-Russia report by changing the categorization of sources that said   
   > Russia wanted Trump from unreliable to reliable.   
   >   
   > Shellenberger told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday that there was a   
   > 50-page report exposing the operation that the CIA “is currently hiding at   
   > its headquarters.” According to Shellenberger, the controversy highlights   
   two   
   > major intelligence scandals.   
   >   
   > “The first one happened earlier in 2016, where our sources, multiple   
   sources,   
   > tell us that Brennan oversaw the manipulation of our foreign allies to   
   > basically entrap Trump associates to create the pretext for the FBI   
   > investigation of Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia which is now   
   > debunked,” he said.   
   >   
   > “The second thing is almost a year later Brennan orchestrates a phony   
   > intelligence assessment that comes to the opposite conclusion of what their   
   > own raw intelligence, their best intelligence was showing,” he added.   
   >   
   > Trump was reportedly preparing to declassify information on the efforts to   
   > tie his campaign to Russia before leaving office but was unable to do so   
   > before President Joe Biden took office.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Let's go Brandon!   
   >   
      
   And the progressive left is still claiming that the deep state doesn't exist.   
   Call it what you will, but it's very real and it's extremely dangerous.   
   --   
   pothead   
   Tommy Chong For President 2024.   
   Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.   
   Impeach Joe Biden 2022.   
      
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