Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified several documents, including handwritten notes from former CIA John Brennan after he briefed former President Obama on an alleged plot by Hillary Clinton to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 US election, according to Fox News.
Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes – which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence the CIA received – and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence transmitted the declassified documents to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Tuesday afternoon.
“Today, at the direction of President Trump, I declassified additional documents relevant to ongoing Congressional oversight and investigative activities,” Ratcliffe said in a statement to Fox News Tuesday. –Fox News
“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED],” read Brennan’s notes. “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.”
DECLASSIFICATION:
1. Notes by John Brennan on briefing to Obama on alleged Clinton plot to dirty up Trump campaign by linking it to DNC Hack/Russia
2. CIA referral to FBI about the alleged Clinton plot@EpochTimes
PDFs
2. https://t.co/lnQIGcUQ9f pic.twitter.com/R4JPKa4onI
— Ivan Pentchoukov (@IvanPentchoukov) October 6, 2020
Clinton spokesperson Nick Merrill called the allegations “baseless bullshit,” however DNI Ratcliffe said in a statement last week: “To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community,” adding “I’ll be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.”
A source familiar with the documents told Fox News on Tuesday that the allegation was “not disinformation.”
“This is not Russian disinformation. Even Brennan knew, or he wouldn’t be briefing the president of the United States on it,” the source said. “There is a high threshold to orally brief the president of the United States and he clearly felt this met that threshold.”
Another source familiar with the documents told Fox News that “this information has been sought by hundreds of congressional requests for legitimate oversight purposes and was withheld for political spite—and the belief that they’d never get caught.” –Fox News
And per The Federalist: “There is no evidence the FBI ever took any action to ensure that Russian knowledge of Clinton’s plans did not lead to infiltration of that campaign’s operation by Russian intelligence agents. The CIA referral, specifically its reference to a “CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell,” suggests that the Obama administration’s anti-Trump investigation may not have been limited to the FBI, but may have included the use of CIA assets and surveillance capabilities, raising troubling questions about whether the nation’s top spy service was weaponized against a U.S. political campaign.”
Meanwhile, Twitter is censoring this story:
First time has happened. When I tried to RT @seanmdav story in l @FDRLST regarding the DNIs handwritten notes about Hillary’s effort to push the Russia narrative @Twitter put this up pic.twitter.com/AIoNvx1VSV
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) October 6, 2020
As we noted last week after Ratcliffe previewed the allegation:
On September 7, 2016, US intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to former FBI officials James Comey and Peter Strzok concerning allegations that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to smear then-candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian hackers, according to information given to Sen. Lindsey Graham by the Director of National Intelligence.
According to Fox News’ Chad Pergram, “In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump,” after one of Clinton’s foreign policy advisers proposed vilifying Trump “by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”
1) DNI info to Graham: In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump..
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 29, 2020
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Gee don’t follow their draconian covid bullshit rules.Risk losing everything. Commit treason allowed to run for president. Man are things F’ed up or what.
The two-tiered justice systems. Us against them.
Old news. They’re just letting people know it’s actually true and there’s proof. So when are people going to be strung up?
We don’t string people up in the Republic of Nice. The proles we imprison for 400 years but the elites are simply exiled to the very nice section of the country of their choosing.
I thought their organizations, not them personally, were fined and let go on their merry way.
Q has been telling us that for 2 years…
Trump can’t believe it? No, we the people can’t believe we’d elect a president too impotent to do anything about such corruption.
And just WHO do you think has been IMPEDING the best president America has seen in over 65 years?
Impotent? In the face of nothing BUT lies and opposition from so called republicans to the media,, he has accomplished more for America then anyone I can remember.. You better go Vote for that man,,he is the only thing standing between us and the people who did this..
Bullshit. Go down Trump’s list of 2016 campaign promises and tell us what he’s accomplished. He’s done the opposite of what he said he would do for nearly everything.
Best President in my lifetime.
Landslide election victory.
Arrests.
TDS.
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
-A biased viewpoint, on nearly any topic, whereby those affected with it never fail to spin and voice their opinion to paint DJT in a bad light, and always at fault, with a hatred that burns with unparalleled intensity. Borderline psychotic.
Recognizable by the frequency of occurrence.
Repetitive.
Sooooo predictable.
Every damn time.
At least 75% of the information that is classified by all branches of the government (DoD, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.) is classified only to cover up illegal or incompetent activity. The Deep State always uses the excuse that “national security will be compromised” or “state secrets will be revealed” if that information is declassified. A Deep State insider like Bill Barr obviously knows this. If he actually wanted to indict any of the people involved in the “coup” he would just do it. But he doesn’t want to do it because he is part of the Deep State, and is also one of Trump’s handlers. Also, Trump could issue indictments himself if he wanted to. He is the boss of the DOJ and the FBI. He can legally do anything that can be done by the DOJ or FBI. If he can’t get anyone to issue indictments then he could do it himself. But he won’t do it because his handlers won’t let him, and also because he enjoys playing the victim. It keeps his cult followers defending him and excusing him for his failure to keep any of his campaign promises.
It could happen, probably it won’t.
Seditious sniveling shit weasels.
Yep. And anyone with an IQ sufficient to open a cereal box deduced same three years ago.
Aaaaaand….ain’t nothin gonna happen. And these cocksuckers know it.
If damning evidence is released and not covered by major media, FakeBook, Twatter, Instagram, etc. does the general public even know it happened?
Shits given: 0.0
Beating a dead horse.
and
You should run for POTUS mag you’d be amazing!
I’m sick of all this Democrat Hillary , Obama , Holder , FBI , CIA , IRS , DNC fucking bull shit !
I want to see perp walks in chains I want asses in a fucking sling and heads on the god damn chopping block ! I want careers destroyed pensions wiped out and no way they ever get to earn shit from their fucking treasonous leftist bull shit story !
I want rotting corpses swinging from lamppost on Pennsylvania Avenue.
If you want that, then vote for dems. They will actually do it. The repubs will do nothing. If Trump loses, he will be forced into bankruptcy. Probably prison too. The dems don’t screw around. Look what they have done to that couple in St. Louis. No push back at all from the “tough guy” repubs.
How can there not be arrests? If these declassified docs continue and they will, getting worse and worse, the bar of exposed corruption will be raised so astronomically high that there will have to be arrests.
One side or the other.
There is no sweeping this under the rug, the genie is out, no going back to the “accusation game” and plausible deniability.
Its to the death, one side or the other, Trump is all in.
In true 4th Turning style.
This does make real civil war most likely no matter who wins this election. The rest of the world is watching, and many countries hate the cia. Think other countries will just sit back and watch, well maybe at first, then they will pile on. Many military personel will be stuck overseas.
Am old enough to remember the fall of the Shah of Iran as shown on the nightly news. Slow at first, shooting into the crowds, then the military joined the people and gave them their weapons. It was pretty wicked.
If these declassified docs result in an ‘active federal criminal investigation’ does that mean:
(from @amuse tweet:) “The @TheJusticeDept will use the ‘active federal criminal investigation’ status as an excuse to stop releasing incriminating documents and emails to Congress and the public. The investigation will go nowhere. The swamp is deep…”
Huh?
Where is Vlad the Impaler when we need him?
And they spent 40 M taxpayer dollars trying to convict Trump of collusion with Russia when they knew it was all Hillary’s made up bullshit to cover her reckless lawbreaking with her e-mails. Yeah, fuck us. Mueller, everyone in his gang, the FBI, CIA, the entire Obama administration, his DOJ and the entire DNC need to swing from lamp posts. I say Hillary first.