Gabbard Declassification of Russiagate Docs Threatens To Destroy the British Narrative, Raises Questions of Accountability
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July 19, 2025 (EIRNS)—On July 18, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released over 100 pages of previously classified docs which provide evidence of what she calls “a treasonous conspiracy to subvert the will of the American people.” In releasing this report, Gabbard denounced the promotion of the Russiagate story by intelligence officials as “narrative building,” and not “intelligence gathering.”
The obsessive swirl of coverage of the renewed flap over Jeffrey Epstein and the Trump-MAGA split over the case has left little room for mainstream coverage of the release which is nonetheless exploding on social media.
In her official DNI X feed, Gabbard posts a series of devastating info-graphics along with a timeline, showing that on August 31, September 9, and December 7, 2016, the Intelligence Community (IC) had determined that Russia had neither the capacity or the intention to hack the 2016 election infrastructure, and included this assessment in a December 8, 2016 President’s Daily Brief which was then withheld from President Obama on orders of then-DNI James Clapper’s office, as instructed in a memo that read: “Based on some new guidance, we are going to push back publication of the PDB (President’s Daily Briefing). It will not run tomorrow and is not likely to run until next week.”
The following day, December 9, a White House meeting was convened which included CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland, and others where, according to Gabbard, “Obama directed the IC to create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling, even though it would contradict multiple intelligence assessments released over the previous several months.”
Clapper’s DNI office scrambled to piece together a “new assessment” which was released on January 6, 2017 which opened the door to the lying Russiagate story which dominated Trump’s first term.
In a statement on the release of the declassified docs on the assessment of Russian interference, Gabbard said, “This intelligence was weaponized…. It was used as a justification for endless smears, for sanctions from Congress, and for covert investigations.” She added: “When key internal assessments found that Russia ‘did not impact recent U.S. election results,’ those findings were suppressed.”
“For months before the 2016 election, the Intelligence Community maintained that Russia lacked both the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections,” Gabbard noted. “But once President Trump won, everything changed.”
The little coverage which appeared as of the early morning issues of the New York Times and the Washington Post—papers which were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their fabricated stories at the heart of Russiagate—was dwarfed by multiple articles on the Epstein embroglio. The coverage in RT points to why the mainstream U.S. press has so far limited its coverage to accusing Gabbard of ignoring the evidence of Russian intervention produced by the intel community against Putin and Trump: the declassified docs could lead to charges against John Brennan and Clapper, key Obama intel officials who were involved in the fake findings, as well as other top officials in the intelligence community and FBI, even up to Obama.