CIA Deep Staters Reportedly Tried To Stop Tulsi Gabbard From Revealing Truth About RussiagateEmily Kopp
Investigative Reporter
August 07, 2025 1:20 PM ET
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed the shaky and outright fabricated intelligence undergirding claims Russia aspired to elect President Donald Trump in a report with few redactions over the objections of bureaucrats at multiple intelligence agencies, according to a Washington Post report.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other agencies reportedly invoked concerns about the exposure of “sources and methods,” the paper reported, citing anonymous people “familiar with the matter.” Two former CIA officials who concluded in 2017 that Russia aided Trump told the paper they stood by their assessment.
The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gabbard has accused former President Barack Obama and his then-intelligence chiefs — CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper and FBI Director James Comey — of a conspiracy to undermine Trump and disregard the will of the American people in the 2016 election.
The 46-page report, dated September 2020, was based on 2,300 hours of investigation and 20 interviews in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at CIA headquarters. CIA higher-ups would not permit the report to be transported from CIA grounds until recent weeks when CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Trump intervened, the Post reported.
The report, a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) investigation, exposed in stark detail that substandard raw intelligence reports had been distorted, improperly resurrected or wholly manufactured in order to support a narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin aspired to help Trump by sabotaging rival Hillary Clinton. A “high confidence” judgement that Putin aspired to elect Trump rested on fragment of a sentence that five analysts read five different ways, the report said.
But the congressional report points the finger particularly at the former CIA chief as having personally interfered in the creation of a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) by handpicking the authors and verbally briefing unpublished intelligence in an apparent push to reach a desired conclusion.
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