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Watters: Gabbard got her hands on a House intel report that's been locked away in a CIA vault for almost a decade. Investigators spent over 2,000 hours looking into how the Russia hoax was born, interviewing 20 CIA and FBI officials.
And it turns out that the Obama administration doctored the intelligence to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the election.
A month after Trump beat Hillary, Barack Obama wasn't satisfied with his intelligence reporting and ordered his CIA director to create a new assessment of how Russia interfered with the election. This was a highly unusual move.
John Brennan handpicked five CIA analysts to write the assessment. And they were siloed. None of them knew what the other was doing. And only one analyst was in charge of drafting this report.
There was nothing routine about this. And it was a rush job to publish before Trump was sworn in. Nothing was coordinated with the other intelligence agencies either.
Basically, this was home cooking for Barack Obama. There were four key elements from the assessment that were repeated over and over again. And formed the basis of the Russia hoax and the Robert Mueller witch hunt.
One, that Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win.
Two, Putin took action to help Trump win.
Three, the Russians had blackmail on Trump. That was the Steele dossier.
And four, that the Russians tried colluding with the Trump campaign. None of any of this was ever true!
There was no reliable intelligence to support any of these allegations.
Senior CIA officials repeatedly refused to traffic in these allegations. But they were repeatedly overruled by CIA Director Brennan and FBI Director Comey. Who insisted that they be pushed. Even without verifiable evidence.
The Obama administration cherry-picked the intelligence. Lied about their sources. Misquoted sources. Didn't corroborate their claims. Suppressed intelligence that ran counter to their narratives. And even used anonymous Internet postings.
Rank-and-file CIA admitted what they were doing violated their own tradecraft standards.
There was a massive pressure campaign that came right from the top. CIA analysts say they received unusual directives from political appointees, the CIA director, and Obama himself.
This is how the Russia hoax was born.