A host of top Democrats including former President Barack Obama, are relying on a 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee report in an effort to defend themselves against new evidence declassified by Trump intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard. That Senate report is flawed: it includes a since-discredited claim that the Steele Dossier was not used in and did not inform the 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment.
Last week, Gabbard sent declassified evidence to the Justice Department on what she dubbed a “treasonous conspiracy” related to top U.S. intelligence officials allegedly politicizing intelligence related to Russia and the 2016 election.
Obama was joined by the Democratic ranking members of both the Senate and House intelligence committees and by former Obama DNI James Clapper — who helped lead the formulation of the ICA — in pointing to the bipartisan Senate intel panel’s 2020 report to dispute Gabbard’s claims.
The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in heavily-redacted reports in April and August 2020 that British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s bogus anti-Trump dossier was not used in the body of the ICA and that the dossier’s claims were not used to underpin any of the ICA’s findings. That conclusion was debunked by a newly-declassified House Intelligence Committee report and by a recent CIA review, and contradicted by a public House intel report and other declassified records as well.
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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