A newly declassified intelligence memo confirms U.S. agencies had no evidence that Russian officials shared damaging information about Hillary Clinton with the Trump campaign—raising fresh questions about the FBI’s surveillance during the 2016 election.
A memo released Friday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard states that senior Obama-era intelligence officials privately concluded Russia did not affect the outcome of the 2016 election
The classified document, authored in 2016 and delivered to then-President Barack Obama, states unequivocally that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”
It further clarifies that while voter databases may have been probed, no substantial effort came close to compromising actual vote tallies.
The disclosure marks a significant vindication for President Donald Trump, who for years has claimed the so-called “Russiagate” scandal was politically motivated.
Trump and his allies have long argued that the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign engineered the Russian collusion narrative to delegitimize his presidency before it began.
The memo emphasized that systems targeted by cyber actors did not include infrastructure involved in vote tabulation and were therefore unlikely to affect any official vote counts.
“Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes,” it states.
This revelation, which Gabbard labeled as the first of multiple upcoming disclosures, has renewed scrutiny of former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and other intelligence figures who played key roles in the investigation known as “Crossfire Hurricane.”
According to intelligence sources, Brennan is now under investigation for his role in promoting the discredited Steele dossier, according to Trending Politics.
That document, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and used to justify surveillance of Trump campaign officials, was at the heart of early Russian collusion claims.
Internal CIA reports cited by current CIA Director John Ratcliffe allege that Brennan deliberately concealed aspects of the probe from other intelligence agencies and pushed for the dossier’s inclusion in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).
Ratcliffe’s team believes Brennan’s actions may have crossed legal lines, including potentially committing perjury during congressional testimony when he denied using the dossier in the ICA’s creation.
Officials claimed that Brennan “siloed” the entire operation, potentially obstructing internal review.
Though the five-year statute of limitations for perjury has lapsed, Brennan may still face conspiracy charges.
A congressional audit, spanning 200 pages, was presented at a high-level Sunday meeting attended by DOJ officials and intelligence analysts.
That meeting reportedly centered on plans to release additional classified materials related to the investigation, including deposition transcripts from Special Counsel John Durham’s probe.
Durham, who concluded in 2023 that the Trump-Russia link was “baseless,” found that Obama officials continued to advance the collusion narrative even after privately acknowledging its flaws.
Officials involved in Sunday’s meeting suggested further declassification could reveal a more extensive pattern of political interference from within the U.S. intelligence community.
Also under scrutiny is Comey, who has faced increasing criticism for his conduct during and after the investigation.
In a separate controversy, Comey was visited by the U.S. Secret Service after posting a cryptic message online that some interpreted as inciting violence against Trump.
One senior official did not mince words when describing the scope of the operation: “Obama ordered the ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started. This was an influence operation far more consequential than anything Putin cooked up. Obama and Hillary schemed the op, and the CIA and FBI ran it.”
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