Senior intelligence officials who investigated allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election disagreed with former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan over a key claim, but he overruled their objections, according to a report published Tuesday.
Records recently obtained by The Federalist related to ongoing criminal investigations into Brennan and other senior intelligence officials, according to the report. Top officials in the intelligence community disagreed with Brennan over a central claim regarding alleged Russian interference, The Federalist reported.
The disagreement centered on the “key judgment” in a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that claimed Russia interfered during the 2016 election because “Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances.”
Senior intelligence officials challenged this conclusion, citing a lack of supporting evidence, according to new details published by The Federalist.
One member of the small team working with Brennan, former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director (FBI) James Comey and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper reportedly stated, “We have no intelligence to directly support this ‘aspiration’ point.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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