Ed Henry reported last night that DNI Richard Grenell is declassifying evidence that Obama’s dirtbag CIA Chief John Brennan buried evidence that Russia really wanted Hillary to win in January of 2017, when the intelligence community put out a statement saying Russia wanted Trump to win:
Fox News's Ed Henry reported Trump spy chief Richard Grenell is declassifying info that shows ex-CIA Director John Brennan "suppressed" intel on Russia wanting Clinton to win in2016. Says insiders dismiss it's "hype" and there's more coming – https://t.co/pZS0qri1eO @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/RPcAkPdx9b
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Henry reports that there was evidence in the intel community that Russia wanted Hillary to win as well as evidence that Russia wanted Trump to win. But John Brennan put his thumb on the scales and suppressed the evidence that Russia wanted Hillary to win in their January 2017 assessment.
He refers to Fred Fleitz, who wrote about this last month for Fox News when the Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report claiming that Russia did want Trump to win:
The Senate Intelligence Committee report falsely claims that “all analytical lines are supported with all-source intelligence” and that analysts who wrote the intelligence community assessment consistently said they “were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions.”
House Intelligence Committee staff members found the opposite. They told me there was conflicting intelligence evidence on Russian motivations for meddling in the 2016 election.
More gravely, they said that CIA Director Brennan suppressed facts or analysis that showed why it was not in Russia’s interests to support Trump and why Putin stood to benefit from Hillary Clinton’s election. They also told me that Brennan suppressed that intelligence over the objections of CIA analysts.
House Intelligence Committee staff told me that after an exhaustive investigation reviewing intelligence and interviewing intelligence officers, they found that Brennan suppressed high-quality intelligence suggesting that Putin actually wanted the more predictable and malleable Clinton to win the 2016 election.
Instead, the Brennan team included low-quality intelligence that failed to meet intelligence community standards to support the political claim that Russian officials wanted Trump to win, House Intelligence Committee staff revealed. They said that CIA analysts also objected to including that flawed, substandard information in the assessment.
According to Fleitz, the higher quality evidence showed that Putin and Russia really wanted Hillary to win because she was known quantity and ‘malleable’. But Brennan suppressed that information and went with the lower quality evidence that Russia wanted Trump to win.
As Henry reports, this is only one of the ‘four of five’ other batches of intelligence that Grenell is declassifying.