CIA review of scheme by Brennan and Comey reveals they tried to use lies to ‘get’ Trump
A review by the CIA of a scheme by John Brennan, James Comey and others in the Barack Obama administration found the anti-Trump activists tried to use lies in official government assessments to “get” then-candidate and now-President Donald Trump.
A newly released eight-page review, unleashed by CIA director John Ratcliffe, puts in the crosshairs the government’s December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment about Russia and the just-finished presidential election.
The new report, ordered by Ratcliffe and done by the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis, found the “decision by agency heads to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.”
The dossier, created by ex-British agent Christopher Steele, made wild and unsubstantiated allegations about Trump and his, or his campaign’s links to Russia. It claimed that Vladimir Putin was interfering to help Trump win the election, and more.
Only the claims all were fabrications.
The review “pointed the finger at Brennan as well as at the leadership of the FBI at the time,” James Comey.
Ratcliffe confirmed that government document was done “through an atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments” imposed by Brennan and Comey.
All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump. Thank you to the career @CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts. https://t.co/S7Mxz6xA6P
— CIA Director John Ratcliffe (@CIADirector) July 2, 2025
Ratcliffe Declassifies CIA Documents – Reveals Comey, Brennan, and Clapper Purposely Corrupted Trump-Russia Investigation and Included Discredited Steele Dossier to Take Down Trump Despite Knowing It Was a Phony Report https://t.co/xXPWsN8Kgw
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) July 2, 2025
.@POTUS has trusted me with helping to end weaponization of US intelligence. Today’s report underscores that the 2016 IC Assessment was conducted through an atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments of former Dir. Brennan & former FBI Dir. Comey. https://t.co/VXBp3oy6EM
— John Ratcliffe (@DCIARatcliffe) July 2, 2025
A report at Just the News pointed out that Steele’s complaints about Trump were “baseless.”
Even so ,CIA and FBI chiefs at the time expressed “high confidence” that Putin had “aspired” to help Trump win.
The dossier, in fact, was funded by payments made through a series of companies, legal teams and individuals by Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign for president at the time. In fact, her campaign later was fined for incorrectly reporting the cash turned over for the work of assembling the dossier.
“The procedural anomalies that characterized the ICA’s development had a direct impact on the tradecraft applied to its most contentious finding. With analysts operating under severe time constraints, limited information sharing, and heightened senior-level scrutiny, several aspects of tradecraft rigor were compromised—particularly in supporting the judgment that Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win,” the new report affirms.
“The DA Review identified multiple specific concerns, including: a higher confidence level than was justified; insufficient exploration of alternative scenarios; lack of transparency on source uncertainty; uneven argumentation; and the inclusion of unsubstantiated Steele Dossier material,” it said.
The review revealed that “ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers – including the two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia— strongly opposed including the Dossier, asserting that it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards.”:
Some CIA officials even had warned using the lies would risk “the credibility of the entire paper,” Just the News reported.
“Despite these objections, Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness. When confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center leaders—one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background – he appeared more swayed by the Dossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.”
Their report at the time “implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical integrity of the judgment,” the new report said.
Just the News explained, “CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis tweeted Tuesday that newly-declassified documents ‘show how Brennan and Comey personally intervened to insert the Steele dossier’s lies into intelligence analysis. We must have zero tolerance for the weaponization of intelligence.'”
The House Intelligence Committee concluded in 2018, “The majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia’s election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft” but the “judgments on Putin’s strategic intentions did not.”
In fact, that report found “significant intelligence tradecraft failings” that were evident in the claims.
“A two-year investigation by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller ‘did not establish’ any criminal Trump-Russia collusion,” Just the News said.
Later, DOJ special counsel John Durham concluded, “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
In fact, some operatives had wanted a review of Clinton’s actions, and claims she “approved a plan concerning Trump and Russia” in order to distract the public from her own scandals.