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CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …
The CIA has published a 'tradecraft review' of the 2016 'Intelligence Community Assessment' which had claimed that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
The review found what had been obvious to anyone. The 2016 assessment had not followed the normal process for such papers but had based its conclusions on no or insignificant evidence.
Or, as the NY Post headlines: Obama’s Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start
A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.”
Further, Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.
At that time the ICE was leaked to various media outlets. It was finally published shortly before Trump's first inauguration.
As I wrote at that time:
Up to today there is no public evidence that Russia hacked the Democratic National Council and/or released DNC material to Wikileaks. After today's new intelligence report (pdf) there is still no such evidence. … There are rather wild assertions and a lot of conjecture but zero facts that could be accepted as proof.
When I wrote the above on January 6 2017 I tried to set it the story into the bigger picture:
When Hillary Clinton was defeated in the U.S. presidential election the relevant powers launched a campaign to delegitimize the President elect Donald Trump.
The ultimate aim of the cabal is to kick him out of office and have a reliable replacement, like the Vice-President elect Pence, take over. Should that not be possible it is hoped that the delegitimization will make it impossible for Trump to change major policy trajectories especially in foreign policy. A main issue here is the reorientation of the U.S. military complex and its NATO proxies from the war of terror towards a direct confrontation with main powers like Russia and China.
The cabal consists of President Obama, the defeated candidate Hillary Clinton, neoconservatves like the State Department's cookie dispenser Victoria Nuland, the Republican senators McCain and Lindsay and the military-industrial complex. (One of the few neocons planted near to Trump, former CIA director James Woolsey, threw the towel today and left the Trump transition team.)
A major role in directing the plot has fallen to Obama's consigliere John Brennan, the current director of the CIA. Another role has been delegated to the various military and NATO think tanks like the Atlantic Council and the British RUSI and reliable proxies within the media.
The current emphasis of the campaign is on the release of emails and papers from the Clinton campaign through Wikileaks. It is alleged that some releases were gained through hacking, planned and executed by the Russian government. Trump had announced that he plans to seek good relations with Russia, the power that the cabal had earlier chosen as the new enemy de jour.
But there is a problem. There is no real evidence that a "hack" ever happened. There is no evidence that Russia is involved. None at all.
The whole scheme, supported by the made up 'Intelligence Community Assessment', was used to, more or less, sabotage Donald Trump's first two years as president.
It also helped to create negative sentiment against all things Russia. This was revenge for Russia's disruption of U.S. plans for Ukraine. It had taken Crimea, the big prize the 2014 coup plotters had hoped to gain, off the table. The negative sentiment against Russia, especially from Democrats, has prevailed since.
That the CIA, under Director John Ratcliffe, is now condemning the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment as shady does not mean that he is willing to apply the lessons learned from its faulty creation to today's intelligence products.
He will, just like then CIA Director John Brennan, fake anything that is needed to support his and his presidents policies. Just look at this from the day before Trump ordered bombing Iran:
CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly told the White House that Iran is nearing the technical threshold for a weapon. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt echoed this, saying Iran needs only a political decision to begin building a bomb, which could take as little as two weeks.
Some US officials cite “Israeli” intelligence, particularly Mossad’s estimate that Iran is just 15 days away from producing a bomb.
However, others within the American intelligence community challenge that timeline, maintaining that Iran would likely need several months to a year to complete a functional weapon.
Ratcliffe was clearly bullshitting when he repeated the Mossad claims in the White House. Just like he was bullshitting when he later asserted that Iran's program has been set back for years.
All claims made by 'Intelligence Agencies', independent of having been made in 2016, 2025 or in the future, have be taken with huge loads of salts. Intelligence claims are made to support policies, not because they are truthful.
The overworld-deep/security state-underworld nexus has long used blackmail, sexual or otherwise, to control politicians and political operatives seen as a threat to the “establishment’s” aims.
From Aaron Good’s recent book “American Exception”:
In Richard Nixon’s memoirs, he recounts what Haldeman said him less than two weeks after the break-in. Haldeman told the president that the entire affair was so absurd that John Dean had not ruled out the possibility that they were grappling with some kind of double agent who intentionally botched the operation. Otherwise, it just made no sense.31 Writing in the December 1973 issue of Ramparts magazine, Peter Dale Scott argued that “the Watergate cover-up almost succeeded—not despite the exotic records of the defendants, but precisely because of them.” Subsequent revelations would cause him to revise his appraisal of Watergate, but at that early date, with Nixon still ensconced in the White House, Scott was correct to note that “what makes [the disparate Miami intrigues] so dangerous and what links the scandal of Watergate to the assassination in Dallas, is the increasingly ominous symbiosis between U.S. intelligence networks and the forces of organized crime.”32
A number of factors combined to make the bizarre Watergate caper such a debacle. The slow-burning scandal became so explosive that it not only took down a presidency—it also led to the largest and most damaging series of intelligence community revelations in US history. The Watergate break-in risked exposing the already surveilled Columbia Plaza sex-ring connected on some level to the DNC and to the DC crime boss and Lansky associate Joe Nesline. The operation bears the hallmarks of previous and subsequent scandals that collectively point to an institutionalized practice of using sexual blackmail for political purposes. Prior to Watergate, J. Edgar Hoover is known to have used sexual blackmail for various purposes. The Bobby Baker scandal, which prior to Dallas appeared poised to end Lyndon Johnson’s political career, also had a significant sex angle. According to an ex-CIA officer, there was also a serious intelligence-related sexual blackmail component in the so-called “Koreagate” scandal of the 1970s.33
In the 1980s, the Washington Times ran a story on a man named Craig Spence,
[A]n enigmatic figure who threw glittery parties for key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, media stars and top military officers, bugged the gatherings to compromise guests, provided cocaine, blackmailed some associates and spent up to $20,000 a month on male prostitutes, according to friends, acquaintances and records. The 48-year-old D.C. power broker has been linked to a homosexual prostitution ring currently under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Its clients included several top government and business officials from Washington and abroad.
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In examining the Columbia Plaza sex-ring, the Koreagate scandal, the Craig Spence operation, and the Epstein case, a pattern emerges. Multiple, discursive intelligence-connected, sexual blackmail operations have been partially exposed. These operations are never adjudicated, often due to untimely deaths which preclude any kind of reckoning. The Watergate sex-ring angle fits this pattern. Likewise, the inculpatory soiling of funds (rather than their exculpatory laundering) through Bernard Barker’s drug-connected Ameritas served to needlessly implicate CREEP and the Plumbers; an exculpatory laundering of the funds could have been easily accomplished. Additionally, the composition of the Watergate burglars’ team could hardly have been more radioactive. Hunt, Sturgis, McCord, and Barker were each, in all likelihood, Bay of Pigs veterans. Each of these figures has each been implicated in the JFK assassination, with various degrees of supporting evidence. Nixon himself seemed to grasp as much. The president apparently thought that this would help him if one accepts that Nixon was referring to Dallas when he sent Haldeman to warn Helms about “the Bay of Pigs thing.” As Nixon said on the “smoking gun” tape, “[T]his is a . . . Hunt [operation] that will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab there’s a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further. This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves.”
++Michael Hedges and Jerry Sepe, “Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail,” The Washington Times, June 30, 1989, http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf.
Trump has historical connections to Lansky, through Roy Cohn, FWIW. Wiki sourcing a book “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover” by Anthony Summers.
Lansky is credited with having “controlled” compromising pictures of a sexual nature featuring former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover with his longtime aide Clyde Tolson. In his book, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Anthony Summers cites multiple primary sources regarding Lansky’s use of blackmail to gain influence with politicians, policemen and judges. One stage of the acquisition of blackmail materials was orgies held by late attorney and Hoover protégé Roy Cohn and liquor magnate Lewis Rosenstiel, who had lasting ties with the Mafia from his bootleg operations during Prohibition.
The 2019 release of FBI files on Lansky revealed extensive monitoring and investigation, which makes it harder to explain why Lansky was not pursued to conviction, unless he evaded it by blackmail. Cohn copied this model of blackmail to control politicians and evade conviction himself.
To wit: Nothing new under the sun, and that’s not even touching Epstein. I recommend Whitney Webb’s 2-part book “One Nation Under Blackmail” for a long rundown. It’s very densely written, like in the Doug Valentine style, so have a notepad ready to jot down all the names….there are a LOT of them.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 6 2025 0:20 utc | 271
Posted by: joey_n | Jul 4 2025 21:04 utc | 170 Trump-Russiagate Claims-Corrupt
The Nord Stream pipeline was a joint venture between Russia and Germany – the US was not involved and would not profit from it, hence Trump’s opposition to it during his presidency.
<=I commented NS would not be rehabilitated unless private USA investors were its owner. When Israel began attacking GAZA I commented that it was the plan to service the energy needs of Europe from the Levant Oil field a few miles off shore to Gaza. The pipelines were complete from the Levant reserve through Cyprus and northward into Europe at the time Israel invaded GAZA. . Both WWI and WWII were about private western companies owning all oil and gas profits worldwide. Truman claimed the USA owned all of the land under the sea and 20 miles inland (1947) Britain made the same claim.. . thanks..
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jul 4 2025 15:05 utc | 13 Trump-Russiagate Claims-Corrupt
It's not just your right, but your duty to abolish this Zionist/Imperialist government masquerading as a government of the wage slaves of the west.
<=Many Americans believe the USA is not only not serving American interest, but that it is also abusing its constitutional authority by ignoring the Bill of Rights and spending US TAX dollars on foreign projects. The Declaration of Independence relied on human rights to justify its authority to change the government.
Posted by: mjh | Jul 4 2025 15:33 utc | 20 Trump-Russiagate Claims-Corrupt
Only by belittling Iran’s religious beliefs and history of compliance to international agreements to which it is party can the US gaslight its public and the world to ‘justify’ its unprovoked attack.
<= I believe, the 1st amendment should be amended to attach tort liability against any individual that authors or publishes, unsupported by fact, content that contains untruths, fabrications, promotions or that contains an opinion which has no evidential basis?. The defense authors and publishers could offer to such publications would be either in proof of the truth by verifiable fact or in a safe harbor provision that would allow such authors or publishers to fully disclosed by reference and footnote, in clearly visible form, the parts of the content that not true, are fabrications, promotions or opinions and therefore are without factual foundation.
Posted by: john | Jul 4 2025 17:03 utc | 41 Trump-Russiagate Claims-Corrupt
18 U.S.C. § 2381 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Conflict? Treason is often threatened to silence and defend against allegations concerning abuse of human rights. Humans have the un-inalienable and unlimited right to self-determination.
Article III Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Who owes allegiance to the United States?
What does allegiance mean and entail?
What are the elements that constitute a finding that a person has a duty of allegiance to the United States? The United States has built a digital moat around itself, and no one can now talk to it or any of its hired hands.
Often Americans confuse being a human, being an American and being a citizen of the USA..,,,,the three classifications (human, American, US Citizen) are distinct and independent of each other.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 4 2025 17:07 utc | 45 Trump-Russiagate Claims-Corrupt
Who is going to enforce laws against treason?
<=Its awful easy to confuse "complaint and attempt to fix the cause of the complaint" with Treason..
The link may help to grasp how the courts have handled the interest of the USA with regards to treason over the years.
https://www.usconstitution.net/treason-and-sedition-in-the-constitution/
Human rights, the right to self determination, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness conflict with sovereignty and treason.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 5 2025 1:25 utc | 144 responds to
Ahenobarbus | Jul 4 2025 22:22 utc | 103 post
145 years ago, a waspy protestant elite was in firm command of “its” country
with the following: You think those camouflaged as “Protestants” weren’t jewish|zionist ? Most were Freemasons, and that cloaked a lot of jewish-zionism.
<= Freemasons were at the Philadelphia constitutional convention (1787) and participants in the ratification of the document produced there.. More interesting only six people were signers to both the Declaration of Independence and the constitution that destroyed the Articles of Confederation government.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 5 2025 1:30 utc | 147 Trump-Russiagate Claims-Corrupt
Letting Russia win this war would be a unmitigated disaster for the American people and our security around the world.”
<=depends on the viewpoint:
Average American POV could produce many positive outcomes? Maybe the USA would be forced to close its overseas bases and to bring its American boys and girls home? Maybe the USA will see the need to keep its spending at home, and use the funds saved from activities in foreign lands to make America great again? Maybe wall street will lose its hold on USA politics. Maybe the USA will deny private parties monopoly powers and return the industries it stole and transported to foreign places. Someone needs to tell Trump, making America great again starts at home.
<=USA POV: a defeat in Ukraine might confirm loss of empire status, weakened or destroy wall street control and influence over American politics, weaken dollar hegemony, reduce the profits of the MIC but it might allow the USA to retrench from playing global policeman.
There is much to think about if Russia defeats the West in the Ukraine.. If Iran defeats Israel, and if China and Russia and Iran defend Azerbaijanian. The world is changing.
I ditto James @234 recognition of juliania at 220 as a worthy motivating role model. Thank you juliania.
Posted by: snake | Jul 6 2025 0:59 utc | 286
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