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mahatmakanejeeves

(65,869 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:13 AM Jul 22

Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election

Source: NBC News

NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election

Five years ago, Marco Rubio said there was "irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.” Now, Tulsi Gabbard says that claim is “treasonous" and should be criminally investigated.


National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard at a Cabinet meeting at the White House on July 8. Aaron Schwartz / CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

July 22, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Dan De Luce

President Donald Trump’s intelligence chiefs are conducting a systematic campaign to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, seeking to reverse an eight-year-old assessment that Russia waged an information war to boost Trump’s candidacy.

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have cited declassified emails to allege in social media posts and television appearances that Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence and conspired to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s electoral victory in 2016.

But a bipartisan Senate investigation in 2020 and a recent CIA review both found that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, launching a disinformation campaign designed to damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.

A three-year investigation by special counsel John Durham reported no criminal conspiracy by Obama administration officials to sabotage Trump, and Durham filed no charges against CIA officials.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna220103

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Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 OP
Speaking the truth will get you fired and sent to prison. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #1
They are left in control of the narrative, aren't they? Omnipresent Jul 22 #2
Well given Gabbard is a Russian asset Quanto Magnus Jul 22 #3
Translation: "intelligence chiefs" means "propaganda team." Martin68 Jul 22 #4
Mr. Orwell presaged this stuff:: A Badger Jul 22 #5
Entire US govt run by Russian agents/assets. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #6

Omnipresent

(7,040 posts)
2. They are left in control of the narrative, aren't they?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:40 AM
Jul 22

Biden, as every President before him, always allowed former President’s to have national security briefings.
Trump ended that, and still we hear nothing but crickets from Democratic leadership on the matter.

A Badger

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5. Mr. Orwell presaged this stuff::
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 03:12 PM
Jul 22

‘As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of the Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. […] ‘
Chapter 4, Part 1 (here)
[https://hhmagazine.com.br/the-abolition-of-the-past-history-in-george-orwells-1984/]
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