{"id":1428,"date":"2025-07-23T18:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:37:47","slug":"gabbard-releases-new-documents-on-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/gabbard-releases-new-documents-on-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabbard releases new documents on 2016 election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday released a previously classified House report, her second such disclosure after accusing<\/a> the intelligence community of a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d in its review of foreign influence in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a> \u2013 a 2020 product from the House Intelligence Committee \u2013 casts doubts on Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s interest in the 2016 election and his desire to aid President Trump in the contest.<\/p>\n

Its release comes as President Trump has sought to use Gabbard\u2019s Friday disclosure to pin blame on former President Obama, accusing him<\/a> of trying \u201cto rig the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Numerous intelligence reviews have concluded that Russia aimed to influence the 2016 election and that Putin favored Trump.<\/p>\n

The House intelligence report released on Wednesday was authored when Republicans controlled the lower chamber. While the newly released information does not undercut the assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, it sheds light on the Obama administration\u2019s handling of Russia\u2019s activity at the time.<\/p>\n

The House report said the CIA \u201cdid not adhere to the tenets\u201d of analytical standards and said the conclusion Putin took actions to benefit Trump was based on \u201cone scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard reports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard on Wednesday portrayed the report as a bombshell, saying it exposed \u201cthe most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard alleged Obama administration officials \u201cconspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an appearance at the White House press briefing, Gabbard said the report found Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cprincipal interests\u201d around the 2016 election were to \u201cundermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show preference of a certain candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, slammed Gabbard for releasing the report, noting that a bipartisan Senate report<\/a> backed the CIA\u2019s conclusions about Russia\u2019s aims.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files,\u201d Warner said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: the bipartisan, unanimous finding of the Senate Intelligence Committee, after years of painstaking investigation, more than 200 witness interviews, and millions of documents, was that Russia launched a large-scale influence campaign in the 2016 election in order to help then-candidate Donald Trump,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing in this partisan, previously scuttled document changes that. Releasing this so-called report is just another reckless act by a Director of National Intelligence so desperate to please Donald Trump that she is willing to risk classified sources, betray our allies, and politicize the very intelligence she has been entrusted to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard\u2019s recent releases around Russian interference in the 2016 election have earned her rave reviews from Trump, who has for years claimed there was a plot by his political enemies to sabotage his 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s like hotter than everybody. She’s the hottest one in the room right now,\u201d Trump said of Gabbard during a Tuesday night reception with House Republicans.<\/p>\n

The White House on Wednesday dismissed a question about whether Gabbard\u2019s focus on releasing files connected to the 2016 election was intended to improve her standing with her boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only people who are suggesting that the director of national intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the president are the people in this room who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos among the president\u2019s Cabinet. And it\u2019s not working,\u201d press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Gabbard released a memo<\/a> seeking to undercut the findings that Putin tried to swing the election for Trump, but in doing so released documents on claims that are not in dispute.<\/p>\n

The memo<\/a>, as well as another 114 pages of related documents<\/a>, primarily rested on details discussing whether there was a Russian effort<\/a> to directly manipulate the actual vote count.<\/p>\n

Obama officials at the time, as well as in later intelligence reports, said that the adversary never succeeded in changing any votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re trying to dispute the proper conclusions of the intelligence community that the Russians were trying to influence the 2016 election by saying they didn’t successfully change votes in the machines,\u201d said Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee at the time the GOP side of the committee was working on their report.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one is claiming they did so they’re being dishonest, and it’s such a disservice to the American people that Americans can’t really trust the leaders of the intelligence community honestly anymore,” he added. <\/p>\n

Despite the report itself largely referencing intelligence about efforts to probe U.S. voting systems, Gabbard argued on social media it \u201cshows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.”<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Updated at 11:01 a.m. EDT on July 24<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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