OPINION:
Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only one engaged in dirty tricks against then candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. An analysis released last week by the Central Intelligence Agency admits the intelligence community’s December 2016 assessment of Russian interference in the election was the product of political manipulation.
On Dec. 6 that year, President Barack Obama ordered his intelligence team — then-CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and FBI Director James Comey — to create the highly confidential paper that concluded Vladimir Putin aspired to help Mr. Trump become president. Three days later, this “top secret” appraisal appeared in the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post.
“All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe wrote on X.
The CIA staff who penned