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Fox News Digital has uncovered damning evidence that the Obama
administration deliberately “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to push the now-debunked Russia election interference narrative, despite contradictory assessments from within the intelligence community itself.

According to newly declassified documents that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released Friday, there’s “overwhelming evidence” that Barack Obama and his national security inner circle went to work immediately after Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton. Their goal? Lay the foundation for the Trump-Russia hoax that
would consume the nation for years. This wasn’t a matter of bad judgment;
it was a calculated operation to delegitimize Trump’s presidency before it even began.

“Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was ‘probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means,’” the
report reveals. “One instance was on Dec. 7, 2016, weeks after the
election, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s talking points stated: ‘Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome.’”

Fox News Digital obtained a declassified copy of the Presidential Daily
Brief, which was prepared by the Department of Homeland Security, with reporting from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, National
Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and
open sources, for Obama, dated Dec. 8, 2016.

"We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US
election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure," the Presidential Daily Brief stated. "Russian Government- affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states."

But the brief stated that it was "highly unlikely" the effort "would have resulted in altering any state’s official vote result."

"Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication
necessary to change election outcomes," it stated.

Declassified documents reveal that the FBI raised serious concerns about a
2016 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), which claimed that Russia was trying
to undermine the U.S. election. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence had assessed that Russia’s efforts were likely aimed at
sowing doubt in the process — not disrupting it — and noted that cyberattacks on election infrastructure failed to cause any real impact. Internal FBI communications show agents pushed back, drafting a formal
dissent and warning the brief shouldn’t move forward until their
objections were heard. As a result, the brief’s release, originally slated for Dec. 9, 2016, was delayed following “new guidance” from ODNI.

"It will not run tomorrow and is not likely to run until next week," wrote
the deputy director of the Presidential Daily Brief at Office of the
Director of National Intelligence, whose name is redacted.

The following day, Dec. 9, 2016, a meeting convened in the White House Situation Room, with the subject line starting: "Summary of Conclusions
for PC Meeting on a Sensitive Topic (REDACTED.)"

The meeting included top officials in the National Security Council,
Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor
Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, among others, to
discuss Russia.

The declassified meeting record shows that Obama administration officials agreed to recommend sanctions against members of Russia’s intelligence agencies — if their cyber activities met the legal threshold under an executive order targeting foreign cyber interference. But that wasn’t all. Following the meeting, then-DNI James Clapper’s executive assistant instructed intelligence agencies to produce a new assessment “per the president’s request,” specifically aimed at detailing how Moscow allegedly tried to influence the 2016 election. The Office of the Director of
National Intelligence would lead the effort, with help from the CIA, FBI,
NSA, and DHS, effectively setting the wheels in motion for the Trump-
Russia narrative.

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The story confirms what many long suspected: Obama-era officials
deliberately leaked false claims to the media about Russian interference
in the 2016 election, pushing a narrative they knew wasn’t supported by actual intelligence. According to documents obtained by Fox News Digital,
a Jan. 6, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) was politically weaponized, contradicting prior assessments and burying evidence that
Russia lacked both the intent and ability to hack the election.

Officials revealed that the ICA suppressed internal dissent — such as FBI
and NSA skepticism about Russia’s role in the DNC leaks — and was based on debunked sources like the Steele Dossier. Despite this, the flawed report triggered a chain reaction: media smears, the Mueller investigation, two impeachments, and deep damage to U.S.-Russia relations. Intelligence
officials now say this entire operation was designed to delegitimize
President Trump and overturn the will of the voters.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard called the plot “a treasonous conspiracy” to subvert the Constitution and called for full accountability. She confirmed that all
related documents have been handed over to the DOJ. Meanwhile, former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for their roles in pushing the phony narrative. As President Trump put it: “I think they’re crooked as hell… maybe they have to pay a price for that.”

This wasn’t the work of a few rogue officials freelancing their partisan vendettas; it was a coordinated effort that implicates the highest levels
of the Obama administration, including Barack Obama himself. The
declassified documents lay out a damning paper trail: Obama was personally briefed on intelligence that debunked the Russia-collusion claims, yet his
team deliberately buried those facts, rewrote assessments at his request,
and fed a false narrative to the press that ultimately ignited a multi-
year witch hunt against his successor.

This was no accident. It was a deliberate abuse of power, an attempt to sabotage the incoming president before he even took office, all under the
guise of “protecting democracy.” From Obama to Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, and Lynch, this wasn’t just dirty politics; it was a subversion of
the peaceful transfer of power. And now, with criminal investigations
underway and the full truth coming to light, we know that the real
election interference operation wasn’t run from Moscow — it was orchestrated in Washington, D.C., at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/18/revealed-how-the-obama-admin- manufactured-bogus-intelligence-for-russia-hoax-narrative-n4941888

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