Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a whistleblower’s account Wednesday detailing the pressure an Obama-era intelligence official applied on a subordinate to get them to sign off on an assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
“I was pressured to alter my views,” the senior intelligence analyst-turned-whistleblower claimed in documents Gabbard used as evidence in her bombshell report earlier this month, detailing the “treasonous conspiracy” Obama officials engaged in “to subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory.”
The analyst – who worked on a 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which determined “foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome” – recalled that “my concurrence was sought to enable [redacted] to sway the views of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)” — so that DIA would sign off on a revised ICA.
The new, 2017 ICA relied on the discredited Steele dossier and claimed the Kremlin orchestrated hackings of Democratic National Committee emails and intervened in the presidential contest in favor of Trump.
“There is reporting you are not allowed to see, if you saw it, you would agree,” the analyst recalled a supervisor telling them in early January 2017, when they asked to review the new reporting in the alternative assessment.
“Isn’t it possible Putin has something on Trump, to blackmail and coerce him?” the supervisor...
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