(The Center Square) – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified another report implying the Obama administration and Intelligence Community embarked on a bad-faith mission to link President Donald Trump with 2016 election interference by Russia.

The 19-page document includes incriminating testimony from a whistleblower who served at the National Intelligence Council from 2015 to 2020 as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer.

The whistleblower claimed they were pressured by Intelligence Community (IC) higher-ups to espouse the unproven narrative that Russian agents “hacked” cyber infrastructure to help Trump win the 2016 election.

At the behest of then-President Barack Obama and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the whistleblower led the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) focused on election security. After the election occurred, the whistleblower was told to contribute to another ICA, this time specifically focusing on pre-election Russian cyber influence attempts.

From the beginning, “[s]everal aspects of the 2017 ICA’s drafting were unusual,” the whistleblower noted, including a lack of communication from the team responsible for crafting the 2017 ICA assessment.

Additionally, the “team” omitted crucial material from the whistleblower showing that Russia and multiple other countries had put out media denigrating both U.S. presidential candidates, contradicting the 2017 ICA’s eventual conclusion that Russia was acting...

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