Sarah Bedford: Declassified Russiagate emails are ‘damning’
The article discusses the recent declassification of emails related to the Russiagate investigation by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford described the emails as “pretty damning,” revealing significant pressure from partisan leaders,including former obama officials,to reach predetermined conclusions implicating President Trump in collusion with Russia.The emails show that key intelligence figures like james Clapper and others rushed the investigation and bypassed normal procedures to produce a desired outcome, despite insufficient time to properly evaluate the evidence. Bedford noted that career analysts who questioned the process were silenced. Furthermore, newly released information suggests the 2017 intelligence Community Assessment was compromised, with whistleblowers indicating political influence affected intelligence reporting. Bedford criticized the mainstream media for downplaying the importance of these disclosures and suggested that if legal actions were taken against those involved, the media would no longer be able to ignore the scandal.
Sarah Bedford: Declassified Russiagate emails are ‘damning’
Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said the emails from the Russia collusion investigation that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified Wednesday were “pretty damning.”
Bedford said on the Hugh Hewitt show Wednesday that former President Barack Obama’s Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers allegedly felt pressured to reach a conclusion on the investigation, and that his team didn’t have enough time to review all the information.
“There was so much pressure coming from the most partisan of the leaders to reach a premeditated conclusion,” Bedford said about the newly released files.
Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have been releasing evidence over the last few weeks, showing that the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment into Russia interfering with the 2016 presidential election was compromised.
A declassified statement that was published on Thursday revealed a senior U.S. intelligence official, turned whistleblower, said Obama officials pressured him to support flawed conclusions in the intelligence report.
Bedford said that corporate media is “obscuring” the significance of the information Gabbard and Ratcliffe have been releasing.
“We’re now learning that it looks like these intel officials didn’t follow procedures because they intended to reach a false conclusion implicating Trump and Putin in some sort of conspiracy,” Bedford said. “If they had followed procedures, they would’ve been caught doing that.”
Former DNI James Clapper wrote in the declassified email that the investigation was a “team sport.”
“We will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as we complete the report, but, more time is not negotiable,” Clapper wrote. “We may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule.”
Bedford said career analysts and less partisan people who were a part of the investigation were “silenced” for raising concerns.
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“[Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan and then-FBI Director James Comey] already decided they were going to invent a conclusion for which there was no evidence, and that is why they cut these corners,” she said.
Bedford said if there are prosecutions into the intelligence leaders’ conduct during the investigation, the media won’t be able to “ignore” the information anymore.
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