{"id":2465324,"date":"2025-07-22T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-16-election-media-dont-care\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:20:42","slug":"obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-16-election-media-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-16-election-media-dont-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Intel Agencies Interfered In &#8217;16 Election. Media Don&#8217;t Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-16-election-media-dont-care%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2465324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses recently declassified emails revealing that intelligence agencies under President Obama intentionally suppressed information showing that Russia did not manipulate votes in the 2016 election. director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released these communications, which indicate the Obama-era intelligence community blocked the publication of a key assessment that contradicted the widely publicized narrative of Russian interference. The article argues this act was a misuse of government resources aimed at undermining president Trump&#8217;s legitimacy. Despite the significance of this revelation,major media outlets have largely ignored or downplayed the story,suggesting a bias that protects Democrats from scandal. The author criticizes the media&#8217;s selective interest in election interference, noting they show concern only when Russia is accused of aiding Trump, while dismissing evidence that challenges this narrative.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obamawhitehouse\/5680156155\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Souza\/White House\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/22\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-the-2016-election-and-of-course-the-media-dont-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Obama%E2%80%99s%20Intel%20Agencies%20Interfered%20In%20The%202016%20Election,%20And%20Of%20Course%20The%20Media%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Care&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/22\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-the-2016-election-and-of-course-the-media-dont-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Obama%E2%80%99s%20Intel%20Agencies%20Interfered%20In%20The%202016%20Election,%20And%20Of%20Course%20The%20Media%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Care&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/22\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-the-2016-election-and-of-course-the-media-dont-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/22\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-the-2016-election-and-of-course-the-media-dont-care\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Obama%E2%80%99s%20Intel%20Agencies%20Interfered%20In%20The%202016%20Election,%20And%20Of%20Course%20The%20Media%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Care&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/22\/obamas-intel-agencies-interfered-in-the-2016-election-and-of-course-the-media-dont-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>If you told me a week ago that the federal government would release a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >official emails related<\/a> to interference in the 2016 election and President Trump but virtually all of the media wouldn&rsquo;t give a damn, I&rsquo;d have assumed you were on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s what happened though. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified a slew of internal government communications proving that then-President Obama&rsquo;s intelligence agencies deliberately blocked the publication of a conclusive assessment that Russia had not manipulated votes in the 2016 election &mdash; contradicting the Russian-interference lie aggressively pushed by both Democrats and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somebody-tell-susan-glasser-to-sit-back-and-relax-this-time\/\" title=\"Somebody Tell Susan Glasser To Sit Back And Relax This Time\">dying news media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1587635514\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Margot Cleveland wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/21\/obamas-odni-scuttled-intelligence-briefing-to-preserve-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this week here<\/a>, &ldquo;[T]he email threads declassified last week indicate the [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] &hellip; buried the PDB [President&rsquo;s Daily Brief] to provide the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-dni-pulled-intel-brief-to-preserve-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Obama DNI Pulled Intel Brief To Preserve ...-Collusion Hoax\">intelligence community cover<\/a> to issue a contrary assessment concerning Russia&rsquo;s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election &mdash; and did so, against the recommendations of a wide array of intelligence professionals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At a minimum, that means a former president used American taxpayer dollars to smear his successor, sowing suspicion that Trump&rsquo;s victory was illegitimate. That is, by definition, a scandal.<\/p>\n<p>If it were Trump who did that to Biden, we would be hearing about this 50 years from now. Instead, the dying media are sweeping it away as a bore.<\/p>\n<p>NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/21\/nx-s1-5475171\/trump-gabbard-russia-2016-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called it<\/a> an attempt &ldquo;at scrutinizing years-old intelligence community conclusions about Russian interference.&rdquo; The same media operation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/14\/1254199451\/trumps-trials-nixon-watergate-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talks about<\/a> &ldquo;Watergate&rdquo; like it happened yesterday belittles this from not even 10 years ago as &ldquo;years-old.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/22\/trump-forever-grudge-obama-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred<\/a> to the &ldquo;new evidence&rdquo; in quotes, suggesting it&rsquo;s only that in name and not because it&rsquo;s literally new evidence that should appall anyone who cares about the integrity of our elections. Democrats and the media swear they do, so it&rsquo;s interesting that Axios would diminish the importance of this insane development.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post mentioned the emails <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/07\/21\/trump-epstein-distractions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in passing<\/a> under the headline, &ldquo;As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else.&rdquo; On Friday a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/18\/us\/politics\/gabbard-obama-trump-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> on Gabbard&rsquo;s declassified documents led with Democrats&rsquo; purported rebuttals, and this week the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-fake-video-obama-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered<\/a> the emails seven paragraphs into a story that focused on a silly video Trump posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Election interference is only of interest to the media if they can say it was perpetrated by Russia on behalf of Trump, which coincidentally is the permanent Washington bureaucracy&rsquo;s preferred narrative. Otherwise, they treat it like a report of dry heat in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, the media are protecting Democrats from scandal.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>       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