{"id":2466354,"date":"2025-07-24T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/declassified-intel-bombshell-cia-officers-fought-brennan-on-russia-collusion-doc-but-he-overruled-them\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:58:06","slug":"declassified-intel-bombshell-cia-officers-fought-brennan-on-russia-collusion-doc-but-he-overruled-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/declassified-intel-bombshell-cia-officers-fought-brennan-on-russia-collusion-doc-but-he-overruled-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Declassified Intel Bombshell &#8211; CIA Officers Fought Brennan on Russia Collusion Doc, But He Overruled Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fdeclassified-intel-bombshell-cia-officers-fought-brennan-on-russia-collusion-doc-but-he-overruled-them%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=2466354&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 former CIA Director John Brennan&#8217;s controversial role in the creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-sanctions-russia-over-navalny-arrest-and-alleged-poisoning\/\" title=\"U.S. Sanctions ... Over Navalny Arrest And Alleged Poisoning\">intelligence community assessment<\/a> that supported the Russia collusion narrative against Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign. Despite Brennan having voted for a Communist candidate in his youth,the piece alleges that he later acted in an authoritarian manner by overruling senior CIA analysts to include questionable and unverified intelligence in a report presented to President Obama and President-elect Trump in early January 2017. This intelligence suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to help Trump win the election-a conclusion that has since been widely discredited. The article highlights a recently declassified House Intelligence Committee report released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, which reveals Brennan&#8217;s pressure to incorporate dubious fragments of intelligence and the discredited Steele dossier into the report. It also suggests that the narrative was shaped under direct influence from President Obama&#8217;s administration, aiming to manufacture and politicize intelligence to support the collusion theory. The article portrays Brennan&#8217;s conduct as reminiscent of Stalinist tactics, referencing the quote attributed to Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria: &#8220;Show me the man and I&#8217;ll find you the crime.&#8221;  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a young man, former CIA Director John Brennan voted for a Communist for President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, mounting evidence suggests that Brennan, in order to craft a false narrative designed to undermine then-incoming President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first administration, also behaved like a Stalinist.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a declassified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/DIG\/DIG-Declassified-HPSCI-Report-Manufactured-Russia-Hoax-July2025.pdf?s=09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Intelligence Committee Report<\/a> that repeatedly showed Brennan, in the final weeks of President Barack Obama&rsquo;s administration, overruling senior CIA officers on crucial points to produce an intelligence community assessment that supported the now-thoroughly debunked Russia collusion hoax regarding the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence assessment in question, briefed to Obama on Jan. 5, 2017, and to then-President-Elect Trump the following day, concluded that Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/putin-never-wanted-trump-win-new-tulsi-gabbard-intel-dismantles-central-claim-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> interfered in the 2016 election with an eye toward helping Trump win.<\/p>\n<p>Senior CIA officers, however, described Brennan as having strong-armed that conclusion into the intelligence assessment.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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Based on what the courageous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gabbard-evidence-indict-prosecute-responsible-coup-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump cabinet member called<\/a> &ldquo;manufactured and politicized intelligence,&rdquo; Obama and his senior administration officials concocted the Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 8, 2016, for instance, the president&rsquo;s daily intelligence briefing concluded that the Russians &ldquo;did not impact recent US election results by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-officials-spiked-intel-that-cleared-trump-in-2016-records-show-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Obama officials spiked intel that cleared ... in 2016, records show ... Washington Examiner\">conducting malicious cyber activities<\/a> against election infrastructure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting the next day in the White House Situation Room, however, the entire administration changed course. Based on &ldquo;new guidance,&rdquo; the Dec. 8 presidential daily briefing was never published.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the documents Gabbard released Friday strongly suggested that the &ldquo;new guidance&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-order-doctored-russia-report-page-72-gabbards-classified-doc-dump-sure-sounds-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came from Obama himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, one must view Brennan&rsquo;s behavior during the crafting of the intelligence assessment in light of this &ldquo;new guidance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report released Wednesday, Brennan chose five CIA analysts to write the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >hastily produced intelligence community assessment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the then-CIA director&rsquo;s insistence, the completed assessment included what the House report called &ldquo;[o]ne scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence,&rdquo; which served as &ldquo;the only classified information cited&rdquo; for the conclusion that Putin wanted to help Trump win.<\/p>\n<p>One senior CIA operations officer described the fragment as controversial, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t know what was meant by that&rdquo; fragment, the officer said, adding that &ldquo;five people read it five ways.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Experienced Russia analysts did not want to include the fragment. In fact, they did exclude it from an early draft dated Dec. 20, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan, however, &ldquo;countermanded their decision,&rdquo; and the fragment appeared in a revised report eight days later.<\/p>\n<p>According to the House report, the intelligence community assessment also included another &ldquo;substandard report from an unknown subsource&rdquo; that seemed calculated to deceive.<\/p>\n<p>As with the controversial fragment, this dubious piece of intelligence pointed to Putin&rsquo;s preference for Trump. Incredibly, the intelligence community assessment indicated that the intelligence came from an &ldquo;established source,&rdquo; when in fact the &ldquo;ultimate source of the information is unknown.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;CIA professionals originally declined to publish this information,&rdquo; the House Intelligence Committee Report read. They only did so in response to Brennan&rsquo;s &ldquo;post-election &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nowhere-to-hide-gabbards-doc-dump-100-percent-reveals-obama-personally-ordered-the-russia-collusion-hoax-document-he-originated-it-all\/\" title=\"Nowhere to Hide: Gabbard&#039;s Doc Dump 100 Percent Reveals Obama Personally Ordered the ... ... ... He Originated It All\">full review&#038;rsquo<\/a>; order.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the most astonishing revelation of all, CIA officers reported that Brennan overruled them when they objected to the inclusion of the infamous Steele dossier, a piece of opposition research <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid for<\/a> by the Democratic National Committee and former Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/declassified-doc-dump-shows-insane-dirt-putin-hillary-devastating-tanked-anytime-wanted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s<\/a> 2016 presidential campaign and designed to promote the lie that Trump colluded with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, one CIA officer said that Brennan acknowledged the dossier&rsquo;s myriad problems, but ordered its inclusion anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yes, but doesn&rsquo;t it ring true?&rdquo; the then-CIA director allegedly said.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976, Brennan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/15\/politics\/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> for Gus Hall of the Communist Party for president.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Lavrentiy Beria, the chief of 20th-century Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin&rsquo;s secret police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/show-me-the-man-and-ill-find-you-the-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly said<\/a>, &ldquo;Show me the man and I&rsquo;ll find you the crime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trumps-finally-bringing-justice-brennan-comey-officially-criminal-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brennan<\/a>, it seems, learned that lesson well.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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