{"id":2469494,"date":"2025-08-01T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-boosted-anti-trump-ex-spook-as-author-of-ica-she-wasnt\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:59:14","slug":"media-boosted-anti-trump-ex-spook-as-author-of-ica-she-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-boosted-anti-trump-ex-spook-as-author-of-ica-she-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Boosted Anti-Trump Ex-Spook As Author Of ICA. She Wasn&#8217;t"},"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\">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%2Fmedia-boosted-anti-trump-ex-spook-as-author-of-ica-she-wasnt%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=2469494&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 critiques CNN and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash...For...Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">mainstream media outlets<\/a> for falsely portraying retired CIA official Susan Miller as an author of the controversial 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Miller, who defended the ICA and disputed claims of Obama White House interference presented by Tulsi Gabbard, later admitted she did not write the ICA but contributed to a CIA report used as a basis for it. Investigations reveal that Miller exaggerated her role,and sources familiar with the ICA confirm she was not involved in leading the assessment. The piece highlights contradictions in Miller&#8217;s statements and points out that declassified documents expose the flawed intelligence and politicization behind the russia collusion narrative. The article also references the Durham report&#8217;s appendix, which vindicates Trump and condemns the Obama administration and FBI for mishandling and weaponizing intelligence to promote the false Russia collusion story. Senate judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley urges the new administration to address the damage caused. While government officials pledge openness and accountability, the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article criticizes corporate media<\/a> for failing to offer truthful reporting on these issues.  <\/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>\n<p>Leave it to Russia collusion hoax peddler CNN to try to debunk <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/30\/house-intel-chair-says-declassified-docs-show-obama-directed-psyop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bombshell Russiagate documents <\/a>with another bad intelligence report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Democrat Party&rsquo;s go-to cable network for real misinformation <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/26\/politics\/retired-cia-official-rebuts-gabbards-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that retired CIA official Susan Miller, &ldquo;an author of the agency&rsquo;s 2017 intelligence report on Russian meddling,&rdquo; rebutted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard&rsquo;s claims about the Obama White House&rsquo;s interference in the 2016 election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My team and I, just yesterday, had a few drinks and talked about that, and talked about what lawyers we&rsquo;d be looking for, if that happens,&rdquo; Miller told CNN&rsquo;s pretend journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMqatH5vAzd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kaitlan Collins<\/a> on <em>The Source<\/em> last Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Miller and her team had more than a few drinks, because her defense of the manufactured <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-intelligence-community-needs-to-be-dismantled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intelligence Community Assessment<\/a> behind the Russia collusion hoax sure is foggy. So is CNN&rsquo;s reporting &mdash; once again.&nbsp;And CNN is not alone. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out, the &ldquo;author&rdquo; that CNN and other Trump-hating corporate media outlets used to defend the shoddy ICA wasn&rsquo;t an author of the document after all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&rsquo;Not an author. Not involved,&rsquo; says a senior intelligence official,&rdquo; real journalist Matt Taibbi and the Racket News Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/hoax-on-hoax-ex-cia-official-susan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday in a piece headlined, &ldquo;Hoax on Hoax? Ex-CIA Official Susan Miller Was Not an Author of Key Intelligence Community Assessment, as Claimed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Just FYI: every news outlet that identified Susan Miller as an &ldquo;author&rdquo; of the Intelligence Community Assessment now needs to make a change, based on her own words. Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlazeTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BlazeTV<\/a> and Joseph MacKinnon, who beat us and got this lol quote: <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I indeed did not write the ICA,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ti41rARuyU\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ti41rARuyU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GhqJsAwst2\">pic.twitter.com\/GhqJsAwst2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1950699514429395271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Not Even a Non-Denial Denial&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Joe MacKinnon of Blaze Media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/ex-cia-counterintel-chief-susan-millers-denials-regarding-obama-russia-hoax-reek-of-desperation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earlier confirmed<\/a> from Miller that she was not an author of the assessment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My team and I at CIA wrote a CIA analysis about Russian influence on the election,&rdquo; Miller told Blaze Media. She said there was indeed a CIA report, which then-CIA Director John Brennan delivered to Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Miller said she briefed House and Senate intelligence committees, and that James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence at the time, &ldquo;used that report as the basis for the ICA.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Miller acknowledges that she &ldquo;indeed did not write the ICA,&rdquo; but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence used her report &ldquo;as the basis for hers.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. That&rsquo;s curious. Because Miller certainly has placed herself at the center of the assessment on several media appearances where she has vehemently disputed the bombshell documents. On a July 18 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spytalk.co\/p\/exclusive-top-former-cia-russia-report\"><em>SpyTalk<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/5b7fe25b-4b39-4256-b3ee-53f82f8d2196?j=eyJ1IjoiMjNkenoifQ.A40plZkGscP5wyOU5MLZ_1h-9_1Ksn93GHf3c4nkWg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Isikoff<\/a> asked the ex-spook if Brennan had tapped her to author the report.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; Miller answered. As Racket has reported, Michael Isikoff wrote the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/6dbaee4d-4a83-448c-9a04-5fbb02bcd237?j=eyJ1IjoiMjNkenoifQ.A40plZkGscP5wyOU5MLZ_1h-9_1Ksn93GHf3c4nkWg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first high-profile article sourced to British ex-spy Christopher Steele<\/a>&nbsp;in September 2016. On the same podcast, Miller claimed she &ldquo;headed the report team.&rdquo; The podcast pushed Miller&rsquo;s suspect credentials, asserting she &ldquo;captained 2016 election analysis,&rdquo; and that Miller was a &ldquo;principal author of the&nbsp; controversial 2017 intelligence report. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, but wait &hellip; there&rsquo;s more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NBC News, the day after CNN&rsquo;s interview and story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/gabbard-white-house-lying-intel-russian-interference-2016-ex-cia-offic-rcna220870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> Miller as the former senior CIA officer &ldquo;who helped oversee the 2017&rdquo; ICA on Russia&rsquo;s interference in the 2016 election. NBC&rsquo;s Dan De Luce insisted that Miller &ldquo;helped lead the team that produced the report.&rdquo; On Sunday&rsquo;s <em>Meet The Press,&nbsp;<\/em>Kristen Welker referred to the former CIA official as <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/c35a7f43-9ceb-4a41-afcf-7ef4cef360d2?j=eyJ1IjoiMjNkenoifQ.A40plZkGscP5wyOU5MLZ_1h-9_1Ksn93GHf3c4nkWg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a former senior CIA officer who helped to oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian interference<\/a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not even close, a source with knowledge of the ICA&rsquo;s preparation told Taibbi. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&hellip;[S]he&rsquo;s not the author of the ICA&hellip; she wasn&rsquo;t leading this effort. So it&rsquo;s just totally bizarre that she claims the opposite,&rdquo; the source told Racket.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Susan is Wrong&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Miller accused Gabbard and the White House of &ldquo;lying.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected,&rdquo; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/gabbard-white-house-lying-intel-russian-interference-2016-ex-cia-offic-rcna220870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> NBC News, adding, &ldquo;At the same time, we found no two-way collusion between Trump or his team with the Russians at that time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But that&rsquo;s not what the intelligence community under Brennan, Clapper, and then-FBI Director James Comey was leaking to their favorite friendly news outlets. The declassified documents, including the sealed 2020 House Permanent Special Committee on Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/dig\/4089-declassified-hpsci-report-on-the-manufactured-russia-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>, show top intelligence community officials shrugging off concerns by career agents that the narrative of the Trump campaign colluding with the Kremlin to help the Republican secure the election was not true. And certainly the egregiously flawed intelligence couldn&rsquo;t be corroborated by the fragments of information failing to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/30\/house-intel-chair-says-declassified-docs-show-obama-directed-psyop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IC vetting standards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Susan is wrong. And the American people can read for themselves hundreds of reasons why she is wrong in the declassified HPSCI report,&rdquo; ODNI spokeswoman Olivia Coleman told NBC News. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Susan, at least according to Racket&rsquo;s sources, isn&rsquo;t just wrong; she&rsquo;s lying. <\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Fix the Damage Done&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>More damning information has dropped since, including Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley&rsquo;s release Thursday of the declassified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham&rsquo;s 2023 report. The special counsel&rsquo;s report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/durhamreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vindicated<\/a> Trump and others forced to defend themselves from the lie that was the Russia collusion hoax, which Grassley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/newly-declassified-appendix-to-durham-report-sheds-additional-light-on-clinton-campaign-plan-to-falsely-tie-trump-to-russia-and-fbis-failure-to-investigate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calls <\/a>&ldquo;one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-new-evidence-ties-soros-foundation-to-russiagate-top-official-actively-involved-report\/\" title=\"Breaking: New Evidence Ties Soros Foundation to Russiagate, Top Offi...l Actively Involved ... ...\">investigate intelligence reports showing<\/a> the [Hillary] Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton&rsquo;s political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele Dossier and other means,&rdquo; Grassley said in a statement, referring to Comey&rsquo;s sham Crossfire Hurricane investigation. &ldquo;This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency,&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/31\/us-news\/hillary-clinton-approved-plan-hatched-by-campaign-aides-to-smear-trump-with-russia-collusion-declassified-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the Department of Justice and the CIA are &ldquo;committed to truth and transparency and will continue to support good-faith efforts by Congress to hold our government accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Too bad corporate media doesn&rsquo;t share the same commitment. Will they ever be held accountable?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN tries to debunk Russiagate docs with flawed intel report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2469497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.10.18-PM-e1754044700560.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[6430,12730,4786,4188,5894],"class_list":["post-2469494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-anti-trump","tag-author","tag-intelligence","tag-media","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-4.10.18-PM-e1754044700560.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469499,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469494\/revisions\/2469499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}