{"id":2469515,"date":"2025-08-01T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-big-lies-clapper-and-brennan-told-in-their-nyt-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:32:05","slug":"three-big-lies-clapper-and-brennan-told-in-their-nyt-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-big-lies-clapper-and-brennan-told-in-their-nyt-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Big Lies Clapper And Brennan Told In Their NYT Op-Ed"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fthree-big-lies-clapper-and-brennan-told-in-their-nyt-op-ed%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=2469515&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>This article discusses how declassified documents have exposed teh roles of former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in promoting the unfounded trump-Russia collusion narrative. In response, Brennan and Clapper published an op-ed in The New York Times attempting to dismiss the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >newly revealed evidence<\/a> and urge the public not to trust the disclosures. The article highlights that the recently released intelligence materials, shared by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, show no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">credible evidence<\/a> that Russia aimed for Donald Trump to win the 2016 election and that false claims were inserted into the obama administration&#8217;s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the direction of officials like Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>The op-ed by Brennan and Clapper is criticized for trying to deflect attention from these findings, including invoking a Senate Intelligence Committee report that claimed analysts were free from political pressure, a point contested by investigative journalists. The article further rebuts key claims made by Brennan and Clapper, particularly regarding the Steele dossier-an unverified set of allegations funded by the Clinton campaign, which was integral to the FBI&#8217;s examination into trump&#8217;s campaign. Despite their denials, evidence shows the dossier was included and referenced in the ICA and was pushed by Brennan over objections from CIA experts due to it&#8217;s doubtful credibility.<\/p>\n<p>the piece challenges Brennan and Clapper&#8217;s denial that the ICA referenced &#8220;collusion&#8221; or contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. The article presents direct excerpts from the ICA&#8217;s classified annex that mention such allegations by FBI sources. It concludes that Brennan and Clapper continue to mislead the public, perpetuating one of the most damaging intelligence hoaxes in recent U.S. history.  <\/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>After declassified documents further exposed their roles in fomenting the baseless Trump-Russia collusion hoax, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are out with a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/FKMnq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new op-ed<\/a> effectively trying to tell the public, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t believe your lying eyes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Published by The New York Times &mdash; a known <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/25\/flashback-see-how-the-media-spread-russian-hoax-lies-as-obama-intel-agencies-created-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">co-conspirator<\/a> in the hoax &mdash; the rambling screed from the former Obama intel chiefs represents a pathetic attempt to dismiss findings in recently disclosed records released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. In summary, the materials <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/report-russia-hoax-was-built-on-one-scant-unclear-and-unverifiable-fragment-of-a-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show<\/a> there was no credible underlying intel demonstrating Russia wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 election and that such falsehoods were forcibly shoehorned into the Obama team&rsquo;s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of figures like Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan and Clapper predictably use their op-ed to try and draw attention away from the bombshell findings. One way they attempt to do this is by citing a past Senate Intelligence Committee report on the drafting of the ICA, which claimed, &ldquo;analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions.&rdquo; (That talking point was dismantled by The Federalist&rsquo;s Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/emergency-episode-sean-davis-and-mollie-hemingway-dissect-latest-russia-hoax-bombshells--67089999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent episode<\/a> of &ldquo;The Federalist Radio Hour.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>The most humorous part of the op-ed, however, comes in the latter half, in which Clapper and Brennan try their hardest to &ldquo;set the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunking-the-ice-kidnapping-hoaxes\/\" title=\"Debunking the ICE &#039;kidnapping&#039; hoaxes\">record straight&#038;rdquo<\/a>; on several key points regarding the 2017 ICA. Unsurprisingly, none of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-intermittent-fasting-how-to-guide\/\" title=\"The Intermittent Fasting How-To Guide\">major claims<\/a> they make are anywhere close to the truth. <\/p>\n<p>The first subject they choose to tackle is the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/15\/unsealed-crossfire-hurricane-docs-further-prove-russiagate-was-a-hoax-all-along\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steele dossier<\/a> &mdash; a collection of salacious and unsubstantiated allegations about Trump bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign. The dossier was foundational in the FBI&rsquo;s launching of a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016 and was later used to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page.<\/p>\n<p>Writing about the 2017 ICA in their op-ed, Clapper and Brennan claim &mdash; as they have &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/new-docs-contradict-top-obama-officials-claims-steele-dossier-wasnt-included-in-critical-russiagate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under oath<\/a>&rdquo; &mdash; &ldquo;that the dossier was not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the Federal Bureau of Investigation&rsquo;s insistence, a short summary of the dossier was added as a separate annex only to the most highly classified version of the document that contained the assessment,&rdquo; write Clapper and Brennan. &ldquo;That annex also explained why the dossier was not used in the assessment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To the contrary, the dossier <em>was<\/em> used in the ICA. The declassified House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/new-docs-contradict-top-obama-officials-claims-steele-dossier-wasnt-included-in-critical-russiagate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shows<\/a> how the dossier was &ldquo;referenced in the ICA <em>main body text<\/em> and further detailed in a two-page ICA annex&rdquo; &mdash; &ldquo;[c]ontradicting public claims by[[<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-brennan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brennan<\/a>]that the dossier &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2025\/07\/08\/cia_contradicts_obama_officials_sworn_denials_about_russiagate_report_1121513.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was not in any way<\/a>&lsquo; incorporated into the ICA&rdquo; [emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By devoting nearly two pages of ICA text to summarizing the dossier in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-docs-contradict-obama-officials-claims-about-steele-dossier\/\" title=\"New Docs Contradict Obama ...&#039; Claims About Steele ...\">high-profile assessment intended<\/a> for the President and President-elect, the ICA misrepresented both the significance and credibility of the dossier reports,&rdquo; the HPSCI analysis reads. &ldquo;The ICA referred to the dossier as &lsquo;Russian plans and intentions,&rsquo; falsely implying to high-level US policymakers that the dossier had intelligence value for understanding Moscow&rsquo;s influence operations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also misleading for Clapper and Brennan to claim that the insistence on a &ldquo;short summary&rdquo; of the dossier being included in a &ldquo;separate annex&rdquo; came from the FBI. In fact, the HPSCI report reveals how it was Brennan himself who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/brennan-overruled-cia-experts-objections-to-include-steele-dossier-in-bogus-intel-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overruled<\/a> the objections of CIA officials to include the dossier in the ICA.<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Brianna Lyman <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/brennan-overruled-cia-experts-objections-to-include-steele-dossier-in-bogus-intel-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, &ldquo;Two senior CIA officers contended that the dossier should have been omitted from the ICA &lsquo;because it failed to meet basic tradecraft standards,&rsquo; a senior officer at the meeting said &hellip; But according to the same senior officer, Brennan, when &lsquo;confronted with the dossier&rsquo;s many flaws,&rsquo; said, &lsquo;Yes, but doesn&rsquo;t it ring true?&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/exclusive-this-should-not-be-included-read-intelligence-officials-objections-to-extremely-sketchy-steele-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&lsquo;This Should NOT Be Included&rsquo; &mdash; Read Intel Officials&rsquo; Objections To &lsquo;Extremely Sketchy&rsquo; Steele Dossier<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final major falsehood promoted by the two former intel directors is that &ldquo;there was no mention of &lsquo;collusion&rsquo; between the Trump campaign and the Russians in the assessment, nor any reference to the publicly acknowledged contacts that had taken place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Once again, readers can see for themselves that contention is demonstrably untrue. As Just the News&rsquo; Jerry Dunleavy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1950903772399513642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highlighted<\/a>, the ICA&rsquo;s Annex A mentions an &ldquo;FBI source&rdquo; alleging coordination between Trump and Moscow. One of the Annex sentences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/sites-default-files-documents-report-volume4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reads<\/a>, &ldquo;The most politically sensitive claims by the FBI source alleging a close relationship between the President-elect and the Kremlin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For all of their supposed concern about &ldquo;misrepresentations and disinformation,&rdquo; Clapper and Brennan are some of their biggest perpetrators. Much like they&rsquo;ve been doing for years, the two Obama intel chiefs are lying (and will continue to lie) about their involvement in pushing one of the most damaging hoaxes in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brennan and Clapper deny Trump-Russia hoax evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2469516,"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\/Clapper-and-Brennan.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[8358,18551,60406],"class_list":["post-2469515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-brennan","tag-clapper","tag-nyt-op-ed"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Clapper-and-Brennan.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469515","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469519,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469515\/revisions\/2469519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}