{"id":2472309,"date":"2025-08-08T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-hides-russiagate-facts-from-readers-while-peddling-pr\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:06:50","slug":"wapo-hides-russiagate-facts-from-readers-while-peddling-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-hides-russiagate-facts-from-readers-while-peddling-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Hides Russiagate Facts From Readers While Peddling PR"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwapo-hides-russiagate-facts-from-readers-while-peddling-pr%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=2472309&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 Washington Post reporter Warren P. Strobel&#8217;s recent coverage of Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s declassification of a House Intelligence Committee report that criticizes the CIA&#8217;s handling of the Russia collusion claims during the 2016 election. The report reveals that former CIA Director John Brennan produced a flawed assessment falsely claiming Russian interference aimed to help Donald Trump, based on unverified fragments and the discredited Steele dossier. Strobel&#8217;s article is criticized for downplaying these findings, portraying Gabbard negatively, and failing to link to or explain the report&#8217;s explosive content. Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and other critics argue that Strobel&#8217;s piece acts as PR for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-johnson-impeachment-appears-to-be-distraction-from-what-democrat-leadership-knew-about-jan-6\/\" title=\"Sen. Johnson: Impeachment Appears to Be Distraction From What Democrat Leadership Knew About Jan. 6\">intelligence agencies<\/a> and their allies, avoiding transparency and relying on anonymous sources. The release of the report challenges longstanding media narratives, including those by the Washington Post, wich won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage now seen as promoting false Russian interference claims.The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-education-department-tells-parents-to-talk-about-racism-with-3-month-olds\/\" title=\"Arizona Education Department Tells Parents To Talk About Racism With 3-Month-Olds\">article calls<\/a> for greater journalistic integrity and transparency around these disclosures.  <\/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>&ldquo;Exclusive!&rdquo; boasts Washington Post intel reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/uiOwP#selection-177.0-177.17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Warren P. Strobel<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/G3YHD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> this week: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and &ldquo;other intelligence agencies&rdquo; didn&rsquo;t want Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to declassify a report that makes the CIA look bad.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the sky is blue, and the grass is green. Obviously, no one wants to be publicly embarrassed by the exposure of their substandard work &mdash; in this case work that led to the <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\">Russia collusion hoax<\/a>, one of the political witch hunts that interfered with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first term.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway on X, &ldquo;Strobel frames everything as if he&rsquo;s doing highly paid PR for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-huge-its-a-real-simple-fact-to-prove-that-there-was-massive-fraud-in-this-election-inventor-of-qr-code-can-prove-it\/\" title=\"THIS IS HUGE: \u201cIt\u2019s a Real Simple Fact to ...ove that There Was Massive Fraud in This Election\u201d \u2013 Inventor of QR Code Can ...ove It\">bad actors<\/a> in the spy agencies and their Democrat co-conspirators. Namely, HE DOES NOT EVEN TELL HIS READERS WHAT THE REPORT REVEALS about how shoddy Brennan\/CIA&rsquo;s work was!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just read the most embarrassingly bad Washington Post story about the release of the explosive and long-hidden House Intel Committee report detailing how Brennan cooked up the false claim that Russia interfered in 2016 *to help Trump* &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1953264706145210753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Strobel does not make it easy for the reader to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/DIG\/DIG-Declassified-HPSCI-Report-Manufactured-Russia-Hoax-July2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence&rsquo;s 2020 staff report regarding the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference. At no point does he offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/DIG\/DIG-Declassified-HPSCI-Report-Manufactured-Russia-Hoax-July2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link to the report<\/a> or explain its explosive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/press-releases\/press-releases-2025\/4090-pr-18-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">findings<\/a>: that John Brennan, CIA director under former President Barack Obama, produced a sloppy Intelligence Community Assessment promoting the lie that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered with the 2020 election to help Trump win. The foundation of Brennan&rsquo;s report was an out of context <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\">fragment of a sentence<\/a> that could not be confirmed and the comically false Steele dossier. A newly released CIA <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/07\/exclusive-brennans-fake-russia-collusion-assessment-even-more-corrupt-than-current-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review<\/a> shows high level CIA analysts and officers urged Brennan not to include the Steele dossier in the report.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond being thin on facts, Strobel&rsquo;s piece paints Gabbard as the villain right off the bat with the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/G3YHD#selection-265.0-265.84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">title<\/a>, &ldquo;Gabbard overrode CIA officials&rsquo; concerns in push to release classified Russia report.&rdquo; It reads as if Gabbard did something wrong; she didn&rsquo;t. Gabbard does not need permission to declassify these documents. Strange that a reporter, by trade, would champion keeping documents classified or highly redacted, as suggested in his piece. Normally reporters press for the most transparency possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strobel also cites&nbsp;as sources: &ldquo;multiple people familiar with the matter&rdquo; and later, &ldquo;current and former U.S. officials,&rdquo; which could be anyone from George W. Bush to the trash hauler at Arches National Park. How credible is a former official who is no longer in the loop? He also cites &ldquo;people &hellip; speaking on the condition of anonymity, like others interviewed for this report, because of the matter&rsquo;s sensitivity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There is a time for sensitivity, like when a dog dies. But embarrassing documents that could get people in trouble? No. This is a moment to use the journalist backbone and insist sources go public.<\/p>\n<p>We could say Strobel hates kittens, sources familiar with the situation say, but that does not make it true.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to understand how embarrassing it is for the Washington Post to have to confront the documents Gabbard has released. Gabbard is not just making things up. These are real reports with real information that throws a wet blanket on the bogus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/the-washington-post-wins-2-pulitzer-prizes-for-reporting-on-russian-interference-and-alabama-senate-race\/2018\/04\/16\/0915c310-4197-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a> The Washington Post (and the New York Times) received for pushing anti-Trump Russian propaganda. They should give back the prize, and the cash that goes with it, now that their reporting is shown to be false. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the <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\">Washington Post<\/a> continues to smear people like Gabbard who can threaten any remaining shred of the Washington Post&rsquo;s credibility just by producing truth-telling documents. Meanwhile, lazy reporters lean on the Washington Post&rsquo;s reputation as a Pulitzer Prize winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/tulsi-gabbard-reportedly-pushed-declassify-documents-russias-interference-2016-elections-588103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repackage<\/a> its stories, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/dni-gabbard-reportedly-overrode-cia-officials-concerns-push-conspirato-rcna223478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeat<\/a> this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redlakenationnews.com\/story\/2025\/08\/07\/news\/gabbard-overrode-cia-officials-concerns-in-push-to-release-classified-russia-report\/133545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >award-winning investigative journalist<\/a> with decades of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerbergs-new-threads-app-already-censoring-speech\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg&#039;s &#039;Threads&#039; App Censors Speech\">media experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive!&#8221; claims WaPo&#8217;s Strobel: CIA opposed Gabbard&#8217;s declassification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2472310,"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\/08\/TulsiGG.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32490,50738,38962,16740,7115],"class_list":["post-2472309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-media-bias","tag-misinformation-2","tag-public-relations","tag-russiagate","tag-wapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TulsiGG.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472309","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472313,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472309\/revisions\/2472313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}