BBC: Gabbard says declassified report 'exposes' Obama administration "US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released a previously classified report which she says points to a "treasonous conspiracy" to undermine the results of the 2016 presidential election.
"The House Intelligence Committee document takes issue with the conclusion, reached by numerous intelligence reports including one by the CIA, that Russia sought to help Donald Trump in that election.
"Gabbard appeared at the White House on Wednesday and said the report reveals "egregious weaponisation and politicisation of intelligence".
"Democrats said the White House is trying to distract from the ongoing controversy surrounding its decision not to publish files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.
" 'It seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files," Democratic Senator Mark Warner said, adding that a bipartisan Senate report had backed the CIA's conclusions about Russia favouring Trump. . . ."
. . . "By coincidence or otherwise, Comey's FBI chose not to look deeper.
" 'Witnesses told us that the FBI has never comprehensively reviewed thumb drives 1 through 5," the hitherto classified appendix read.
"Meanwhile, in a footnote, the appendix also noted that the question of accessing the thumb drives resulted in multiple meetings, one on Sept. 20, 2016, and another on Oct. 20, 2016, attended by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, White House Counsel W. Neil Eggleston, and others.
"Why would White House counsel meet with the FBI regarding thumb drives already known to contain Obama's emails? Then, why would the FBI choose not to review the drives?
"Grassley called it an "extreme lack of effort and due diligence" on the FBI's part. The senator also characterized the "Comey FBI’s negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation" as a sharp contrast with its "full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax."
"Likewise, many users on the social media platform X saw the Obama emails as the key to understanding why, in the words of Sean Davis of The Federalist, the Comey FBI "deliberately sandbagged the Clinton investigation and refused to take basic investigative steps that would’ve revealed how seriously Clinton compromised national security.' " . . .
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