Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The Commies Are Coming


Karl Marx: “The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”

Recent Breitbart headline: “Zohran Mamdanin Pushes for ‘Abolition of Private Property’”

Well, of course, the commies are already here; Marxism dominates the Democratic Party now, so Mamdani’s call for the abolition of private property is not surprising in the least. But that’s just my conclusion. Let me share with you some quotes from Karl Marx, and then you can decide if, or to what extent, his communist theory has infiltrated and/or taken over the Democratic Party. All the quotes below are from Marx. I’m going to provide these quotes without comment; you, the reader, can decide for yourself how well these ideas describe the current Democratic Party.

1.  “My object is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.”

2.  “Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.”

3.  “Keep people from their history and they are easily controlled.”

4.  “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”

5.  “Communism begins where atheism begins.”

6.  “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you.  When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

7.  “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

8.  “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”

9.  “A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.”

10.  “Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”

11.  “As socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.”

That’s a sampling. More could be added, but this article can’t be a book.  A wise person can either already perceive the above ideas deeply embedded in the Democratic Party, or certainly, they are in germ form. All of the above, of course, can easily be detected and demonstrated from countries (e.g., the USSR, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc.) that accepted and applied Marx’s doctrine in the 20th century. There is no reason to believe that the Marxists in the Democratic Party won’t do the same things if given the total power they crave.  

Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian pastor who spent 14 years tortured for his faith in a communist prison camp. Thus, he experienced Marxism, not just theorized about it. He wrote, “There is no support for the view that Marx entertained lofty social ideals about helping mankind. Marx hated any notion of God or gods. He determined to be the man who would kick out God.” Read quote number 1 above again for the theoretical verification of what Marxists actually practice. The Democratic Party’s current hatred of Christians, Jews, and all things religious (they don’t like Muslims, either, but currently find them useful because of their opposition to Judaism and Christianity) is a clear manifestation of this Marxist dogma.

Let’s try to understand a little bit more about Marxism and its origins, thus the underlying foundation of the modern Democratic Party. Very few people comprehend this; I suspect 99.9% of the people who vote for Democrats have no clue about it (and probably wouldn’t care). But it’s important; as Marx implied (quotes 2 and 3 above), historical ignorance is very helpful to propagate his theory.

The great basic thought of George Wilhelm Frederich Hegel, borrowed by Marx and his companion Frederck Engels, was “the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of processes.” Not stable, unchanging verities and virtues, but an ever-evolving “process.” Once this central notion of Marxian dialectics is grasped, we realize that, to Marxists, there are no “final” solutions, nothing fixed, absolute, eternally true, or right or wrong. There are no eternal truths in Marxism—hence, it’s hatred of religion. Each stage [of the historical “process”] is necessary and therefore justified by the time and conditions to which it owes its origin.  

When new, higher conditions develop, the old things lose their validity and justification. Nothing is forever “normal.” Again, for it [dialectical philosophy, i.e., Marxism], nothing is final, absolute, or sacred. Historical justification is thus the only justification for determining “normal” or “weird,” “right” or “wrong.” Even slavery and incest (and capitalism) were considered to be historically justified—“normal”—at given stages of history.

It's an ever-evolving process with no fixed, absolute truths.

Marx owed much of this, not only to Hegel, but also to Charles Darwin, to whom Marx wanted to dedicate one volume of his massive tome, Capital. Evolutionary theory (which Marx saw as the “scientific” basis for his “scientific socialism”) obviously fits Marx’s theory nicely—everything is evolving, changing, in flux, nothing is final or absolute. 

So, how do we define true “normality?” Man, a million years ago, was a knuckle-dragging, hairy ape-like creature. What was “normal” back then?  Man is what he is today. Surely what was “normal” a million years ago isn’t “normal” today. And what will man be like a million years from now? No one knows because, by definition, naturalistic evolution is random and directionless. Thus, clearly, what is “normal” today probably won’t be “normal” to whatever “humanity” is a million years from now.  

Therefore, putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms and having XY chromosomed humans beating up XX chromosomed humans isn’t “weird” to people who believe in the ever-evolving Marxian ethics and morality.  It’s only weird to J. D. Vance and his ilk.

That’s Marxism, folks. That’s Zohran Mamdani, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, AOC—that is the underlying philosophy of the Democratic Party. And we can see it in action, in many ways. They are coming. They are already here. We need to be prepared.



X22, And we Know, and more- July 22

 



Obama’s Real Legacy Comes into Focus


Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard set off fireworks on Friday when she accused former president Barack Obama of organizing a coup d’état against his successor.  Summarizing the damning evidence in her possession, Gabbard , “These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people.”  

Treason is a capital offense with no statute of limitations.  So consider how explosive Gabbard’s allegations are.  The senior official in charge of all American Intelligence is stating unequivocally that Obama and his loyal subordinates sabotaged the peaceful transfer of presidential power in 2016, betrayed the American people, and made war against the legitimate government of the United States.  Gabbard just dropped the “Mother of All Bombs” on Obama’s White House syndicate, the Intelligence Community, and the globalist Deep State.

General Michael Flynn, President Trump’s short-lived National Security Advisor,  the situation succinctly: “This is surreal.”  As a target of the Deep State’s treacherous lawfare operations, General Flynn views the workings in Washington, D.C., with supreme clarity: “This is why [Gabbard] was attacked so relentlessly over the past few weeks and months.  They knew if there were anyone with the guts to investigate the attempted coup, it would be her.”  Obama loyalists in the Intelligence Community and Obama’s propaganda allies in the corporate news media succeeded in removing General Flynn from his NSA position at the beginning of Trump’s first term.  Perhaps learning from Flynn’s experience, Gabbard has worked quickly to expose the conspirators before they could take her out, too.

Who exactly formed this conspiracy to overturn the 2016 election and topple President Trump’s administration?  DNI Gabbard  that “intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President [Trump].”  Furthermore, “Obama officials immediately leaned on their allies in the media to advance their falsehoods.  Anonymous IC sources leaked classified information to the Washington Post and others that Russia had intervened to hack the election in Trump’s favor.”

Ezra Cohen, an Intelligence official who has served President Trump in various positions, highlighted the  who conspired to blame Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election loss on the Russians.  In a pivotal National Security Council meeting chaired by Susan Rice, attendees included John Brennan, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Victoria Nuland, Mary McCord, Avril Haines, Lisa Monaco, Ben Rhodes, and Maher Bitar (an Obama official who immediately went to work for liar Adam Schiff).  That’s a “Who’s Who” list of Russia Hoax plotters.

Truth-tellers at American Thinker and elsewhere have been trying to tell this story for nearly ten years.  No matter how compelling the evidence or persuasive the arguments, the corporate news media have called us “conspiracy theorists” and buried anything that might tarnish Obama’s legacy.  No doubt the national propagandists that disseminate approved “narratives” for the globalist Deep State will continue to do so.  Still, it is satisfying to see this  at Breitbart: “Declassified: Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence to Push Fake Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative.”

In other words, Obama and high-ranking members of his administration — including the Intelligence chiefs responsible for safeguarding the nation from foreign and domestic threats — fabricated evidence meant to convince the American people that Russia stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton.  Furthermore, this cabal of conspirators fabricated evidence meant to incriminate President Trump, convince Congress to remove him from office, and perhaps even convince a future jury to convict him for espionage and treason.  

Obama and his people damaged America’s reputation in the world by pretending that Russia “hacked” the 2016 election.  Along with Hillary Clinton and her campaign (the original plotters who paid for the Steele Dossier and its public dissemination), the Obama administration defrauded the American people by squandering time and resources on a figment of their seditious imaginations.  

Consider how many thousands of government agents from the Department of Justice, Department of State, and broader Intelligence Community were ordered to waste years on the job chasing ghosts conjured by Clinton, Obama, Rice, Brennan, Lynch, Comey, Clapper, and their many co-conspirators.  

Consider all the real foreign and domestic threats that were entirely ignored because the U.S. government was dedicating substantial resources to an Intelligence operation meant to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.  

Consider how much harm Obama, Clinton, and their allies in government offices and corporate newsrooms caused to America by fomenting social division and political strife based on abject lies.  

The Obama administration and Clinton campaign essentially conducted a “color revolution” against the United States.  It was their intention to instigate a mass public uprising that would force President Trump from office.  They conspired to overthrow the U.S. government and install a new one more amenable to their interests.  What these “untouchable” elites did was textbook treason and sedition.

We will never have a full accounting of the toll Obama and Clinton’s lies had on America.  It seems reasonable to assume that their lies cost lives.  How many terrorist attacks could have been prevented if Intelligence agents had been working on things that mattered?  Who really murdered Seth Rich?  How many Republicans have been bankrupted in courtrooms while defending themselves against malicious prosecutions arising from the Russia Collusion Hoax?  All of the treasonous criminals who perpetrated this fraud upon the American people made the United States weaker, more divided, and more vulnerable.  That’s Obama’s real legacy.

No-one should minimize the seriousness of these crimes.  Unfortunately, even in conservative circles, it is common to hear someone describe the Russia Collusion Hoax as a Democrat Party “dirty trick.”  This was not a “dirty trick.”  This was treason!  

A “dirty trick” might aptly describe social media satirist Douglass Mackey’s trolling humor when he posted a joke encouraging Hillary Clinton’s supporters to vote by text in 2016.  Even though Mackey’s absurd suggestion has been used as a funny meme by both Democrats and Republicans for many election cycles, Hillary actually blamed Mackey for her loss, and Biden’s (in)Justice Department successfully convicted Mackey for engaging in a conspiracy to spread false information.  Thankfully, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously voided his preposterous conviction and ordered the district court to enter a judgment of acquittal.

While Obama-Biden prosecutors were happy to go after meme-makers for engaging in fake conspiracies to spread “misinformation,” they completely ignored the Obama-Clinton conspiracy to manufacture the Russia Collusion Hoax.  Unlike Mackey’s harmless “dirty trick,” the repercussions of the Obama-Clinton “color revolution” were very real.

Setting aside the fact that President Trump’s first term was undermined by a two-year special counsel investigation run by Democrats, when the departing Obama administration decided to blame Russia for Hillary’s 2016 loss, the conspirators compounded tensions between the world’s two dominant nuclear powers for purely political reasons.  

As the meeting records from Gabbard’s declassification show, Obama’s National Security Council principals “agreed to recommend sanctioning of certain members of the Russian military intelligence and foreign intelligence chains of command responsible for cyber operations as a response to cyber activity that attempted to influence or interfere with U.S. elections.”  Before Obama left office, he expelled Russian diplomats and left incoming President Trump with a diplomatic hornet’s nest.

As Internet sleuth MAZE points out, shortly after Obama’s scapegoating of Russia, Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Amy Klobuchar traveled to Ukraine and later held a press conference during which they claimed that “Russia attacked the USA by hacking the 2016 election.”  Obama and his co-conspirators advanced an Intelligence operation that could have instigated a direct U.S.-Russia war.  That’s no “dirty trick.”  That’s deadly treason against the United States and the American people.



It's Time to Investigate and Charge the True Ringleader of the Russian Collusion Hoax


We’ve danced around this subject for years. It was an open secret, though the concrete evidence was never presented for numerous reasons. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has done that, with more reportedly on the way. Whistleblowers are also coming out of the woodwork. The Russian Collusion Hoax is one of the most damaging and significant scandals in recent memory. It showed how the intelligence community weaponized and twisted information to go after Donald Trump, but who ordered the code red? Again, we all knew, and his name is all over the documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 

John Brennan and James Comey are already under investigation by the FBI for their conduct in this fiasco. But what about Barack Obama? He ordered a new intelligence assessment to be drafted, one that made sure it backed up the liberal narrative of Russian interference. In contrast, the IC’s initial consensus—the right one—said Moscow didn’t have the capabilities to have the impact that the MSNBC pundit class was implying daily. This order, which was directed during the infamous meeting on December 9, 2016, was to include the infamous, unverified, and now-debunked Steele Dossier —a document that even then-DNI James Clapper considered to be garbage.  

Yet, any analyst who voiced concerns was silenced. The piece of biased political opposition research funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign set off this whole circus. It led to illegal FISA warrants being issued on Trump campaign officials and the surveillance of the Trump campaign.  

Again, all of this was spearheaded by Mr. Barry and his crew, who allegedly worked with Clinton aides to dig up dirt on Trump, in concert with the State Department, IC, NSA, and other Deep State entities. None of this could’ve been accomplished without the executive’s knowledge. In this case, without Obama’s blessing.  

The last part of that December 9 meeting between Obama and his Deep State cronies was targeted media leaks, to generate as much chaos for the Trump transition team. Is this a slow drip? Or is there enough here to put Obama on notice? Gabbard did send a criminal referral to the Justice Department, though we don’t know who is on the document. It could be one of many Obama aides who are neck-deep in this operation.  

The Democrats couldn’t stomach losing, so they degraded the trust in our institutions, weaponized intelligence, and tried to jail Trump on numerous occasions, culminating with the Mar-a-Lago raid in August 2022. That was the moment when the left crossed the Rubicon. Trump won the 2024 Republican primaries and mounted the greatest political comeback in history. Now, with him back in the White House, all the dirty laundry is going to be unsealed, ensuring the political class and the Democrats can never get away with this coup again. 

They raided Trump's home. Now, Obama's residence could and should be next. Cuff the man; no one is above the law.



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Scheffler vs. DeGeneres: How Trump's First Six Months Have Turned the Cultural Tide


RedState 

Take a moment and think about where we are as a country. Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, laid bare the Obama administration’s years-long Russia collusion hoax that tore the country apart for years. In a press release from the DNI, it states, “President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.” This is just the beginning of the newly released information, and I’m certain people at the top will be held accountable. 

Within the first six months of taking office, President Trump has completely closed our southern border. Last week, the White House announced new numbers from the border that are both historic and hard to believe. For the second month in a row, zero illegal aliens have been released into the country. Zero. In a post on X, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) compared that to last June: 

June 2024: 27,766 illegal aliens released into the U.S. 

June 2025: Zero illegal aliens released into the U.S. 

Congress must codify the America First border security policies of President Trump. 

If my math is correct, that’s a drop of 27,766 illegals allowed into the country just this time last year. I could go on, but this column would quickly become a book.

Here’s the question I want to examine: Can one person leading a major movement really change all that much? I believe President Trump has single-handedly proven that statement to be true. Within the past 24 hours, two major events have taken place that clearly show the change taking place in America. The first is Ellen DeGeneres confirming she has left the United States to live in the United Kingdom. The second is golfer Scottie Scheffler, a man built on faith and family, winning his fourth major championship. 

As long as Trump has been in office, celebrities have made the ridiculous threat of leaving the country. Like we care. USA Today has confirmed that talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi have left the United States for the United Kingdom. In an interview about the move, DeGeneres stated: 

"We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, '(Trump) got in...' And we're like, 'We're staying here…It's clean. Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.” 

“Everything here is just better” for people who live, believe, and vote like DeGeneres. I’m sure she believes that to be true. I’d bet she supports men playing in women’s sports. That is frankly not the America we are now living in. We have universities that are now apologizing, pulling awards, and reversing transgender policies. I understand why Ellen made these comments, and I truly believe she feels that way. I hope she stays and others like her go. America has changed for the better. Ellen leaving proves the left is losing. 

On the opposite side of the spectrum, golfer Scottie Scheffler is proving Trump and America are winning. On Sunday, Scheffler won the British Open championship—his fourth major victory. Scottie is 29. He regularly talks about his faith, and how much he loves his family. In an interview before the Open Championship, Scheffler stated:

I love being able to provide for my family out here playing golf. That's why I talk about family being my priority because it really is.

But if my golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or my son, that's going to be the last day that I play out here for a living.

What a powerful statement from the current number one golfer in the world. His attitude highlights the cultural shift taking place. In a new ad for Nike, the company depicts Scheffler on the green with his son. The caption reads: “You’ve already won.” Scheffler has already won. 

If you remember, two years ago, Nike partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a man, in hopes of selling athletic bras. Trump, the MAGA movement, and historic American beliefs have turned the cultural tide. Ellen DeGeneres and those on the left who believe like her are frustrated. They’re losing. They’re seeing the degenerate gains they have made over the decades disappear in a swift whirlwind. With Trump and the helm, the golden age of America continues. 



Trudeau Redux – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Huddles with U.S. Senators



In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relied heavily on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for assistance when the U.S. and Mexico constructed the majority of the USMCA trade pact.  Today, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney takes the same approach.

[SOURCE]

PRESS RELEASE – “Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, met with a bipartisan delegation of United States senators in Ottawa. The Senator for Oregon, Ron Wyden, the Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, the Senator for New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan, and the Senator for Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto, were present.” (more)

The 35% tariffs against Canada are scheduled to go into effect on August 1st.

As noted by President Trump in his remarks during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the White House, Trump plans to renegotiate the USMCA and end the trilateral agreement in favor of two bilateral trade deals.

During the Oval Office meeting President Trump said, “As you know [USMCA] terminates fairly shortly. It gets renegotiated fairly shortly.” Then the biggest statement, “This was a transitional deal, and we’ll see what happens, we’re going to start renegotiating that”… “I don’t know if it serves a purpose anymore.”  …. “And the biggest purpose it served was, we got rid of NAFTA.” 

President Trump is going to exit the trilateral USMCA in favor of two distinctly different bilateral trade agreements between the U.S and Mexico, and the U.S and Canada.  The only consideration now is the timing.  President Trump is 100% focused on the BIG ECONOMIC PICTURE; it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the economics.



Declassified Records Show Obama Lied To Americans, Sabotaged Transition Of Power


Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released 114 pages of declassified Obama administration records Friday.



President Barack Obama was among the U.S. leaders directing intelligence agencies to lie about Russians tipping the 2016 election to Donald Trump, reaffirm newly declassified U.S. intelligence records.

The Obama administration’s use of U.S. intelligence to back false claims about Trump and Russia sabotaged the peaceful transition of power necessary for democratic self-government. It denied the American majority the policies they voted for by consuming the first Trump administration with fabricated scandals, including a massive special counsel investigation. These also wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and damaged U.S. foreign policy, likely feeding the still-raging Russia-Ukraine war.

An unclassified memorandum to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat member of Congress, was released Friday. It quotes newly declassified federal records that demonstrate U.S. intelligence agencies in 2016 believed Russia could not manipulate vote counts in favor of Trump or any other candidate.

It also reproduces formerly classified documents showing that Obama and his top intelligence officials — including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, and FBI Director James Comey — tossed aside such evidence to rush out a doctored “intelligence assessment” that falsely claimed the opposite. Under U.S. intelligence branding, that assessment relied on fabricated information funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign to falsely claim Trump was a Russian stooge.

The New York Times has run articles just in the last few months still promoting the conclusions of the doctored Jan. 6. 2017 “intelligence community assessment,” or ICA. A Rasmussen poll conducted just two weeks ago found 60 percent of Democrat voters and 45 percent of “moderates” still believe “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” Fifty-seven percent of those polled agreed officials who manipulated evidence to “get Trump” should be prosecuted.

Obama Packaged Smears As an Intelligence Assessment

Numerous email communications contained in a 114-page accompanying packet of declassified records also released Friday confirm that it was Obama who directed the rushed creation of an ICA outside normal protocols that lied to Americans about Russian interference in U.S. elections and smeared Trump as a treasonous colluder with Russia.

A Dec. 7, 2016 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) email to CIA, DHS, and ODNI recipients wrote of “discuss[ing] a NIC [intelligence community] product in response to POTUS” that “would mirror” an intelligence assessment produced in September. The September assessment said Russians couldn’t change U.S. vote totals. Later emails agreed the CIA, then led by Brennan, would lead the construction of this Obama-requested ICA.

A Dec. 9, 2016, email from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) tells 13 other ODNI and one CIA recipient, “The IC [intelligence community] is prepared to produce an assessment per the President’s request, that pulls together the information we have on the tools Moscow used and the actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”

The email set a date target for delivering the assessment to Obama on Jan. 9, 2017. That date was later moved up to Jan. 6, 2017, with top security state officials working through the holidays to release the intelligence-branded packet of smear tinder before Obama left office.

A Dec. 22, 2016 ODNI email about the Democrat disinformation-riddled ICA tells other ODNI recipients, “The only real direction we got was 1) POTUS wants a comprehensive assessment, drawing from all available sources, and 2) it has to be before the end of his administration.” 

Another Dec. 22, 2016 email between top-level DNI officials concerns “the IC [intelligence community] report on Russian election meddling that POTUS tasked us to do.”

In addition to the disinformation ICA he directed at Congress and the public, Obama directly lied to Americans in speeches about Russian election interference. For example, on Dec. 16, 2016, Obama stated he was “concerned about … potential hacking that could hamper vote counting and affect the actual election process itself. And so in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that, that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out.”

At that time, however, Obama had to know U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that statement to be false, because his staff had prevented the publication of an earlier intelligence assessment saying so, the newly released documents show. This also means the same people and agencies that erected a totalitarian censorship edifice under the pretext of “misinformation” and “disinformation” were in fact the top sources of widely believed misinformation and disinformation that have now affected at least three U.S. presidential elections.

U.S. Intel Said Russians Couldn’t Change Votes

The memorandum gives a timeline showing that U.S. intelligence analysts, agencies, and reports leading up to the 2016 election had repeatedly concluded Russia couldn’t hack U.S. elections or change vote totals. Clapper received an intelligence analysis in August 2016 stating “there is no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means.”

Instead, U.S. intelligence believed Russian activity was more propagandistic, affecting public confidence in the election but not its outcome. Numerous other high-level intelligence officials and assessments made similar conclusions — until December 2016.

From the Gabbard memorandum

On Dec. 8, there was a sudden switch. Multiple intelligence agencies were preparing to publish an assessment stating “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”

Yet on Dec. 8, 2016, Comey suddenly declared the FBI would withdraw its support for that cross-agency conclusion, and the FBI would instead be “drafting a dissent,” the newly declassified documents show. That report was ultimately never published.

Instead, on Dec. 9, the White House held a national security meeting that included Clapper, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, CIA Director John Brennan, Andrew McCabe (Comey’s deputy), Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.

After the meeting, Clapper’s assistant sent an email to ODNI leaders with the subject line, “POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling.” In the email, the assistant asks them to create an “assessment per the President’s request,” with input from the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, and Department of Homeland Security. This meant sidelining several intelligence agencies that normally contribute to such publications.

Hollering Collusion Lies Into an Echo Chamber

“That same day,” Dec. 9, 2016, “Deep State officials in the IC begin leaking blatantly false intelligence to the Washington Post,” says the Gabbard memo released Friday, “… claiming that Russia used ‘cyber means’ to influence ‘the outcome of the election.’” The leaks seeded the false “Russia, Russia, Russia” narrative throughout willing corporate media partners in advance of the publication of the disinformation ICA on Jan. 6, 2017.

The doctored ICA itself crystalized and legitimized myriad politicized false claims that went on to hamstring the first Trump presidency. For example, it smeared rising pro-democracy movements across the West of citizens against international oligarchs as authoritarian by linking them with Vladimir Putin, claiming “Russian media hailed President-elect Trump’s victory as a vindication of Putin’s advocacy of global populist movements.”

Rhodes, a top Obama foreign policy advisor, was in on the Dec. 9, 2016 meeting that appears to have planned the ICA switcheroo. Rhodes is infamous for telling The New York Times in 2016 that the Obama administration “created an echo chamber” in corporate media to sell Obama’s payout of American tax dollars to Iran and government takeover of formerly private health markets: “We created an echo chamber. They [corporate media reporters] were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”

“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Rhodes explained. “They literally know nothing.” 

The documents released Friday further substantiate previous reporting by The Federalist going back to 2017 that: Obama was likely directly involved with his administration’s spying on the Trump campaign; the Obama administration spied on domestic political opponentsan email from Susan Rice implicated Obama in the Russia collusion smear against Trump; Obama intelligence officials likely lied to Congress; and that Obama himself was involved in ensnaring Trump’s first national security advisor in yet another fabricated scandal using spying, leaking, and manipulation of U.S. intelligence. 

Dossier Key to Potential Perjury/Conspiracy Prosecution

On Jan. 6, 2017, two weeks before Trump took office, the Obama administration published the doctored ICA. The Friday memo says that ICA falsely claimed “Putin directed an effort to help President Trump defeat Hillary Clinton,” launching years of smears and investigations.

That falsified ICA at least partly relied on the infamous Steele dossier, according to a memorandum released two weeks ago by current CIA Director John Ratcliffe. That “dossier” was an opposition research packet fabricated by British spook Christopher Steele for the Clinton campaign that has been roundly debunked since, including by a special counsel investigation.

In May 2023 (and at several other times), Brennan testified to Congress that the CIA opposed using the Steele dossier in the 2017 Russia collusion ICA he was heavily involved in creating. Yet a CIA internal review released earlier this month says Brennan included the Steele dossier in the ICA “over the objections of career intelligence officials.” The Federalist also reported that still-classified congressional reports show ICA-related Obama administration corruption is much deeper than what is currently publicly known.

FBI Director Kash Patel opened criminal investigations into Brennan and Comey earlier this month and is considering not just perjury but also conspiracy charges, according to Matt Taibbi at Racket News.