Earlier today CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced he was declassifying an “Internal Tradecraft Review of 2016 Election ICA to Promote Analytic Objectivity and Transparency.” Obviously the CIA saying they are releasing something for the sake of “transparency” is a little funny.
The CIA review triggered by Director Ratcliffe was for the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that was conducted in the aftermath of the 2016 election. The ICA was also known as the “17 agency report” relied upon by those who pushed the Trump-Russia narrative.
Ever since the sketchy “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – Joint Analysis Report” was originally released late December 2016 we identified both constructs, the ICA and JAR as a mostly political intelligence documents, created to justify a Russian narrative.
The Dec ’16 ICA was also the predicate intelligence report that preceded the December 29, 2016, Joint Analysis Report that claimed “Russian cyber hacking” in the election. Cumulatively the ICA and JAR formed the background for Barack Obama to expel 35 Russian diplomats.
None of this is new. CTH outlined these two corrupt Intelligence Community constructs in real time when they were released. {SEE HERE}. As time went on, and as the Clinton-Steele dossier was revealed, the 17 agency Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) grew even weaker.
In late October 2017 former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted the Clinton-Steele dossier was part of the Joint Analysis Report. Eventually, our research indicated the dossier and the intelligence report were likely the underlying evidence behind the FISA Title-1 application (and subsequent renewals) for surveillance on Carter Page and by extension the Trump campaign. All of that was proven to be accurate.
Now CIA Director John Ratcliffe provides an independent CIA review of their organizational action at the time the Trump-Russia narrative was created. CIA Press Statement:
“Earlier this year, CIA Director John Ratcliffe tasked Agency career professionals with decades of experience to conduct a lessons-learned review of the procedures and analytic tradecraft employed in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) conducted shortly after the 2016 election. Today, Director Ratcliffe declassified the results of this review.
The tradecraft review identified multiple procedural anomalies in the preparation of the 2016 ICA, such as a compressed timeline, uneven access to compartmented information, marginalization of the National Intelligence Council, and excessive involvement of agency heads. The review notes that adhering to established analytic processes and rigorous tradecraft is essential to ensure credibility, objectivity, and accuracy of CIA analysis.
Director Ratcliffe declassified this review in order to promote analytic objectivity and transparency. “Agency heads at the time created a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process around an issue essential to our democracy,” said Director Ratcliffe. “Under my watch, I am committed to ensuring that our analysts have the ability to deliver unvarnished assessments that are free from political influence.” (LINK)
The bottom line is what we said all along. The Intelligence Community, CIA, FBI, DNI, etc. intentionally fabricated intelligence information to create an entirely fictitious storyline.
~ Read the CIA pdf HERE ~
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Useless!
You need to add,
“A whole lotta”–
in front of your, “Useless!”
This intelligence apparatchiks are good for. Creating a narrative. Sometimes deadly and destructive like 9/11.
In other words —
🐂 💩!
So would this be considered sedition?
Trying to take down the duly elected President of the United States?
Is there a crime in any of this or is this considered nothing more than mean politics?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
And que the strongly worded letter from Congress in three……two…..one…..
Should be considered sedition. Sedition, seditious conspiracy, possibly some espionage.
All rise to the level of treason so, at the least, the ring leaders get the death penalty if proven guilty.
Please let me know what alternate universe that is taking place in so I can go there.
politics
Democracy is a threat to democracy.
I try to keep it in perspective by imagining this scenario: George Washington’s spies tried to take him out, or Buchanan’s spy agency tried to take out Abraham Lincoln before and during his presidency.
From the quotes in the article it sounds like it was all just malfunctions of the procedures, like programmig errors or something, with a little bit of politics thrown in. What a jerk (Ratcliffe). That’s my impression.
Can’t edit my previous post, so I’ll add to it.
The point being (above) is if this had happened to Washington or Lincoln there obviously would have been VERY serious hell to pay for perpetrators. You can just imagine!
Yes, Prime Minister.
“Why don’t you expel 76 Soviet diplomats? That’s what we usually do when we want the press to lose interest in something else.”
MAGA
Nobody goes to jail, loses their pension or their tv and book deals in 3…2…1…
🤬
Until the People of the United States America are given full details of the wrong doings committed by “the government” in real time…”It’s business as Usual”
Lying, cheating and thieving is all we’ll see…with out consequence
Without consequence…for those involved in their black operations, no matter who they are or high up the political ladder they may be.
For those who were targeted or used, whose lives were turned inside out and potentially destroyed…
Plenty.
There must be an open, criminal accounting and a reckoning after.
Unless and until this happens the United States can have no pretension to moral standing and takes its place among the corrupt nations on this earth.
We wait in vain I fear.
8 years after – and only because we have our President back in the White House.
I better not say anymore – I might lose my temper.
Count to ten, Bob…
I’m up to 1,380.
After nine years of not one single charge brought up, you are absolutely correct.
I’m sure they thought they were home free, and they yet may be.
But I pray not.
It is imperative for the health of our nation that justice ( is that still a thing??) is ultimately delivered.
Gee dad, long time no see.
Hahahahahahaaaa!! 👍🏻
Those who care already know. Full details will be ignored by those not paying attention, because they’re not paying attention. They’re busy, lazy, ignorant, and don’t care enough to act except to vote for the RINOs who vote for more debt, and more wars.
AJAR
as in leaving the door open a bit for easy trespass?
When is a door not a door? When it’s AJAR.
“The bottom line is what we said all along. The Intelligence Community, CIA, FBI, DNI, etc. intentionally fabricated intelligence inform”
Now there, unlike Elon Musk, is evil.
why did Elon not inform us of the government operation within Twitter when he purchased it…
if its classfied, ok.. makes it worse but understandable.
Did you mean “just as evil as Elon Musk”?
Asking for a friend.
and, we are supposed to trust these people now?
fubar
Surely none of them still have clearances?
The more they proclaim their honor, the faster we should count he spoons. (“Emerson”)
Any thought we have of being involved or in charge of our government is laughable.
Holiday data dump. Expect more “bombshells” over the next 48 hours intended to be forgotten come Monday.
Good observation.
It’s fascinating, isn’t it, how fast ‘news’ becomes ‘old news’ when the msm can determine what is-or is not – ‘news’.
I read this and I think about what is happening with Zohar Mamdani running for Mayor in NYC, anyone that wants more government in our lives is nuts, and that isn’t sarcasm.
How can you read all this and think the answer to all of this is even more of it?
How
“Mamdani’s core supporters are drawn more from the “post-college professionals” rather than the immigrants. His victory party was filled with young, college-educated whites. There weren’t many fresh-off-the boat migrants in the crowd. These are middle-class types who feel thwarted in some way.”
https://www.highly-respected.com/p/the-lumpenbourgeoisie
“… Post-college professionals…” “… Young, college-educated whites.”
Where are the arrests. These kind of “reveals” of information that is already known for years with zero changes and zero consequences are nothing more than CYA.
John Brennan brought information to Obama and Comey in July of 2016 that the Russians had found out about Hillary Clinton’s plan to finance the Steele dossier against Trump. Did Obama already know about Hillary’s plan? It doesn’t matter, every move made by the Obama loyalists to frame Trump or his people after that memo makes them party to at least sedition, or at worst treason.
loyalists
David Kramer spread Steele dossier around Washington during Trump transition
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/14/david-kramer-spread-steele-dossier-around-washingt/
treason
This is just the same old garbage. Nothing will come of it and it has gotten the point no one expects anything to come of it. Its just a day filler because there is nothing else to fill the day.
old
How To Build a Tiresome Empire of Dust
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/its-all-so-tiresome-empire-of-dust
filler
“It’s all so tiresome.”
That is funny.
BBB?
Tell us something we don’t know, Director Ratcliffe. Unless you plan to prefer charges against those responsible, I for one have no interest in your “tranparency.”
To which I reply to Ratcliff…ho hum nothing will be done.
And people wonder why the DS are terrified of Trump and Putin improving relations between the two countries. The Russian IC’s stock in trade is Kompromat, so one wonders what do they have on whom in DC and beyond?
Rat cliff to IC: no worries I got your back
CIA Terms for Dummies: “analytic tradecraft” = “making stuff up and lying about it”
Conspiracy to commit a federal crime prosecution is within 10 years. Do we have anyone in our gov that can represent the people?
Where exactly do we go, for a redress of grievances???
On the last page (8), they have a Lessons Learned section….
“(Unclassified) The review of the 2016 ICA revealed how departures from established processes and tradecraft standards can affect even fundamentally sound analysis. While the overall assessment was deemed defensible, the identified procedural anomalies and tradecraft issues highlight critical lessons for handling controversial or politically charged topics. Adhering to established analytic processes and rigorous tradecraft is essential to ensure credibility, objectivity, and accuracy—particularly when time pressures, sensitive information, and high-level attention create risks of compromising standard practices.”
What a crock of government bureaucratic doublespeak.
In other words, they didn’t learn a damn thing….. but maybe how to better avoid getting caught at fabricating false evidence against a political candidate who their globalist masters desperately want to lose in the next election.
Only the Republicans need to follow protocols.
Yes sir. My dog left some of that same document in my backyard today.
Same ole shit.
Let’s get the BBB passed. Throw out the illegals (can we wiggle in some D’s and RINOS as well?) and then
deal with the domestic terrorists aka (Ovomit et al the See Eye Aye and F B Lie.
It’s been a long day. Who’s turn is it to watch Miss Lindsey tonight?
Here’s your belly laugh for the day….
“While the overall assessment was deemed defensible”
Ahahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha!
Yes:
“the above-mentioned analysis shows multiple lessons that can be learned when critical but anomalous analyses are contemplated.
These established procedural tradecraft practices need to be rigorously reviewed on a regular and formatic basis, to ensure their credibility, accuracy, and objectivity. Without these critical guardrails, compromise is a possible but undesired outcome.”
See? Guberment double-speak is so easy, even a schmoe like me can do it!
I’d like to re-assign the so-called hoomin beans that wrote this stuff to a permanent duty station in the little-known nation of Hades, in that country’s capital city: Perdition.
Put the criminals in jail or have public hangings for those criminally trying to remove a duly elected administration / president. That will limit this type of crap more than anything else.
In other words,,ratcliffe sucks…. Just more blow and go. It’s like this ” everybody knows the eci is corrupt and full of dog manure”. Just stop bull shi–ing me!!
“The tradecraft review identified multiple procedural anomalies in the preparation of the 2016 ICA…”
This was an audit of the “tradecraft” used in preparing the report complete with lessons learned. No one is being accused of treason or sedition, just bad “tradecraft” in applying standard operating procedures when creating the report.
It’s like a sternly worded letter. No teeth.
Correct me if I’m wrong but that’s what I see.
I see it as an official Trump Governmental Agency acknowledgement of wrongdoing from Director Ratcliffe.
This is a big deal and a step in the right direction.
We have to wait and see how Director Ratcliffe (at the direction of President Trump) will resolve this.
Perhaps this will be sent to the Department of Justice for an investigation.
I hope your right but I see it as protecting the CIA.
The only wrong doing they are admitting to is that standard operating procedures were not followed in preparation of the report.
In doing so they are indirectly saying that had they followed SOP then the report could have been a better product. They are handing Brennen a giant loophole to run through. No malice by any of the actors, just bad tradecraft. They acknowledge Brennen bypassed procedures and in acknowledging that they implied that had he just followed standard procedures his mistakes would have been caught.
Why else focus on the errors in “tradecraft” for the compilation of the report along with the lessons learned instead of searching for the criminal intent of bypassing and overriding the procedures or even come out and say they did it on purpose to bring down a sitting President?
Now that this is confirmed, consequences? Accountability?
Shut down Langley , including Camp Peary.
Do we Really need the fib? The see-i-ay??
Nah.
We need SOME kind of intelligence operation – but this ain’t it.
This ain’t intelligence – this is something else – evil masquerading as bureaucracy.
Look over here at what we already know but don’t focus your attention on the fake pandemic and 2020 election results and every election ever since.
The New Normal
Unless Ratcliffe starts massive dismissals and referrals for prosecution, he is a failure.
“The memorandum signed Thursday, according to a White House fact sheet, directs the attorney general to investigate and take action over allegations that online funding platforms have used contributions from ‘straw” or “dummy’ donors to allow foreign money to go to US political candidates. The directive calls on the attorney general to report the results of the investigation to the president.”
Trying to ‘get out in front’ of something that is pending?
They are formally declaring which side of justice they are on.
Comey, Brennan, and Clapper…Uh, we have known this for years…
None of this is new.
Yep, and what will come of it? Nada, zip, zilch.
We are tired of performative information releases. Impress us with action.
Yep, dazzle with brilliance or baffle with bullchit! We are not getting dazzled here!
“The bottom line is what we said all along. The Intelligence Community, CIA, FBI, DNI, etc. intentionally fabricated intelligence information to create an entirely fictitious storyline.” ~Sundance
Correct.
The difference now though is that The Trump Administration is acknowledging this agency’s wrongful act.
From my perspective, that’s a very big deal.
No idea where Director Ratcliffe or President Trump will take this to or the end result will be, BUT, at least we are witnessing Truths from President Trump’s Administration.
Without accountability (criminal charges) this is an exercise in futility.
Nothing about it ends the practice of weaponizing intelligence. Nothing.
Huh, interesting that it’s their own internal review
wake me when brennen …clapper…and Comey go to jail
Is that you, Rip Van Winkle?
And . . . .
10 years passing before transparency ( by see eye a )
=
d c obfuscation, again
Imho
p s.
So, what is going on today,
that will become transparent after 10 years +/- ?
hmmm…
The career folks throwing the politicals under the bus. Given the circumstances and the low bar for recognizing corruption, I’d consider this a “no test” for organizational integrity. Had they said, “good work, all by the book”, I’d consider that a fail. So, what sort of track record is needed to restore trust in their integrity? Testifying in court against the traitors would help.
They said it… “While the overall assessment was deemed defensible“
““Earlier this year, CIA Director John Ratcliffe tasked Agency career professionals with decades of experience to conduct a lessons-learned review of the procedures and analytic tradecraft employed in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) conducted shortly after the 2016 election. Today, Director Ratcliffe declassified the results of this review.””
I will now wait on the ‘lessons-learned review’ of the 51-intelligence agents who interfered with 2020 election.
Hunter Biden laptop, Russia-Russia-Russia!
https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/its-been-two-years-since-51-intelligence-agents-interfered-with-an-election-they-still-wont-apologize/
Gonna wait on the ‘lessons-learned report’ regarding the china fake U.S.driver’s licenses/ID’s that interfered with 2020 election, too.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/did-china-attempt-to-rig-the-2020-election-with-fake-us-ids-what-fbi-documents-say-article-152076294
Anything funny about where some of these were found?
CBP caught these in Louisville, KY.
Wonder if Senator McConnell or wifey knew anything?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/cbp-customs-border-fake-id-china
Wait, wait, wait….
Drip, drip, drip……
When are the arrest warrants for Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan getting signed by the FISA court?
Ask Boasberg?
It is now clear that the inner circle of the Obama White House, including the former President himself, were coordinators of the entire Russia hoax from inception through the Mueller inquisition.
A coordinated conspiracy run from the Obama White House
That all elements of the senior departments of the major agencies of the United States Government were illegally weaponized to destroy a political opponent. A coordinated assault on the constitution and the Republic.
To sabotage an incoming President. Overthrow the government of the United States. Abuse their authorities to openly frame, smear and seek the destruction and criminal indictment of a duly elected President using the evidence they themselves fabricated.
Clapper said that everything he and John Brennan had done prior to and during the 2016 election was explicitly on Barack Obama’s orders.
And nobody was held accountable !!!
“None of this is new. CTH outlined these two corrupt Intelligence Community constructs in real time when they were released.”
That’s why nothing will happen to the perpetrators and worse, not even a promise this won’t happen again
Hillary Clinton’s illegal acts of destroying her proof of her illegal actions weren’t PROSECUTED because she did what the political class has been doing for a long time. They all destroy evidence of their crimes. It’s SOP……
If people were held accountable the 2020 election theft wouldn’t have happened imo .
Now, some energetic MAGA DOJ staffer can spend evenings and weekends comparing this report to transcripts of the sworn Brennan, Clapper, and Comey Congressional testimony looking for discrepencies or outright falsehoods. Then, if any are found, they can seek indictments. Oh, and then, who will be willing to take the fall for whomerver ordered them to do this, and who will sing? My money is on Clapper as the canary. I always had the impression he was not comfortable with the whole thing.
This is a good first step. You don’t blow through the agency that must not be named the way you can other public agencies.
They should not have poked the bear. He is turning ’round on them now.
The press statement seems to point to Department Heads as the fault and infers (or is that me) that the analysts are not to blame. Yet those analyst willingly went there with no hesitation.
It feels to me like all of these three letter agencies are playing games with us and revealing nothing…….doing nothing of substance.
FBI, DOJ, CIA.
We’ve seen nothing of substance with Epstein. No information has been released so we know definitively who killed JFK.
No investigations of primary importance to the corruption in our government has been revealed….J6, The entire Biden administration of criminals and crimes, election interference, FBI, DOJ corruption…..nothing on anything.
The. only person who has done her job well for the American people is Tulsi Gabbard and corrupt Tom Cotton wants her position done away with.
The interesting dynamic is that Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliff all think they have us believing they’re doing a magnificent job.
They are all disassociated from reality. Sad but true.
And? No consequences for this malfeasance and Lawfare ?
I wonder if this gives Trump what he needs to file a Racketeering type lawsuit for abuse of Government resources to target him. A similar Racketeering case can be made regarding Lawfare. And then there is Sedition.
The Federal Statute of Limitations for fraud is 7 years. The Crimes against Trump were committed in 2016.
The perps will never face jail time. Just a bunch of political nonsense.
Is Ratcliffe treading lightly because The Agency acts like the Mafia and his life would be in danger if he fired a whole bunch of people, yanked security clearances, turned the perps over to the DOJ, etc etc etc?? Seems like it.
When everyone in the world knows about the “tradecraft” shenanigans and we get a “professional report” of “missteps”, it’s just too much to bear, isn’t it?
Be like Rubio!! Smash some heads!