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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Yes, this has been obvious for years. And the people who should have been raising hell about it – the Republicans in Congress – instead cheered it on.
That just makes me sick to this day!
Me too. The institutional failures they have presided over have led to this:
https://x.com/NateFriedman97/status/1940167805019501052
https://x.com/ritwikshukla/status/1940248163824410671
Ya I really believe Paul Ryan wanted to support Trump but the evidence was so overwhelming that as a man of principal he had to destroy Trump, or Paul Ryan was, is, and will probably die a Treasonous RAT.
Remember when Ryan was up for House speakership how he spewed all that aw-schucks-golly-gee about how he was reluctant to be away from Jaynesville WI so often? Flash forward a decade and what is Ryan? A consummate DC swamp rat who gets back to WI about as often as he gets to the Mt Everest summit. What a piece of work.
I’m 100% convinced that Paul Ryan attempted to hijack the convention prior to Trump’s eventual election. He has always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Hands down it’s the latter, treasonous rat.
The only thing that would make this more of an eye roller would be Ratcliff channeling his inner Christopher Wray by waiving a PowerPoint slide deck and announcing “We have a training plan to address this issue.”
As usual, nothing will come of this. Notice the emphasis on “career professionals with decades of experience” and “agency heads at the time”. So the same kinds of experts who created the fraud reviewed the fraud, and nobody involve who still works there will be fired.
The all-time eye roll belongs to Jessica Tarlov.
So .. fabrication of evidence for a Federal Court = some sort felony … right???
… or is it like everything else discovered regarding the assault on President Trump … 2017 to 2024 … oopsies the sell by prosecution date is gone so we can push into public light and look like we’re useful. It’s not like more than 30% of the voters even give a rat at this point.
Federal immunity..
you sue the Agency.
Qualified Immunity has led to an indolent and indifferent culture of malignant and failed Trusteeship. It’s infiltrated and come to dominate nearly all our institutions. The Claire Shipman email threads from Columbia really bring that home.
It’s everywhere you turn in anything dominated by Ivy League subculture. It’s become a septic 5th Column in our modern era.
Catherine Austin Fitt’s theory of how they have used looting the federal treasury to fund a break-away global society of The Post-Modern Ruling Class makes more sense every day.
The looting of our national treasury is certainly there, it’s ulterior motives are certainly cryptic and there is an apparent international quality to the overarching organization, presumptions and conceits used to rationalize it.
While who is doing what domestically is certainly important. We need to look more at the international and foreign interests and the patterns of infiltration and usurpation of our domestic society and our monetization of policy and politics, especially as it relates to the institutional refusal to enforce laws on the books or otherwise collude to eviscerate same by fiat indolence and other forms of selective and non-enforcement.
Why ..? It’s not like we don’t already know the malicious intent behind the false “report” .. I would like to see those behind the report, and the FISA request, in jail.. However can’t see that happening after 10 years of lies and TDS
Radcliffe seems like a really nice guy. The kind of father and family man to be a boy scout leader or soccer coach for your children.
On the other hand, getting the CIA to come clean on it’s decades of murder and corruption is way over his head.
No way a CIA spook is coming anywhere near my children. The nice-seeming ones are just better at deceit.
Hopefully this a move to initiate the hammer being dropped. I don’t think it is, but it’s probably the only real way to start it.
During the ’70’s and the Frank Church chaired hearings on the CIA, I just thought it was more ‘rat foolishness; but, now, I want another, new investigation into CIA ops chaired by the new Senator from Texas, lawyer, and former AG of Texas, Ken Paxton to chair a new investigation into the contemporary CIA, but that won’t happen ’til 2027.
Why isn’t Mohammed Brennan and James Klapper where they belong? Some penal institution in the hole!! They are so corrupt and disgusting they both make my skin crawl! How did they escape accountability?💁🏻♀️
Time for them to visit Alligator Alcatraz, on the way to denaturalization and expulsion from the United States forever.
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“Need an anti-American traitor removed-call ‘Gallows Are Us’-open24/7, 365 days/year. Call 1-800-Got-Rope”!
Radcliffe has been sniffing around Donald Trump for a long time. What is his real intention, mission, plan? Same thing with Patel, Bongino, and Bondi.
Who paid for these people?
What exactly is it that you want these people to do?
Tell us who was behind Epstein – CIA or Mossad or both.
For starters.. we don’t need the CIA when we have Military Intel. The mid/ upper level management that have been there for decades need to go bye bye after Tribunals.
I feel like this is all part of the plan of one up man ship. DNI vs CIA, who’s better Tulsi or Radcliffe? Media lies, intelligence omissions and sunlight. Which agency will be left standing, if either.
I believe the CIA is beyond restructuring. It became rogue shortly after its inception and has become so powerful we can’t even defund it out of existence. Over the years many Congress members were murdered because they did not comply. The secret congressional hearings of 1984 outed KGB infiltration of the CIA , but no one ever speaks about it. Read “Destroying America” by Anthony R Frank a retired CIA agent
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Both. Which one(s) Epstein served depended on which one was running the particular operation. I think they share personnel, too, and contractors. A lot of intersects with contractors.
They can resign and let the Prez appoint somebody not afraid of going head-to-head against the obama cartel insurrectionists.
No? ok, let them live on in daily fear of whatever threats they have received from said cartel. fuggumz.
According to the U.S. Constitution the punishment for being a traitor is to be hung by the neck until dead. The time is way past due for America’s intelligence services to meet their well deserved fate. It is obvious to me that these directors feel invincible and are laughing in our faces.
I regret that I have but one thumbs up to allot to this post.
I wish I could turn into Lucas McCain for a week. Problem solved!
Public executions would definitely send a message
100% agree, Rebecca.
“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.”
Sundance, correct me if I’m wrong but,
This is Dir. Ratcliffe setting the board for more centralizing of CIA activity, and a move toward removal of ODNI. Yes?
Notice how he claims 2 main problems were marginalizing the National Intelligence Council – which Tulsi Gabbard recently disbanded; and Involvement of Agency Heads – Ratcliffe wants even FEWER people able to give analysis to the President.
Looks like this report might be to generate publicity for the upcoming new Three Stooges revival movie starring Comey, Brennan and Klapper.
That and increasing interest in Comey’s line of “8647” apparel.
Who says that arrogance doesn’t pay?
There is precedent of Moe, Larry, and Curley being spies against the Nazis in the ’40s. Hollywood always makes remakes.
“The tradecraft review identified multiple procedural anomalies…”
Would those “multiple procedural anomalies” be little bitty things like sedition, treason and insurrection?
Thank you for the strongly worded statement Mr. Ratcliffe. You’re a credit to the UniParty Deep State species.
Sorry we don’t have the mafia in our government. Now they knew how to address traitors. Not let them sell books full of falsehood, smears or have a job at a news agency, not even retire with a pension. No, they knew how to serve justice. I’m not serious but everyone getting away with this while becoming rich is beyond the pale.
This declassification is about as meaningful as another strongly worded letter in my opinion.
Google’s AI says all’s good:
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A review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference in the US election found that while the core conclusion – that Russia interfered to help Donald Trump – was supported by the evidence, certain aspects of the assessment’s tradecraft were flawed. Specifically, the review highlighted issues with the process used to reach the conclusion, including a politically charged environment and the inclusion of unsubstantiated information.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
Positive Aspects:
Negative Aspects:
Overall:
While the review reaffirmed the core conclusion of Russian interference, it also highlighted concerns about the process and methodology used in the ICA, particularly the inclusion of unsubstantiated information and the influence of a politically charged environment.
Every sentence of that summary is a lie. The first paragraph refers to the underlying report that was relied on, which was then bolstered by the Steele fabrication.
I encourage everyone to read the PDF for yourselves.
Last paragraph of the second column on page 5:
(U) The DA Review identified multiple specific concerns, including: a higher confidence level than was justified; insufficient exploration of alternative scenarios; lack of transparency on source uncertainty; uneven argumentation; and the inclusion of unsubstantiated Steele Dossier material.
In short, they lied.
Good insight for you to post and share. I test Grok and it’s full of shit too.
I suspect this is all part of a big beautiful RICO case being put together quietly behind the scenes…
but first – a must do..
educating liberal fascist lemmings with a drip drip drip of Truth (to undo all the fabrication they believe)
in order to keep them from burning down the country when the BBRC hits with many indictments of their sacred cows.
A nice fantasy. I’ll believe it when it happens.
Pessimism is so. . empty
you’re welcome to it
I prefer to think like Trump. “Set The Table” “Never tell your enemy what’s coming next and when”
and to you it might be “fantasy” but to critical thinkers like myself it makes perfect sense when you know and understand the importance of Unifying the country is to Trump and his legacy.
as i described above is precisely how he would do such a thing as that.
I’ll bet they’d put Maureen Comey in charge of the prosecution ala Epstein and Diddy!
Arrests?
Guffaw! Sorry..
Why are the courts/judges that were lied to, completely uncurious?
Did the fbi ever arrest the russians that were indicted over “hacking the election”
If I remember correctly. The DC attorney tried to prosecute. The Russians sent lawyers to the first hearing, demanded the FBI produce evidence, the FBI produced no evidence, and the case was tossed for lack of evidence.
The feds desperately screamed ‘sources and methods’ as the reason they wouldn’t hand over discovery documents. Case ultimately dismissed.
Indicting the Russian companies was just window dressing for Mueller’s Folly. I loved those aholes ending up with egg on their faces.
No.
Russians called DOJ bluff and wanted to go to the discovery phase. Meuller & Co. quickly dropped the case and black-holed the files with DOJ National Security Division.
Admit it…Trump has repeatedly and consistently surrounded himself with a slate of actors and entities who’ve either A) sabotaged his administration’s objectives, and/or B) enabled/exposed/celebrated the subversion that’s awakened the sleeping giant vs C) some other reason perpetual slandering the Trump slate (but NEVER Trump) is warranted…truly amazing kabuki theater nonetheless since it’s impossible Trump, the guy who STILL defies gravity, is conducting the whole thing
Yes Princess the way this all appears to anyone paying attention its a special club we ain’t in it they all get rich we pay for it they all sit back and laugh. If I were a Billion air Don JR. And someone truly tried to kill my Father I would know by now who did it. The family alone has the clout and $$$$$$ to find out as well as make it public. BUUUTTTT this makes him stronger with the true believers and trickles down to us. Hence Bush taking out Sadaam. Shoot If I was Barron I would have found out. They never touch the political bad guys yeah they arrest some Cartel smugglers take out a little Medicaid fraud but damn it that is their freakin job. We’re speeding towards the Global one world system as fast as we were with Biden. I have no faith in man only in our Lord Jesus.
You actually think Trump doesn’t know? Because he didn’t get Sundance on the horn and advertise it?
Umkay
Recorded history never tells us what really happened!
Written history is a collection of lies and distortion written by scribes desperate to curry favor with whoever had the power to chop off their hands!
Oral history is a collection of lies and distortion told by bards or minstrels desperate to curry favor with whoever had the power to cut out their tongues!
Ratcliffe is telling us what we already knew, that intel assessments of Russian collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign were lies and distortions, told by dirty cops, desperate to either eat the carrot or avoid the stick or both!
Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Weissmann and McCord have never been punished for their attempted presidential coup and continued traitorous acts and likely never will be. Quite the opposite, MSNBC and CNN regularly feature these people as expert analysts and the College of William and Mary hired former FBI Director Comey to teach Ethical Leadership after he was fired in disgrace!
Here’s what the President of William and Mary, Taylor Reveley, had to say about him:
“Jim Comey is among William & Mary’s most distinguished alumni. Over the years, he has been deeply committed to his alma mater. He understands to the core of his being that our leaders must have an abiding commitment to ethical behavior and sacrificial service if we are to have good government. Our students will benefit significantly from his experience and wisdom.”
Of course, none of those things are true! President Reveley is just feeding us the usual lies and distortions so he can eat the carrot or avoid the stick or both…
…he’d make a great historian!
Comey, Clapper and Brennan….
Wheres the indictments?
Calling Blondi
According to some Anons there’s hundreds of sealed indictments.
Until they are unsealed and miscreants are held to account, our Republic remains in peril.
There are so many indictments that should be going out to the IC, USAID abusers, ActBlue, judges and so on.
So the Rat is releasing something that SD wrote about long ago?
The Rat is a Rat.
I thought Rod “The Rat” Redactenstein was the Rat.
There’s more than one in DC?
Rat Rodentstain.
@sundance and treepers I am disappointed that we in 2025 have not learned from history after all these centuries. The prosecution and persecution of innocent men and women throughout history by evil, vindictive, malicious psychopaths. What the deep state, DemonRats, IC, RINOs did to 45 and the country is unacceptable and evil however, if you look at some historical figures and footnotes in history you can final parallels and that we have not learned anything. For example, Thomas Becket the Arch Bishop of Canterbury killed in the 1100’s in Church during a service because of King Henry II, Joan Van Arc, Salem Witch Trials, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, etc…If nothing is done and injustice is continued to go on without accountability then the psychopaths will continue to win forever. SMH.
Come on, Ratcliffe, why Today? YOu want to bury it. The 4th of July. People traveling. The POTUS trying to pass the BBB. A long weekend.
What the hell, John?
He’s good at “DCing”.
People should dangle for this.
Much less than 1% of the people involved in the killing of over 11 million women,men and children after the Holocaust faced any punishment.
P In fact many German officers were allowed to enter the US and be . employed by various government agencies. Other high ranking officers openly lived abroad in friendly German towns .
Very sadly, and disappointing that scum like brennen,comey, clapper will probably never face any punishment.
Pray and help others
**DAILY PLANET – SPECIAL EDITION!**
**”GREAT CAESAR’S GHOST!” BELLOWS PERRY WHITE AS SCANDAL ROCKS WASHINGTON**
Holy smoke! Even Superman couldn’t have seen this one coming – the very government spooks who’ve been chasing phantom menaces just got exposed by their own outfit! Lois Lane’s got the scoop of the century as Washington’s top brass gets caught red-handed cooking the books on that whole Russian rigmarole. “This is bigger than Lex Luthor’s latest scheme!” declares Jimmy Olsen, snapping photos as fast as his camera can click. The intelligence boys who spent years hollering about foreign villains just got unmasked by their own review board – talk about a plot twist that’d make even Bizarro dizzy! Perry’s cigars are working overtime as the presses roll with headlines screaming “SPOOKS DOUBLE-CROSSED BY OWN RACKET!” Meanwhile, Clark Kent adjusts his glasses and mutters something about truth, justice, and the American way finally getting its day in court. Great jumping Jehosaphat – when your own team throws you under the trolley, that’s front page news even Superman would tip his cape to!
-Claude
Brilliant! (I used to love those comics.)
Now do the 2020 “election “, Mr. Ratcliff.
It has been 9 years since we read SD’s analysis of the ICA and JAR. I think I have read equivalent to ten ‘war and peace’ novels on this site alone over the years.
This rabbit hole is amazingly convoluted and deep.
It’s madness.,
Sounds like sedition to me. A military tribunal is warranted, surely.
Seditious Conspiracy, to be exact.
What a crock of s*** Ratcliffe just published. He’s fishing for minnows while standing on a whale. The false premise of this “ICA” is to gauge whether the “tradecraft” and proper procedures were followed in determining if a “foreign adversary,” i.e., Putin/Russia, interfered in the 2016 election against Hilary Clinton.
The true premise should be the CIA/DNI/FBI colluded to cover-up that a DOMESTIC ADVERSARY, i.e., the CIA/DNI/FBI, created the Russia Hoax out of whole cloth to sink Trump’s candidacy, and when he won, the cover-up began.
Whatever happened to that effective, credible, and capable intelligence person from President Trump’s first term, Admiral Rodgers? I thought he was aces as a knowledgeable and qualified person to be the boss of all the spy guys.
Good question. Maybe Sundance knows.
The Myth of Admiral Rodgers.
I’ll try digging around for him. He seemed like a legitimate and trustworthy spook.
Not really. Adm. Rogers called out the ICA and JAR as bs, but quickly shut up when they threatened to fire him.
Rogers only went to Trump after the NSA IG found the bs going on with the 702 searches then pretty much washed his hands of the matter and retired.
Adm. Rogers, Judge Collier, and FBI Deputy Director Counterintelligence all knew what was going on, but did the minimum to cover themselves before riding off into the sunset.
He had me fooled, which happens a lot lately.
I think Adm. Rogers is basically a good guy, but like most of these swamp bureaucrats they don’t rock the boat. Continuity of government, not my silo, it’s just politics …. Never ends.
He now works for an Israeli cybersecurity firm.
I would never work in government spying. I wouldn’t know who trust. What a way to earn a living.
It must be done right.
It must be done according to the rule of law.
It must carry weight.
It must be proven in the COURT OF LAW.
There can be no mistakes.
Punish. Them. All.
This report and its release are a bone being thrown to the GOP Trump base. A bone with the marrow removed. Hollow
So is the CIA being defunded?
So when are the indictments for treason and sedation coming. Military tribunal anyone?
When will someone ever go to jail on the democrat side ??
So what? Is anyone going to be indicted over this? No. What good is putting out these reports? The left wing media doesn’t even report it.
The only Democrats ever prosecuted are the ones who crossed Obama!
🤬🖕🤬🖕🤬🖕… that’s it & all I have to say to CYA.
Maybe someone can refresh my memory, but there was an Annex to the ICA report, and I recall complaints of it being withheld from investigators.
This latest review makes clear Brennan attached the Steele Report in the Annex.
Anyone else recall the Annex being withheld?
““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.
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“Well, that’s just a load of meaningless drivel. Isn’t it?”
And from another Yes, Minster episode:
I’m holding my breath………
Will MSM be buzzing over their surprise and consternation at seeing that their ‘news coverage’ was based on IC corruption and false information???
Frankly, if you seek clarity, this 8 page “report” would better serve its purpose if it was reduced to a single page. No wonder most presidents want nothing to do with the presidential briefing analysis.
And yet, nobody is ever held accountable.
Wasn’t this made up story the basis of the Flynn entrapment and persecution?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-michael-flynns-interactions-russia-cost-job/story?id=45456031
The declassification and release are great. What would be greater is people actually being indicted for their treason and other crimes. Seems to rarely happen.
“lessons-learned” is good, but perpetrators prosecuted is better.
“The Intelligence Community, CIA, FBI, DNI, etc. intentionally fabricated intelligence information to create an entirely fictitious storyline.” Imagine that. /s
This was the worst crime against the USA after Slavery! They all need to be publicly tried and if convicted, many should publicly hang. This is insane that none of them are in GITMO or Leavenworth awaiting trial. This was an organized overthrow of an elected government by government officials. It was a coup and if people are not punished we are just another banana republic.