Gabbard says declassified report ‘exposes’ Obama administration

US Tulsi Gabbard National Intelligence has published a previously classified report which, according to her, indicates a “betrayal conspiracy” to undermine the results of the 2016 presidential election.

The document committee of the House Intelligence was published with the conclusion, reached by numerous intelligence reports, including one of the CIA, that Russia sought to help Donald Trump during this election.

Gabbard appeared in the White House on Wednesday and said that the report reveals “a blatant weapon and politicization of intelligence”.

The Democrats said that the White House is trying to distract the in progress controversy surrounding its decision not to publish files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

“It seems that the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and anything but Epstein files,” said Democratic Senator Mark Warner, adding that a report by the Bipartisan Senate had supported CIA conclusions on Russia promoting Trump.

The report that Gabbard declassified was prepared by the Republicans in the Chamber’s intelligence committee and is dated September 18, 2020.

He was declassified on Wednesday, one day after President Trump accused former President Barack Obama of having led an effort to tie him falsely to Russia and undermine his 2016 electoral campaign.

“These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a low attempted distraction,” Obama spokesman said on Tuesday.

Last week, Gabbard threatened to refer to Obama administration officials at the Ministry of Justice for prosecution for his actions in 2016, but offered few details on alleged crimes.

The declassified report indicates that the CIA “did not adhere to the principles” of analytical standards and used “an invorable and unverifiable fragment of one of the lower quality relationships” to conclude that the Vladimir Putin of Russia wanted Trump to win.

There is little evidence in the document, however, which calls into question the dominant opinion in American intelligence that Russia sought to influence the vote in favor of Trump.

Among the main authors of the report was Kash Patel, who is now the director of Trump FBI.

In a surprise appearance during the White House press briefing alongside the press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday, Gabbard declared that the document – with another document published on Friday – presented “irrefutable evidence” according to which Obama and other officials “led the creation of an assessment of the intelligence community they know was false”.

“They knew that it would promote this artificial story that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections to help President Trump,” she said.

Democrats condemned allegations, many suggesting that Trump seeks to divert the attention of growing calls to disclose more information on Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019 when he was waiting for accusations of sex trafficking.

“I think they don’t want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein,” said Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly. “They fueled this conspiracy theory and now they want to run away.”

Gabbard filed a criminal reference on the case at the Ministry of Justice, directly involving Obama, on what she described as a “coup d’etat and a betrayal plot of several years against the American people”.

In response to a question on Epstein on Tuesday, Trump replied that “the witch hunt you should talk about is that they caught the absolutely cold Obama President”.

“It is there, he is guilty. It was a betrayal,” he said.

Patrick Rodenbush, spokesperson for former President Barack Obama, said in a statement earlier this week that no information published “did not know the conclusion widely accepted according to which Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but failed to manipulate votes”.

The American intelligence community published an assessment in January 2017 concluding that Russia had sought to harm the Hillary Clinton campaign and stimulate Trump during the vote three months earlier.

US officials found that this effort had included russian robot farms on social networks and hacking democratic emails, but they finally concluded that the impact was probably limited and has not really changed the election result.

A bipartite report in 2020 of the senatorial intelligence committee also found that Russia had tried to help Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was a senator at the time, was one of the Republicans who co-signed this report.