https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/us-news/obama-admin-assessed-russia-played-no-role-in-2016-election-declassified-documents-show/
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration knew before and after the 2016 election that Russia did not affect the vote’s outcome through cyberattacks, according to a bombshell document released by the Trump administration Friday.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard made public more than 100 pages of emails, memos and other records cataloguing what she called Obama officials’ “conspiracy to subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory.”
Both before and after Democrat Hillary Clinton’s loss, the US Intelligence Community assessed that Russia played no significant role influencing the election.
Among the documents was a Sept. 12, 2016, Intelligence Community Assessment that determined “foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks” on election infrastructure.
On Dec. 7, 2016, then-DNI James Clapper’s office also concluded: “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome” and “We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results.”
Other findings, prepared the following day for Obama’s Presidential Daily Brief, only pointed to the “likely” hacking of an Illinois voter registration database that did not affect the electoral count and was “unsuccessfully attempted” in other states.
“Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes,” the draft of the brief stated.
But those findings were suppressed after the FBI — led by Director James Comey — said it was going to “dissent” from the draft’s conclusions “based on some new guidance.”
Clapper then spearheaded an alternative intelligence report claiming the Kremlin orchestrated hackings of Democratic National Committee emails, thousands of which were later posted online by Wikileaks, and intervened in the presidential contest in favor of Trump.
Several officials — including CIA Director John Brennan, Secretary of State John Kerry, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — met at the White House on Dec. 9, 2016, where Obama began “tasking” each to look into “Russia Election Meddling.”
White House chief of staff Denis McDonogh, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also attended that meeting.
The 44th president ordered a new intelligence assessment from the CIA, FBI, NSA and DHS, with comprehensive information about Russia’s activities related to the US presidential race by early January — an assessment which ended up including the since-debunked dossier produced by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele.
An executive assistant for Clapper wrote in an email later the same day that the new intel assessment must describe the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”
Members of the intelligence community later began to leak to the media that officials had “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the “U.S. Election Hack” and Obama expressed public concerns about hacks affecting the vote counting process.
The White House meeting attendees also “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, if such activity meets the requirements,” a National Security Council document showed.
The final product was a Jan. 7, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment that “directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months,” according to Gabbard.
Earlier this month, CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a bombshell review of the 2016 assessment that concluded Clapper, Brennan and Comey deliberately corrupted it for “potential political motive[s].”
The Trump Justice Department later launched an investigation into Brennan and Comey for potential criminal violations related to the crafting of that assessment more than eight years ago.
Gabbard said in a statement that she was forwarding the records to the Department of Justice “to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.”
“The issue I am raising is not a partisan issue. It is one that concerns every American. The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government,” she said.
“Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.”
The DNI chief added: “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”
Gabbard’s exposé draws heavily on astounding new details dredged up by a whistleblower from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who informed Clapper there was “no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means.”
That whistleblower was pressured by the National Intelligence Officer for Cyber to accept the later Obama intelligence assessment’s findings, which included that Moscow had a preference for Trump.
“You need to trust me on this,” the whistleblower’s superior told him, referencing reporting that the informant was “not allowed to see,” which presumably included the Steele dossier.
“As for the 2017 ICA’s judgement of a decisive Russian preference for then-candidate Donald Trump,” the whistleblower stated in one of their emails. “I could not concur in good conscience based on information available, and my professional analytic judgement.”
tl;dr the Obama admin didn't think Russia hacked election infrastructure, a thing they never claimed to have believed. This is a rehash of the Russia investigation where the right once again feigns new outrage over bullshit they already knew and attempts to use Russia not compromising voting machines to argue they did reach out to the Trump campaign, collect voter data, and run an illegal influence campaign by blatantly dishonestly conflating the two issues.
Also this isn't news and OP sucks a billion cocks
tRump administration: Russiagate was fake so Epsteingate must be fake. The only problem is that these dummies pushed Epsteingate. I've been drinking so many salty MAGAT tears, that my doctor said I have to cut back on my sodium because my blood pressure is getting high
>>1420939Yeah you just know they're planning House and Senate hearings on this crap, with dramatic rereadings of Tulsi's notes over and over by different Trump lackeys trying to curry favor. They'll probably give it to Comer to give it the Benghazi/Hunter's Laptop treatment. Ironically Tulsi was once accused of being a Russian tool herself, which the GOP seems to have forgotten about, so it's very fitting it's her coming with this 'whistleblower report'.
Wasn't the Russia deal not about them hacking or rigging the election itself and more about them running a propaganda and influence campaign for Trump?
>>1420944https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-12-russian-intelligence-officers-hacking-offenses-related-2016-election
>>1420945That doesn't say they were hacking or rigging the election itself. You're doing exactly what
>>1420939's talking about.
>>1420944Yes. Russia didn't hack the voting booth, they hacked our gullible grandparents' brains with propaganda on social media and astroturfed crazies into forming militias, etc. they broke America's brains by whispering into the ears of extremists
Anything to distract us from Epstein.
Mission Accomplished.
>>1420946Thanks for repeating the Russian propaganda one more time.
>>1420946Hacking & rigging doesn't necessarily mean by digital/electronic/mechanical means, but psychologically via propaganda/psyops/biased media (RT etc). The latter is far worse. No wonder OFCOM denied Putin - via his propaganda machine RT - the right to have opinions in UK by taking away their broadcast license a few years ago. Gee, I wonder why Starmer won the election last year with a 400+ seat majority after an organization under a Conservative government told Vlad 'Do you have a loicense for those opinions?'
>>1420934>The DNI chief added: “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”This rings hollow after they reviewed who knows how many hours of rich, famous men doing horrific things to children on Epstein's island and determined that nobody involved is worth cross referencing voice or body markings to make arrests on.
>>1420931 (OP)>The Obama administration knew before and after the 2016 election that Russia did not affect the vote’s outcome through cyberattacksThis was never the accusation to begin with, anon.
>>1420976The administration knows that but the Fox News/NYpost audience doesn't.
>>1420931 (OP)Wow, crazy stuff.
Where are the Epstein files?
So this is what they’re trying to distract people with that Trump is in the Epstein files and a huge pedo? Not working.
>>1420943>Obama pushed the Russia hoax to sabotage Trump anywaysThe Trump campaign wasn't announced to be under investigation until after the election.
God damn you redhat fuckers are terrible at timelines.
>>1421011It's deliberate.
I remember when they were trying to rewrite history and blame Obama for the recession that started a year before he took office.
They also try to pretend Biden was president when Covid hit in 2020.
If the past offends them, they will remake it.
>>1420951>Anything to distract us from Epstein.>Mission Accomplished.Correction: Anything to distract from the fact that Epstein is Mossad.
>>1420931 (OP)>You can't post with that subjectDid you try to post with the word "administration" in the subject line? I'm pretty sure 4chan filters that word because as repeatedly demonstrated by their staff they have absolutely no understanding of how any of the code runs on this site and are unable to regularly maintain any of it
>>1421012>I remember when they were trying to rewrite history and blame Obama for the recession that started a year before he took office.I don't what the hell are you talking about? Can you provide any examples?
>>1421019can you stop being a faggot for even one moment? rhetorical question btw, you faggot
>>1420939first post best post as usual
OP needs Trump to stay in power to prevent them from being rightfully jailed for pedophilia
>>1421020Oh so you made it up then
That's what I thought
>>1421025no anon, you're definitely an eternal faggot
>>1421020>>1421027He's trying to derail the thread. Jut ignore him.
>>1421028i mean, all these threads are to cover up the fact that trump fucks kids
>>1421029But what about black people?
>b-b-but OBONGO
He's not the president anymore, he also gets plenty of shit for his policies nowadays.
What's relevant right now are the problems with the current president.
>>1421107>But Biden!>Buttery males!>But Obama!They’re real desperate about this whole pedo thing
>>1421029It’s crazy how hard they are trying to push any thread about Epstein down the list by spamming these obvious distractions. So weird to watch conservatives switch from “Trump is our hero and stopping pedos” to “it doesn’t matter how many kids Trump has fucked, stupid libs!, what about this Russia thing we used AG Barr to squash? Maybe we will arrest Obama! How about that Libs!”
>>1420931 (OP)God, they are just so full of shit.
