CIA Lies Exposed: Russiagate Disclosures Undermine Obama Officials' Claims
Glenn GreenwaldAugust 2, 202528 min36,789 views
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- 📄 Newly declassified documents have emerged, prompting reporting from The New York Times that frames them as unimportant and not supporting Trump's claims.
- 💡 However, these documents reportedly disprove claims made by Obama-era officials like John Brennan, James Comey, and Jim Clapper regarding the Steele Dossier's role.
- 🎯 The New York Times' framing is criticized for downplaying the significance of these revelations, using phrases like "messy details" to describe information that contradicts official statements.
Steele Dossier and Brennan's Testimony
- 🤥 Documents indicate that CIA documents cite the Steele Dossier, directly contradicting John Brennan's public and congressional testimony that it played no role in the CIA's assessment.
- ⚠️ The New York Times acknowledges that the new material "complicates" Brennan's narrative, which the speaker interprets as an understatement for outright falsehoods.
- 🕵️ The disclosures suggest Brennan internally defended appending a summary of the Steele Dossier to the assessment, despite CIA analysts' requests for compromise.
Critiques of Official Reviews and Oversight
- 🗣️ Brennan and Clapper authored an op-ed dismissing new disclosures as meaningless, which the speaker argues is a sign of guilt.
- ❌ They claim allegations of manufactured intelligence and a "treasonous conspiracy" by Obama officials are false, while only acknowledging that "parts of the Russia gate investigation could have been handled better."
- 🏛️ The speaker criticizes the Senate Intelligence Committee report, despite its bipartisan nature, as a rubber-stamping of CIA conclusions rather than genuine oversight, drawing parallels to the Church Committee reforms which were ultimately insufficient.
The Collusion Hoax and Trump's Policies
- 🚫 Brennan and Clapper's op-ed claims the assessment did not mention "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russians, focusing solely on Russia's actions.
- 🤥 The speaker argues this is a lie, as Brennan himself, in his role as CIA Director and later as an MSNBC analyst, pushed the narrative of collusion and predicted indictments.
- 🇺🇸 Evidence presented suggests Trump's policies, such as flooding Ukraine with weapons and opposing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, were directly contrary to Russian interests, making the blackmail theory absurd.
- 📰 The speaker concludes that the "Russiagate" scandal, including the collusion narrative, was a fabrication by intelligence agencies to undermine Trump's presidency, with new documents further solidifying this conclusion.
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