Former Obama administration officials implicated in fresh disclosures about the genesis of the Trump-Russia inquiry have remained silent despite charges that they “manufactured” intelligence that led to the probe’s inception years ago.
Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, declassified documents on Friday that revealed “overwhelming evidence” of how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election over Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for the years-long Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
Gabbard said that the records proved that Obama administration officials “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to construct the story that Russia was seeking to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite intelligence community findings to the contrary.
