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Gabbard promotes a 2020 report that she recently declassified, which claims that Obama has made assessment by the US Intelligence community of Russia in the 2016 elections.
The report, prepared by the Republicans of the Chamber’s intelligence committee, does not include anything new. He sought to review the evaluation of the 2017 intelligence community that Russia tried to influence the presidential election the previous year.
Although the GOP report revealed that the assessment of the intelligence community was “solid”, it challenged the judgment of the intelligence community that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help Trump. The report indicates that the conclusion was based on a single element of human intelligence which was open to different interpretations. He added that some CIA officers opposed to include judgment on Putin’s intentions, arguing that intelligence behind it was insufficient.
The intelligence community had concluded in its 2017 evaluation that Russia had launched an information war to harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign and stimulate Trump’s electoral prospects. A report by the Intelligence Committee of the Senate of the Bipartisan Senate in 2020 has reached the same conclusions.
Without evidence and by pushing the conspiracy theory, Trump promoted, Gabbard accused Obama today of ordering the initial assessment. “President Obama has ordered an assessment of the intelligence community to be created to advance this artificial false story which ultimately led to a coup of several years to try to undermine the presidency of President Trump,” she told journalists during the White House briefing today.
Gabbard repeated its point of view according to which Russia used influence operations to try to undermine the democratic process in 2016, but it rejected the 2017 information assessment that Moscow was trying to help Trump win. Citing the republican report House, Gabbard said Putin could have damaged Clinton more by disseminating derogatory information that his intelligence services had collected about it but chose not to do so. Gabbard argued that it contradicts the idea that Putin sought to stimulate Trump’s chances.
Asked if the GOP Declassified Report implies Obama in criminal behavior, Gabbard said she had referred and would continue to return these related documents to the Ministry of Justice and the FBI to “investigate the criminal implications of this”.
Addressing journalists yesterday, Trump accused Obama of “betrayal”, wrongly claiming that he faked the 2016 and 2020 elections. Obama office said the claims are “scandalous” and “bizarre”.
Obama’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Gabbard’s accusations today.
