September 30, 2020
DNI John Ratcliffe releases a bombshell about the Russia hoax
Andrea Widburg
If I were a betting woman, I'd say that, over the next month, we're going to see a steady drip, followed by an onrushing stream, of information about the corrupt origins and practices behind the Russia hoax. (I'll explain why I think this at the end of this post.) The big news is that, on Tuesday, Lindsey Graham released a letter from John Ratcliffe, the director of National Intelligence. In it, Ratcliffe wrote that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were both involved in originating the Russia hoax and that former CIA director John Brennan pushed the investigation.Ratcliffe's letter to Graham contained three specific pieces of new information:
Hey, folks: You might want to re-read this. @FDRLST https://t.co/Jzu2RT9XaR https://t.co/mZnd38BZvS
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) September 29, 2020
Here's what Ratcliffe revealed: in July 2016, American intelligence learned that Russia claimed to have learned that the Hillary Clinton campaign planned to undermine Trump. According to Russia, the Clinton group was going to say Trump had ties both to Putin and to the alleged Russian hacking of the Democrat National Committee email account. (There's still no proof, beyond Clinton camp claims, that Russia was behind the hacking.)
Armed with this information, former CIA director John Brennan went to the White House to brief President Obama and senior national security officials. According to Brennan's handwritten notes, this briefing included telling them about the "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her former policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services."
A little over a month after these revelations, national security officials sent a referral to Trump-haters Comey and Strzok regarding "U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail service.".............
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/dni_john_ratcliffe_releases_a_bombshell_about_the_russia_hoax.html