Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released two emails that are significant not only for their content but for their timing, coming just two days before the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. The emails reveal that in late 2016, then-DNI James Clapper pushed the fraudulent narrative that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC), overriding pointed objections from then-National Security Agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers.

The timing matters because this very narrative — the claim that Russia had hacked the DNC to help President Trump — was used to sabotage the 2018 Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki. Just three days before that meeting, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian nationals on charges of hacking the DNC. The indictment was designed to create political chaos. Mueller knew that the 12 Russians were located in Russia and would never stand trial, meaning he would never need to prove the case. The result of the indictments was exactly what Mueller, his team, and any yet-to-be-identified co-conspirators intended: to sabotage the summit and effectively criminalize diplomacy with Russia.

We all remember Helsinki, where, at the joint press conference standing next to President Putin, Trump addressed the alleged hacking directly:

“You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why haven’t they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee?”

What Trump meant was that no one could know what had happened because the key evidence — the DNC server — had never been examined by the FBI or any other U.S. government agency. Trump also noted that Putin had personally assured him, “It’s not Russia.” He then added his own assessment: “I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be [Russia].”

The latest emails show Clapper responding to Rogers’s doubts about the DNC hack narrative by saying, “that’s OUR story and we’re stickin’ to it,” adding that “more time is not negotiable” and “we may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule. This is one project that has to be a team sport.” Clapper needed the false DNC hack narrative included in the Intelligence Community Assessment, an Obama-ordered report aimed at blaming Trump’s election victory on Putin. Clapper advanced this narrative despite the actual intelligence saying otherwise.

What is clear is that Sussmann would later funnel a fabricated story about secret Trump-Putin communications via Russia’s Alfa Bank into the FBI. CrowdStrike quickly and very publicly proclaimed that Russian state actors were responsible. Conspicuously, the first such pronouncement came from co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch and Chief Security Officer Shawn Henry, who were cited in the Washington Post on June 14, 2016, claiming to have definitively identified Russian hacker groups working for the Russian government as responsible for the breach.

However, when Henry testified under oath in 2017 before the House Intelligence Committee, led at the time by Republican Devin Nunes, he admitted that CrowdStrike had “no direct evidence” that any data had been exfiltrated from the DNC servers. In fact, he could not even confirm there had been a hack. “There’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated,” Henry said, adding, “we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left.”

https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/15/bombshell-dni-emails-expose-fraud-that-sabotaged-2018-trump-putin-summit/

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