Over the last month, the mainstream news media have dismissed the growing body of evidence that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan, his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and his FBI Director James Comey worked together to manipulate intelligence, starting in 2016, in order to frame President Donald J. Trump as a puppet of the Russian government.

But now, a senior CIA analyst and member of the small team that drafted the January 6, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) — which claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a “clear preference” for Trump and “aspired to” help him win — says, in an exclusive interview with Public, that former CIA Director Brennan put the writing team “under duress” to include the fraudulent Steele dossier.

Working through intermediaries, the Hillary Clinton campaign hired a former British spy, Christopher Steele, to create the dossier. It contained the false allegation that the Russians controlled Trump through a sex blackmail operation.

“CIA analysts strongly and in writing opposed including it [the Steele dossier] at all,” the ICA coauthor told Public. “They were supported by senior Russia and analytic experts up the chain of command. But the team was overruled.”

The information comes one day after CBS News reported that Attorney General Pam had ordered a federal prosecutor to present to a grand jury evidence about criminal activity by Obama administration intelligence officials with the goal of securing an indictment for their role in creating the Russiagate hoax.

Last month, multiple news outlets reported that former senior CIA officer Susan Miller was an author of the ICA. Miller told NBC, “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected.”

But the senior analyst, who is still at the CIA, disputed this, saying, “Susan Miller had no role in the ICA… Members of Miller’s analytic team participated in the ICA, but she had zero role.”

Public agreed to keep the senior CIA analyst’s identity confidential as a condition of the interview, which sheds significant new light on the corruption of the US Intelligence Community’s analytical function, as well as on the roles of Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

The ICA’s coauthor said they were one of four CIA analysts, two FBI analysts, and “two to four” National Security Agency (NSA) analysts who were on the team that drafted the ICA. The lead author of the ICA was Michael Van Landingham, the person said, which is something Rolling Stone first reported last year. One of the NSA analysts was Gavin Wilde. “All [the analysts] except Van Landingham and Wilde,” the coauthor said, “remain in government service.”

The CIA whistleblower’s new information should dramatically alter the public’s understanding of the ICA, motivate significant reforms at the CIA, and inform the Department of Justice’s investigation of Russiagate.

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