by Catherine Herridge at Catherine Herridge Reports
TOP LINE
New records declassified this week suggest the Russia Collusion Investigation was not a single line of inquiry. It had multiple threads.
If one line of investigation failed, another inquiry would likely gather enough evidence to prosecute a sitting President, or his closest aides.
For senior law enforcement and intelligence officials behind the probe, it may have seemed like an insurance policy.
DEEP DIVE
This week, the nation’s top intelligence official, the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified highly sensitive records and internal documents from the Obama White House.
The records make an even stronger case that the 2016 Russia collusion narrative (President Trump was a puppet of Vladimir Putin) was not rooted in credible intelligence. Rather, intelligence was manipulated to fit a preferred political narrative.
DNI Gabbard took the rare step of declassifying a December 8th, 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Brief or PDB. (This highly classified brief is a daily national security analysis provided by the intelligence community to the President.)
In this case, the draft PDB assessed that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”…
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