DECLASS
Catherine Herridge / @C__Herridge
07/18/2025 13:55:25
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1946267580475580622
Catherine Herridge / @C__Herridge
10/22/2025 09:25:16
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1980988828702973952
Breaking…
Newly declassified records from @DNIGabbard are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.
Gabbard has taken the rare and transparent step of declassifying a December 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Brief or PDB.
This highly classified record, which is a daily national security analysis for the President, assessed that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against (election) infrastructure.”
But after push back from the FBI, then led by James Comey, the PDB was spiked “based on new guidance.”
After a White House Principals meeting, a new intelligence assessment was commissioned, and media leaks followed, reinforcing a new narrative that “Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.”
TIMELINE
December 8, 2016
Draft PDB - Russia “did not impact US election results”
Hours later, FBI withdraws support
PDB is killed “based on new guidance”
December 9, 2016 Obama White House Gathers Top Cabinet Officials including Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe and others.
New Intelligence Assessment is commissioned
January 6, 2017 New Intel Assessment : Russia interfered to help Trump
FULL READ👇@ODNIgov
https://t.co/qT4r1XfdIh
Key Records Revealed
@JohnBrennan Referral Criminal Prosecution Via @JudiciaryGOP @Jim_Jordan
"During a transcribed interview on May 11, 2023, Brennan stated that “the CIA was
not involved at all with the [Steele] dossier.”
Declassified @DNIGabbard Records Released July 2025 Undercut Brennan's Testimony to Congress.
Provided additional, compelling evidence that the Russia collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting but manufactured to fit a political narrative.
"In July 2025, the Trump Administration declassified numerous documents showing that the ICA’s main findings were false and that the Obama Administration knowingly fabricated the findings for the purpose of undermining the Trump Administration."
Jordan Letter
https://t.co/GA9vLiWcTP
Timeline
July 2016 - FBI opens Russian collusion counterintelligence investigation codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane”
October 2016 - FBI obtains first surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign aide Carter Page. FBI wrongly relies on unverified Steele Dossier to justify the warrants to the secretive surveillance court or FISA court.
December 8, 2016 - Draft PDB concludes Russia “did not impact US election results”
FBI withdraws support
PDB is killed “based on new guidance”
December 9, 2016 - Meeting where Obama White House gathers top cabinet officials including Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe and others.
New Intelligence Assessment is commissioned
January 6, 2017 - The new Intelligence Assessment, commissioned by the Obama White House, found Russia interfered in the election to help Trump.
Declassified records 👇