The newly released records show how James Clapper pushed to stick to the claim that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified new documents revealing that former President Barack Obama’s administration “manufactured” intelligence to create the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion narrative and push the Russiagate probe.

The top-secret correspondence, released on Wednesday, shows former DNI James Clapper directing intelligence chiefs to “compromise on normal” procedures to rush a politicized 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), despite concerns from then-National Security Agency…

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