In a stunning firsthand account, a whistleblower has exposed how senior intelligence officials under Barack Obama manipulated analysis, silenced dissent, and strong-armed subordinates to produce a politically loaded assessment linking Donald Trump to Russian election interference.
According to the whistleblower, senior intelligence officials, including then-DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, pressured analysts to endorse conclusions they didn’t agree with and marginalized anyone who raised objections. The now-infamous January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, the whistleblower says, was crafted to match a predetermined political narrative: that Russia interfered in the 2016 election specifically to help Donald Trump.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released the eyewitness’s firsthand account this week, ending years of bureaucratic stonewalling. The testimony paints a damning picture of a politicized intelligence operation, where dissent was suppressed, evidence was misrepresented, and the truth was treated as an obstacle. It confirms what many on the right have long believed: The Russia narrative was manufactured from the top down, driven more by politics than facts.
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“I was told to ‘get on board’ with the ICA’s conclusions, even though I didn’t agree with them,” the whistleblower said. The individual also revealed he was denied access to briefings and evidence after raising concerns, and was “personally attacked” by a supervisor when they refused to endorse the narrative.
“I need you to say you agree,” one superior told him.
Gabbard, who has made transparency a top priority since being appointed by President Trump to serve as DNI, praised the whistleblower’s courage.
“Thank you to the brave Intelligence Community Whistleblower who courageously came forward to expose the truth about one of the biggest and most impactful scandals in our nation’s history,” said Gabbard. “The Whistleblower put their own well-being on the line to defend our democratic republic and ensure the American people learned the truth about how President Obama directed the creation of Intelligence Community Assessment that knowingly promoted falsehoods claiming Russia helped President Trump get elected in 2016. In doing so, the Obama Administration sought to delegitimize the 2016 election and President Trump’s presidency, subverting the will of the American people and enacting essentially a years-long coup against President Trump and the American people. Thanks to this individual and other courageous whistleblowers, the American people are finally learning the truth about the dangerous consequences of weaponized intelligence. Truth and accountability will help in ensuring this doesn’t happen again.”
The release is part of Gabbard’s ongoing initiative to restore integrity to the Intelligence Community, including a sweeping declassification push involving documents related to Crossfire Hurricane, the origins of COVID-19, and even the JFK and MLK assassinations. In this case, the whistleblower’s efforts to alert oversight bodies—including multiple Inspectors General—were reportedly met with years of stonewalling and red tape. Only now, under Gabbard’s leadership, has the testimony finally been made public.
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The whistleblower’s account directly contradicts the official line pushed for years by the Democrat media-industrial complex, that the ICA was a nonpartisan, evidence-based assessment. Instead, the testimony confirms long-held suspicions on the right: Obama’s intelligence leaders played politics with national security, using their positions to undermine Trump before he even took office.
With the 2025 declassification, Gabbard has sent a clear signal that the days of burying politically inconvenient truths are over. Whether anyone in the intelligence hierarchy will be held accountable remains to be seen, but the American public is finally starting to see just how deep the corruption went.
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