Newly released declassified documents are sending shockwaves through Washington, D.C., as allegations surface of a coordinated scheme involving Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and senior officials in the Obama administration to fabricate and promote the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who authorized the release of more than 100 pages of emails, memos and internal reports last Friday, described the effort as a “treasonous conspiracy” against then-candidate and later President Donald Trump.
Gabbard stated the documents constitute “overwhelming evidence” of a calculated attempt to discredit and delegitimize a duly elected president.
The declassified material includes whistleblower testimony from within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), communications between government agencies and internal intelligence assessments.
Gabbard alleges that these documents reveal a long-running operation by the Clinton campaign and key members of the Obama White House to construct a false narrative linking Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Whistleblowers claim intelligence officials were pressured to conform to a politically motivated narrative.
Gabbard has stated that the campaign involved coordination with the White House, the National Security Council, the Department of State and several top officials within the intelligence community.
Among those named in the documents are