Gabbard declassifies email between James Clapper and Mike Rogers regarding Russiagate

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday declassified an email exchange between then-DNI James Clapper and then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers, who expressed concerns over the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment used in the Russiagate scandal. 

Rogers said his staff had serious concerns about the NSA’s lack of “sufficient access" to information needed for the assessment and said his staff was not “fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments.” 

The former NSA director's concerns were expressed to Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Clapper acknowledged the concerns in response but said the intelligence community may need to "compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities” because “more time is not negotiable.”

“The leading figures in the Russia Hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence," Gabbard said in a statement. "The email released today reinforces what we already exposed: the decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top. 

"Clapper’s own words confirm that complying with the order to manufacture intelligence was a ‘team sport,'" she added.

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