Overview

• DNI Tulsi Gabbard unveiled a declassified House Intelligence Committee report accusing the Obama administration of manufacturing the Russia collusion assessment and restricting analysts’ access to exculpatory intelligence.
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe sent the Justice Department his recommendations to declassify the underlying intelligence in Special Counsel Durham’s report annex, promising evidence of a Hillary Clinton campaign plan and FBI amplification of the Steele dossier.
• Susan Miller, a retired CIA officer who helped draft the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, publicly challenged the new releases as misleading and maintained that evidence showed Russia sought to boost President Trump without direct collusion.
• Fox News cited anonymous foreign sources indicating that in summer 2016 the FBI planned to act as an accelerant for the Russia collusion narrative—a claim set to be tested by the forthcoming declassified Durham annex.
• Pundits including Peter Schweizer have called for criminal investigations into former CIA director Gina Haspel over alleged suppression of Russiagate documents as the DOJ weighs Ratcliffe’s declassification proposals.