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So the hoax is finally officially acknowledged. "Russiagate" - the mainstream narrative, that is - is now described by American intelligence chiefs as a fabrication that was concocted to overturn the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
Tulsi Gabbard, the current Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and CIA director John Ratcliffe have both
accused former President Barack Obama of engaging in a "treasonous conspiracy" to subvert the constitutional process. It's not just Obama who is implicated in this high crime. Other former senior officials in his 2013-17 administration, including former DNI James Clapper, CIA director John Brennan, and head of the FBI James Comey, are also implicated.
If justice is permitted, the political repercussions are truly earth-shattering.The potential impact is not confined solely to the violation of U.S. laws and the democratic process - bad enough that is. The Russiagate scandal that began in 2016 has had a lasting, damaging effect on U.S. and European relations with Russia.
The frightfully dangerous NATO proxy war incited in Ukraine, which threatens to escalate into a full-scale world war, was fueled in large part by the hostility generated from the false claims of Russian interference in the U.S. elections.The allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw a subversion campaign against the 2016 U.S. election and colluded with Donald Trump to get him elected were always specious. The scandal was based on shoddy intel claims to purportedly explain how Trump defeated his Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton.
Subsequently, the scandal was hyped into a seemingly credible narrative by U.S. intelligence chiefs at the direction of then-President Barack Obama as a way to delegitimize Trump's incoming first-term presidency.Years before the recent intelligence disclosures, many independent journalists, including
Aaron Maté, and former intelligence analysts like
Ray MacGovern and William Binney, had cogently disproven the official Russiagate claims.
Not only were these claims false, they were knowingly false. That is, lies and deliberate distortions. Russia did not hack emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee to discredit Clinton. Clinton's corruption was exposed by a DNC internal leak to Julian Assange's Wikileaks whistleblower site. That was partly why Assange was persecuted with years-long incarceration.
A large enough number of voters simply despised Clinton and her warmongering psychopathy, as well as her sell-out of working-class Americans for Wall Street largesse.
Comment: It's one big incestuous political family isn't it?