Clapper Leaks Twice to CNN. Brennan Stands in the Shadows. A Russian Narrative is Born.

Clapper – along with John Brennan – was the architect of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) – Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections.

The DNI’s Intelligence Community Assessment was effectively constructed by three men:

Former DNI James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and to a lesser extent, former FBI Director James Comey (Strzok was also involved).

The ICA was used to push the Russian Narrative. And despite assurances from both Clapper and Brennan, the Dossier was used in the ICA.

Clapper denied using the Steele Dossier in the ICA during Congressional testimony:

We did not include it in the body of our intelligence community assessment. We couldn’t corroborate the sourcing, particularly the second and third-order sources.

Although carefully spoken – with the nuance missed by most – even this misleading parsing of words was not correct.

Clapper on CNN:

Some of the substantive content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment from other sources in which we had very high confidence.

When we did our Intelligence Committee assessment, we were aware that there had been research done and that some Republican candidates had contracted through – I think – Fusion GPS.

Retired NSA Director Michael Rogers stated in a classified letter to Congress that the Dossier did factor into the ICA:

In a March 5, 2018, letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Adm. Rogers informed the committee that a two-page summary of the dossier – described as the Christopher Steele information – was added as an appendix to the ICA draft and that consideration of that appendix was part of the overall ICA review/approval process.