Over the past month, a series of declassified documents have emerged that shed new light on the post-2016 election efforts to undermine President Donald Trump’s first term in office. What these documents reveal is far more troubling than what was previously understood. Former President Barack Obama, it turns out, played a significantly more active role in perpetuating the so-called “Russia-collusion” hoax that Hillary Clinton had launched during the presidential campaign.

While the mainstream narrative has long portrayed the Russia investigation as a bipartisan intelligence effort to safeguard American democracy, the newly declassified evidence paints a starkly different picture. According to these documents, Obama not only condoned but actively directed the politicization of the intelligence community. He specifically tasked select intelligence officials with creating a deliberately misleading Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) aimed at framing Russia as interfering to favor Donald Trump in the 2016 election – despite internal intelligence that contradicted this narrative.

The CIA’s own review of the ICA revealed that then-President Obama personally directed the politicization of intelligence. On December 6, 2016, a little over a month after the election but before the inauguration, Obama ordered then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to conduct a comprehensive review of all available intelligence on Russian election interference. Crucially, Obama set a tight deadline for this review to be completed before Trump took office.

John Brennan, who was CIA Director at the time and entrusted by Obama with leading the drafting of the ICA, later confirmed that the White House worked closely with the CIA to “establish crucial elements of the process.” This included the White House directing the CIA to take “the lead” in writing the report. This close White House involvement represents a clear breach of the usual protocols designed to maintain intelligence independence.

More disturbingly, Obama’s directives led to sidelining the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which normally holds control over drafting, coordination, and review of intelligence assessments. Instead, Brennan and his allies marginalized both CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) analysts who had........

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