While the reports that the Russians tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election were believable, it was hard to understand that they were trying to make Trump, rather than Hillary president. Between the Uranium One and Skolkovo deals, Hillary helped Putin and the Russian Oligarchs make tons of money. It now seems that interim ODNI Rick Grenell has turned over to Attorney General Barr documents showing that Obama’s CIA director John Brennan hid intelligence demonstrating that the Russkies were trying to make Hillary win the 2016 election.
FNC’s Ed Henry reported Tuesday evening that Grenell has declassified several batches of information that he turned over to the DOJ. One of those documents calls into question the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.
Henry’s report confirmed a piece by Fred Fleitz written on April 22 of this year, which said in part:
House Intelligence Committee staff members found the opposite. They told me there was conflicting intelligence evidence on Russian motivations for meddling in the 2016 election.
More gravely, they said that CIA Director Brennan suppressed facts or analysis that showed why it was not in Russia’s interests to support Trump and why Putin stood to benefit from Hillary Clinton’s election. They also told me that Brennan suppressed that intelligence over the objections of CIA analysts.