"It is virtually unprecedented to conduct a review of the analytic tradecraft used in an intelligence product more than 8 years after its publication," James Clapper, who, as the director of national intelligence, oversaw the election-interference assessment, told me in a written statement. The CIA did not interview Clapper for its review, nor did it speak with Brennan or Comey. Ratcliffe publicly accused all three men by name of manipulating intelligence.
"We empathize with the very difficult position in which the career professionals who drafted the CIA Note were placed," Clapper told me, adding that he spoke for Brennan as well. "It is hard, however, to ignore the irony of a document purporting to champion the highest standards of intelligence analytic integrity, which itself violated those very standards."…
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/07/cia-note-russia-hoax/683464/
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