The Intel Coup to Disrupt Trump's First Term

I'm shocked that the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA would lie. Okay, so I'm not shocked. They Knew It Was Fake - And Did It Anyway: The Intel Coup to Sabotage Trump - Flopping Aces

In strange lapse into transparency, an official review of that whole kerfuffle has been made public.

The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May.

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Here is a taste, though you can read the whole thing.

The review criticizes the ICA for including the Steele dossier, a salacious and discredited opposition-research product written by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign, which claimed Russia possessed sexually compromising blackmail material on Trump.