Former CIA Director John Brennan's insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials.
These accounts are at odds with Brennan's May 2017 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the Steele dossier was "Not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community's assessment" that Russia interfered in the election to help elect Donald Trump.
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."
His skepticism of the dossier may explain why the NSA parted company with other intelligence agencies and cast doubt on one of its crucial conclusions: that Vladimir Putin personally ordered a cyberattack on Hillary Clinton's campaign to help Donald Trump win the White House.
Brennan has sworn the dossier was not "In any way" used as a basis for the ICA. He explains he heard snippets of the dossier from the press in the summer of 2016, but insists he did not see it or read it for himself until late 2016.
On Jan. 11, 2017, within days of the dossier briefings and release of the declassified ICA report, BuzzFeed published virtually all of the dossier memos on its website.
On Jan. 10, 2017, CNN published an article by Tapper and others about the dossier briefings sourced to "Multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings." Tapper shared a byline with lead writer Evan Perez, a close friend of the founders of Fusion GPS, which hired Steele as a subcontractor on the dossier project.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html
These accounts are at odds with Brennan's May 2017 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the Steele dossier was "Not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community's assessment" that Russia interfered in the election to help elect Donald Trump.
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."
His skepticism of the dossier may explain why the NSA parted company with other intelligence agencies and cast doubt on one of its crucial conclusions: that Vladimir Putin personally ordered a cyberattack on Hillary Clinton's campaign to help Donald Trump win the White House.
Brennan has sworn the dossier was not "In any way" used as a basis for the ICA. He explains he heard snippets of the dossier from the press in the summer of 2016, but insists he did not see it or read it for himself until late 2016.
On Jan. 11, 2017, within days of the dossier briefings and release of the declassified ICA report, BuzzFeed published virtually all of the dossier memos on its website.
On Jan. 10, 2017, CNN published an article by Tapper and others about the dossier briefings sourced to "Multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings." Tapper shared a byline with lead writer Evan Perez, a close friend of the founders of Fusion GPS, which hired Steele as a subcontractor on the dossier project.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html
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