'It's just wildly misleading': Why the administration's latest allegations about the Russia investigation don't add up [View all]

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‘It’s just wildly misleading’: Why the administration’s latest allegations about the Russia investigation don’t add up

By Jeremy Herb and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN
6 min read
Updated 10:16 AM EDT, Tue July 22, 2025

(CNN) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released new intelligence documents Friday that she claimed were evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy” by top Obama administration officials to manufacture the notion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

But the allegations conflate and misrepresent what the intelligence community actually concluded, according to a review of a GOP-led Senate investigation from 2020 and interviews with congressional sources familiar with the probe.

The newly unsealed documents do nothing to undercut the government’s core findings in its 2017 assessment that Russia launched an influence and hacking campaign and sought to help Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton, the sources said.

The new allegations from Gabbard lean on assessments before the election and statements from Obama-era intelligence officials finding that the Russians did not alter the election results through cyber-attacks aimed at infiltrating voting systems.

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