by Charlton Allen, American Thinker:
When senior Obama officials demanded a new Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in December 2016—one month after Election Day—they were aware that dissenting voices existed within the intelligence community (IC), as they sought to suppress them.
One such voice came from a senior ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) analyst who spearheaded the September 12, 2016, ICA on cyber threats. His refusal to bend the facts rattled the intelligence apparatus.
His voice had to be silenced.
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At the time, the Intelligence Community’s (IC) consensus was clear: foreign adversaries did not have—and probably would not soon gain—the capabilities to “execute widespread and undetected cyberattacks” on U.S. election infrastructure.
This judgment drew upon a substantial body of classified analysis developed over time by experts monitoring cyber threats from Russia and other geopolitical adversaries.
Then came a White House directive—issued on December 9, just one month after the 2016 presidential election—tasking the intelligence community with producing a new Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian election interference. This wasn’t a routine update. It followed closely on the heels of a terminated intelligence product.
Just hours earlier, a draft of the December 8 President’s Daily Brief (PDB) had been quietly withdrawn, reportedly under protest from the FBI.
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