Different ICA Versions & Disappearing Fourth Bullet Point & Footnotes

Brennan and Clapper are still lying, and they are doing so in ways that suggest a continuation of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax conspiracy and the continuation of a conspiracy to cover up their crimes.

In their latest op-ed in the New York Times, Brennan and Clapper claim that… pic.twitter.com/VhGK3xl1UR

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 30, 2025

… Putin stole the election from Hillary.

“We have testified under oath, and the reviews of the assessment have confirmed, that the dossier was not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions,” Obama’s top two intel officials claim.

This is patently false. We know from the declassified oversight review of the ICA released by Tulsi Gabbard that Brennan and Clapper prepared a secret, compartmented, non-public ICA for Obama and other top officials which explicitly referenced the dossier in the main body of the ICA and used the dossier to support the document’s “key judgment” about Putin’s alleged aspiration to steal the election from Clinton.

In the secret, non-public version of the ICA, four bullet points were listed in support of the key judgment. The fourth was sourced directly to the Steele dossier annex. But in the versions of the ICA provided to Congress and the public, the fourth bullet citing the Steele dossier and the annex itself were removed from the document without a trace. All footnotes to cited material were also removed.

So not only did Brennan and Clapper use the Steele dossier in the ICA, they produced separate versions of ICA to hide their tracks, they lied to Congress about what they did knowing that Congress only had access to the version of the document that comported with their lies, they leaked Steele dossier lies to media to inject the claims into the public bloodstream, and then continued to lie about what they did for the next 9 years, including in this op-ed.

They are clearly engaged in an ongoing criminal conspiracy to cover-up their crimes, and they deserve to be held to account for what they’ve done and continue to do to this country.

Compare what the oversight review discovered about their Steele dossier schemes in the top secret ICA version they gave to Obama and other top policymakers—four bullet points, with footnotes, with the fourth bullet citing directly to the Steele dossier—with the version they… pic.twitter.com/6fg6gW4cCT

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 30, 2025

… released to the public, which disappeared the fourth bullet point and all the footnotes.