Quietly Edited

The newly released CIA document confirming the fraudulent nature of the Intelligence Community Assessment notes that on December 9, 2016, the Washington Post claimed to know the outcome of the assessment before the work had even begun. But that’s only half the story.

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— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) July 3, 2025

… that day, the Washington Post published a routine article announcing that the Intelligence Community Assessment was just getting underway. A few hours later, without notice, they quietly edited not just the headline but the entire article, including the bylines. Suddenly, the revised piece asserted as fact that Vladimir Putin had orchestrated Trump’s election.

It is almost certain that corrupt intelligence officials were dissatisfied with the original reporting which wasn't tailored to the narrative. They needed to preemptively sabotage Trump’s presidency, so they told the Washington Post to publish a version that reflected the Intelligence Community’s preferred narrative.

To this day, no one has been held accountable for this fraud—neither at the Washington Post, which later won Pulitzers for their lies, nor within the Intelligence Community, which orchestrated the deception.

You can see both versions of the article 👆. These are not two separate pieces—one is the original, and the other was inserted a few hours later using the exact same URL. They replaced the story entirely without acknowledging the change.