It was detail how Moscow tried to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. So it presumes the conclusion and drives the conclusion that President Obama wanted to see. And that really kicked off what James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey and others fulfilled in this directive, in pulling together pieces of intelligence that, based on the tradecraft standards that exist across the intelligence community, were considered substandard at best. and were never used in a previous assessment because they were essentially trash. They were not credible. (05:21–05:47)
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Asserts that intelligence gathered by Clapper, Brennan, and Comey was considered substandard by tradecraft standards.
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