The production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives directly from the President and senior political appointees, especially the former Director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House Intelligence Committee Oversight Report also shows how later that Same day on December 9, Brennan ordered the publication of quote, unquote, substandard reporting on Russian activities which had previously been withheld from publication of prior assessments because the information was judged, quote, to have not met longstanding publication standards. Some of the information later used in the Obama ordered assessment over the objections of veteran CIA officers was, quote, unquote, unclear or from unknown sources. (17:47–18:08)
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Asserts that Brennan ordered the publication of substandard reporting on Russian activities.
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