🔵 Obama Russiagate Exposed

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Citizen Frank
July 23, 2025

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 23.

The U.S. intelligence community had no direct evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election but advanced that claim anyway under the direction of then-President Barack Obama, according to a newly declassified House Intelligence Committee report.

The report, kept classified since it was finalized on Sept. 18, 2020, under the leadership of then-California Rep. Devin Nunes, was made public this week by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. It concludes that the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, which claimed Putin sought to help elect Trump, was based on scant, cherry-picked, and, in some cases, dubious intelligence.

Only five CIA analysts and a principal drafter produced the final assessment, with little input or oversight from other agencies. The House report says the team was “rushed” and operated under “unusual directives” from Obama and then-CIA Director John Brennan, who personally pushed to include unverified material in the ICA despite objections from other officials in the CIA.

 
 

Prominent defense attorney Roy Black, whose cases included securing financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, died Monday at his home in Coral Gables, Florida, at the age of 80 after battling an illness, according to his law partner, Howard Srebnick.

“Roy Black was the greatest criminal lawyer of our generation, perhaps in American history, achieving acquittals over a span of 50 years in some of the most challenging and notorious cases of all time,” Srebnick, who joined Black’s law firm 30 years ago, told The Miami Herald.

Srebnick said that Black continued to work during his illness. The nature of Black’s illness was not reported.

Top Justice Department officials on Tuesday announced that a deputy to Alina Habba, President Trump’s pick for New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, has been “removed” after federal judges declined to extend Habba’s interim role.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Desiree Leigh Grace, Habba’s first assistant who was tapped by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to lead the office upon the expiration of Habba’s 120-day temporary term, has been “removed.”

Bondi said that Habba has done a “great job in making NJ safe again,” but “politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position,” instead selecting Grace to take over the office.

Microsoft has warned that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached its SharePoint software used by the US agency responsible for maintaining and modernizing the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons, according to a report.

The National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency that operates under the auspices of the Department of Energy, was among the targets of a hack allegedly carried out by Chinese-backed cybercriminals, according to Bloomberg News.

A Dutch cybersecurity company estimates that around 400 government agencies in the US, Mauritius, Jordan, South Africa and the Netherlands were impacted by the hack, according to Bloomberg News.

Mass protests erupted in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities late Tuesday after the country’s parliament passed legislation many fear will neutralize the country’s main anti-corruption bodies and roll back reforms introduced after a pro-Western revolution more than 10 years ago.

The government move against the anti-corruption bodies has alarmed former officials, concerned Ukraine’s European allies and thrown back into the spotlight an issue long used by the country’s detractors to criticize it. It could also affect Ukraine’s application to join the European Union.

More than 2,000 people gathered on a central Kyiv square close to the seat of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration, shouting “Shame!” in what is turning into the largest political controversy since Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago. Smaller protests broke out in Lviv, Dnipro and Odesa, and more protests are planned for Wednesday.

Hollywood icon Bruce Willis is reportedly no longer able to speak, read, or walk as his frontotemporal dementia continues to progress.

The devastating update comes three years after the Die Hard star first stepped away from acting following a diagnosis of aphasia in 2022.

Bruce, 70, is said to have become largely non-verbal and is reportedly experiencing motor difficulties, though no specific details about his mobility have been confirmed by his family in recent months. It comes after daughter Tallulah defend the decision to post controversial photos of her father.

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