A newly declassified House Intelligence Committee report says there was no evidence Vladimir Putin preferred Donald Trump in 2016 — directly contradicting the intelligence assessments that launched one of the most consequential investigations in modern American political history.
Peter Schweizer isn’t calling it a mistake. He’s calling it an operation.
Schweizer argues that senior officials — including James Comey — actively reshaped intelligence findings after the election, not because the evidence led them there, but because they wanted a specific outcome. The target: an incoming administration they intended to cripple before it could govern.
“I think what we clearly have is the intentionality that James Comey intentionally manipulated the intelligence system in an effort to undermine Donald Trump,” Schweizer says. “Let’s remember, when the FISA court scandal erupted, and the IG report came out and said there were 17 inaccuracies or errors, Jim Comey said, ‘ Oh, it was just sloppiness.'”
Schweizer continued: “Then you go to … the rewriting of this intelligence assessment in December of 2016, after they had briefed Congress days earlier that Putin had no intention of intervening. He had no preference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. They rewrote that intelligence assessment, and James Comey was central to it.”
The question Schweizer is now putting on the table isn’t whether it happened. It’s whether what happened meets the legal standard for a coordinated effort to disrupt the transfer of government power — and whether anyone will be held accountable for it.
“The intentionality was to disrupt and undermine the normal functioning of the American government. So if there’s any classical definition of a conspiracy to undermine the government’s function, this to me seems to fit it,” Schweizer added.
Investigations are ongoing. Political pressure is mounting from both directions. The declassification has reopened a wound Washington would prefer to leave closed.
Schweizer’s view: that’s exactly why it matters.
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