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The media say Obama's CIA Dir. John Brennan didn't manipulate intelligence to frame Trump. But now, a top CIA analyst who 
coauthored the Jan. 2017 report on Russian interference reveals, for first time, that a "pathological" Brennan put analysts "under 
duress" to cook the intel.

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Over the last month, the mainstream news media have dismissed the growing body of evidence that President Barack Obama's CIA 
Director John Brennan, his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and his FBI Director James Comey worked together to 
manipulate intelligence, starting in 2016, in order to frame President Donald J. Trump as a puppet of the Russian government.

But now, a senior CIA analyst and member of the small team that drafted the January 6,2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) 
- which claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a "clear preference" for Trump and "aspired to" help him win - says, in 
an exclusive interview with Public, that former CIA Director Brennan put the writing team "under duress" to include the fraudulent 
Steele dossier.

Working through intermediaries, the Hillary Clinton campaign hired a former British spy, Christopher Steele, to create the dossier. 
It contained the false allegation that the Russians controlled Trump through a sex blackmail operation.

"CIA analysts strongly and in writing opposed including it at all, "the ICA coauthor told Public. "They were supported by senior 
Russia and analytic experts up the chain of command. But the team was overruled."

The information comes one day after CBS News reported that Attorney General Pam had ordered a federal prosecutor to present to a 
grand jury evidence about criminal activity by Obama administration intelligence officials with the goal of securing an indictment 
for their role in creating the Russiagate hoax.

Last month, multiple news outlets reported that former senior CIA officer Susan Miller was an author of the ICA. Miller told NBC, 
"We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected."

But the senior analyst, who is still at the CIA, disputed this, saying, "Susan Miller had no role in the ICA... Members of Miller's 
analytic team participated in the ICA, but she had zero role."

Public agreed to keep the senior CIA analyst's identity confidential as a condition of the interview, which sheds significant new 
light on the corruption of the US Intelligence Community's analytical function, as well as on the roles of Obama, Clinton, Brennan, 
Comey, Clapper, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

The ICA's coauthor said they were one of four CIA analysts, two FBI analysts, and "two to four" National Security Agency (NSA) 
analysts who were on the team that drafted the ICA. The lead author of the ICA was Michael Van Landingham, the person said, which 
is something Rolling Stone first reported last year. One of the NSA analysts was Gavin Wilde. "All except Van Landingham and Wilde, 
"the coauthor said, "remain in government service."

The CIA whistleblower's new information should dramatically alter the public's understanding of the ICA, motivate significant 
reforms at the CIA, and inform the Department of Justice's investigation of Russiagate.

For example, when we asked why the ICA stated that Putin and his inner circle "strongly preferred Republicans, "when there was no 
raw intelligence to support it, the person said, "This was almost certainly a failure of editing and review... .A careful review of 
the draft, particularly by individuals who were not deeply enmeshed in the effort, should have caught this. It was an error to say 
so."

What caused the corruption of ICA so that it included the Steele dossier and so many false claims, including that Putin favored 
Republicans? The CIA analyst offered answers... 

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."