CLASSIFIED EMAILS: DNI Clapper to NSA Director Rogers on Russia Hoax -Abandon Normal Procedures, ”This is OUR STORY and we’re stickin’ to it,” “TEAM SPORT”

Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a “team sport” that required “compromise on our ‘normal modalities’”.

When the Director of National Intelligence tells people to “compromise normal procedures” for a “team sport,” that’s not intelligence – that’s conspiracy.

‘Whoever, Owing Allegiance To The United States, Levies War Against Them Or Adheres To Their Enemies, Giving Them Aid And Comfort Within The United States Or Elsewhere, Is Guilty Of Treason And Shall Suffer Death.’

18 U.S.C. § 2381 – Treason

NY Post: Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was adamant about “stickin’ to” the narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump, despite concerns raised by a top intelligence official, top secret emails show.

Clapper described the Obama administration’s effort to revamp an intelligence community (IC) assessment on “Russia Election Meddling” as a “team sport,” and one that may require the IC to “compromise” its standards, Director of National intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed Wednesday.

Former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers warned that his team had concerns about the rush to get the report out and their lack of access to the “underlying intelligence” being used to produce the “joint product related to Russian attribution and intent for the DNC/DCCC hacks,” according to a declassified Dec. 22, 2016, email from the intelligence official to Clapper, ex-CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.

Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a “team… pic.twitter.com/fVHq9E1no7

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) August 13, 2025

The “we” being CIA, NSA, FBI and ODNI—office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Clapper was pressuring the intelligence agencies to operate like this was a “team sport.’ The latest information on the origins of and the perpetuation of the Russiagate hoax comes from newly-declassified materials released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard: Gabbard declassified a Top Secret email from then-DNI James Clapper exposing his efforts to suppress concerns raised by then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers regarding the politicized January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that President Obama ordered. On December 22, 2016, Rogers wrote an email to Clapper, then-FBI Director James Comey, and then CIA Director John Brennan expressing serious concerns over the NSA’s lack of “sufficient access,” warning that NSA personnel “aren’t fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments.” Clapper responded, “We may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities” and “more time is not negotiable.” “The leading figures in the Russia Hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence. The email released today reinforces what we already exposed: the decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top,” said DNI Gabbard. “Clapper’s own words confirm that complying with the order to manufacture intelligence was a ‘team sport.’” Clapper’s response to Rogers came just hours before the authors of the ICA were set to deliver the initial draft of the politicized ICA to Intelligence Community leaders (DNI).

It is no surprise to those who’ve been tracking with the story since 2016, but is a damning revelation and confirmation. Just the News reports: The FBI concluded numerous legacy news media stories that crafted the false Russia collusion narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence but failed to definitively identify the leakers. But agents did force a stunning admission that ex-FBI Director James Comey used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down President Donald Trump. Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of Comey, his longtime friend, with Times reporter Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper’s 2018 Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference. The goal, Richman told the FBI, was “to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI and to shape future press coverage” outside of the bureau’s official press office, according to internal FBI memos that current Director Kash Patel delivered to Congress this week. While Richman was known to have been publicly quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comey, he admitted to agents — who were part of the FBI’s Arctic Haze classified leaks inquiry — that he was given access by Comey to what turned out to be highly classified information up to the SCI level and sometimes provided information to reporters on an anonymous basis (Just the News).

Mike Davis of the Article 3 project: Most federal crimes have a 5-year statute of limitations. But the Espionage Act has 10. And covering up the criminal conspiracy continues it. Bottom Line: Lawyer up, @comey. Justice is coming (Davis).

Obama’s Deep State didn’t just target Pres. Trump.

They attacked the Republic.

Every last one of these demons needs to rot in the most heinous of conditions deserving of a ghoul who assaults our great nation.

All options on the table.

— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) August 13, 2025

Catherine Herridge: It is significant + no surprise to those who followed the Russia story since 2016 that then NSA Director Rogers pushed back against the “fast track” Russia assessment commissioned by President Obama (Herridge).

Matt Taibbi: “THIS IS ONE PROJECT THAT HAS TO BE A TEAM SPORT” James Clapper tells intel chiefs in Dec. 2016 that an upcoming Russia Intelligence Assessment must be unanimous, in the spirit of “This is OUR STORY and we’re stickin’ to it.” (!) (Taibbi).

DNI Clapper to NSA Director Rogers:
“That’s OUR story, and we’re stickin’ to it”

DNI: Stunning admission that manufacturing intelligence is a “team sport” requiring “compromise on our ‘normal modalities’”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified a Top Secret email from then-DNI James Clapper exposing his efforts to suppress concerns raised by then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers regarding the politicized January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that President Obama ordered.

On December 22, 2016, Rogers wrote an email to Clapper, then-FBI Director James Comey, and then CIA Director John Brennan expressing serious concerns over the NSA’s lack of “sufficient access,” warning that NSA personnel “aren’t fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments.” Clapper responded, “We may have to compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities” and “more time is not negotiable.”

“The leading figures in the Russia Hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence. The email released today reinforces what we already exposed: the decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top,” said DNI Gabbard. “Clapper’s own words confirm that complying with the order to manufacture intelligence was a ‘team sport.’”

Clapper’s response to Rogers came just hours before the authors of the ICA were set to deliver the initial draft of the politicized ICA to Intelligence Community leaders.

You can view the declassified emails here.

Read more about the Russia Hoax in ODNI’s previous releases on July 18, July 23, and July 30.