This week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard blew the dust off a long-suppressed House Intelligence Committee report that takes aim at one of the most sacred narratives of American liberal orthodoxy: that Russia wanted Donald Trump to win in 2016.

Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate.

Trump’s comments follow DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s explosive claims that Obama suppressed intel on Russian interference in 2016—a charge Obama’s office calls “outrageous and bizarre.”

Gabbard said one key finding was that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “principal interests” around the 2016 election were to “undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show preference of...

“There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Barack Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew that was false,” Gabb...

Gabbard insisted the Russian goal in 2016 was to sow distrust in American democracy — not to help Trump, a key judgment of the 2017 assessment that Republicans have long challenged.

The director of national intelligence has intensified attacks on assessments about Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.