Legacy media outlets largely silent on Tulsi Gabbard's bombshell Obama administration claims

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested last week that intelligence was manufactured and politicized by the most of powerful people in the Obama administration in and Americans will absolutely learn the truth but legacy media outlets didn t take the announcement particularly seriously On Friday Gabbard declassified documents revealing overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how after President Donald Trump won the polling against Hillary Clinton then-President Barack Obama and his national safety squad laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump Russia collusion probe ABC News and NBC News failed to cover the story on-air through Sunday according to a search of transcripts using Grabien Media OBAMA ADMIN 'MANUFACTURED' INTELLIGENCE TO CREATE RUSSIAN VOTING INTERFERENCE NARRATIVE DOCUMENTS SHOWCBS News addressed the story Sunday on Face the Nation when anchor Margaret Brennan sought Rep Jim Himes D-Conn if there is a legal basis for prosecution Himes explained CBS viewers that Gabbard peddled a dangerous lie that has no basis for prosecution When you start throwing around language like treason somebody will get hurt Himes declared There is not a judge in the land that will treat this with anything other than laughter NewsBusters analyst Jorge Bonilla was stunned the story was only covered by one of the legacy Sunday population affairs programs after NBC s Meet the Press and ABC s This Week ignored it Rest assured it wasn t a bipartisan panel segment or an interview with Gabbard - but CBS s Margaret Brennan bringing on the ranking House Intel Democrat in order to firefight the release and subsequent actions Bonilla wrote TULSI GABBARD DETAILS BOMBSHELL ALLEGES OF OBAMA-ERA CABAL'S 'TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY' AGAINST TRUMPCNN mentioned the Gabbard bombshell twice from the time Fox News Digital first published the news on Friday afternoon through Monday the first time on Saturday morning and the second time on Monday's installment of The Lead with Jake Tapper Tapper invited Rep Jason Crow D-Colo to bash Gabbard's analysis insisting she was trying to get back into Trump's good graces after initial intel reports watered down the effectiveness of Trump's airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities while also trying to distract the country's attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scenario MSNBC meanwhile spent more time downplaying Gabbard's overview and similarly suggested Republicans are using it to distract from unflattering news The latest distraction comes from the national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard who put out a baseless record Friday accusing the Obama administration of manufacturing intelligence that laid the groundwork for the FBI s Russia probe into Trump MSNBC s Ayman Mohyeldin stated FBI LAUNCHES CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF JOHN BRENNAN JAMES COMEY DOJ SOURCESJohn Brennan Obama-era CIA director-turned-MSNBC analyst notified Deadline White House host Nicolle Wallace on Monday that Gabbard's statement was really troubling and very dangerous saying it misrepresents in a wholesale manner what the intelligence society did in adding that the misrepresentations are ludicrous The New York Times ran the headline Gabbard Maintains Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in but put heavy focus on Democrats' criticism of her overview Democrats denounced the effort as politically motivated error-ridden and in contradiction with previous reviews of the assessment the Times wrote before citing Himes and top Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee Sen Mark Warner of Virginia The Washington Post waited until Monday evening to acknowledge Gabbard's description but only in a brief mention in an article about how Trump wants to focus on anything else as MAGA world focuses on Epstein Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November voting the intelligence group consistently assessed that Russia was possibly not trying to influence the poll by using cyber means Documents shared by Gabbard's office claimed that before the balloting there was no evidence showing Russia tried to directly alter vote counts However members of the intelligence neighborhood later suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin craved to help Trump win Gabbard argued the narrative shift was politically motivated rather than based on new findings CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND LIFESTYLE Creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that insists that Russia had helped Donald Trump get elected contradicted every other assessment that had been made previously in the months leading up to the polling that noted exactly the opposite that Russia had neither the intent nor the capability to try to hack the United States voting process Gabbard described Fox News' Maria Bartiromo So the effect of what President Obama and his senior national safety association did was subvert the will of the American people undermining our democratic republic and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against President Trump who was duly elected by the American people Evidence issued by Gabbard's office implicated Brennan then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper former FBI Director James Comey and former National Protection Adviser Susan Rice among others in addition to the former president Notably Clapper and Brennan are now on-air analysts for CNN and MSNBC respectively