27 Traitors. Obama’s Secret Meeting, the Faked Assessment, Hillary & the Russia Hoax

Obama’s 27 Traitors: The Former President’s Treasonous Conspiracy in the Situation Room to Launch the Russia Hoax

Declassified HPSCI majority staff reports and 2025 ODNI releases expose a stunning abuse of power at the highest level of the U.S. government. Outgoing President Barack Obama personally directed senior officials to manufacture a false Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in the final weeks of his administration. Days after Donald Trump’s decisive 2016 victory, Obama convened a secret December 9 meeting in the White House Situation Room. There, he tasked his national security team with producing a rushed, politicized report falsely claiming Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign to elect Trump. Released January 6, 2017, this ICA became the cornerstone of the years-long Russia Collusion Hoax — a treasonous conspiracy, per the declassified findings, designed to undermine the incoming president and delegitimize the election results.

HPSCI oversight findings detail how this was no standard intelligence process. It was a top-down operation ordered by a sitting president, executed by political appointees, relying on substandard sources like the Clinton campaign-funded Steele Dossier, and suppressing contrary evidence. ODNI statements accompanying the declassifications describe it as a “treasonous conspiracy led by President Obama and his national security team.”

Pre-Meeting Intelligence: No Trump Preference, No Election Tampering

Before December 9, 2016, IC assessments were clear. A December 8 Presidential Daily Brief stated Russian and criminal actors did not impact U.S. election results via cyber attacks on infrastructure. Earlier briefings made no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump. Russia’s goals focused on sowing general doubt in U.S. democracy, not favoring one candidate. Intelligence even showed Moscow planning damaging Clinton releases after the election, anticipating her victory.

All of that changed under direct presidential direction.

The December 9 Obama Meeting: Direct Presidential Tasking for the Hoax

On December 9, 2016, President Obama gathered his top national security principals in the Situation Room. Following the meeting, DNI James Clapper’s office issued an email titled “POTUS tasking on Russia Election Meddling,” ordering a new assessment “per the President’s request.” This was unlike any routine IC product: a high-profile deliverable personally ordered by Obama, directed by senior appointees (especially CIA Director John Brennan), and produced by just five analysts with a single principal drafter.

Attendees, per declassified records and HPSCI documentation, included the 27 who carried out this operation:

  • Susan Rice (National Security Advisor)  
  • James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence)  
  • John Brennan (CIA Director)  
  • Andrew McCabe (Deputy FBI Director)  
  • Brian McKeon (Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)  
  • John Kerry (Secretary of State)  
  • Victoria Nuland (Assistant Secretary of State)  
  • Loretta Lynch (Attorney General)  
  • Mary McCord (Principal Deputy Assistant AG)  
  • General Joseph Dunford (Chairman, Joint Chiefs)  
  • Jeh Johnson (Secretary of Homeland Security)  
  • Rob Silvers (Assistant Secretary, DHS)  
  • Richard Ledgett (Deputy Director, NSA)  
  • Adam Szubin (Acting Under Secretary)  
  • Maher Bitar  
  • Avril Haines  
  • Ben Rhodes  
  • Lisa Monaco  
  • Denis McDonough  
  • Neil Eggleston  
  • Chris Fonzone  
  • Caroline Tess  
  • Brett Holmgren  
  • Michael Daniel  
  • Celeste Wallander  
  • Samir Jain  
  • Jeffrey Edmonds

A former president weaponized the intelligence apparatus against his elected successor.

Politicized Tradecraft, the Clinton-Funded Steele Dossier, and UK Opposition Research

HPSCI documented blatant irregularities: unusual directives from Obama and political appointees, limited analyst coordination, and heavy reliance on a single unverifiable HUMINT fragment for the core claim of Putin’s Trump preference. Contrary reporting was downplayed or excluded.

The Steele Dossier — funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC through Fusion GPS and compiled by former UK intelligence officer Christopher Steele — was incorporated despite failing vetting standards. HPSCI notes it appeared in the ICA’s main body text and a two-page annex, contradicting Brennan’s public denials. Brennan overruled CIA concerns about its quality and pushed its inclusion. This foreign-sourced, unverified Clinton campaign opposition research helped fabricate the narrative that Russia “aspired” to elect Trump.

The January 6 ICA: Foundation of the Treasonous Hoax

The final product asserted high confidence in Putin’s pro-Trump campaign. This reversal from pre-meeting assessments launched Crossfire Hurricane expansions, FISA abuses, media leaks, and the Mueller probe — all resting on a foundation congressional oversight now describes as manufactured under Obama’s direction, propped up by Clinton campaign material.

The Former President’s Treasonous Legacy

Whistleblower accounts, declassified timelines, and HPSCI’s 2025 release paint a clear picture: Barack Obama, as sitting president, oversaw the fabrication of intelligence to delegitimize the 2016 election and hobble the Trump administration from Day One. The declassifications label this a “treasonous conspiracy” — not an intelligence failure, but a deliberate political operation directed from the top by a president unwilling to accept the voters’ verdict, with the Clinton campaign’s discredited dossier providing key “evidence.”

The 27 officials who carried out Obama’s tasking stand exposed. Their actions, enabled by a former president and amplified by Clinton campaign-funded opposition research, represent one of the most egregious abuses of power in modern American history. The Russia Collusion Hoax was born in that December 9 Situation Room meeting — ordered by Obama himself.