{"id":45210,"date":"2025-07-23T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45210"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:22:01","slug":"justice-department-to-assess-claims-of-alleged-weaponization-of-us-intelligence-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45210","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department to assess claims of &#8216;alleged weaponization&#8217; of US intelligence community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">US Justice Department forms strike force to assess Gabbard&#8217;s claims<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump recently leaped on Gabbard&#8217;s comments to attack Obama<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Democrats say claims are false, politically motivated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday it was forming a strike force to assess recent claims made by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about &#8220;alleged weaponization of the U.S. intelligence community.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>WHY IT&#8217;S IMPORTANT<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">U.S. President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/donald-trump\/\"><u>Donald Trump<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;has leaped on comments from Gabbard on Friday in which she threatened to refer Obama administration officials to the Justice Department for prosecution over an intelligence assessment of Russian interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Republican Trump accused former President Barack Obama of treason on Tuesday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-accuses-obama-treason-escalating-attacks-over-2016-russia-probe-2025-07-23\/\"><u>alleging<\/u><\/a>, without providing evidence, that the Democrat led an effort to falsely tie him to Russia and undermine his 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A spokesperson for Obama denounced Trump&#8217;s claims, saying, &#8220;These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>KEY QUOTES<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This Department takes alleged weaponization of the intelligence community with the utmost seriousness,&#8221; the Justice Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The Department of Justice announced the formation of a Strike Force to assess the evidence publicized by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and investigate potential next legal steps which might stem from DNI Gabbard&#8217;s disclosures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CONTEXT<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gabbard declassified documents and said the information she was releasing showed a &#8220;treasonous conspiracy&#8221; in 2016 by top Obama officials to undermine Trump, claims that Democrats called false and politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An assessment by the U.S. intelligence community published in January 2017 concluded that Russia, using social media disinformation, hacking, and Russian bot farms, sought to damage Democrat Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign and bolster Trump, who won the 2016 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The assessment determined the actual impact was likely limited and showed no evidence that Moscow&#8217;s efforts actually changed voting outcomes. Russia has denied it attempted to interfere in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/justice-department-assess-claims-alleged-weaponization-us-intelligence-community-2025-07-23\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday it was forming a strike force to assess recent claims made by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about &#8220;alleged weaponization of the U.S. intelligence community.&#8221; WHY IT&#8217;S IMPORTANT U.S. President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;has leaped on comments from Gabbard on Friday in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34101,5471,2029,34102],"class_list":["post-45210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-alleged-weaponization","tag-allegation","tag-doj","tag-us-intelligence-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45212,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions\/45212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}