Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe has declassified and released the internal tradecraft review of the 2016 presidential election’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) Wednesday.

It hits former President Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan for “insisting” on the use of the Steele Dossier against analysts’ recommendations and crafting “a very politicized inquiry” against agency standards during the 2016 presidential transition to then-President-elect Donald Trump.

“Agency heads at the time created a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process around an issue essential to our democracy,” Ratcliffe wrote in a statement, unveiling the results of the internal review. “Under my watch, I am committed to ensuring that our analysts have the ability to deliver unvarnished assessments that are free from political influence.”

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