That detailed IRGC dossier was the Wrong Narrative as far as the Obama administration was concerned, it might jeopardize their precious Iran Deal, thus it had to not exist. Therefore, it never existed. Until I went whistleblower right here.

Political influence on intelligence analysis is one thing. And a serious problem. The Trump administration was accused of this, asking IC analysts to spin information in a manner more pleasing to the White House. Neither was Team Trump the first administration to demand such “massaged” intelligence analysis. What the Obama White House did in this case is far more serious, amounting to political influence on intelligence collection. Don’t bring us intelligence we don’t want to see, at any level: that’s an order. As far as I know – as a spook but also historian who’s read (and authored) highly classified internal histories of CIA, NSA, and other U.S. intelligence agencies never seen by the public, I think I would know – no other White House has done this.

Only Obama did this. Which makes Barack Obama a worse abuser of American intelligence than Donald Trump – or any other president. A dozen years ago I learned, to my horror, that the fix was in. The fix was always in.