In the waning days of former President Barack Obama's administration, a controversial Intelligence Community Assessment was released that claimed Russia helped then-President-elect Donald Trump get elected, which sparked years of false narratives and fraudulent investigations of alleged Trump-Russia "collusion."

The CIA recently conducted a review of how the December 2016 ICA was crafted, and the findings of that review exposed one overarching conclusion -- Trump was framed by senior officials of the outgoing Obama administration for political reasons, according to Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett.

Trump's CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who ordered the ICA review, said of the report, "All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper, and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals -- all to get Trump."

Numerous "procedural anomalies" and "tradecraft weaknesses"

In late June, CIA analysts completed a "tradecraft review" of the 2016 ICA that purported to expose Russian interference in the 2016 election on behalf of President Trump, and found numerous "procedural anomalies" and "tradecraft weaknesses" that seriously undermined that report's already questionable conclusions.

Initially ordered by then-President Obama, the ICA that ultimately smeared Trump as an alleged colluder and beneficiary of Russian interference was personally overseen by then-CIA Director John Brennan, along with then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and then-FBI Director James Comey.

On top of the "atypical" involvement and overt outcome influencing of such senior officials, the ICA was also marred by a hyper-compressed timeline of just days instead of months, significant compartmentalization of information that kept most analysts in the dark, the exclusion of most of the other agencies in the Intelligence Community, the silencing and sidelining of all dissenting voices, and the insistent inclusion of the debunked Steele dossier -- which the FBI knew was an unsubstantiated hoax at that time.

As noted, that hastily prepared and highly biased ICA report prompted several years of false anti-Trump narratives, dishonest partisan media reports, and a costly special counsel investigation of alleged Russian collusion -- all of which was known to be fraudulent at the time but was pushed anyway "to frame President Donald Trump and drive him from office during his first term."

In reaction to the CIA review, current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Fox News, "We are digging deep to find everything that has been related to this, and I guarantee you there are some U.S. attorneys who are eager to see what we are finding -- in some cases are already working their own cases to bring about that necessary accountability."

Partisan motive was "We're going to screw Trump"

In an exclusive interview with the New York Post, CIA Director Ratcliffe said of the 2016 ICA, "This was Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan deciding 'We’re going to screw Trump.'"

"It was, 'We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.' They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it," he continued. "This led to [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller. It put the seal of approval of the intelligence community that Russia was helping Trump and that the Steele dossier was the scandal of our lifetime. It ate up the first two years of [Trump’s first] presidency."

"You see how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process," Ratcliffe said of the review's findings.

He took particular exception to the inclusion of the hoax Steele dossier, which he argued proved that "it was a politically corrupted process … They all knew the Steele dossier was garbage," was unsubstantiated, and had been financed by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign as opposition research against Trump.

"Obama commissioned this"

Ratcliffe, who told the Post that the CIA analysts who conducted the review were "just appalled" by what they'd found, likened the whole affair to the fraudulent claims in 2020 from 51 former intelligence officials that Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop was "Russian disinformation."

"The comparison would be the Hunter Biden laptop. It’s the same people. In the Hunter Biden case, it’s 'We’ve got to lie to win the election,'" he said. "In this case, it is 'We failed to influence the election and after we failed, we’re going to handicap the president [Trump] so we can win the next election by polluting the well.' They were trying to ruin the presidency after the fact."

Ratcliffe added of the historically "unprecedented" politicization of intelligence assessments, "Obama commissioned this. There was no basis by which it had to be done [before the end of] the Obama administration. [Obama said] 'I want this done.'"