New Delhi, July 24 -- The US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has released a once-classified report raising questions about the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump elected president. The report, originally prepared in 2020 but kept classified until now, alleges the Obama administration directed an unusually rushed and biased process in producing that assessment.

This report shows the ICA was not the product of a fair or thorough intelligence process, but of political pressure and selective sourcing.

The report finds that the US intelligence community (IC) had no direct evidence showing Putin's preference for Trump in the 2016 election.

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