The best analysis of Russian intent in 2016 is that they were just trying to mess with the US and had no favorites

John Solomon:

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The belated emergence of evidence — such as dissenting analysts — that calls into question a three-year-old finding would be jarring, especially if it occurred before the election.

One person unlikely to be surprised by questions about the assessment is Daniel Hoffman, the CIA's former station chief in Moscow and one of the United States' premier Russia spy tradecraft experts.

Hoffman for nearly two years has challenged the CIA's assessment, saying Putin preferred neither Clinton nor Trump and simply wanted to sow discord in American democracy when he meddled in the election.

"Lots of people ask the question, 'Was Russia trying to interfere on behalf of one candidate or the other?' That's a superfluous question. They weren't," Hoffman told Just the News earlier this year in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast

"And our own report from the director of National Intelligence in January 2017 shows that we could never determine the impact, if any, that Russia made. But Vladimir Putin just wants to influence the dialogue. He wants Democrats and Republicans at each other's throats, and that's what he got," Hoffman said.

Several government officials interviewed said evidence that has been declassified in recent months adds to the doubts that Putin intended to help Trump.

For instance, they said, the summer 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which a Russian lawyer on a special Justice Department parole visa visited with the president's eldest son wasn’t a typical spy operation to help the Trump campaign and instead had the hallmark of a "discoverable influence operation" designed to sow doubts in the American government.

"If the Russians were helping Trump, they would have kept it secret and wouldn't have used a woman flagged by the Justice Department as the conduit," one government official said. "They most likely wanted that meeting to be discovered so the FBI was scratching its head and raising red flags."

Likewise, the CIA alerted the FBI early in the Crossfire Hurricane probe that some anti-Trump evidence that dossier author Christopher Steele had provided agents was, in fact, disinformation from Russian intelligence services, according to recently declassified footnotes from a Justice Department inspector general report.

"If the Russians wanted to help Trump win, why were they feeding disinformation to Clinton's opposition research team to dirty up Trump?" the government official observed. "This evidence, if reevaluated, might turn out to be classic Russian mischief designed to sow discord and doubts in democracy."

The Russians were messing with us, and Brennan decided to use it for his own political agenda based on his hatred of Trump.  He had zero evidence of his claim that Trump was a Russian asset.  Yet he made the claim anyway.