On January 4 Brennan completed the ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA), both classified and public versions. Congressional investigators later found portions of Brennan's ICA "did not employ proper analytic tradecraft" and "deviated from established CIA practice."<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', HPSCI, March 22, 2018, pp. 46-47.</ref> Brennan attached two pages of sexual innuendo from the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' to the assessment.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html?mobile_redirect=true </ref> The assessment itself contained this crucial admission: ‘Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation and precedents.’<ref>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/jackson-lears/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-russian-hacking</ref> | On January 4 Brennan completed the ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA), both classified and public versions. Congressional investigators later found portions of Brennan's ICA "did not employ proper analytic tradecraft" and "deviated from established CIA practice."<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', HPSCI, March 22, 2018, pp. 46-47.</ref> Brennan attached two pages of sexual innuendo from the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' to the assessment.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html?mobile_redirect=true </ref> The assessment itself contained this crucial admission: ‘Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation and precedents.’<ref>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/jackson-lears/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-russian-hacking</ref> |