Former CIA Director John Brennan blew off warnings from longtime members of the intelligence community in order to push ahead with a “substandard” report because it adhered to the chosen narrative, a congressional report released on Wednesday revealed.

The “substandard” intelligence report Brennan published backed up his assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted President Donald Trump to win the 2016 election — thus bolstering claims that Trump and his incoming administration had engaged in “collusion” prior to the election.

Brennan, according to the report released on Wednesday — along with evidence compiled and released over the last several days by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — was apparently not alone in his efforts to muddy the waters of legitimate intelligence with unsubstantiated claims and subpar intelligence if it served a political purpose.

The House Intelligence Committee’s findings revealed that the CIA in 2020 had “intelligence that Mr. Putin may have favored a Mrs. Clinton win” and had intentionally scuttled it, and “instead tied Mr. Trump to Mr. Putin.” It also stated that “fabricated” information from the Steele Dossier — which was initially bought and paid for by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign — had been included in official reports despite objections from veteran intelligence officers who argued that it doesn’t meet “basic tradecraft standards.”

Then-FBI Director James Comey also played a role in getting the Steele Dossier included in official reports — and when other officers objected, Brennan waved off their concerns: “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”

As the Intel Committee report noted, there was just one “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard reports constitutes the only classified information cited to suggest Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win.”

Brennan included that statement over the objections of other officers, but left out statements from a Putin confidant who claimed the Russian leader “did not care” who won the 2016 election — and also omitted Putin’s assertion that Russia was poised to succeed regardless of who won the American presidency.

“CIA officers said that some of this information had been held on the orders of [Brennan], while other reporting had been judged by experienced CIA officers to have not met longstanding publication standards,” the report stated.