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BONDI sits a Grand Jury: NEW EVIDENCE OF OBAMA ADMIN CONSPIRACY TO SUBVERT PRES TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY
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And DNI Gabbard drops another bombshell on the Obama administration.
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New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump's directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.
Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked by today's release:
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LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election
TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.
LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election
TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.
LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.
TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept's June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex" released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump. <i></i>
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New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump's directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.
Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked by today's release:
dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election
TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.
LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election
TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.
LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.
TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept's June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex" released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump. <i></i>
I never understood how so many Americans could be so duped.
That said,; It was a frustration for Conservatives who supported DJ Trump and a convenient excuse for Democrats to follow the lead of their lying DNC party leadership.
Interesting that Biden was the most incompetent President in our nation's history yet participated so effectively in the crimes of Obama, our most damaging and evil President in our history. Perhaps for the same incompetence.
I am not surprised by the election of Barrack Obama. He had a good message. However, I will never believe Joe Biden was actually elected by the people.
Given the 12 years these two were POTUS,,, It is a wonder the nation has managed to survive.
That said,; It was a frustration for Conservatives who supported DJ Trump and a convenient excuse for Democrats to follow the lead of their lying DNC party leadership.
Interesting that Biden was the most incompetent President in our nation's history yet participated so effectively in the crimes of Obama, our most damaging and evil President in our history. Perhaps for the same incompetence.
I am not surprised by the election of Barrack Obama. He had a good message. However, I will never believe Joe Biden was actually elected by the people.
Given the 12 years these two were POTUS,,, It is a wonder the nation has managed to survive.
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Deals will be made, money exchanged, etc.. etc... Nothing will happen to the top dogs because they still have power. If the legacy media would get behind it, their numbers could rise in ratings, but they're too loyal to the Democrats right now. Maybe in a month or two, they'll give it 5 minutes.
The Press, i.e.; the media has a Constitutional exemption that protects them because it was an understanding that their responsibility in exposing disruptive activities in our government.
Said Constitutional exemptions from prosecution was to enable them to speak freely about graft and corruption in our governance, both State and Federal. A guarantee of the right of people's free speech. They have failed to exercise this sacred responsibility.
Was it incompetence, ignorance, or intentional exclusions? Who knows
Perhaps they should see their constitutional protection change.
I think your onto something. If charges are filed and warrants signed, they won't have much choice.
How the Average Democrat responds is not known in this case.
Near as i can tell GOP voters and Democratic voters generally live in 2 different worlds. Neither watches the media the other watches. Neither hangs in the circles of the other.
The odds are the average GOP voter believes all the things in this case. The average Democratic voter thinks all this is a conspiracy theory . . . just like Covid coming from a lab leak . . . and the Hunter Biden laptop . . . and and and
Mollie Hemmingway is really knocking it out of the park with her coverage of Obamagate.
She is the editor at THE FEDERALIST, has a popular podcast, a regular on FOX and a very strong history in covering government and media corruption.
This is a quick, solid breakdown of what happened AFTER President Trump won the election, but before he took office in his first term.
But if you want some serious, in depth, understanding of what happened, here is her detailed breakdown of the facts, a bit over an hour long. I listened to it on today. People need to go to jail.
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She is the editor at THE FEDERALIST, has a popular podcast, a regular on FOX and a very strong history in covering government and media corruption.
This is a quick, solid breakdown of what happened AFTER President Trump won the election, but before he took office in his first term.
But if you want some serious, in depth, understanding of what happened, here is her detailed breakdown of the facts, a bit over an hour long. I listened to it on today. People need to go to jail.
Emergency Episode: Sean Davis And Mollie Hemingway Dissect Latest Russia Hoax Bombshells
On this emergency edition of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway break down the declassified
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3 minute video interview, worth your time to follow the link to watch FoxNews' Maria Bartiromo with new CIA Director John Ratcliffe as he talks about how there was a conspiracy
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe told FNC's Maria Bartiromo that the next shoe to drop in the "Russiagate" scandal will be the "classified annex" of the John Durham report, which will open up live charges of perjury for intelligence officials like John Brennan and James Comey -- and Hillary Clinton.
"John Brennan testified to John Durham in August of 2020. He also testified to the House Oversight Committee in 2022. Hillary Clinton testified before John Durham under oath in 2022. James Comey testified before the Senate committee in September 2020."
"All of that's within the last five years. And much of that testimony is, frankly, completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence that is about to be declassified in the Durham annex," he said. . . .
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And so, coming forward, we understand that they did this, but now we need to understand how they did this. And I think that's why you see the left losing their minds over this, Maria, saying, why are you spending time? This is vindictive. You're going back. This is Donald Trump seeking retribution.
It's not. Donald Trump's election by the American people was a statement, Maria. They said to everyone, we know what you did to Donald Trump, and we reelected him because we know this was all fake. We know it was a hoax. Now we want to understand how you did it so that it can't happen again.
And that's what this declassification process that we're undergoing right now, what's going on, why it's so important and why there can be accountability and preventability to prevent these same people that did it in 2016 with the Steele dossier, with the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020 from doing it again in the future.
I know many here are demanding jailtime for the participants. But sadly, the statute of limitations may protect the criminals from incarceration. Still, we need to clarify what happened and who did what. That may well have to be enough.
And so, coming forward, we understand that they did this, but now we need to understand how they did this. And I think that's why you see the left losing their minds over this, Maria, saying, why are you spending time? This is vindictive. You're going back. This is Donald Trump seeking retribution.
It's not. Donald Trump's election by the American people was a statement, Maria. They said to everyone, we know what you did to Donald Trump, and we reelected him because we know this was all fake. We know it was a hoax. Now we want to understand how you did it so that it can't happen again.
And that's what this declassification process that we're undergoing right now, what's going on, why it's so important and why there can be accountability and preventability to prevent these same people that did it in 2016 with the Steele dossier, with the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020 from doing it again in the future.
I know many here are demanding jailtime for the participants. But sadly, the statute of limitations may protect the criminals from incarceration. Still, we need to clarify what happened and who did what. That may well have to be enough.
So the media is complicit in the criminal conspiracy?
Who could have predicted that the media was involved in hiding facts and intentionally covering for political allies?
Shocked I tell you. Shocked!
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Who could have predicted that the media was involved in hiding facts and intentionally covering for political allies?
Shocked I tell you. Shocked!
Intelligence officials suggest media involvement in criminal conspiracy
Media outlets that once spread innuendo about Russian President Vladimir Putin controlling President Trump have fallen oddly silent in the face of revelations that these stories were never true.
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And now the documents tie SOROS to the whole thing . . .
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Declassified intel ties Soros to Clinton's Russiagate plan for FBI to 'put more oil into the fire'
A declassified annex from John Durham's report sheds new light on the Clinton Plan to falsely tie Trump to Putin, with the expectation that the FBI would join in too.
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The news just keeps getting better and better for the Obama squad of scoundrels.
The files literally say they planned to use the FBI to smear Trump.
No wonder the mainstream media and liberal media are SILENT and refusing to cover the story. You got to read it to believe it. It's not that long, but it is full of evidence.
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The files literally say they planned to use the FBI to smear Trump.
No wonder the mainstream media and liberal media are SILENT and refusing to cover the story. You got to read it to believe it. It's not that long, but it is full of evidence.
Smoking Gun: Declassified Durham Appendix Confirms Hillary Clinton Plan To Smear Trump, Use FBI 'To Put More Oil On The Fire' | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Another Major Document Release
The long-awaited classified annex to Special Counsel John Durham's report is out
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BOOM the Justice Department just dropped a BOMB
Now the real question is WHERE WILL THIS GRAND JURY be located? Because not Grand Jury in Washington DC, New York, Illinois, California, etc etc etc will move to prosecute.
Brennan, Clapper & Hillary Clinton are likely named.
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LOTS MORE STORIES and at some point this has to make real headlines, it is too big to ignore.
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Now the real question is WHERE WILL THIS GRAND JURY be located? Because not Grand Jury in Washington DC, New York, Illinois, California, etc etc etc will move to prosecute.
Brennan, Clapper & Hillary Clinton are likely named.
Bondi orders evidence sent to grand jury for Russia collusion hoax: Report
The move follows Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sending criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.
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Bondi orders evidence sent to grand jury for Russia collusion hoax: Report
The move follows Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sending criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday signed an order for a federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury to mull charges related to the Russia collusion hoax, Fox News reported.
The move follows Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sending criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. The convening of a grand jury does not guarantee the filing of charges. Rather, it is the job of the grand jury to recommend charges if they believe sufficient evidence exists to justify a prosecution.
Gabbard, in July, stated that she had sent evidence to the DOJ related to U.S. intelligence officials allegedly politicizing intelligence connected to the Russia collusion investigation, calling the matter a "treasonous conspiracy."
ODNI, at the time, said the evidence “revealed overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.”
LOTS MORE STORIES and at some point this has to make real headlines, it is too big to ignore.
Pam Bondi shocks by ordering grand jury for 'Russia hoax' developments
A grand jury will be gathered to hear the latest evidence as part of criminal referrals for inception of the Russia collusion 'hoax.'
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into accusations that members of the Obama administration manufactured intelligence about Russia’s 2016 election interference, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
A grand jury would be able to issue subpoenas as part of a criminal investigation into renewed allegations that Democratic officials tried to smear Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign by falsely alleging his campaign was colluding with the Russian government. It could also consider an indictment should the Justice Department decide to pursue a criminal case.
The move follows a referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who declassified documents in July that she alleges undermine the Obama administration’s conclusion that Russia tried to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. . . .
DOJ launching grand jury investigation into Russiagate conspiracy allegations: sources
Bondi directed her staff to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital has...
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NYTimes, the 'old grey lady' and 'newspaper of record' has been taking a beating from high profile critics who can't be ignored for very long over the "OBAMA GATE" scandal with the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton and allegations of RUSSIAN COLLUSION.
A must read on all the MISinformation and DISinformation that was spread by the NYTimes.
Author Matt Taibbi brings the evidence . . .
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FULL STORY at the link ^^^
Kash Patel calls out the media
STORY CONTINUES and it is full of FACTS.
Now we have ongoing reporting from CBS, which is now, finally covering this. Check their link for updates.
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A must read on all the MISinformation and DISinformation that was spread by the NYTimes.
Author Matt Taibbi brings the evidence . . .
Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review, on the Atrocious New York Times
The ostensible high priests of journalism should be able to detect the difference between passable coverage and epic, historic failure
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FULL STORY at the link ^^^
Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review, on the Atrocious New York Times
The ostensible high priests of journalism should be able to detect the difference between passable coverage and epic, historic failure
Letter to Bill Grueskin, former Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, on his recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review
Mr. Grueskin,
Regarding your August 1 article, “Knowing: Still Only Half the Battle,” which lauds Charlie Savage of the New York Times for having “dissected and eviscerated” Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claims about corruption of intelligence in the Trump-Russia investigation:
You praised Savage’s article, “New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do,” as an example of the work of an “experienced beat reporter” who can distill complex stories into a “coherent, compelling whole.” Your sub-headline stressed the importance of “showing receipts” in journalism, where “most people don’t follow stories very closely,” but “they can learn a lot when an experienced beat reporter helps them sort out what’s important and what’s chaff.”
Chaff.
Except — and you should know this because the Columbia Journalism Reviewpublished over 20,000 words on the subject in January 2023 — Savage and his colleagues at the Times have badly miscovered this story for nearly a decade, and continue to do so. The 2018 Pulitzer Prize the paper won on the topic along with the Washington Post will go down as the same kind of “disgrace” as its 1932 Pulitzer for Walter Duranty’s breathless coverage of Stalin’s Russia. In this case, the Times drifted so far from its traditional mission that it became an animating motive for Gabbard and other investigators in Donald Trump’s administration.
Witness FBI Director Kash Patel throwing down a gauntlet this weekend, right after your piece ran. He challenged media figures who called him a “liar” in 2018, when as an investigator in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) chaired by California’s Devin Nunes, he outed the Steele Dossier as “fictitious intelligence” used to deceive a federal judge and unlawfully spy on Trump’s campaign. Patel added, “Now I’m the FBI Director,” then hinted that he might release “more docs” so “we can see who is lying,” before ending with a reference to “bogus Pulitzers.”
Is this normal FBI Director behavior? Would Louis Freeh or William Webster call out a newspaper in such a personal way? Probably not. Would most Times readers even know what Patel is talking about? Also probably not, because the paper has consistently responded to criticism by doing what you did in “Knowing: Still Only Half the Battle”: casually dismiss allegations as “false conspiracies” and “chaff,” things educated people may safely ignore, in favor of the wheat in papers like the Times.
That attitude only works if the facts are on your side. On this story, they aren’t, and it’s not close. About those “receipts” you praised:
As you note, Savage decried “overheated and attention-grabbing claims” made by Trump’s “top officials,” who “accused Mr. Obama of treason and “made criminal referrals” about national security officials under Mr. Obama. Savage may rightly call claims of “treason” overheated, since nothing released yet comes close to meeting the legal definition (though the Times and some of those same “national security officials” similarly overreached when they invoked the word at the beginning of Trump’s first term). There are reports today of the case going to a grand jury, but it’s true we don’t know yet how compelling any criminal evidence might be. Still, Savage added an unsupported line:
It’s a small detail, but characteristic of what the Times has become. An experienced beat reporter would know the administration has been investigating Russiagate since Trump’s inauguration, that Patel referenced a discovery in this investigation on the Joe Rogan Experience on June 6th, and that CIA Director John Ratcliffe kicked off the recent releases with a report on the Trump-Russia probe that came out on July 2, before the much-criticized Epstein announcement by Pam Bondi’s Justice Department on July 7th.
There is no fact anywhere to support the idea that recent Russiagate releases are an attempt to “distract supporters who are angry about its broken promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.” It’s merely something that sounds right to Times readers, probably because it’s been a talking point hammered by Democratic Party politicians like Arizona’s Mark Kelly (“I think they do not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein”), Connecticut’s Jim Himes (“A transparent effort to distract from… refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files”), even a spokesperson for former President Barack Obama, Patrick Rodenbush (“These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction”). Since when is it good practice for a paper like the Times to present partisan talking points as facts?
STORY CONTINUES and it is full of FACTS.
Now we have ongoing reporting from CBS, which is now, finally covering this. Check their link for updates.
DOJ launching grand jury investigation into Russiagate conspiracy allegations
The attorney general has ordered a grand jury investigation into the intelligence regarding President Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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DOJ launching grand jury investigation into Russiagate conspiracy allegations
By Jacob Rosen
Updated on: August 4, 2025 / 6:49 PM EDT / CBS News
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury investigation into the intelligenceregarding President Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election.
She has directed Justice Department staff to begin legal proceedings and ordered a federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury about the matter to secure a potential indictment, according to a source familiar with Bondi's efforts. It is unclear what the charges would be and who would be charged.
The directive follows a criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in mid-July. The Justice Department confirmed it had received the referral.
The Justice Department has not responded to a request for comment.
Last month, Gabbard released more than 100 pages of declassified files about Russia's actions during the 2016 presidential election, reigniting a nearly decades-long political battle about the U.S. intelligence community's handling of intelligence.
Her office alleged in a memorandum released with the files that they contained what she called evidence of "suppression" and manipulation of the intelligence underlying a 2017 community-wide assessment of Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
The files included email exchanges, excerpts from a President's Daily Brief and a readout from a principals committee meeting, chiefly from a period during the Obama administration.
In a statement and social media posts, Gabbard claimed the materials, which were marked declassified on July 17, 2025, were evidence of a "treasonous conspiracy" and "years-long coup" plotted by Obama administration officials against Mr. Trump, and said she would forward them to the Department of Justice as part of a criminal referral.
STORY CONTINUES at the link above ^^^
Mollie Hemingway: Obama Admin Hid Information To Create Trump-Russia Conspiracy, Democrats "Should Be Scared"
FOX News contributor Mollie Hemingway on tonight's "Special Report" discussed then-President Obama's conspiracy to hide information showing there was no Russian influence in the 2016 campaign.VIDEO>>>>
Well well well . . . turns out that President Obama endorsed the CIA assessment THAT HE ORDERED, before the assessment was even completed.
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Full story at the link above ^^^
Smoking gun? Obama endorsed bogus CIA claims on Trump and Putin before analysis was even finished
Before the intelligence community assessment that he ordered was even finished, Obama made public comments endorsing leaks claiming that the CIA's conclusion was that Putin had meddled in the 2016 election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
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Full story at the link above ^^^
Smoking gun? Obama endorsed bogus CIA claims on Trump and Putin before analysis was even finished
Before the intelligence community assessment that he ordered was even finished, Obama made public comments endorsing leaks claiming that the CIA's conclusion was that Putin had meddled in the 2016 election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
President Barack Obama made public statements as early as mid-December 2016 indicating that he was endorsing a predetermined CIA view about Vladimir Putin allegedly wanting Donald Trump to win and Hillary Clinton to lose. The intelligence community assessment (ICA) had not even been completed and was still being debated and drafted.
The record — bolstered by newly-declassified documents — shows that Obama was a central figure at key points throughout the Russiagate saga. Obama directed the creation of a new ICA on Russian meddling only after Trump was victorious in November 2016. Well before the ICA was finalized, Obama repeatedly endorsed the controversial and inaccurate conclusion from the CIA, run at the time by Director John Brennan. That conclusion was spun into a widely-adopted narrative that Putin had allegedly ordered election meddling in 2016 to hurt Clinton’s chances and to help Trump win.
Obama endorsed an anonymously-leaked CIA assessment on Russian meddling in mid-December 2016 during an interview with NPR, roughly two weeks before the ICA was finalized in late December 2016. Obama said during the interview that no one should be “surprised by the CIA assessment that this was done purposely to improve Trump's chances” — a claim he was making following anonymous leaks to the media about the CIA’s alleged position, preempting the completion of the formal ICA later that month.
Obama's pre-judged outcome
Obama similarly hinted that he had already come to the conclusion that Russia had allegedly meddled to hurt Clinton and help Trump during a mid-December 2016 White House press conference and a mid-December 2016 appearance on The Daily Show — both roughly two weeks prior to the ICA being completed.
Despite Obama’s perpetuating the falsity in mid-December 2016, a recent CIA review ordered by Director John Ratcliffe stated that the most-highly classified version of the ICA would not be completed until December 30, 2016. A less declassified version of the ICA would be dated January 5, 2017 — with the public version of the ICA dated the following day.
The post-election January 2017 ICA was put together by just the CIA, FBI, and NSA — led at the time by then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers, and since-fired FBI Director James Comey — with input from then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Gabbard: Proof that Obama knew it was false
“There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false,” Gabbard asserted from the podium at the White House press briefing room last month. “They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn’t.” . . .
Video, from NBC, former AG Eric Holder, possibly the most corrupt AG in the history of the US, comes out swinging to defend President Obama and the Democratic operatives from the election results that, his former boss once stated, have consequences.
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Meanwhile, V.P. J.D.Vance believes there will be a lot of Democrats indicted for crimes against the nation. Video at the link below.
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Fmr. AG Eric Holder says Trump ‘is essentially telling the Justice Department what to do’
Former Attorney General Eric Holder tells Meet the Press that the Trump White House and the Justice Department are “joined at the hip in ways that we've not seen before” as the DOJ ramps up its investigations into the president’s political opponents.
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Meanwhile, V.P. J.D.Vance believes there will be a lot of Democrats indicted for crimes against the nation. Video at the link below.
JD Vance: 'You’re Going To See a Lot' of Democrats Indicted
On this week's broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," Vice President JD Vance predicted a lot of indictments after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused former President Barack Obama and other officials of attempting to manipulate the 2016 presidential...
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“I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria. Look, of course, you’ve got to have the law follow the facts here. You don’t just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law. But if you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law.”
“I absolutely think they broke the law. You’re gonna see a lot of people get indicted for that. Here’s the thing that should really bother the American people. What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? I want them to be catching bad guys. I want to be making sure that terrorists aren’t gonna kill innocent American civilians. I don’t want them laundering Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy. It is sick and it’s disgusting.”
This is an editorial, so nothing more than opinion, but lays out several damning facts to support the opinion.
Russiagate Redux: Can’t Keep a Good Hoax Down
COMMENTARY
When intelligence czar Tulsi Gabbard released her report last month accusing major players in the Obama administration of fabricating the Russia collusion hoax used to tarnish Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond, some of us were not surprised.
Nor were we surprised that the mainstream media has either ignored the story or tried to discredit it. We are very familiar with that playbook, having seen major media outlets use it to perfection when 51 intelligence officials signed a letter falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” That letter, signed by former CIA director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, probably cost Donald Trump the 2020 election, just as the Russiagate hoax was intended to derail Trump in 2016.
The New York Times, ferociously guarding its fake Pulitzer Prize from 2018, has led the way in trying to convince Americans that the evidence released by Gabbard was manufactured by Russia. But isn’t that the same tune whistled by Clapper and Brennan five years ago regarding the laptop? Anyone who believes either the CIA or the New York Times at this point either hasn’t been paying attention or is impervious to new information. I won’t try to cover all the obvious ways in which the evidence points to a massive conspiracy to defame Trump and defraud the public. You can learn about it in the reporting by Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi among others – including several reporters who write for RealClearInvestigations.
And with any luck, the originators of the Russia hoax will be brought to justice. We learned last week that Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury probe to investigate the culpability of Brennan, Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, and possibly even Hillary Clinton for their roles in what Gabbard called a “treasonous conspiracy” to interfere with the 2016 election and subsequently to undermine the first Trump administration.
That could take care of half the problem, but what about the other half of the conspiracy: the media allies who promoted the Russia Collusion Hoax without doing any reporting of their own other than swallowing hook, line, and sinker the fake news promoted by Clinton and the intelligence community because of their own hatred of Donald Trump? That part of the conspiracy is still alive and well.
Witness the NBC report I linked above on the grand jury probe. While it purports to be a straight news story about the possibility of charges against the purveyors of the Russia hoax, it reads more like a defense brief to clear them of criminal wrongdoing, starting with a subhead that says, “Past probes, including two conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes.”
After announcing the probe in the first two paragraphs, most of the rest of the story throws shade on it:
— “A former senior national security official pointed out that multiple past reviews, including ones conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes.”
— “Democratic lawmakers have accused the administration of seeking to distract attention from the Jeffrey Epstein case.”
— “Democrats contend that Gabbard’s talk of a treasonous Obama-era plot is patently false and a diversion.”
— “A 2020 bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee review contradicted the idea that there was a conspiracy by Obama administration officials against Trump, finding significant evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
You get the idea. The media wants to dismiss Gabbard’s revelations about the origins of the Russia collusion hoax because most White House reporters were complicit in the hoax from the beginning.
Thanks to the First Amendment, neither NBC, nor CNN, nor MSNBC, nor the New York Times will ever be held accountable in a court of law for their part in propagating the fake collusion story. And so far, it appears that the Times and the Washington Post will never even have to return the Pulitzers they won in 2018 for whitewashing the phony evidence of collusion.
Nor will journalists like me ever be awarded any prizes for being right from the start. On Aug. 7, 2016, I published a column at the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Montana, just days after the conspiracy is alleged to have started, wherein I cited “a political scandal … which exceeds in scope anything seen previously in our country’s 240-year history.” But it wasn’t about Trump colluding with Russians; it was about the mainstream media colluding with Democrats and the intelligence community to try to cripple the ascendant candidacy of Donald Trump.
I called it “Mediagate.”
The context was that Wikileaks had released emails on July 22, 2016, showing the Democratic National Committee had colluded with the Clinton campaign to sabotage the competing campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders. This story should have crippled the Clinton campaign. Instead, the legacy media unleashed a barrage of anti-Trump stories that took the spotlight off Clinton.
“This was no coincidence,” I wrote, “but rather was the beginning of a concerted effort by the media to rehabilitate Hillary Clinton as the historic first woman presidential nominee in U.S. history.” As I explained at the time:
People were actually starting to ask questions about Clinton’s dubious moral character and her role in the [DNC email] scandal, but since Clinton didn’t have any answers, she did what she does best and deflected the story. Instead of explaining why she had lied for months about collaborating with the DNC to steal the election, she and her surrogates led the lapdog media to instead question whether or not the supposed Russian hackers had leaked the damaging evidence against Hillary in order to boost Trump’s chances in the election.
It was in this context that candidate Donald Trump held his famous press conference at the Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 27, 2016, to respond to the DNC email breach and to discount the notion that he was working with Putin.
In my column, I explained that Trump had launched into a humorous stream-of-consciousness riff about how the Russians, who supposedly had hacked into the DNC server, might also have “hacked into the soft target of Hillary’s private server when she was secretary of state and therefore might have copies of the thousands of ‘private’ emails which she and her lawyers had deleted.”
Trump followed up with a joke that used the Russian hacking theory about the DNC emails to take a bank shot at Hillary for her illegal email server that she used for official business as secretary of state:
“I will tell you this: Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That’ll be next.”
The press went wild, claiming that Trump’s quip was proof that he had a direct line to the Kremlin and that he was ordering Putin to hack Clinton’s server. This was absurd on so many levels that it seemed more like a “Saturday Night Live” skit. Suffice it to say, no one ever explained why “Russian agent” Trump didn’t just tell Putin what to do privately instead of announcing it during a press conference.
What we didn’t know at the time was that a Clinton ally named Leonard Benardo had written an email on the same day – July 27, 2016 – that claimed “HRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections,” – HRC being Hillary Rodham Clinton. That email and others were concealed from the public until Gabbard declassified them last month. Of course, the New York Times and other Democrat lapdog media outlets immediately fell back on the “Russia did it” narrative to claim that the incriminating emails (like Hunter Biden’s laptop) were manufactured by Vladimir Putin and his henchmen. Fat chance.
What we now know is that Trump was right all along when he called the New York Times and the Washington Post “fake news.” And I was right when I called “Mediagate” the scandal you won’t hear about on cable news. Less than two weeks after the Russian collusion hoax started, I had already exposed it as a fraud.
So where do I go to get my Pulitzer?
Frank Miele, retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His book “The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake”is available from his Amazon author page. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA and on X/Gettr @HeartlandDiary.