Attorney General Pam
Bondi vowed that the Justice Department’s indictment of fired FBI
Director James Comey is the first salvo in the Trump Administration’s
battle to “end the politicization” of the DOJ and the intelligence
community, following months of declassifications and criminal referrals
related to the targeting of Donald Trump by the Biden-era DOJ. That
legal warfare centered on false claims of Russian collusion serving as
the pretext.
The FBI opened a “grand conspiracy” case earlier this year, Just the News reported,
with the inquiry allegedly focused on a decade of Democratic Party and
deep-state antics from the Trump-Russia collusion hoax to former DOJ
lawyer Jack Smith, who was accused by a Senate committee in February of having withheld documents he was required to hand over to Trump's then-defense attorneys.
Bondi: "The weaponization has ended"
This opens the door for a sweeping inquiry into whether the
well-documented episodes amount to a criminal conspiracy to meddle in
three U.S. elections to the benefit of Democrats and the detriment of
President Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump is in office and the weaponization has ended.
We’ve made that very clear. Whether you’re a former FBI director,
whether you’re a former head of the intel community, whether you’re a
current state or local elected official, whether you’re a billionaire
funding organizations to try to keep Donald Trump out of office —
everything is on the table,” Bondi told
Fox News on Friday. “We will investigate you and we will end the
weaponization. No longer will there be a two-tier system of justice. And
we are working hand-in-hand — Director Patel and I and Todd Blanche —
with our incredible intel community, Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe,
going non-stop around the clock. People will be held accountable.”
A host of various troves of records declassified this year
have especially shone a further light on the politicized nature of the
Obama intelligence community’s mishandling of the Intelligence Community
Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s alleged meddling during the 2016 election.
Records declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this year
related to the FBI’s flawed Trump-Russia investigation also revealed new details about the politicized inquiry into Trump.
Beyond Comey, there has been a significant focus recently
on ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s actions related to the ICA and British
ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, President Barack
Obama’s role with the ICA, actions carried out by other intelligence
officials, and more.
“We are investigating all the weaponization and all the
wrongdoing that has happened. We are issuing subpoenas. We are looking
at things around this country. People have to be held accountable. … No
one is above the law,” Bondi said on Friday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told
Patel during a hearing last month that “I think Mr. Brennan has some
explaining to do, frankly, what happened there. And I think you said
earlier that this whole thing … is being looked at as part of this grand
conspiracy to undermine the President [Trump] — whether it's Comey,
Brennan, Clapper, former head of the Intelligence Committee [Schiff],
now senator from [California] … Whoever it is, that's all being looked
at. Is that accurate?”
Patel replied, “Yes sir.”
The FBI director also told the House that “we found a lot of information in a lot of burn bags” at FBI headquarters as he promised further declassifications and accountability.
“A very liberal grand jury in one of the most liberal jurisdictions in the country just indicted James Comey,” Bondi told
Fox News last week. “Now, we know of course that we have to go to
trial, we will have a great trial team, and everyone of course is
innocent until proven guilty. However, we are going to trial in this
case, and this is just the beginning.”
Comey indicted for allegedly lying about leaking to his pal
The Trump DOJ’s indictment,
approved by a federal grand jury last month, stems from allegations
that Comey misled the Senate during his testimony in late September
2020, when he reiterated his May 2017 denial that he had ever authorized
a leak of information to the media about the Trump-Russia investigation
or Clinton-related investigations. The short and simple indictment also
alleged that Comey had obstructed Congress by lying to the Senate.
The indictment specifies two counts: False statements
within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States
Government (18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)) and Obstruction of a Congressional
proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1505). Multiple sources told Just the News that Comey authorized his personal advisor and friend Daniel Richman to leak to the press.
Comey, fired as FBI director in the spring of 2017 by
President Trump, oversaw the politicized investigation into Hillary
Clinton's illicit use of a private email server to send classified
information and the baseless Trump-Russia collusion inquiry.
The indictment was brought by interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, the former Trump personal attorney lawyer and White House aide replaced Erik S. Siebert, who resigned last month, allegedly under pressure from the Trump administration to bring charges against Comey.
Comey said
on Instagram last week after the indictment was announced: "My heart is
broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in
the federal judicial system.” The fired FBI chief added: “And I’m
innocent. So let’s have a trial. And keep the faith.”
An executive order issued by Trump and a memo by Bondi both
regarding the end of “weaponization” within the Justice Department
could provide guidance in pursuing lawfare conspiracy cases.
Trump’s executive order on “Ending the Weaponization of The Federal Government” was issued on Inauguration Day in January.
“The American people have witnessed the previous
administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived
political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law
enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those
perceived political opponents in the form of investigations,
prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions,”
Trump said.
Bondi’s follow-up DOJ-wide memo on “Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the Department of Justice”
was issued in early February, and it established the “Weaponization
Working Group” which Bondi said “will conduct a review of the activities
of all departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal
enforcement authority of the United States over the last four years […]
to identify instances where a department's or agency's conduct appears
to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper
aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental
objectives.”
The Clinton Plan and the Durham Report
The grand jury that indicted Comey for lying to Congress
rejected one count brought by the Trump DOJ, allowing the ex-bureau
chief to dodge a false statement charge over his claim that he did "not recall" a CIA referral memo on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign plan to tie Donald Trump to Russia.
John Durham’s 2023 special counsel public report revealed
that “the Intelligence Community received the Clinton Plan intelligence
in late July 2016.” This intelligence related to an alleged plan by the
Clinton campaign to attempt to link Trump to Russia and Vladimir Putin
in an effort to distract from her private email server scandal. The
Durham report showed that Comey was briefed on the Clinton Plan
intelligence by Brennan in early August 2016 and was also sent a CIA
referral memo about the Clinton Plan intelligence in early September
2016.
Nevertheless, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee in
late September 2020 that he did not recall this bombshell referral memo
from the CIA. The Trump DOJ’s efforts to indict Comey over that piece of
his testimony failed last month.
Durham said Brennan's handwritten notes reflect
that Brennan briefed Comey, Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and
others by early August 2016 regarding the "alleged approval by Hillary
Clinton on 26 July [2016] of a proposal from one of her [campaign]
advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming
interference by the Russian security services."
According to Durham’s public report, the purported scheme
by Clinton was allegedly approved on July 26, 2016 — smack-dab in the
middle of the 2016 Democratic convention nominating Clinton for
president. The Durham report also noted
that the approval of the Clinton Plan occurred the exact same day that
Australian diplomat Alexander Downer — a Clinton supporter — provided
the U.S. government a months-old tip about Trump campaign associate
George Papadopoulos — with Downer’s tip being cited as the predication
to launch Crossfire Hurricane at the end of July 2016.
Durham found that, rather than seriously investigating this
alleged Clinton scheme, the Obama administration's intelligence and law
enforcement apparatus — led by Comey’s FBI — nonetheless pushed forward
on the baseless Trump-Russia collusion saga.
The Durham report also said that the Clinton Plan
intelligence “was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal
written referral memorandum” to Comey and since-fired Deputy Assistant
Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, “for
their consideration and action.”
Nevertheless, Comey repeatedly told
the Senate in September 2020 that “I do not” recall the CIA referral,
and that it “doesn’t ring any bells with me” and “doesn’t sound
familiar.”
The Durham report said
that the CIA’s referral memo stated that the FBI had “made a verbal
request for examples of relevant information the fusion cell had
obtained.” FBI Supervisory Analyst Brian Auten told Durham’s
investigators that on the Friday before Labor Day — September 2, 2016 —
CIA personnel had briefed Auten, FBI intelligence section chief Jonathan
Moffa, and possibly “FBI OGC [Office of General Counsel] Unit Chief-1”
at FBI Headquarters “on the Clinton intelligence plan” and that “Auten
advised that at the time he wanted to see an actual investigative
referral memo on the information.” The CIA soon sent that info to Comey
and Strzok.
The CIA referral memo to Comey and Strzok — completed on
September 7, 2016 — said that the “CIA provides the below examples of
information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date”
and showed
that the CIA believed Clinton's false narrative would suggest Trump and
Russian hackers were hampering U.S. elections, and that Clinton's end
goal was "distracting the public from her use of a private email
server."
Key FBI officials from whom the Clinton Plan intelligence was hidden later told
Durham that they were upset by this concealment and that they should
have seen it in 2016. Many FBI personnel involved with Crossfire
Hurricane had never seen the Clinton Plan intelligence until Durham’s
team showed it to them, and “some expressed surprise and dismay upon
learning of it,” the report found.
Declassified records show that intercepts
of purported Russian intelligence may have also swayed Comey’s handling
of the FBI’s investigation into Clinton using her illicit private email
server to send classified information.
Clinton herself was asked about the Clinton Plan intelligence, and told Durham’s team in an interview that it "looked like Russian disinformation to me; they're very good at it, you know."
Clinton campaign tried to tie Trump to Russia in 2016
Durham’s public report said that an unnamed Clinton campaign advisor — "Foreign Policy Advisor-1" (revealed now to be Clinton campaign advisor Julianne Smith)
— stated that “she did not specifically remember proposing a ‘plan’ to
Clinton or other campaign leadership to ‘stir up a scandal’ by tying
Trump to Putin or Russia … however, that it was possible that she had
proposed ideas on these topics to the campaign's leadership, who may
have approved those ideas.” Smith also “said it was also possible
someone proposed an idea of seeking to distract attention from the
investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server, but she did
not specifically remember any such idea.” Durham wrote that she further
insisted that any Clinton campaign plan to tie Trump to Russia "would
not have included an effort to enlist the FBI" in the effort.
Smith did not respond to a previous request for comment this summer from Just the News
about this saga, and she did not immediately respond to a request for
comment sent to her through her Clarion Strategies firm on Wednesday.
Durham said in his public report that he obtained a purported email
from "Foreign Policy Advisor-1" — dated July 27, 2016 — which seemed to
align with the Clinton Plan intelligence. The annex revealed this
advisor was Smith. The email was sent in an effort to gain signatures
for a draft stating critiquing Trump over Russia.
“We are writing to enlist your support for the attached
public statement. Both of us are Hillary Clinton supporters and advisors
but hope that this statement could be signed by a bipartisan group[.],”
the email from Smith said. “Donald Trump's repeated denigration of the
NATO Alliance, his refusal to support our Article 5 obligations to our
European allies and his kid glove treatment of Russia and Vladimir Putin
are among the most reckless statements made by a Presidential candidate
in memory.”
Durham concluded
that “Foreign Policy Advisor-1's July 27, 2016, email to her colleagues
regarding Trump, Russia and NATO — the day after Clinton purportedly
approved a plan to tie Trump to Russia — is consistent with the
substance of the purported plan.”
The recently declassified evidence, dubbed the "Clinton Plan intelligence",
included purported intercepted communications from a George Soros ally
suggesting that Clinton’s 2016 campaign against Trump was plotting an
effort to demonize the Republican nominee by connecting him to Putin,
and that the Clinton campaign expected the FBI would put more fuel on
the fire.
Public records show Clinton herself, in coordination with
her campaign general counsel Marc Elias, campaign manager Robby Mook,
campaign chairman John Podesta, campaign communications director
Jennifer Palmieri, campaign policy adviser Jake Sullivan, and others launched an effort
to link Trump to Putin as the 2016 battle for the White House raged.
That effort was largely successful, injecting the fake Trump/Putin
connection into legacy media and DNC talking points.
The Clinton campaign and its paid operatives engaged in a
lengthy and coordinated effort to tie Trump to Russia during the 2016
election, including: TV appearances, speeches and public pronouncements;
an aggressive news and social media strategy; Steele’s decision to
bring his now-discredited dossier to the FBI; and the spreading of
debunked claims to the FBI and the public related to the Trump
Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Then-Vice President Biden was the first prominent Democrat in summer 2016 to publicly try to link
Trump to Putin after U.S. intelligence intercepted a purported plan by
Clinton's campaign to vilify Trump by falsely linking him to a Russian
plot.
The former spy chief who organized and co-authored
the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter ahead of the 2020 election is
the same person who also played a key role in helping Clinton in 2016
smear Trump by tying him to Putin. Mike Morell, the former acting CIA
director, inserted into the American political consciousness the idea
that Trump was an “agent” of Putin and Russia,
a refrain that would be repeated over and over again by the Clinton
campaign and a cooperative media in the summer and fall of 2016.
Brennan referred to FBI for criminal investigation
CIA Director John Ratcliffe sent a criminal referral
to Patel earlier this year related to possible criminality by Obama's
CIA Director John Brennan, sources familiar with Ratcliffe's actions who
declined to be named told Just the News earlier this year. It is up to federal investigators and prosecutors to decide whether to act on a referral from the agency.
A review by the CIA released this summer critiqued the actions taken by Brennan.
Ratcliffe said that Brennan, Comey and then-Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper were “excessively involved” in
drafting the assessment, did so in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly
unconventional” process, and rushed to complete it.
Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent, had been hired in
2016 by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was being paid
by Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias.
The dossier, now discredited, was used by the FBI to obtain FISA
warrants against a Trump campaign official, and evidence continues to
emerge about how it was included in the ICA on Russia and the 2016
election.
Ratcliffe said that "multiple senior CIA managers opposed
including the [Steele] dossier, asserting it did not meet even basic
tradecraft standards. Despite these objections,” Ratcliffe stated. “Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness.”
The CIA review sharply criticized Brennan for allegedly
joining with anti-Trump forces in the FBI in allegedly pushing to
include Steele’s baseless anti-Trump dossier
in the assessment. In the review, the CIA also critiqued the “high
confidence” assessment by the FBI and the CIA that Russian leader
Vladimir Putin had “aspired” to help Trump win in 2016.
Ratcliffe tweeted
earlier this year, in announcing the CIA review being made public, that
Trump “has trusted me with helping to end weaponization of U.S.
intelligence” and that the report “underscores that the 2016 IC
Assessment was conducted through an atypical & corrupt process under
the politically charged environments” of Brennan and Comey.
The largely declassified eight-page “lessons learned” CIA review
focused on the ICA about Russia and the November 2016 election. The
review concluded that “the decision by agency heads to include the
Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft
principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.”
The post-election January 2017 ICA was put together by just
the CIA, FBI, and NSA — led at the time by Brennan, Comey, and then-NSA
director Admiral Mike Rogers — with input from then-Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper.
Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
pushed in December 2016 to include Steele's debunked dossier in the
body of the 2016 ICA on alleged Russian meddling. The dossier was
included in a classified annex to the assessment with the agreement of
Brennan and Comey.
The new CIA review stated
that “the ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers – including the
two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia –
strongly opposed including the dossier, asserting that it did not meet
even the most basic tradecraft standards.”
The agency review memo also stated that the CIA’s Deputy
Director for Analysis warned in a late December 2016 email to Brennan
that including the dossier in any form risked “the credibility of the
entire paper.”
The review by the CIA also revealed
that “despite these objections, Brennan showed a preference for
narrative consistency over analytical soundness” and that “when
confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center
leaders – one with extensive operational experience and the other with a
strong analytic background – he appeared more swayed by the Dossier's
general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft
concerns.”
The CIA review memo stated that Brennan ultimately
formalized his position in writing, arguing that “my bottomline is that I
believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.”
The recent CIA memo also stated
that “ultimately, agency heads decided to include a two-page summary of
the dossier as an annex to the ICA” with an accompanying disclaimer
stating that the dossier material was not used “to reach the analytic
conclusions.”
The CIA review memo, however, found that “by placing a
reference to the annex material in the main body of the ICA as the
fourth supporting bullet for the judgment that Putin ‘aspired’ to help
Trump win, the ICA implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the
status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical
integrity of the judgment.”
“The CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or
inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community
Assessment,” Brennan told the House in 2023.
The former CIA director said “no” when asked if he edited
the ICA, and said “yes” when asked if he was aware of dissenting
opinions about the conclusions of the ICA.
“There were individuals who had read the document within
CIA who were not involved in the drafting or the analysis [who disagreed
with the ICA conclusions],” Brennan said. “And so I listened to some of
their concerns, but I deferred to the experts: the Russian, the
counterintelligence, the cyber experts, and the analysts who actually
drafted this. And so I did not overturn or change any of the judgments
and language in that document.”
Brennan has since criticized Ratcliffe’s review and denied any wrongdoing.
The ICA, Obama, intel officials, and a “treasonous conspiracy”
This summer, Director of National Intelligence Gabbard also sent declassified evidence
to the DOJ on what she dubbed a “treasonous conspiracy” related to top
U.S. intelligence officials allegedly politicizing intelligence related
to Russia and the 2016 election.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a press release
stating that Gabbard had “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.”
Gabbard said the evidence she had unearthed had been forwarded to the DOJ for review.
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our
office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and
misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But
these claims are outrageous enough to merit one,” an Obama statement said in response.
Obama made public statements as early as mid-December 2016 indicating
he was endorsing a predetermined CIA view about Putin allegedly wanting
Trump to win and Clinton to lose, even though at that point the ICA had
not even been completed and was still being debated and drafted.
Prior to Obama’s directive in early December 2016 to create the ICA, Obama had been briefed on “Clinton Plan intelligence”. The then-president was also later part of key discussions
in January 2017 related to the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation and the
targeting of Trump national security advisor Mike Flynn.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report
in 2020 defending the 2016 ICA. The panel said congressional
investigators found no evidence of political pressure and determined the
assessment “presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis
for the case of unprecedented Russian interference.” The senators also
found that “the differing confidence levels on one analytic judgment are
justified and properly represented.”
The only direct mention
of the ICA in special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report was to praise
prior “careful examinations” such as the Senate Intelligence Committee’s
2020 report on Russia.
The Senate findings clashed with a 2018 report from the
GOP-led House Intelligence Committee, chaired at the time by then-Rep.
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), which concluded
that “the majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments
on Russia’s election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft” but
the “judgments on Putin’s strategic intentions did not.” The House
report said it “identified significant intelligence tradecraft failings
that undermine confidence in the ICA judgments regarding Putin’s
strategic objectives.”
The Democrats on the panel, led by then-ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., released their own report,
saying that they “found no evidence that calls into question the
quality and reliability of the ICA’s … assessment about President
Putin’s desire to help candidate Trump.”
A recently-declassified GOP House Intelligence Committee analysis
provided further detail on how Brennan ensured the Steele Dossier —
bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign — would be included in the
ICA, despite objections from others at the CIA. The report stated that
“the DCIA rejected requests from CIA professionals that the dossier be
kept out of the ICA.”
The report cited a senior intelligence officer present at a
meeting with Brennan where “two senior CIA officers — one from Russia
operations and the other from Russia analysis — argued with DCIA that
the dossier should not be included at all in the ICA, because it failed
to meet basic tradecraft standards.”
The same officer said that Brennan refused to remove the
reference to the dossier and, when Brennan was confronted with the
dossier's significant problems, said that Brennan reportedly replied,
"Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"
The House analysis
stated that, contrary to claims made by the intelligence officials,
“the dossier was referenced in the ICA main body text, and further
detailed in a two-page CIA annex.”
The flawed ICA stated that “we assess the [Russian]
influence campaign aspired to help Trump's chances of victory” in the
2016 election, and the most highly-classified version of the ICA “was
followed by four bullets of supporting evidence” — and the declassified
House analysis stated that “the fourth bullet referred the reader to a
detailed summary and analysis of the dossier.” The ICA stated: “For
additional reporting on Russian plans and intentions, please see Annex
A: Additional Reporting from an FBI Source on Russian Influence Efforts”
— a reference to the Steele Dossier.
The ICA also contained a recently-declassified claim that the Kremlin “historically” preferred Republican candidates over Democratic ones — something belied by the actual historical record. On top of this, the ICA was supposed to also include details on Chinese hacking efforts
targeting U.S. presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 — but it focused
solely on Russia instead, and never mentioned China once.
Adam Schiff and classified leaks on Trump and Russia
There has also been significant information revealed
recently about the leaks of classified information — including
allegations that it was green lit by a prominent Democrat and Trump foe.
A career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on
the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly
warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. and now-Sen. Schiff had approved leaking
classified information to smear then-President Trump over the
now-debunked Russiagate scandal, according to bombshell FBI memos.
The FBI 302 interview
reports state the intelligence staffer — a Democrat by party
affiliation who described himself as a friend to both Schiff, now a
California senator, and former Republican House Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes — considered the classified leaking to be "unethical,"
"illegal," and “treasonous,” but was told not to worry about it because
Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution's speech and debate clause.
In his most recent interview with the bureau in 2023, the
whistleblower, whose name is redacted, told agents from the FBI's St.
Louis office that he personally attended a meeting at which Schiff
authorized leaking classified information.
"For years, certain officials used their positions to
selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives,"
Patel told Just the News. "It was all done with one purpose: to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain.
"Those abuses eroded public trust in our institutions," he
added. "The FBI will now lead the charge, with our partners at DOJ, and
Congress will have the chance to uncover how political power may have
been weaponized and to restore accountability," he said.
Schiff, who previously served as the ranking member and
then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee before ascending to
the Senate, pushed false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion for many
years, and touted British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited
dossier — even reading multiple baseless claims from it into the Congressional Record in March 2017.
The whistleblower began approaching the FBI that same year.
The whistleblower was interviewed twice in 2017 and at least four times
over six years about the alleged Schiff leaks, but Justice Department
prosecutors declined to move forward.
In one meeting, the Democratic HPSCI staffer told the FBI
that Flynn — Trump’s first national security advisor — was to be a
specific focus of the committee as part of a broader effort to target
Trump. The whistleblower also specifically pointed to Rep. Eric
Swalwell, D-Calif., as a likely source of classified leaks, the memos
state.
The alleged leaks fall outside the statute of limitations
for prosecution on most legal theories, but the revelations nevertheless
come at a sensitive time for Schiff, who referred to the DOJ earlier
this year for possible prosecution for potential mortgage fraud.
Schiff has denied the allegations.
“Kash Patel’s latest smear against Senator Schiff is
absolutely and categorically false, and is just the latest in a series
of defamatory attacks from the President and his allies meant to
distract from their plummeting poll numbers and the Epstein files
scandal," Schiff told Just the News earlier this year.
"These baseless smears," ha said, "are based on allegations
that were found to be not reliable, not credible, and unsubstantiated
from a disgruntled former staffer who was fired by the House
Intelligence Committee for cause in early 2017, including for harassment
and potentially compromising activity on official travel for the
Committee."
It remains to be seen whether Obama, Brennan, Schiff, or
any other former officials tied to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax will
join Comey in being charged by the Trump Justice Department — but
Bondi’s strong language suggests that the fired FBI director will not be
the only person indicted when all is said and done.
