In “Prosecute the Russian-Collusion ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Cabal,” I detailed the implications of declassified reports by CIA Director John Ratcliffe on the CIA’s role in the “Russia collusion” investigation ahead of the 2016 election, and the political weaponization of both the CIA and FBI to fabricate a premise on which to investigate Trump. The conclusion of that review was a stunning indictment of those involved.

It exposed the most egregious deep state assault on a sitting president in the history of our nation. It was a collusion conspiracy far more dangerous to our Republic and Constitution than the 1972 Watergate break-in. And a “Grand Conspiracy” Department of Justice investigation is brewing that may result in a special counsel and federal grand jury empanelment to snare all those who attempted what was, in effect, a government coup d'état to take down the presidency of Donald Trump.

Two weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified CIA records showing “overwhelming evidence” that Barack Obama’s administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence” in “a treasonous conspiracy” to prevent Trump from “fulfilling his mandate.” She has turned those files over to the Department of Justice for criminal review and said there would be more to come.

And indeed there was.

This week, the declassified annex to the 2023 bombshell report filed by former Special Counsel John Durham was released. Notably, this annex, and thousands of documents related to the Clinton/Russia hoax investigation, were in FBI “burn bags,” to be destroyed when Joe Biden left office.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, declared: “History will show that the Obama and Biden administration’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump. This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee report details the conspiracy: “Potential election influence by a foreign government regarding Hillary Clinton; False statements to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) regarding FISA renewal applications for Carter Page; and the FBI’s failure — under the leadership of then-Director James Comey — to investigate intelligence that the Clinton campaign may have created the Russia collusion hoax. Meanwhile the Comey-led FBI used the Steele Dossier — a Clinton campaign creation — to obtain FISA warrants on Carter Page.”

It noted further: “According to the Durham annex, following the receipt of this intelligence, multiple high-ranking U.S. officials were briefed on the matter, including an August 3, 2016 briefing in the White House by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director Comey, among others. As described in Durham’s Unclassified Report, ultimately, the CIA sent the FBI an investigative referral that included the ‘purported Clinton campaign plan.’” That is the [direct link to Obama’s fingerprints on this conspiracy.

That launched the Trump/Russia collusion smear campaign, which was actually a Clinton/Russia collusion conspiracy propagated by Obama operatives and ignored by the FBI.

The corruption evidence in the declassified annex prompted Obama’s Brennan/Clapper tag team of professional obfuscators to deny all charges in (where else) a New York Times op-ed laughably titled, “Let’s Set the Record Straight on Russia and 2016.” Brennan and Clapper insist that claims they had some political motive against Trump are “patently false,” adding: “In making those allegations, they seek to rewrite history. We want to set the record straight…”

These two expert prevaricators are the most disinclined droids in the universe to actually set any record straight. Their op-ed is a masterful example of tradecraft deflection — you know, like the lie Brennan fabricated claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” just ahead of the 2020 election to help the “Big Guy” defeat Trump.

Naturally, The Washington Post did its best to clean up for Clinton and Obama, claiming that though Durham’s report “includes emails among Clinton campaign aides indicating that her team saw then-candidate Trump’s ties to Russia as potential campaign fodder and discussed how to highlight the issue for political gain,” the report “contains no proof … Clinton and senior U.S. officials close to President Barack Obama schemed to concoct erroneous Trump links to Moscow.”

Well of course there is no direct link tying Clinton and Obama together. They’re not idiots — they used cutouts to do their black bag work with Brennan, Clapper, and Comey.

These people are highly skilled at ensuring there are no direct links. When there is concern that such links might exist, you could take precautionary measures like deleting emails, knowing you could depend on the FBI director to conclude you did nothing wrong, even if a 2018 DoJ IG report affirms such duplicity.

But the fact remains, as legal scholar Jonathan Turley, a one-time Clinton supporter, concludes: “Democrats pulled the greatest political con job ever on Americans. It’s finally unraveling. … This is the emerging story of the real Russian conspiracy to manufacture a false narrative that succeeded in devouring much of the first term of the Trump administration. … It appears that everyone was in on the trick: the U.S. government, the media, even foreign governments. The only chumps were the American people. Now they are about to see how it was done.”

So, where to from here?

As I have noted previously, the 2024 SCOTUS decision in Trump v. United States affirmed presidential immunity from prosecution for official acts, and that would likely preclude any successful prosecution of Barack Obama or Joe Biden. However, the DoJ criminal referral question as it pertains to Obama and Biden is this: Does their role in this fabrication conspiracy fall under “official acts”?

The question then becomes what can be done with the other co-conspirators — Hillary Clinton, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey. Generally, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey would be protected by statutes of limitation, despite their guilt — the time limits to file charges expired under Biden. How convenient to have a prosecution firewall provided by both Biden and his corrupt attorney general, Merrick Garland, combined with the mainstream media’s cover-up?

However, as an alternative to appointing a Special Prosecutor for the DoJ criminal referral from Gabbard, the DoJ appears to be investigating this case as a “Grand Conspiracy.” Attorney General Pam Bondi has established a “Strike Force” investigation unit, which is often used to investigate complicated organized crime conspiracies.

There is a five-year statute of limitations for most federal conspiracy charges, but any act in furtherance of the conspiracy restarts the clock. That would include perjury and other actions to continue or conceal the original conspiracy, which Clinton, Brennan, Clapper and Comey have allegedly committed. Arguably, Brennan and Clapper are at greatest risk for conspiracy charges. And beyond those four, this investigation could reach many co-conspirators in the deep-state cabal under the direction of Brennan and Comey, opening a floodgate of prosecutions.

Oh, and a footnote: There is emerging evidence from the Durham annex and related documents supporting alleged connections to Clinton-supporting billionaire leftist George Soros and the effort by some of his organizations to seed and spread the Russia collusion hoax. Stay tuned…

UPDATE: Gabbard’s criminal referral to Bondi has now prompted the DoJ to task a federal prosecutor with presenting evidence to a federal grand jury.

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