The Central Intelligence Agency manipulated intelligence information to make it look like Russia wanted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to win the 2016 presidential election despite having more credible information showing that Russia wanted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> to win, according to a new report. 
The effort to manipulate the information was headed up by John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director, who disregarded evidence that the Russians preferred Clinton because she was more predictable and highlighted questionable evidence claiming Russia favored Trump, <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/wmd-part-ii-cia-cooked-the-intelligence">sources</a> told independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag. 
“They cooked the intelligence,” a source close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal told the journalists. “They made it look like Putin supported Trump.” 
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The U.S. government said in January 2017 that Russia favored Trump as president. But now, sources reveal for the first time that the CIA &quot;cooked the intelligence&quot; to hide that Vladamir Putin wanted Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, as president. <a href="https://t.co/WFJsW1erqb">pic.twitter.com/WFJsW1erqb</a>
&mdash; Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1758216143867929022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The source said that the evidence pointed the other way, showing Russia wanted Clinton to win because “it was a relationship they were comfortable with.” According to the source, the CIA had evidence showing Russia viewed Trump as “unreliable,” “mercurial,” and “not steady,” while viewing Clinton as “manageable and reflecting continuity.”
HPSCI looked further into the sourcing of the claims from Brennan and the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2017/3035-odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence-community-assessment-of-russian-activities-and-intentions-in-recent-u-s-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intelligence Community Assessment</a> (ICA) that Russia wanted Trump and found contradictory information.
“We looked at the report and the sourcing they used to evaluate the sourcing,” a source said. “When we dug further to look at the data available to them that they didn’t use, and it overwhelmingly contradicted their conclusions that Russia supported Trump.”
According to a source, Brennan and other intelligence agents “embellished” their Trump-Russia report by changing the categorization of sources that said Russia wanted Trump from unreliable to reliable. 
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Shellenberger <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/15/shellenberger_brennan_oversaw_the_manipulation_of_allies_to_entrap_trump_aides_to_create_pretext_for_fbi_probe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday that there was a 50-page report exposing the operation that the CIA “is currently hiding at its headquarters.” According to Shellenberger, the controversy highlights two major intelligence scandals. 
“The first one happened earlier in 2016, where our sources, multiple sources, tell us that Brennan oversaw the manipulation of our foreign allies to basically entrap Trump associates to create the pretext for the FBI investigation of Trump&#8217;s alleged collusion with Russia which is now debunked,” he said.
“The second thing is almost a year later Brennan orchestrates a phony intelligence assessment that comes to the opposite conclusion of what their own raw intelligence, their best intelligence was showing,” he added. 
Trump was reportedly preparing to declassify information on the efforts to tie his campaign to Russia before leaving office but was unable to do so before President Joe Biden took office.

House Intelligence Cmte Holds Hearing On Russian Interference In U.S. Election

CIA Manipulated Evidence To Hide Evidence Russia Wanted Clinton To Win In 2016, Not Trump: Report

2016 Election

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton

John Brennan

Russia

Vladimir Putin

Congratulations to the<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crossfire-hurricane" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> United States Intelligence Community</a> on back-to-back U.S. presidential election interference championships!
In both the 2016 presidential election, featuring then-reality TV star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-findings-in-special-counsel-john-durhams-report-on-origins-of-russia-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> vs. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the 2020 presidential election, featuring President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, certain current and former actors within the federal government broke an unprecedented number of &#8220;norms,&#8221; ethics, and possibly laws in order to seemingly influence the outcome of both elections.
On Monday, Special Counsel John Durham released his long-awaited report investigating the U.S. federal government’s actions during the 2016 election cycle and its monitoring of the Trump campaign. Of course, the American people — at least conservative Americans — didn&#8217;t need the Durham investigation to conclude that the Obama administration, the Department of Justice, and the intelligence community acted untoward — putting it mildly  — in 2016, but it&#8217;s nice having it in writing.
Durham’s team concluded that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” when it began Operation Crossfire Hurricane – that’s the operation seen by many as the U.S. government spying on the Trump 2016 campaign. The report also said that Crossfire Hurricane investigators, “did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting.” The now-infamous Steele dossier was initially used to gain legal permission to monitor the Trump team.
The Daily Wire noted Monday, the report &#8220;also concluded that the FBI had no evidence to support a Trump-Russia scandal when it began its investigation and found &#8216;sobering&#8217; differences in how it approached the Trump probe compared to other politically sensitive investigations.&#8221;
As summarized by conservative Greg Price, &#8220;the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey. <a href="https://t.co/r2NvwJyKW8">pic.twitter.com/r2NvwJyKW8</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1658196453573926953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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So, in other words, assuming Durham&#8217;s report is accurate, then it was all a hoax perpetrated at some of the highest levels of the U.S. — as Trump has long claimed.
Trump was never a Russian agent. Nor was the infamous and crass &#8220;pee tape&#8221; real, per the Durham report. The source behind that tawdry tale admitted he made that all up as well. The feds and the Democratic Party at large wanted you to believe that Trump was controlled by Putin with a penchant for Russian prostitutes. It was all so absurd.
That nonsense lasted throughout Trump&#8217;s presidency, which rolled right into the 2020 election. Under the pretense of previous Russian election interference to install Trump,  51 intelligence community veterans signed a letter saying the Hunter Biden &#8220;laptop from hell&#8221; story had &#8220;all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.&#8221;
Twitter then used that letter as part of its justification to censor The New York Post story about it. The 51 officials haven&#8217;t been able to explain why they thought it was Russian disinformation, and now much of the content on that laptop has been verified as being authentic.
Now, it has been alleged that current CIA officials helped put together that letter and that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-cia-chief-sought-debate-talking-point-with-hunter-biden-laptop-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell </a>asked fellow intelligence veterans to add their names to the letter suggesting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation campaign with a stated purpose of giving now-President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>‘s 2020 campaign a debate “talking point.”
Who played a role in that letter as well? Well, none other than the aforementioned CIA director, John Brennan.
So, it appears that the U.S. intelligence community used its power to smear, spy on, and discredit Trump — and the conservative movement in general — during the two most recent national elections, the supposed cornerstone of American democracy where Americans come together to vote for their new president.
Now the question, is who is going to be charged and when?  Of course, it seems that the answer to those questions is, to put it in layman&#8217;s terms, that there is not a chance in France that happens.
And until it does, the U.S. intelligence community is the reigning election interference champ.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Donald Trump, John Brennan, Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton

Congrats To The U.S. Intelligence Community, Back-To-Back U.S. Presidential Election Interference Champs!

Joe Biden

John Durham

U.S.

Former CIA Director <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/john-brennan-rand-paul-is-beneath-contempt-paul-punches-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Brennan</a> kicked a virtual hornet&#8217;s nest when he attempted to defend Dr. Anthony Fauci after a late-night Twitter-swipe from the platform&#8217;s new owner <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-starts-and-apparently-finishes-blue-check-fee-negotiations-with-stephen-king/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>.
Following Musk&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-takes-aim-at-dr-fauci-in-cryptic-wee-hours-tweet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cryptic announcement</a> revealing that his pronouns are &#8220;Prosecute/Fauci,&#8221; Brennan jumped to the former (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious) NIAID Director&#8217;s defense, calling him &#8220;a national hero.&#8221;
”Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &amp; many contributions to public health,” Brennan tweeted.
He then went on to take a swipe at Musk, adding, “Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling hate &amp; public divisions. You may have money, but you have no class.”
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Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness &amp; many contributions to public health
Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate &amp; divisions. 
You may have money, but you have no class. <a href="https://t.co/0zabyXMERz">https://t.co/0zabyXMERz</a>
&mdash; John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1601949081189900288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Critics quickly came for Brennan, arguing both that he was wrong about Fauci and that his own lack of candor with the American people might disqualify his opinion.
“Dr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like @JohnBrennan thinks he’s a hero,” actor Nick Searcy tweeted.
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Dr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnBrennan</a> thinks he’s a hero. <a href="https://t.co/pqkf4yxUf1">https://t.co/pqkf4yxUf1</a>
&mdash; Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM &amp; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1602016079651692544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Steve Hilton, host of Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution,” weighed in as well, disputing Brennan&#8217;s claim that Fauci would be remembered for anything other than his connections to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sen-paul-demands-answers-from-fauci-on-gain-of-function-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubious research</a> and how that impacted the federal government&#8217;s response to the COVID pandemic.
&#8220;No, Fauci will be remembered for his demented obsession with Gain of Function research which drove him to evade Obama &amp; Trump administration rules to commission the reckless experiments in Wuhan that are the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people,&#8221; he said.
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No, Fauci will be remembered for his demented obsession with Gain of Function research which drove him to evade Obama &amp; Trump administration rules to commission the reckless experiments in Wuhan that are the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people. <a href="https://t.co/htS5JblHpG">https://t.co/htS5JblHpG</a>
&mdash; steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveHiltonx/status/1602016141924175873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Brennan appeared to take issue with the complaints, doubling down on his initial comments several hours later.
“Good people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, &amp; highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, &amp; politically destructive,” he said. “We certainly seem to have far too many of them lately.”
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Good people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, &amp; highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, &amp; politically destructive. 
We certainly seem to have far too many of them lately. <a href="https://t.co/tEiDgcZjon">https://t.co/tEiDgcZjon</a>
&mdash; John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1602041419476176899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., lashed out at Musk over the same tweet that had provoked Brennan, claiming, &#8220;Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. Elon is no champion of free speech.&#8221;
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Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. 
Elon is no champion of free speech. <a href="https://t.co/2UlWmvQR6n">pic.twitter.com/2UlWmvQR6n</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1601933557156438017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But when popular Canadian legal blogger Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) pushed back, saying, &#8220;Pretty sure @elonmusk wants to &#8216;criminalize&#8217; Fauci because Fauci lied under oath, engaged in gain of function research in a Chinese lab, jeopardized the entire planet, and arguably contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people,&#8221; Musk&#8217;s response was simple: &#8220;Correct.&#8221;
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Correct
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1602024488664588288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Celebrity Sightings In Philadelphia – October 24, 2022

Ex-CIA Chief’s Attempt To Defend ‘National Hero’ Fauci Backfires In A Hurry

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan's Attempt To Defend 'National Hero' Fauci Backfires In A Hurry

Anthony Fauci

COVID

Elon Musk

Twitter

Former CIA director John Brennan on Monday said he is &#8220;increasingly embarrassed to be a white male,&#8221; citing investigations into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Brennan, a longtime contributor to MSNBC, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/fmr-cia-dir-brennan-republicans-will-continue-to-gaslight-the-country-101798469719">appeared</a> on the liberal network&#8217;s &#8220;Deadline White House.&#8221; On the show, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (R-MO) declared, &#8220;I have never seen so many whiny white men calling themselves victims as I saw over the weekend at [the Conservative Political Action Conference]. I mean, these are all people who think they have a huge grievance from a position of significant privilege.&#8221;
Brennan, who served as the Central Intelligence Agency director for four years during the administration of former President Barack Obama, agreed.
&#8220;Well, I must say, to Claire&#8217;s point, I&#8217;m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days,&#8221; Brennan said, prompting laugher from host Nicole Wallace as he added, &#8220;when I see [what] my other white males [are] saying.&#8221;
McCaskill was asked about Antifa being blamed by some Republicans for the Capitol riot. &#8220;It has really become the norm for the new Republican Party that lying is just peachy keen and I can&#8217;t believe the majority of America is gonna&#8217; accept that, especially if we remain vigilant about pointing out what the facts are.&#8221;
Brennan then chimed in, saying: &#8220;It just shows that with very few exceptions, like [Sen.] Mitt Romney, [Rep.] Liz Cheney, [Rep.] Adam Kinzinger, there are so few Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity, and so they&#8217;ll continue to gaslight the country the way that Donald Trump did. And the fact that this had such security and safety implications for the American public and for the members of Congress, again, as Claire said, it is just a disgusting display of craven politics that really should have no place in the United States in 2021.&#8221;
Romney, a Utah Republican, was a fierce critic of Trump and joined six other GOP senators who voted to convict him of inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6.
“After careful consideration of the respective counsels’ arguments, I have concluded that President Trump is guilty of the charge made by the House of Representatives,” Romney said in a statement. “He did this despite the obvious and well known threats of violence that day. President Trump also violated his oath of office by failing to protect the Capitol, the Vice President, and others in the Capitol. Each and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction.”
The failed 2012 GOP presidential candidate also said Trump “incited the insurrection against Congress by using the power of his office to summon his supporters to Washington on January 6th and urging them to march on the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes.”
“Each and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction,” Romney said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/romney-left-with-black-eye-a-lot-of-stitches-after-fall-knocked-him-unconscious">Romney Left With Black Eye, ‘A Lot Of Stitches’ After Fall Knocked Him Unconscious</a>

Senate Select Intelligence Committee Confirmation For John Brennan

Former CIA Director John Brennan: ‘Increasingly Embarrassed To Be A White Male These Days’

Capitol Riot

Mitt Romney

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) claimed Tuesday that former CIA Director John O. Brennan, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and the oligarchs of Silicon Valley pose an even greater threat to American liberty than the rioters who stormed the Capitol earlier this month.
&#8220;The mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country,&#8221; Gabbard said in a video to Twitter.
&#8220;But let’s be clear, the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs, and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies, and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol,&#8221; Gabbard continued.
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&#8230; trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style &quot;surveillance&quot; are also domestic enemies—and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob which stormed the capitol. &#8230;
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Gabbard went on to play a recent clip of Brennan in which he said that Biden nominees &#8220;are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can&#8221; on activities that he compared to &#8220;insurgency movements&#8221; in other parts of the world. He also lumped together &#8220;religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians,&#8221; into what he described as &#8220;an unholy alliance.&#8221;
&#8220;President Biden, I call upon you and all members of Congress from both parties to denounce efforts by Brennan and others to take away our civil liberties endowed to us by our Creator and guaranteed in our Constitution,&#8221; Gabbard added. &#8220;If you don’t stand up to them now, then our country will be in great peril.&#8221;
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President Biden, I call upon you &amp; all of Congress from both parties to denounce efforts by Brennan &amp; others to take away our civil liberties endowed to us by our Creator &amp; guaranteed in our Constitution. If you don’t stand up to them now, then our country will be in great peril.
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1354035948674113536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Gabbard has also blasted <a href="https://reason.com/2021/01/20/more-than-100-civil-rights-groups-agree-we-dont-need-new-domestic-terrorism-laws/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a recent bill from Schiff</a> ostensibly intended to curb domestic terrorism. During a recent interview with Fox News, Gabbard <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/01/24/tulsi_gabbard_if_he_wants_unity_president_biden_must_denounce_schiffs_domestic_terror_bill_and_brennans_comments_about_insurgency.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">predicted</a> where such legislation could go: &#8220;What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? Where do you take this?&#8221;
Gabbard has not shied away from criticizing her own party on issues ranging from abortion to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-shreds-critics-of-her-bill-to-keep-biological-men-out-of-womens-sports-its-based-on-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">biological men competing in women&#8217;s sports</a>. She most recently blasted House Democrats for removing gendered language from the House rules. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-her-party-for-removing-gendered-language-the-height-of-hypocrisy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) slammed her party during an interview on Monday night over its recent decision to remove gendered language from the House of Representatives, calling the move hypocritical for the party that claims to care about women’s rights.
Gabbard made the remarks during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which comes after she recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-introduces-bill-that-would-ban-biological-males-from-womens-sports">created legislation</a> that would ban biological men from competing in women’s sports.
When Carlson asked her how removing gendered language empowers women, Gabbard responded, “It absolutely does the very opposite of that and it’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women and and this recent rule change that the House just actually voted and passed on today that you were talking about removing references to you know mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, from congressional rules and administration, it’s mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans people in Congress are.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-not-ready-pastor-andrew-brunson-predicts-worsening-religious-persecution-in-u-s-regardless-of-election-outcome" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘We’re Not Ready’: Pastor Andrew Brunson Predicts Worsening Religious Persecution In U.S. Regardless Of Election Outcome</a>

Tulsi Gabbard

‘Domestic Enemies’: Tulsi Gabbard Warns Brennan, Schiff, Big Tech Oligarchs Greater Threat To U.S. Than Capitol Rioters

Adam Schiff

Big Tech

On Tuesday night, following the news that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe had declassified documents showing former CIA Director John Brennan had briefed former President Barack Obama about the plan that Hillary Clinton allegedly approved to smear Donald Trump about his supposed connections to Moscow, President Trump tweeted that he would authorize the release of the full, unredacted documents related to the case.
Trump tweeted: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any &amp; all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”
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I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any &amp; all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions! <a href="https://t.co/GgnHh9GOiq">https://t.co/GgnHh9GOiq</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313640512025513984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire reported on Tuesday:
<blockquote>Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified documents on Tuesday showing that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama about the plan that Hillary Clinton allegedly approved to smear then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a way of distracting from her email scandal.
“Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes – which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence the CIA received – and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dni-brennan-notes-cia-memo-clinton">reported</a>. “That referral was sent to then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.”
A source that was familiar with the documents told Fox News that, despite claims from the media and Democrats, the information was not “Russian disinformation,” and the fact that Brennan reportedly briefed Obama on it is a sign that it was serious.
“This is not Russian disinformation. Even Brennan knew, or he wouldn’t be briefing the president of the United States on it,” the source said. “There is a high threshold to orally brief the president of the United States and he clearly felt this met that threshold.”</blockquote>
In late July, former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-obama-adviser-valerie-jarrett-wants-to-move-one-from-origins-of-trump-russia-investigation-it-was-four-years-ago">suggested that the public stop focusing</a> on whether the Obama administration used the FBI to spy on Donald Trump in 2016.
Appearing on Fox Business with host Maria Bartiromo, Jarrett stated, &#8220;Well, Maria, look, I have a high degree of confidence that our intelligence community, our investigators comported themselves responsibly. Look, Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Senator McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI.”
The Daily Wire had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page">reported</a> that the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found 17 “inaccuracies and omissions” in FISA warrant applications to spy on Carter Page. But the FBI ignored information from a U.S. government agency that said it had a prior relationship with Page involving contacts with Russian intelligence officers. The Daily Wire noted, &#8220;The FBI hid this information from the FISA court in order to obtain another warrant to continue investigating Page, even though it knew there was nothing to investigate. By spying on Page, the FBI gained access to other Trump associates to spy on in order to find someevidence that could be used against Trump.:
Jarrett added, “So, I can’t tell you all of the reasons why Comey went forward with his investigation. Maybe this was one piece of a bigger puzzle. But I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today. That’s the investigation I would like to see going on.”

Trump: I’m Authorizing Total Declassification Of All Docs Related To Hillary’s Alleged Plan To Smear Me

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified documents on Tuesday showing that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama about the plan that Hillary Clinton allegedly approved to smear then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a way of distracting from her email scandal.
&#8220;Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes – which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence the CIA received – and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dni-brennan-notes-cia-memo-clinton">reported</a>. &#8220;That referral was sent to then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.&#8221;
A source that was familiar with the documents told Fox News that, despite claims from the media and Democrats, the information was not &#8220;Russian disinformation,&#8221; and the fact that Brennan reportedly briefed Obama on it is a sign that it was serious.
&#8220;This is not Russian disinformation. Even Brennan knew, or he wouldn&#8217;t be briefing the president of the United States on it,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;There is a high threshold to orally brief the president of the United States and he clearly felt this met that threshold.&#8221;
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell responded to the news by writing on Twitter: “Proof. @BarackObama @JoeBiden directed their administration to use the powers of government to attack @realDonaldTrump campaign and then transition. The Susan Rice email to herself after the Oval Office meeting was part of a coverup.”
Last week, Ratcliffe declassified documents that showed that Clinton was referred to the FBI for investigation for allegedly approving a plan to “stir up a scandal against” Trump by tying him to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ratcliffe made that revelation and others in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-feds-referred-hillary-to-fbi-for-probe-after-allegedly-approving-plan-to-create-trump-russia-scandal-to-distract-from-email-scandal-odni-says">letter</a> he sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), which highlighted the following three bullet points:
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<li>In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.</li>
<li>According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director [John] Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”</li>
<li>On 07 September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding “U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.”</li>
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This is a breaking news story, refresh the page for updates.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee announced late on Monday that it would be voting to authorize issuing subpoenas to top Obama-era officials over their investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and other related matters.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made the announcement in a press release saying that the subpoena authorization &#8220;covers a number of documents, communications and testimony from witnesses, including James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan, Sally Yates, and others.&#8221;
Assuming the vote passes, Graham&#8217;s subpoena would give the Committee <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/chairman-graham-announces-committee-to-consider-subpoena-authorization-related-to-oversight-of-fisa-process-crossfire-hurricane-investigation">access</a> to:
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<li>Documents and communications referenced in, and testimony at a hearing or deposition of any individual named or identified by pseudonym in, the report titled “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation” issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General</li>
<li>Documents and communications related to, and the testimony at a hearing or deposition of any current or former executive branch official or employee involved in, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation (including investigations opened under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella) or the receipt or analysis of reports prepared by Christopher Steele (commonly referred to as the “Steele dossier”)</li>
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The 53 Obama-era officials that are listed as part of Graham&#8217;s subpoena included, &#8220;Trisha Anderson, Brian Auten, James Baker, William Barr, Dana Boente, Jennifer Boone, John Brennan, James Clapper, Kevin Clinesmith, James Comey, Patrick Conlon, Michael Dempsey, Stuart Evans, Tashina Gauhar, Carl Ghattas, Curtis Heide, Kathleen Kavalec, David Laufman, Stephen Laycock, Jacob Lew, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Mary McCord, Denis McDonough, Arthur McGlynn, Jonathan Moffa, Sally Moyer, Mike Neufield, Sean Newell, Victoria Nuland, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Stephanie L. O’Sullivan, Lisa Page, Joseph Pientka, John Podesta, Samantha Power, E.W. “Bill” Priestap, Sarah Raskin, Steve Ricchetti, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, Gabriel Sanz-Rexach, Nathan Sheets, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Glenn Simpson, Steve Somma, Peter Strzok, Michael Sussman, Adam Szubin, Jonathan Winer, Christopher Wray, and Sally Yates.&#8221;
The move comes after Attorney General William Barr said earlier in the day that the actions by the Obama-era officials was &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; in American history and that a &#8220;grave injustice&#8221; was done.
“And what happened to the president and I’ve said this many times, what happened to the president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent,” Barr said. “It was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history. The law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative against the president.”
“The proper investigative and prosecutive standards of the department of justice were abused, in my view, in order to reach a particular result,” Barr continued. “We saw two different standards of justice emerge, one that applied to President Trump and his associates and the other that applied to everybody else. We can’t allow this ever to happen again. The Durham investigation is trying to get to the bottom of what happened, and it will determine whether there were any federal laws broken. And if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account.”
Barr previously said in an interview with CBS News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge that the investigation into the Trump campaign was not a legitimate investigation.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan is no fan of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
After Politico <a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/1224763315114708992">reported</a> Tuesday that Paul “used the final deliberations of [President Donald] Trump’s impeachment trial to name the alleged whistleblower,” Brennan took to Twitter to insult the Kentucky senator.
“Rand Paul is beneath contempt. He typifies the worst of <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s craven enablers,” Brennan tweeted. “Any Senator excusing this dangerous behavior makes a mockery of public service. History will revile all of you.”
Paul returned the barb by pointing out Brennan’s misdeeds while director of the CIA under President Barack Obama.
“You want to know what’s a mockery of public service, John? Killing 500 people outside of any judicial system. Drone strikes on American citizens. Approving British spies to present a dossier of lies paid for by Hillary. Lying to Congress. Your shame alone should shut you up,” Paul tweeted in response.
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You want to know what’s a mockery of public service, John? Killing 500 people outside of any judicial system. Drone strikes on American citizens. Approving British spies to present a dossier of lies paid for by Hillary. Lying to Congress. Your shame alone should shut you up. <a href="https://t.co/u2ERmv4gE8">https://t.co/u2ERmv4gE8</a>
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1225199838322667521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Paul brought up a number of points against Brennan. For starters, he appeared to be referring to the number of civilians killed overseas as a result of Obama’s drone strike program. Most estimates suggest the number of civilians killed by drone strikes Obama ordered was <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-drone-strikes/">around 300</a>, but the Bureau of Investigative Journalism <a href="https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush">suggested</a> the number could be between 384 and 807 civilians. Paul’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry about the number prior to press time.
Paul’s next point referred to Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who recruited for al-Qaeda and allegedly helped planned terrorist attacks. When al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen, his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, was also killed, though he was not accused of any wrongdoing. Even die-hard Obama supporters had to admit the killing at least smelled wrong, as U.S. citizens are supposed to receive due process before any kind of punishment is doled out.
Brennan defended Obama’s drone program, claiming that the extrajudicial killings were justified because “as a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, and associated forces.”
The strike caused such an uproar that even the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union filed <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/al-aulaqi-v-panetta">a lawsuit</a> against the administration, though the case doesn’t appear to have moved since September 2014.
Paul’s next point referred to the “Steele Dossier,” compiled by ex-British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. Steele was paid to dig up dirt on then-candidate Trump using dubious overseas sources. Brennan has defended the dossier.
As to Paul’s last point, it is referring to Brennan’s false testimony before congress in May 2017. Brennan was asked by then-Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) if he knew “who commissioned the Steele dossier.” Brennan was also asked if the FBI relied on the Steele dossier “as part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings?” Brennan said he was unaware. Brennan also said he was the CIA did not rely on the Steele dossier. Gowdy later claimed to have seen an email from former FBI director James Comey claiming Brennan “<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/20/napolitano_john_brennan_may_have_perjured_himself_in_order_to_make_himself_look_good.html">insisted</a>” on including the dossier in the intelligence assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election. We now know for sure that the Steele dossier was the main source – if not the only source – of information used to claim Trump colluded with Russia in 2016.

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John Brennan: Rand Paul Is ‘Beneath Contempt.’ Paul Punches Back.

The following is satirical.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has issued his report on the Obama administration’s spying operation on the Trump campaign — and he says it was great.
In fact, Horowitz says, as spying operations go, it was even better than that time he and his pals climbed to the top of the apple tree in his backyard and peeked in through Mrs. Willoughby’s bedroom window while she was undressing. Ah, those were great days, says Horowitz, back when we were all young and before the FBI went around spying on people for political reasons.
People involved in the spying campaign are already claiming the report exonerates them by saying they didn’t do what they so, so obviously did. Former FBI Director and hysterical old woman James Comey issued a statement saying, “I told you those lousy coppers would never take me alive. They got nothin’ on me, see. Nothin’.  So eat lead, John Law!”
Comey then fired a Tommy gun into the air, jumped on the running board of his 1930’s Packard and sped away at a hot 40-miles-an hour, daring the screws to catch him if they could.
Communist CIA Mole John Brennan also said the report exonerated him. In an interview given in an abandoned parking garage while wearing a fake moustache, Brennan said, “You never saw me and you never heard this, but if I were to say something about this, and I never would, I would say that this is all the work of a brilliant Russian agent because who but a brilliant Russian agent would cast suspicion on a sitting president by feeding misinformation to the public that would help his enemies tie up the government with fake investigations for years. Only an absolute genius Russian agent could pull something like that off, if you get what I’m saying, wink, wink.”
Brennan then faded into the shadows and was gone.
The IG report will be followed by the John Durham report, after which all these sinister bastards will hopefully be arrested as they deserve.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-attorney-john-durham-responds-to-fisa-report-hints-at-whats-to-come-in-criminal-investigation-into-origins-of-russia-probe">U.S. Attorney John Durham Responds To FISA Report, Hints At What’s To Come In Criminal Investigation Into Origins Of Russia Probe</a>

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Dems Say IG Report Clears Obama Spies Of What They Obviously Did [Satire]

The New York Times, a former newspaper, is now openly extolling the Deep State, pushing the narrative that we should thank our lucky stars that a cabal of unelected bureaucrats and spies is working diligently to undermine the duly elected President of the United States.
Times columnist James B. Stewart has written a whole book on the subject: Deep State: Trump, the FBI and The Rule of Law.
“In a sense, [Trump] is right,” Stewart told a smiling Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show. “There is a Deep State, there is a bureaucracy in our country who has pledged to respect the Constitution, respect the rule of law. They do not work for the President, they work for the American people. And as [former FBI Director James] Comey told me&#8230; ‘Thank goodness for that.’”
Michelle Cottle, a member of the Times editorial board, echoed him with a column headlined, “They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal. They Are Public Servants.”
“President Trump is right,” she wrote. “The deep state is alive and well. But it is not the sinister, antidemocratic cabal of his fever dreams. It is, rather, a collection of patriotic public servants&#8230;”
Like so much in the Times these days, these lies aren’t even smart. If these spies and bureaucrats are protecting the Constitution, let me ask this: where are they mentioned in the Constitution? The Constitution provides for a president, a legislature, courts. But it nowhere establishes an unelected collection of conspirators to spy on, leak on and foil the intentions of our duly elected representatives. Officials who work for the American people are elected by the American people and can be unelected by them. What exactly is our recourse if we want these glorious Deep State Heroes to stop doing what they’re doing and allow our President to get on with what we elected him to do?
The Times is selling this intellectual trash hard in hopes of delegitimizing the soon-to-be-released findings of the Department of Justice Inspector General Report on the shenanigans committed by Comey, John Brennan and the rest of Barack Obama’s law and intelligence agencies as they apparently worked to destroy the campaign of the Republican out to defeat Obama’s chosen successor Hillary Clinton.
DOJ Prosecutor John Durham’s investigation into that apparent malfeasance has reportedly now become a criminal investigation, causing potential perps like Comey and Brennan to lawyer up. The Timesand the rest of the left are desperate to get their counter narrative out before an Obama scheme unravels for all to see.
The nonsense Deep State Heroes narrative is also being used to glamorize Congressman Adam Schiff’s so-called impeachment investigation during which behind-locked-doors testimony is selectively leaked to the mainstream media who then dutifully bring it to the public as “mounting evidence” of Trump’s impeachability.
“Trump’s War on the Deep State Turns Against Him,” is the way the Times is trying to sell us this McCarthyite coup attempt.
“The impeachment inquiry is in some ways the culmination of a battle between the president and the government institutions he distrusted and disparaged,” we’re told triumphantly.
But again, if you work out the underlying argument, you find it’s absurd. We’re supposed to think: Obama’s minions bugging phones on which candidate Trump may have spoken, inserting agents into Trump’s campaign, and leaking what we now know were false stories to the press about Trump’s non-existent collusion with Russia — all these things are wonderful patriotic actions. But Donald Trump asking Ukraine to investigate corruption that may have involved Joe Biden’s son — this, by all that’s holy, is an impeachable offense!
In other words, it’s good when we conspire to do it whole hog but it’s criminal when you sort of kind of do it, because shut up.
It’s no mystery why we’re supposed to root for the Shadow Men to undo our votes. It’s because the Democrats don’t think they can beat Trump in the next election.
You remember elections, don’t you, New York Times? They’re the way we choose who governs us, not through a cabal of invisible, unelected bureaucrats and spies.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-administrative-review-into-russia-probe-takes-serious-turn">DOJ Administrative Review Into Russia Probe Takes Serious Turn</a>

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According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ag-barr-expands-controversial-review-origin-russia-investigation-n1068971?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">NBC News</a>, a review ordered by Attorney General William Barr and conducted by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham has been expanded &#8220;significantly&#8221; and now includes two high-profile, vocal critics of President Trump that held key positions in the Obama administration: former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan. The review, new developments suggest, could also be morphing into an official criminal investigation.
Citing multiple current and former federal officials, including Brennan himself, NBC reported Saturday that Durham &#8220;has expressed his intent to interview a number of current and former intelligence officials involved in examining Russia&#8217;s effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.&#8221; Among the former officials are Clapper, who now works as a national security analyst for CNN, and Brennan, whose security clearance Trump famously <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-revokes-security-clearance-of-former-cia-director-john-brennan/2018/08/15/043b6fc4-a0bb-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html">revoked</a> in 2018.
Reports that Barr greenlighted the expansion of Durham&#8217;s investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation began to circulate a few weeks ago, but the specific claim that Clapper and Brennan were of interest appears to be a new detail from NBC&#8217;s sources. Also new is NBC&#8217;s description of the response of CIA analysts reportedly targeted in the review.
&#8220;Durham has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russia&#8217;s activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers, according to three former CIA officials familiar with the matter,&#8221; NBC reports, noting that sources say there is &#8220;tension between the CIA and the Justice Department over what classified documents Durham can examine.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/us/politics/durham-review-fbi-witnesses.html">The New York Times</a> also revealed some new details about the ongoing review Saturday. Citing unnamed former officials and others familiar with the matter, the Times reports that the federal prosecutors &#8220;have asked witnesses pointed questions about any anti-Trump bias among former F.B.I. officials who are frequent targets of President Trump and about the earliest steps they took in the Russia inquiry.&#8221;
Thus far, according to the Times&#8217; sources, Durham&#8217;s team has interviewed about two dozen current and former FBI officials, while two senior FBI officials are assisting in the process. &#8220;The number of interviews shows that Mr. Durham’s review is further along than previously known,&#8221; the Times notes.
As for the expansion of the probe, NBC reports that Barr has given Durham the go-ahead to expand both his staff and the timeframe he can examine, which now includes &#8220;conduct past Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration in January 2017.&#8221; NBC also notes suggestively that DOJ officials would offer no comment when asked if the review has &#8220;morphed&#8221; into a criminal investigation.
The initial investigation into Russian interference, headed up by then-FBI Director James Comey, eventually led to the special investigation into collusion and obstruction headed up by Robert Mueller. But after two years and over $30 million spent on the effort, Mueller&#8217;s exhaustive report concluded that &#8220;the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.&#8221;
As for alleged obstruction of justice by Trump, the special counsel came to no conclusion at all, stating &#8220;while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him&#8221; &#8212; a non-conclusion met with much criticism from both sides.
The DOJ&#8217;s review of the roles of various FBI and CIA officials in the origins of the Russia probe in a sense flips the focus of the initial investigation, looking not at Trump and his associates but at those who allegedly helped promote what Mueller determined to be the evidence-less &#8220;collusion&#8221; narrative.

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