As part of a political corruption probe, the FBI obtained evidence that former President Bill Clinton was being paid through a backdoor arrangement with an allied consultant, according to a 2017 document released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Chuck Grassley.
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The FBI’s decision to open a probe that treats the last decade of political weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence agencies as an ongoing criminal conspiracy is being cheered by lawmakers and could be aided by Director Kash Patel’s recent discovery of a room where the bureau had “hidden” evidence from public and congressional view.
Patel’s discovery of the evidence “vault” or “lockbox” as he called it on a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan and the opening of the “overarching conspiracy” probe occurred around the same time this spring, officials told Just the News.
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe sent a referral to FBI Director Kash Patel related to possible criminality by ex-CIA chief John Brennan, a source on Wednesday told Just the News, following a review by the CIA that critiqued the actions taken by Brennan related to the Russiagate scandal.
The source familiar with Ratcliffe’s actions said the CIA director referred elements of Brennan’s actions to the FBI for an investigation into potential criminality.
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday released a scathing review of the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian influence in the 2016 election, criticizing then-CIA Director John Brennan for joining the FBI in pushing to include British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s baseless anti-Trump dossier.
In the review, Ratcliffe also critiqued the CIA and FBI’s “high confidence” assessment that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had “aspired” to help Trump win.
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Allegations of state-sponsored paramilitary training and operational control by Venezuela’s Maduro regime over Tren de Aragua (TdA) have fueled accusations of a hybrid criminal state, following U.S. intelligence disputes over the gang’s ties.
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Half a decade after the start of a global pandemic, the Trump Administration has begun a renewed push to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19, with more and more evidence — including by non-U.S. intelligence agencies — indicating that it came from the Wuhan lab.
Exactly five years ago today, an influential scientific Proximal Origin paper was published pushing back on the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “prompted” the writing of that influential article.
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President Donald Trump on Monday confirmed that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about ending the Ukraine War and that negotiations would begin with a planned meeting in Munich with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reportedly offered payouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The CIA has apparently become the first intelligence agency to offer its employees a way out, as they were reportedly offered a bid to quit their jobs in exchange for roughly eight months of pay and benefits, the outlet reported. Trump administration officials told the outlet that the move is a signal to help those who oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda find other work.
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John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, has been coordinating with U.S. Attorney John Durham and plans to soon declassify more documents related to the Trump-Russia probe, he said Sunday.
“The question now is did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counterintelligence investigation at all, and that’s the issue that John Durham is looking at, and also the issue that I’m continuing to look at,” Ratcliffe said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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By his own admission, ex-CIA Director John Brennan chafed at being questioned earlier this month by federal prosecutor John Durham about the Obama administration’s intelligence assessment that Russia’s meddling in 2016 election was designed to help Donald Trump.
Brennan “questioned why the analytic tradecraft and the findings of the ICA are being scrutinized by the Department of Justice, especially since they have been validated by the Mueller Report and the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Review,” a statement issued by his spokesman Nick Shapiro said.
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FBI officials left key details about former British spy Christopher Steele and his infamous dossier out of a newly declassified Intelligence Community Assessment regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The two-page document, which Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified this week, describes Steele’s allegations about possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian government. It says that an FBI source — Steele — had provided information thought to be credible regarding Russia’s goals in meddling in the election.
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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe on Friday sent declassified transcripts of former national security advisor Michael Flynn’s phone calls with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to Congress.
The calls, which took place during the presidential transition period from Dec. 22, 2016 through January of 2017, show that Flynn was concerned about an escalation of hostilities between the two countries after the United States expelled 35 Russian diplomats. The two also discussed Middle East policy at length and working together to defeat a common enemy: radical Islamists. There was nothing discussed in the phone calls, according to the summary, that would have given Obama-era government snoops reason to believe Flynn was treacherously “colluding” or “conspiring” with Russia.
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