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July 17, 2025 - Trump denies WSJ article claiming he sent birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein; WSJ journalist has connection to Fusion GPS characters

Wall Street Journal reporter, Joe Palazzolo (Credit: X.com)

TRUMP’S ALLEGED EPSTEIN BDAY LETTER: The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the “blockbuster” story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting experience listed in his bio).

Main Justice was Glenn Simpson’s wife’s publication. Simpson founded Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton/the DNC (through Perkins Coie) to produce the Steele Dossier at the center of the Russian hoax against Trump.

Both Glenn Simpson and his wife, Mary Jacoby, worked for the Wall Street Journal before launching their own enterprises.

Trump is now suing the Wall Street Journal over the “blockbuster” letter story, arguing that it’s bogus and they never showed him it so he could comment.

UPDATE 7/19/2025

July 18, 2025 - Gabbard declassifies eerie email exchange over Steele Dossier FOIA - 'We have a problem'

While the big news in the release of two key — and contradictory — documents about the role Russia played in 2016 election interference was the headline-grabber from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s document drop last week, buried in the report is an eerie email exchange about the so-called “Steele dossier” and how it got into intelligence assessments.

On Friday, Gabbard released a slew of information regarding how the intelligence community viewed Russian interference in the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the last days of Barack Obama’s administration. An initial Presidential Daily Brief found that there was little evidence of serious interference and that it “did not impact recent U.S. election results” via cyberattacks.

(…) However, Gabbard said, that Dec. 8, 2016, PDB was pulled and never presented. Instead, less than a month later, a new document, which showed far more confidence that Russia had interfered on behalf of the Trump campaign, was presented. Gabbard released evidence that Obama’s DNI, James Clapper, began working on it the day after the Dec. 8 PDB was pulled.

(…) At the back end of the 114 pages of documents that Gabbard released was an eerie email exchange between several intelligence individuals regarding the role that the Steele dossier played in the report and whether or not it was appropriately added as an annex.

The exchange involves a 2019 Freedom of Information Act request by Kimberly Hermann of the conservative Southeastern Legal Foundation, which looked for mentions of the dossier on certain government systems.

The dossier, eponymously named after former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, was initially assembled as opposition research for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It eventually found its way into requests for warrants against Trump campaign officials and assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign despite the fact that most of its assertions could not be corroborated and many were provably false.

A Sept. 18, 2019, email from a redacted official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence raised some alarm about the fact that the Steele dossier was involved in the ODNI’s efforts at all.

The first part of the email dealt mostly with technical issues — the number of hits that match the query and how, due to their position, sorting through all his emails would be “impractical.”

July 18, 2025 - Kash Patel gives details about the secret room where the classified Clinton Annex docs were found, in burn bags

FBI Director Kash Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he found a room full of documents and computer hard drives “that no one had ever seen or heard of.” (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources told Fox News Digital.

Sources told Fox News Digital that the “burn bag” system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.

Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.

Sources told Fox News Digital that one of the documents FBI officials found in a burn bag was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.

The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman.

The declassified annex will be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who ultimately will release the document to the public.

Sources exclusively briefed Fox News Digital on some of the contents of the classified annex — including that the U.S. intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.

A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move “with alarming specificity.”

“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters that have not yet been made public, told Fox News Digital.

“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source said. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.”

Sources told Fox News Digital that Patel and his team discovered a previously undisclosed sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in the FBI headquarters.

Fox News Digital reached out to previous FBI Directors Christopher Wray and James Comey for comment and has not yet received any responses. (Read more: Fox News, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

July 18, 2025 - Newly declassified docs reveal Barack Obama helped “manufacture and politicize intelligence” to create Trump-Russia collusion hoax

ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.

Last week CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced that a new CIA report revealed former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.

The three corrupt Obama officials even included the Steele Dossier in their quest to “screw Trump” knowing at the time that the Steele Dossier was complete rubbish.

On Friday it was revealed that Barack Obama knew it was a hoax and he was involved in manufacturing and politicizing the intelligence to create the Trump-Russia collusion canard.

“The IC is prepared to produce and assessment per the President’s request…” the report read.

Per Fox News:

The Obama administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Friday declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence” that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe.

Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was “probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means.”

“We assess that foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome this year. We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results,” the report said.

“We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure,” the report said.

Last week investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over Brennan’s IC report.

He was right.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/18/2025)  (Archive)

July 18, 2025 - Durham testified that the FBI ignored the “Clinton Plan Intelligence” to link Trump to Russia

Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the FBI for a criminal investigation. Some reports claim the referral relates to Brennan potentially having perjured himself before Congress. But on Wednesday, President Donald Trump may have pointed to another direction the FBI probe may take. In an interview with reporter John Solomon, Trump said he would declassify an annex to the May 2023 report filed by John Durham, the special counsel appointed during Trump’s first term to investigate Russiagate.

The annex, according to Solomon, deals with the “Clinton Plan intelligence”—and, says Solomon, “lawmakers and Durham have suggested it would provide damning evidence to any prosecutor.” Trump told Solomon, “I will absolutely declassify it.”

The “Clinton Plan Intelligence” refers to intelligence the CIA received in late July 2016 from a Dutch spy agency. The Dutch had penetrated a Russian intelligence agency that appears to have hacked the emails of Clinton allies and Democratic officials. And it was from these communications that the Russians learned the Clinton campaign had devised a plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent to deflect attention from her use of a private email server.

According to Durham’s final report in May 2023, the U.S. intelligence official “who initially received the information immediately recognized its importance—including its relevance to the U.S. presidential election—and acted quickly to make CIA leadership aware of it.” Brennan himself, the report shows, “personally received a copy of the intelligence.”

According to Brennan’s handwritten notes, in an Aug. 3, 2016, meeting at the White House, he briefed Barack Obama and other U.S. officials, including then Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then FBI Director James Comey, about the Clinton Plan intelligence. The notes claim that he alerted them to the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”

Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s notes in late September 2020, when Ratcliffe was Trump’s director of national intelligence. He also declassified a second Clinton Plan intelligence document that Durham found during his investigation. This was a CIA memo dated Sept. 7, 2016, addressed to Comey and FBI agent Peter Strzok, that referred the Clinton Plan intelligence for further investigative action.

What’s odd is that virtually no one working on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, saw the CIA memo. According to Durham’s report, “None of the FBI personnel who agreed to be interviewed could specifically recall receiving this Referral Memo, nor did anyone recall the FBI doing anything in response to the Referral Memo.”

For instance, former FBI general counsel James Baker told Durham “that he had neither seen nor heard of the Clinton Plan intelligence or the resulting Referral Memo prior to his interview” with Durham.

Same with Supervisory Special Agent-1, reportedly an FBI agent named Joe Pientka. According to the report, when Durham showed Pientka the information, he became “visibly upset and emotional, left the interview room with his counsel, and subsequently returned to state emphatically that he had never been apprised of the Clinton Plan intelligence and had never seen the aforementioned Referral Memo. Supervisory Special Agent-1 expressed a sense of betrayal that no one had informed him of the intelligence.”

According to the Durham report, Comey and Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, were briefed on the Clinton Plan intelligence. But there’s no evidence that Brennan, Comey, Clapper, or any other Obama official included the Clinton Plan intelligence in any of their preelection briefings on Russian interference to Senate and House leadership and oversight committees.

Same after the election—none of Obama’s spy chiefs ever mentioned the Clinton Plan intelligence. Obama reportedly told Brennan that he wanted his CIA director to include everything the intelligence community had on Russian interference in the 2016 election for the intelligence community assessment (ICA) that the outgoing president wanted completed before he left office. But there’s nothing about the Clinton Plan intelligence in the ICA. Of course, it would have been a powerful rebuttal to the ICA’s central conclusion that Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election. Or it would have made the assessment entirely invalid.

Brennan neglected to mention the Clinton Plan intelligence during his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on May 17, 2017, or before the House Intelligence Committee a week later. And, obviously, the former CIA chief never talked about the Clinton Plan intelligence during his many TV appearances on NBC and elsewhere.

It’s clear why the Clinton Plan intelligence was buried and why none of the FBI officials Durham interviewed had seen the CIA referral memo. It exposed Russiagate as a hoax, despite the broad preelection media campaign insisting otherwise, including leaks from U.S. officials falsely alleging Trump’s ties to Russia. After the election, the CIA referral memo posed an even greater threat: It gave evidence of a conspiracy involving the top leadership of the American intelligence community, including at least Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, whose FBI investigated Trump as a Russia spy even though the FBI director was made aware it was a dirty trick.

It’s not clear how Brennan found out that Durham had discovered the CIA referral memo and was asking questions about it. Perhaps it was due to a rumor of Pientka’s rage after Durham showed him the document in a July 22, 2020, interview that got Brennan worried. Only two days before Brennan was scheduled to meet with Durham on Aug. 21, the special counsel had confirmed with a U.S. official that Brennan had personally received a copy of the Clinton Plan intelligence. Why, Durham would want to know, hadn’t the CIA referral gotten to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team?

One theory investigators may be pursuing relates to Brennan’s notes about his Aug. 3 briefing at the White House. Did Brennan doctor his notes after he learned Durham had found the CIA memo? Notes showing he’d briefed Obama, Lynch, and Comey would prove he hadn’t buried the memo or the Clinton Plan intelligence but had in fact read in the principals. It wasn’t his fault the Crossfire Hurricane investigators didn’t get the CIA memo—he told Comey about it, and the attorney general and even the president.

Durham interviewed Brennan for eight hours at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Aug. 21, 2020. Durham’s ability to bring any charges was limited because he was under the watchful eye of Joe Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland. But now? If the statute of limitations on the case is five years, FBI Director Kash Patel has a little more than a month. If, however, the onetime congressional investigator who uncovered Russiagate is building a conspiracy case, law enforcement may have much more time to make sure it’s airtight before bringing charges.

In any event, it’s worth noting that the only genuine piece of Russian intelligence U.S. spy services ever received during the Trump-Russia probe was intelligence that Russia knew the Clinton campaign was behind the effort to dirty Trump as a Russian agent. It seems appropriate that Russian intelligence may lead to the prosecution and conviction of Brennan and the intelligence officials responsible for the biggest political scandal in U.S. history. (Lee Smith/Tablet, 7/18/2025)  (Archive)

July 18, 2025 - Patel touts dozens of convictions in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded children's nutrition program

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A $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic has been described by FBI Director Kash Patel as “one of the worst” in Minnesota history.

The FBI director told Fox News in a statement that 70 people in Minnesota have been indicted for their role in the sprawling “Feeding our Future” fraud scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic, which exploited a federal program designed to reimburse states for the cost of feeding children.

Conspirators falsely claimed to have served millions of meals during the pandemic, but instead used the money for personal gain. Of the individuals indicted, 38 have pleaded guilty, FBI officials told Fox News Digital. More than a dozen of the individuals are awaiting criminal trial, with the next trial beginning in August.

“Stealing over $250 million from hungry kids during a pandemic to fund mansions and luxury cars is as shameless as it gets,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “I’m proud of the FBI and our partners for dismantling this web of corruption, holding dozens accountable, and sending a clear message: if you exploit the most vulnerable, we will find you and bring you to justice.”

Conspirators charged in the scheme are accused of fabricating invoices, submitting fake attendance records, and falsely distributing thousands of meals from hundreds of so-called food distribution “sites” across the state — taking advantage of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to waive, for the duration of the pandemic, many of its standard requirements for participation in the Federal Child Nutrition Program — including relaxing its requirement for non-school based distributors to participate in the program.

Charging documents show that roughly 300 “food sites” in the state served little or no food, with the so-called “food vendors” and organizations fabricated to launder money intended to reimburse the cost of feeding children. (Read more: Fox News, 7/18/2025)  (Archive)

July 19, 2025 - An illegal alien accused of decapitating woman and abusing the corpse, is nabbed by ICE after judge set him free 3 months ago

An illegal immigrant accused of decapitating a missing woman and stashing her body in a bleach-filled container was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — three months after an Illinois judge let him walk on the gruesome charges, officials said.

Mexican national Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, was nabbed Saturday afternoon at a Chicago market after being charged with concealing and abusing the corpse of Megan Bos in April, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.

Judge Randie Bruno (Credit: public domain)

Lake County Judge Randie Bruno shockingly cut the perp loose after his first court appearance.

“It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime,” a DHS spokesperson told the outlet.

“Megan Bos and her family will have justice.”

Mendoza-Gonzalez was first arrested in April after police discovered the 37-year-old victim’s headless body stuffed inside a bleach-soaked storage bin in the yard of his Waukegan home, officials said.

He allegedly told police the woman, who was reported missing in March after vanishing in February, had overdosed at his home, and instead of calling authorities, broke her phone, hid her body in the basement for two days, and later moved it outside, the outlet reported.

The Mexican national will now remain in ICE custody after a Illinois judge cut him loose back in April.

But police said Bos’s corpse had been rotting in his yard for nearly two months before it was found.

Mendoza-Gonzalez was locked up but released about 48 hours later under the state’s controversial SAFE-T Act, which abolished cash bail and allows judges to determine jail time, no matter how severe the crime is, Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner said at the time.

“I was shocked to find out literally the next day that the person that they had arrested for this had been released from prison under the SAFE-T Act less than, detained less, I think, than 48 hours,” he said, the outlet reported.  (Read more: New York Post, 7/19/2025)  (Archive)

July 19, 2025 - New documents reveal Biden AG and White House conspire to chill local parents’ school board protests

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Damning revelations in federal documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show the Biden administration’s Justice Department sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical race theory, and other issues.

Career attorneys in the DOJ argued in the released correspondence that such a move was legally baseless and would trample the First Amendment rights of parents.

The government documents, obtained by America First Legal, “conclusively prove” a memo from former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “mobilized the full force of the federal government’s firepower against concerned parents—not to protect schools, but to silence dissent”  and the ensuing investigation was “politically orchestrated and coordinated with the Biden White House,” America First Legal charged Friday.

The AFL in an extensive release on its website reported:

These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.

The photocopies of emails and documents involved were also published on the website.

Kevin Chambers (Credit: DOJ)

In one letter obtained by AFL, Kevin Chambers, an aide to the attorney general, wrote to a colleague on Oct. 1, 2021: “We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion.”

Fox News reported that Garland issued a directive on Oct. 4, 2021, that directed the FBI to assist local law enforcement partners with a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school administrators.

Garland told a congressional hearing soon thereafter that he had given the directive after the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the White House that had asked the Biden administration to investigate parents displaying threatening behavior at school board meetings as possible “domestic terrorists,” the news network reported.

The NSBA later retracted the request.

Career DOJ lawyers were concerned about any legal effort to take action on that letter, documents show. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/19/2025) (Archive)

July 20, 2025 - Trump reposts an AI video of Obama getting arrested and the mugshots of a few of his accomplices

President Trump set the internet on fire on Sunday evening after he posted an AI video of Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents and tossed in prison.

The video shows FBI agents ambushing Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting with Trump, cuffing him and putting him in prison.

President Trump also posted mugshots of the Deep State coup plotters involved in the Russia collusion hoax.

On Saturday evening President Trump floated prosecuting Barack Obama and the Deep State thugs involved the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a December 2016 presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.

(…) On Saturday, White House spokesman Harrison Fields went on Fox News and directly called out Barack Obama and the lying media.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/21/2025)  (Archive)

July 20, 2025 - James Comey goes on a 5 minute rant about the firing of his daughter

JAMES COMEY: “Hey, everybody. Welcome back to my Substack. This week, I want to offer some thoughts about justice. The Justice Department’s ability to protect the American people depends upon a gift that every employee gets when they join the Department. It’s a gift they may not know they’re receiving until the first time they stand up and identify themselves as a Justice employee and say something—whether that’s in a courtroom, at a conference, or at a cookout.”

“And they find that total strangers believe what they say next. They’re believed because, when they speak, they aren’t seen as Republicans or Democrats. Instead, they’re seen as something separate and apart in American life—a group of people just trying to do the right thing.”

“For years, I’ve described that gift as a reservoir of trust and credibility—a reservoir built for them and filled for them, one drop at a time, by people they never knew. People who made sacrifices before they joined the Department and kept promises. People who made mistakes, as we all do, and admitted them and fixed them. People who made hard calls without regard to position or privilege, who looked only for facts and applied those to the law.”

“The job of every Justice employee—their sworn obligation—is to protect that reservoir, to pass it to those who come after them, who may never know them.”

“The problem with reservoirs is that it takes tremendous time and effort to fill them. But one hole in the dam can drain the reservoir quickly. The protection of the reservoir requires complete commitment to truth, and a recognition that what one person does can ruin what benefits everybody.”

“I came up with that reservoir metaphor years ago when I was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Patrice and I and our kids lived far north of the city—still in my jurisdiction, but more affordable for a family of five kids. We lived with reservoirs all around—that’s where the city’s water supply was held.”

“My five kids played around those reservoirs. One of the dams was across the street. And one of those kids grew up to be a federal prosecutor in that same Southern District of New York. She became a star there, holding the powerful accountable.”

James Comey read his daughter’s message to colleagues.

Last week, she wrote a letter that I want to read:

“Yesterday was unexpectedly my last day in the office. I was summarily fired via memo from Main Justice that did not give a reason for my termination. Every person lucky enough to work in this office constantly hears four words to describe our ethos: without fear or favor.

“Do the right thing the right way, for the right reasons—without fear of retribution and without favor to the powerful. For the majority of my nearly ten years in SDNY, fear was never really conceivable. We don’t fear bad press. We have the luxury of exceptional security keeping us physically safe.

“And so long as we did our work with integrity, we would get to keep serving the public in this office. Our focus was really on acting without favor—that is, making sure people with access or money and power were not treated differently than anyone else, and making sure this office remains separate from politics and focused only on the facts and the law.

“But we have entered a new phase where without fear may be the challenge. If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.

“Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place—a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power, of commitment to seek justice for victims, of dedication to truth above all else. It has been an honor to fight for those principles by your side.”

And she signed it: Maureen.

At the end of the video message, James Comey went off on Trump and the “hacks” at the Justice Department.

JAMES COMEY: “I don’t have much to add to that, except to say: the reservoir is in grave danger right now. Trump and the hacks who lead the Department of Justice are hammering at the dam day after day, trying to turn it into just another gold-leaf-covered Trump subsidiary.”

“Our best hope is that good people will stay and do what Maureen asked—have the courage to do the right thing, always. You may get fired for acting that way, but there’s honor in that—and nothing but disgrace for those who don’t stand up.”

“There are going to be hard weeks in the Trump era, and this was one for my family. But there are plenty of good people still in the Department committed to doing things the right way, committed to the rule of law.”

“For them—because of them—keep the faith.”

WATCH:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/21/2025) (Archive)

July 21, 2025 - Grassley releases a newly declassified annex from the 2018 DOJ/OIG report detailing how Comey sandbagged the Clinton email investigation

Sen. Chuck Grassley just released a newly declassified annex from the 2018 DOJ/OIG report detailing disgraced former FBI director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server.

The annex shows that Comey and his corrupt FBI underlings deliberately sandbagged the Clinton investigation and refused to take basic investigative steps that would’ve revealed how seriously Clinton compromised national security.

“The DOJ OIG’s Clinton annex shows the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation, but then-FBI Director James Comey, as well as then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and others, failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry,” Grassley’s office notes.

“The DOJ OIG report illustrates that the FBI failed to thoroughly and completely investigate the Clinton matter as a result, as well as vet the serious national security risks created by Clinton’s careless handling of highly classified information.

According to the DOJ OIG, the thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum.

The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not.”

July 21, 2025 - More on the never investigated Clinton thumb drives mentioned in the 2018 DOJ/OIG report and recently released by Grassley

Jason Foster was the Chief Investigative Counsel for Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

For the record, I have not been a source for this or any other story mentioning the classified appendix to the @JusticeOIG’s Clinton e-mail report.

However, I will state publicly—without revealing anything I’m legally obligated to keep confidential—that as @ChuckGrassley’s chief investigator at the time, we arranged a bipartisan briefing for Senators on the Judiciary Cmte.

Then-DOJ IG Michael Horowitz summarized the information in the appendix to the several Democrat and Republican Senators who chose to attend.

Each of them, from both sides of the aisle, expressed shock that the gov’t turned a blind-eye to the information at issue. Even prominent Democrat Senators acknowledged in this private setting that it required further investigation, even if it was likely to be politically embarrassing for their party.

IG Horowitz explained why his office was limited in conducting further inquiry due to jurisdictional issues. I urged him to partner with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) on a joint follow-up probe, an idea which several of the Senators present thoroughly endorsed.

To my knowledge, no joint DOJ/IC IG probe ever happened. But I left in Fall 2018, so I’m not privy to nonpublic developments that may have occurred after that.

One of the things I did before I left was to seek a briefing from the FBI to explain its failure to investigate the information in the DOJ IG appendix, regardless of whether the rest of the Intelligence Community did anything.

A first-term Trump-era congressional affairs official acknowledged to me that it was a huge and legitimate concern and that the FBI needed to answer for it—but asked for more time to “get their arms around it” before coming in to brief us.

No such FBI briefing occurred while I was still there.

July 22, 2025 - There is ‘clear evidence there was collusion’ between Biden WH and anti-Trump lawfare operators

Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade criminally charged eighteen people, including former President Donald Trump concerning the Fulton County 2020 election interference in Georgia. (Credit: Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images)

On Tuesday’s “Charlie Kirk Show,” “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed details from his forthcoming book Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump.

Marlow stated, “[T]here is clear evidence there was collusion from the Joe Biden White House with these various cases. One key example is Nathan Wade going to the White House two times for a total of I think it was about 16 hours of meetings at the White House, during the middle of this. … Nathan Wade was a family lawyer, he was a nobody, he would never be on a case like this in a million years.”

He added, “And him doing this somehow also got him invited to the White House, there’s no scenario that Nathan Wade was talking about in that White House other than how to get Donald Trump.”

He further stated that Congress will have to investigate this since people outside government can’t due to how disclosure rules work. (Breitbart News, 7/22/2025)  (Archive)

July 21, 2025 - Speaker Johnson has no issue compelling testimony from Obama

July 22, 2025 - Iran and China circumvent sanctions via notorious bank and Letitia James is implicated

Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)

The Standard Chartered Bank sanctions evasion case, now in court in the US Second Circuit, found at least $9.6 billion of illegal payments by the bank to Iranian and Hezbollah entities.

The case implicates NYAG Letitia James and the Federal Reserve for ignoring billions of these illicit payments and ignoring Treasury sanctions designations. Maximum Pressure is not being enforced because of the failures of the Fed and the NYAG.

Make sure this case continues.

** Call the Southern District of New York …. Office number: 212-637-2200

At least $9.6 billion of specifically identified illicit payments were made by SCB from its NYC branch to OFAC and known terrorist names. The $9.6 billion was found in internal trade reports turned over by bank whistleblowers and represents the first batch from SCB Dubai office that cleared through SCB NYC. There are estimated over $100 billion more of illegal payments that are more recent and from SCB China where it has 53 mainland branches that facilitate dollar trade payments for oil and war-making materials.

These payments were hidden by SCB from required disclosure in its ongoing Deferred Prosecution Agreement now under the jurisdiction of DCUSA Pirro and SDNY Clayton where both were briefed on SCB after their appointments. There are career blockers at each jurisdiction.

Involvement by the NYAG

In early 2024, NYAG was briefed by terrorist financing experts and the whistleblowers in detail on the illicit payments yet did nothing about it other than reapprove SCB annual license.

NYAG was briefed in two meetings in February and March 2024 about the $9,6 billion of illegal payments and did nothing but approve the annual renewal of SCB State banking license. One of meetings was recorded and clearly shows that NYAG officials recognized the payments were not previously known and not in prior SCB sanctions settlements. Five NYAG senior staff including Letitia James Deputy Scott Spiegleman were in all meetings. In late 2024, Spiegleman went to work for IBM which has a large tech contract running the SWIFT platform.  IBM Promontory advised SCB to hide currency trade data. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/22/2025)  (Archive)

July 23, 2025 - Grassley asks Kash Patel to review newly discovered thumb drives containing info on Clinton email scandal

Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015. (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) recently sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI Director Kash Patel requesting that the FBI review the unevaluated material related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information during her time as Secretary of State.

This untapped and unreviewed information has lived within thumb drives in the FBI’s custody inside a Northern Virginia offshoot office of the FBI’s Washington Field Office since 2018. This letter was sent in response to Chairman Grassley’s efforts to get the appendix to the DOJ OIG’s June 2018 report reviewing the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation, also known as the “Clinton annex,” declassified.

Chairmen Crawford and Grassley wrote, “The revelations contained in the declassified OIG appendix are at the heart of why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became distrusted by so many under your agency’s prior directors: a failure to impartially conduct its law enforcement and intelligence mission. Concerning the issue at hand, Comey’s FBI shockingly failed to review and exploit evidence in its own possession, even though they admitted in written memos the information was necessary to conduct a ‘thorough and complete investigation.’ The FBI also failed to review and exploit other foreign intelligence information.”

They continued, “Therefore, we now write to stress the importance that this material be immediately dug out from hiding and properly assessed. How evidence which purportedly includes information related to ‘former President Barack Obama’s emails’ and ‘network infrastructure diagrams for U.S. government classified networks,’ remained unreviewed by the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world is mind-numbing. We know you will not similarly ignore evidence in your agency’s possession, no matter where its exploitation or conclusions might lead.”

Read the full letter here.

Notably, the declassified Clinton Annex revealed that:

  • Russian-language reports were also obtained by the FBI of discussions between then-DNC head, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, with suggestions concerning the deletion of evidence on Hillary Clinton’s email servers, mention of FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and reports suggesting then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was in contact with Hillary Clinton’s staff.
  • DOJ OIG also relied on the now-debunked Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on the Russia collusion hoax during its review, once again shedding light on the damage caused by the ICA’s widely spread tentacles.

(House Intelligence, 7/29/2025) (Archive)

July 22, 2025 - Senate Republicans reopen the Clinton email investigation

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Senate Republicans are re-opening the Clinton email probe. It had to be done. Several thumb drives were never analyzed, with a detailed report showing that the FBI came up with laughable reasons not to do it, deviating from department policy.

As Matt Taibbi, a former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, noted, the 35-page annex to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report on the DOJ’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server and the 2016 election was a Keystone Cops operation.

With such glaring incompetence, it was reported last night that this probe will be re-examined.

Justice is coming, but before it does, many more media people are going to have meltdowns.

From Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) press release:

The DOJ OIG’s Clinton annex shows the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation, but then-FBI Director James Comey, as well as then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and others, failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry. The DOJ OIG report illustrates that the FBI failed to thoroughly and completely investigate the Clinton matter as a result, as well as vet the serious national security risks created by Clinton’s careless handling of highly classified information. According to the DOJ OIG, the thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum. The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not.

The FBI also obtained intelligence reports discussing purported communications between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who was chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the time, and two different individuals who worked for the Soros Open Society Foundations. The intelligence reports alleged that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy. The DOJ OIG Clinton annex shows Comey, McCabe and Strzok, among others, did not make serious investigative efforts to determine the veracity, or lack thereof, regarding the intelligence reports.

On July 5, 2016, Comey exonerated Clinton in a public statement regarding the investigation and recommended DOJ take no legal action to hold her accountable. Grassley’s oversight revealed Comey planned to exonerate Clinton even before interviewing her. Weeks later, on July 31, 2016, Comey’s FBI formally opened the bogus Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump’s disproven collusion with Russia. On that day, Strzok texted Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, saying: “And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one did, too, but that was to ensure we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS. So super glad to be on this voyage with you.”

Grassley cited Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation as evidence that Comey lacked the ability to maintain the public’s trust in the FBI, and was therefore rightfully terminated.

(Townhall, 7/23/2025) (Archive)

July 23, 2025 - House panel votes to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton over possible links to Ghislaine Maxwell

A House Oversight panel subcommittee voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over their alleged ties to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) introduced the motion for subpoenas during a Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee hearing, and it was approved by the Republican-led panel via voice vote, with no roll call taken.

The Clintons and several former top Justice Department officials — ex-FBI Director James Comey, one-time special counsel Robert Mueller and former Attorneys General Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales — were included in the list of subpoenas sought by Perry in order to “expand the full committee’s investigation into Ms. Maxwell.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) would need to formally issue the subpoenas to the Clintons and the others for them to be compelled to provide testimony or documents to the panel.

“Subpoenas will be issued in the future,” a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee told The Post.

(…) The subcommittee’s actions come after Comer subpoenaed Maxwell, who has been serving a 20-year prison sentence since 2022, to sit for a deposition with the Oversight Committee.

The deposition has tentatively been scheduled for Aug. 11, at the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, where Maxwell has been incarcerated since her conviction on sex-trafficking conspiracy charges. (Read more: New York Post, 7/23/2025)  (Archive)

July 23, 2025 - Tulsi Gabbard new doc release: "Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked"

New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump’s directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.

In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.

Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked by today’s release:

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc

LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election

TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.

LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election

TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.

LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.

TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.

Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept’s June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex” released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.

July 23, 2025 - Democrat from Russia hoax probe now top lawyer at Trump’s NSA - UPDATE: She's been fired

April Falcon Doss (Credit: public domain)

A top lawyer for President Donald Trump’s National Security Agency previously worked for Senate Democrats on their discredited probe attempting to tie Trump to Russia and has a history of partisan anti-Trump activism.

April Falcon Doss is the current general counsel for the NSA, the powerful cyber-intelligence agency, according to the agency’s website. A longtime veteran of the agency, Doss also worked as an NSA intelligence lawyer from 2003 to April 2016. But in between those two stints, she worked on the highly-partisan congressional investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

Just months into Trump’s first term as president, she took a high-level job working for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on the Senate Intelligence Committee, investigating supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election. Doss was the Democrats’ Senior Counsel for the committee’s Russia investigation, which conducted hundreds of interviews in its failed attempt to find evidence of conspiracy between Trump and Russia.

Doss is a transparently partisan activist who has written publicly about her opposition to Trump. She has called for Trump to be permanently banned from social media for staging an “insurrection,” attacked Republicans for opposing a crackdown on “disinformation,” and defended the treatment of Trump aides Carter Page and Michael Flynn at the hands of the intelligence state.

reported in June 2022 that the NSA, during the Biden administration, had re-hired Doss for the top role. The intelligence agency didn’t publicly announce the hire, it reported, because it didn’t want to “stir the hornet’s nest among Capitol Hill Republicans.” That’s because in the interim, Democrats, “experts,” and intelligence officials had decried it as improper — and ultimately blocked it — when Trump had attempted to name a Republican former House intelligence committee staffer to the same role. (Read more: Conservative Roof, 7/23/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE, 7/29/2025

Anti-Trump Democrat Russia Collusion Hoax Investigator Fired as NSA General Counsel