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July 23, 2025 - Tulsi Gabbard holds a WH press briefing after releasing intelligence documents on a years-long coup against Trump

Intelligence officials under former President Barack Obama omitted information indicating Russia had damaging material about Hillary Clinton’s mental and physical health during the 2016 campaign but chose not to release it, as they worked to find support for a narrative that Russia intervened to help elect President Donald Trump, according to newly declassified records.

The revelation comes from a long-classified House Intelligence Committee report made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday. The report, dated Sept. 18, 2020, says Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service accessed internal Democratic National Committee communications in 2016 that contained detailed allegations about Clinton’s physical and psychological health, including claims she was on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers” and suffering from a mix of “intensified psycho-emotional problems.”

July 23, 2025 - DNI Gabbard: Media is ‘complicit’ in Russia collusion hoax

Wednesday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reacted to “crazy questions” from members of the media during a press conference about her efforts to expose so-called Deep State actors alleged to have knowingly promoted debunked claims of Russia-Trump collusion to alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Gabbard told host Jesse Watters the media were “complicit” in promoting those claims.

“You mentioned, Director, that there’s, I guess, Deep State actors who are still trying to prevent the truth from coming out,” Watters said. “What do you mean by that?”

Gabbard replied, “There are still people, it won’t surprise you, within the Intelligence Community who don’t want this information to see the light of day. Some of them may be implicated in the crafting of it, others are concerned about people being embarrassed, others are concerned about accountability, and what else we will discover as we continue down this path towards the truth and bring about accountability for the American people. That’s really what this is all about, and why it does such a disservice. I was standing there in the White House Press Briefing Room and hearing some of these crazy questions being asked by members of the media who are trying to distract and deflect away from the historic expose that we have brought forward, that once again, puts into question the American people’s ability to trust the integrity of our Democratic Republic.”

“And the reason why that is, and it’s similar to the Deep State actors who have been trying to stop us from releasing this, is that we have members of the media who were complicit in this from the very beginning, who were leaked early copies of this, or at least lines from this, January 2017 Obama manufactured Intelligence Assessment,” she continued. “They printed what they were fed, people like Ellen Nakashima from The Washington Post, who, by the way, went on to win a Pulitzer Prize because for years, she was so good at lying and not telling the truth to the American people that they gave her an award for it. These people are still here. Ellen Nakashima is still harassing people who work within the Intelligence Community who are calling up and reporting her using burner phones to try to ask them harassing questions. There are a lot of Deep State actors still here within Washington.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/24/2025) (Archive)

July 23, 2025 - The Russians kept quiet about DNC emails that said Hillary suffered from psycho-emotional problems, fits of anger, and took "heavy tranquilizers"

 

July 24, 2025 - Re-watch Comey’s 2018 interview with Bret Baier — after all we know now, it hits different…

Sometimes it takes a second watch for the truth to really slap you in the face, and this is one of those moments.

James Comey’s 2018 sit-down with Bret Baier may have flown under the radar back then, but now, after everything Tulsi has exposed and the DOJ’s new Strike Force aimed directly at Obama’s regime, yeah, this Fox Interview feels like watching a guilty man squirm under fluorescent lights.

Bret may not have realized it at the time, but he pulled off a master class in cornering a liar without even raising his voice. What we’re watching now, in hindsight, is Comey unraveling on national TV. Tripping over his words, dodging basic questions, and desperately trying to explain how the Director of the FBI didn’t know Hillary Clinton funded the Steele Dossier that sparked the entire Russia collusion hoax.

People’s dogs knew this, but Comey didn’t?

That’s a hard pill to swallow, and Bret let him know.

Comey launched a full-blown investigation into a sitting US president, based in part on a (fake) document he claims he didn’t even know was bankrolled by the DNC and Hillary’s campaign. It’s laughable. The man was either criminally incompetent or lying through his teeth. Most likely a bit of both.

Bret presses him, and you can see it: the darting eyes, the tight-lipped half-smile, and the body language of a man who’s praying the commercial break rolls in to save him. He even claims he never briefed Obama on the dossier, something Bret finds fantastical. You can practically see him thinking, “Are you serious, man?”

And now, in 2025, with the Strike Force knocking on doors and declassified intel crushing the fake narrative, you really have to wonder how many frantic phone calls this lurching buffoon has made to his legal counsel in the last 48 hours.

Watch the full interview again. This time, with 2025 eyes…

(Read more: Revolver News, 7/24/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE: More from the lying liars

h/t Daily Caller, 7/24/2025

July 25, 2025 - Media Matters in meltdown: Soros-funded censorship group on verge of collapse amid lawsuits, layoffs

Media Matters for America — the far-left censorship group that spent decades smearing conservatives — is on the verge of implosion after sustained legal and financial pressure from Republican leadership and X owner Elon Musk, the New York Times revealed this week.

Media Matters, the leftist nonprofit notorious for its scorched-earth campaigns against conservative media, is reportedly in a state of crisis, reeling from a series of lawsuits, federal investigations, mass layoffs, infighting, and donor panic. The New York Times now confirms what many on the right have suspected for months: the group’s legal and financial foundation is cracking, and its future is in jeopardy.

The collapse follows an aggressive legal response to what Elon Musk and Republican officials describe as Media Matters’ attempt to trigger a boycott of X, the social media platform owned by Musk. After the group published a report accusing X of placing major brand ads next to pro-Nazi content, Musk responded by accusing the group of manipulating data. X filed a lawsuit alleging fraud and defamation. Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri followed up with investigations into the group’s funding and alleged deception of donors.

Despite claiming it has “no plans to close,” Media Matters has quietly cut back its attacks, slashed staff, and even floated shuttering operations entirely, according to interviews and internal documents obtained by the Times.

The group has racked up over $15 million in legal bills in less than two years, alienated donors, and now reportedly faces a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation — revealed through documents obtained by Reuters and not yet publicly confirmed by the commission — into whether it colluded with other liberal organizations to suppress advertising on Musk’s platform.

Breitbart News has reported extensively on the group’s unraveling, including a federal judge’s decision to allow Musk’s lawsuit to proceed to trial in April 2025. The lawsuit accuses Media Matters of deploying “coordinated, inauthentic behavior” to mislead advertisers. This conduct, X claims, sparked an advertiser exodus. According to the New York Times, the advertiser boycott, which X attributes to Media Matters’ report, cost the platform more than $75 million in lost revenue.

The group’s president, Angelo Carusone, has blamed the Trump administration for using federal power to “silence critics.” In May, the FTC issued a sweeping investigative demand for documents related to Media Matters’ communications with other liberal watchdog and advertising groups, echoing concerns raised by Elon Musk that such entities coordinated advertiser boycotts under the guise of “brand safety.”

Once a powerhouse in Democrat-aligned media warfare, bolstered by billionaire donors like George Soros and nonprofit structures that shield donor identities, Media Matters now finds itself hemorrhaging cash, morale, and relevance. Even longtime allies have reportedly distanced themselves, and one top donor has allegedly urged the group to shut down altogether. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 - Team Obama attempts to rescue themselves following the disclosure of Obama’s actions in the Russia hoax scandal

President Obama spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump at the White House to discuss the transition of power. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

Aides who worked for Barack Obama are desperate to shut down the burgeoning scandal surrounding their former boss and have devised a laughable plan to prevent it from reaching the public further.

(…) Now, NBC News reveals that Team Obama is desperate to find a way to ensure the scandal eventually dissipates and put a stop to more “unchecked allegations.”

From NBC News:

To former aides who worked in Barack Obama’s White House, the Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.

Still, they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine, interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal.

These people say the events of the last week have turned into a messaging balancing act between unnecessarily giving oxygen to the claims that Obama ordered a false intelligence analysis to show Russia had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election and leaving the potential for unchecked accusations to balloon. Many of those who talked to NBC News were not authorized to speak publicly about strategy.

What is their brilliant scheme? It turns out that they plan to reach so-called Republicans via newspaper editorial boards and via members of Congress.

“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official said. That person said it was important to reach “mainstream Republicans,” who would listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as “beyond the pale.”

Do they actually think any GOPer, even more moderates, care one bit what the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post has to say?

Moreover, how many are going to listen to leftists and RINOS in Congress who dismiss Obama’s treason as a nothingburger? (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/26/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 - Ghislaine Maxwell gives DOJ details about 100 people linked to Epstein

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislane Maxwell (Credit: CNN clipping)

Ghislaine Maxwell told the DOJ about “100 different people” linked to Jeffrey Epstein, according to her lawyer David Oscar Markus.

Maxwell never pleaded the Fifth.

The comments start at 5:53 in the video:

I think Ghislaine did a wonderful job. She literally answered every question. She didn’t say, “You know what, don’t ask me that, I’m not gonna talk about this person.” She was asked maybe about 100 different people, she answered questions about everybody and she didn’t hold anything back.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a jury convicted her of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and conspiracy.

Maxwell has already said “she’s willing to testify before Congress on Epstein’s apparent full client list.”

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and his team questioned Maxwell for two days after Attorney General Pam Bondi reached out to Markus. (Read more: Legal Insurrection, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 - 20 CIA and FBI agents confirm Obama was behind Russia hoax and reveal his hiding place

(…) According to new reporting from Fox News, twenty CIA and FBI agents have now confirmed that Obama didn’t just know about the Russia Hoax, he ran it. And to keep it buried, he locked the evidence away in a CIA vault, where it sat hidden for nearly a decade.

Yes, America, Obama could be in some very hot water.

Revolver:

This is a seismic shift, what many of you voted for. It’s a sign that the Obama regime’s protective shield may finally be cracking.

For the first time in about a decade, the barrel of our crooked government might finally be pointed in the right direction. Instead of targeting innocent Americans, the elite liars who abused their power and cooked up one of the most dangerous political hoaxes in US history are finally in the crosshairs, right where they belong.

But there’s something you need to understand about this “Strike Force” operation. It’s not just your average investigation. It’s a helluva lot more than that, and the Obama cronies, like James Clapper, are smart to lawyer up.

So… what exactly is a DOJ “Strike Force,” and why should it have Obama’s inner circle panicking and calling their lawyers

As Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, put it best:

You can read the entire piece here:

Important details you need to know about DOJ’s new ‘Strike Force’ against Obama…

The walls may finally be closing in on Barry. (Read more: Revolver, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 - Lefties, illegals, & minorities are finally experiencing "Consequence Culture"

(Credit: Brandon Smith/Alt-Market)

Travel back in time to the year 2021 and you might find yourself in the middle of a bizarre debate over the virtues of “cancel culture”. At the time, the political left was aggressively trying to secure long-term power within the US through a multi-pronged psychological offensive – A war on the minds of the masses designed to force Americans into submission.

A big part of their strategy relied on the fundamentals of Cultural Marxism: The combination of Marxist mob tactics, artificial consensus and the exploitation of minority grievances as a vehicle for controlling speech. This was the rise of the “woke movement” to the halls of government.

The root of their power was not martial. In fact, the political left is weak and largely astroturf with minimal ability to project power in a physical way. If conservatives wanted to destroy them tomorrow the task would be relatively easy. We don’t because many of us still have hope that our problems can be solved through peaceful discourse.

What the leftists did have at their disposal was a massive institutional apparatus of government agencies, corporations, Big Tech and NGOs. The full might of the establishment cabal was on their side, which meant they had the means to enforce “cancel culture” and silence their ideological opponents.

I don’t think there has ever been a psychological war on a population that was more pervasive and tyrannical. Not since Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China has a citizenry been under such a siege by their own government. The fact that we survived this event, defeated the onslaught and actually grew a grassroots anti-woke movement without the use of social media forums is truly mind blowing.

Very few people today realize the level of victory that was achieved. We thwarted perhaps the largest 4th Generation “mind war” ever devised and we did it without any institutional access. We won by simple truth and word of mouth.

Another tool that the leftists and globalists used was the mobilization of illegal migrants, gays and minorities as a shield against criticism or counter-protest. If conservatives and moderates fought back with superior debate or our own protest groups, we were immediately accused of racism, xenophobia and homophobia. Merely presenting an opposing view to the progressive machine was considered an act of evil.

Large contingents within all of these groups were happy to go along with the agenda for numerous reasons.

First and foremost, DEI allowed them to easily game the system. They could snatch up grants, subsidies, welfare, and leapfrog over more talented and more intelligent competitors in education and business simply because of their “marginalized status”.

Secondly, the system under progressives was two-tier; leftists activists, illegals and minorities were given preferential protection while breaking the law and causing chaos. Conservatives were labeled terrorists for any act of defiance. We were banned from the largest web platforms. Some of us were targeted by the online mob and lost our jobs. Others were “de-banked” and threatened with ostracism from the economy. Still others were imprisoned.

This imbalance of the law bred a culture of entitlement, especially within the LGBT cult and the black community. Illegal aliens were given carte blanche to enter the country and feed like parasites. Not only that, but they were treated like heroes coming to save the US from “population decline” and “labor shortages”.

They all participated in the game willfully and joyfully.They were ALL part of the problem. But, of course, none of them ever thought the party would end or that they might end up facing consequences for their behavior. They joined in the feeding frenzy without considering the inevitable clap-back. (Read more: Brandon Smith/Alt-Markets, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 - Devin Nunes discusses the DNI revelations released by Tulsi Gabbard; draws attention to the Mar-a-Lago raid

Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appears on OAN with former Congressman Matt Gaetz to discuss the information released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

As noted by Nunes, why did it take this long for the information to surface?  That question showcases how corrupt the DC system -the Intelligence Community- is in its effort to protect itself from accountability.

Nunes also points to the raid on Mar-a-Lago as a possible entry point for investigative accountability.  WATCH:

Let me refresh on something that could potentially be a revelation down the road.

In 2022 a Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump against Hillary Clinton. [65-page Ruling Here] The media enjoyed ridiculing Trump using the words of the judge who dismissed the case.  As noted by the Washington Times, “Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

When I originally read the 108-page Donald Trump lawsuit filed in March 2022, it took me a few moments, and then I realized this was not a lawsuit; this was a legal transfer mechanism created by lawyers to establish a proprietary information silo.

Here’s a totally different take on the issues surrounding the Trump -v- Clinton lawsuit, which -from the outset- I always believed was going to be dismissed because suing all of those characters under the auspices of a civil RICO case was never the objective.

In the aftermath of the filing, the silo created by the lawsuit is grounded upon attorney-client privilege, a legal countermeasure to a predictable DOJ-NSD lawfare maneuver, which unfolded in the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid and the subsequent Jack Smith targeting operation.

In March 2022 President Trump filed a civil lawsuit against: Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe. [108-Page Lawsuit Here]

When I was about one-third of the way through reading the lawsuit, I initially stopped and said to myself this is going to take a lot of documentary evidence to back up the claims in the assertions.  Dozens of attachments would be needed and hundreds of citations to the dozens of attachments would be mandatory.  Except, they were not there.

After reading further, while completely understanding the background material that was being described in the filing, I realized this wasn’t a lawsuit per se’.  The 108-pages I was holding in my hands was more akin to legal transfer mechanism from President Trump to lawyers who needed it.

The lawsuit filing was contingent upon a series of documents that would be needed to support the claims within it.

Whoever wrote the lawsuit had obviously reviewed the evidence to support the filing.  However, the attachments and citations were missing.

That was weird.

That’s when I realized the purpose of the lawsuit.  In hindsight, things became clear when the FBI later raided the home of Donald Trump, and suddenly the motive to confiscate documents, perhaps the missing lawsuit attachments and citations, surfaced.

With the manipulative, and I said intentional, “ongoing investigation” angle created by the John Durham probe essentially blocking public release of declassified documents showing the efforts of all the lawsuit participants (Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax), in 2021 President Trump needed a legal way to secure and more importantly share evidence.

Think of it like the people around Trump wanting to show lawyers the evidence in the documents.  However, because of the construct of the lawfare being deployed against Trump, any lawyer would need a *reason* to review the evidence.   The Trump -v- Clinton et al lawsuit becomes that ‘reason.’

The “documents” (classified or not) were likely reviewed by lawyers in preparation for the lawsuit.  This is their legal justification for reviewing the documents.  In essence, the lawsuit was a transfer mechanism permitting the Trump legal team to review the evidence on behalf of their client, former President Donald Trump.

Once the formation of the lawsuit was established, the retainer and acceptance of the lawyers to represent their client cemented, the legal counsel, discussion and information within legal duties/obligations of those who represent the plaintiff (Trump) becomes an information silo.  In addition to previous executive privilege established by President Trump himself; outside government there is now another silo to defend against the motives of the Lawfare crew (DOJ), the attorney-client privilege.

The lawsuit itself then becomes a transfer mechanism permitting sharing of the documents and providing legal cover for the reviewers (lawyers).  The details within the 108-page filing constitute the claims of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which were established by the evidentiary documents later seized by the DOJ and FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

“Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

There were no attachments and/or citations to the documentary evidence in the 108-page filing, because there was a legal risk to citing evidence with a status in dispute by the corrupt people in Main Justice and the FBI.

Secondarily, there was an obstruction risk to the President in 2022, if his legal team was to publish citations that were part of an ongoing investigation (John Durham).   However, this doesn’t negate the value of constructing the information silo, an attorney-client privilege.

The lawsuit was dismissed in March 2022.

In August 2022 the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.

If the documents chased by the FBI were part of the lawsuit established by President Trump and his legal team via Trump -v- Clinton, then the material seized by the FBI would be -in part- attorney client work product.  Lawfully obtained, constitutionally declassified and legally protected material.

According to later reports all of the documents were returned to President Trump at the conclusion of the Jack Smith investigation.

I think Devin Nunes is right to draw attention to the motive of the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago.

Given the nature of the FBI working collaboratively with the Clinton crew in 2016/2017, I genuinely suspect it was the underpinning evidence to support the claims of the Trump -vs- Clinton lawsuit the FBI were looking for. (Conservative Treehouse, 7/26/2025)  (Archive)

July 26, 2025 - John Bolton didn't brief Trump on classified memo showing John Brennan manufactured Trump-Putin collusion intel

(…) Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry revealed last night that Bolton had a classified memo in his possession that showed how former CIA Director John Brennan helped manufacture intelligence linking Trump to Vladimir Putin. Still, he never briefed Trump on the matter.

Guess what he did instead?

He stuck it in a National Security Council safe because he supposedly believed the intel. What a snake.

“Sources tell me in 2018 former Trump Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo summarizing the explosive report exposing how Brennan cooked up Putin-Trump intel, but Bolton stuck it in an NSC safe and never briefed Trump, believing the Brennan intel,” Sperry wrote on X.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/28/2025) (Archive)

John Bolton’s Classified Bombshell: How a Neocon Cover-Up May Have Sparked Criminal Liability and Prolonged The Russia Hoax Narrative Continue! RETWEET

In a stunning revelation, journalist Paul Sperry reports that in 2018, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo exposing how CIA Director John Brennan fabricated Putin-Trump intelligence. Rather than briefing President Trump, Bolton allegedly stashed it in an NSC safe, a decision that could ignite criminal liability. By concealing evidence of a potential intelligence hoax, Bolton may have obstructed justice, a felony with no statute of limitations (SOL) if tied to an ongoing crime. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3282, SOL typically runs five years, but concealment can extend it—especially if the cover-up perpetuates a fraud against the government, as this might suggest.

Trump faced not just leftist vitriol but neocon ire for rejecting forever wars. He obliterated ISIS in weeks, deterred North Korean aggression, and bolstered the military, deploying it decisively—like the swift, clean strike on Iran that quelled its conflict with Israel. Yet, hawks like Bolton fumed as Trump spurned their Ukraine-Russia quagmire, refusing $300 billion in aid. This neocon backlash, fused with Brennan’s alleged ruse, fueled Trump’s first-term torment. Bolton’s silence may have shielded a narrative that painted Trump as Putin’s pawn, a charge now unraveling. As the truth emerges, the neocons’ war lust and Bolton’s vaulted secret could redefine this saga. (NOTE: any discussion about criminal statutes is personal opinion and not Legal advice)

July 25, 2025 - Tulsi Gabbard discusses Obama’s Russia hoax on The Matt Gaetz Show

In an exclusive interview on The Matt Gaetz Show, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reveals explosive evidence tying President Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper to the origins of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax. Gabbard details how senior intelligence officials were overruled, how discredited sources like the Steele dossier were knowingly used, and how a DOJ strike force is now investigating criminal referrals. She says this wasn’t about national security. It was a political hit job against Donald Trump.

July 27, 2025 - CIA Ratcliffe confirms more evidence in the Russia collusion hoax is about to drop and it implicates Hillary Clinton

CIA’s been working w DOJ to declassify for release–likely this week–explosive new info from long-class. Appendix to Durham Report showing FBI accelerated plan by Hillary to frame Trump as a Russian traitor. Underlying intel puts Brennan, Comey, Hillary in perjury jeopardy.

“What intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and bearing the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to.”

New details have emerged regarding a highly classified intelligence memorandum relating to alleged plans by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russian hackers. As Sleuth News previously covered, the memorandum was originally created by Russian intelligence and forwarded to the CIA by the Dutch, who had infiltrated Russian groups.

Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Palmieri on the 2016 campaign trail. (Credit: public domain)

According to sources familiar with the matter, the memorandum is based on an email sent in March 2016 from Jennifer Palmieri, a senior official in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, to Leonard Bernardo, a Democrat operative with ties to the party’s leadership employed by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. This email, sources claim, outlined a strategic plan that included leveraging the FBI to amplify allegations of Russian collusion against then-candidate Donald Trump, weeks before the Russians are alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee.

The latest report builds on Sleuth News’ earlier reporting and adds to 2023 reporting by the New York Times which took note of Special Counsel Durham’s inquiries relating to Bernardo. The Times report also suggested, without evidence, that US officials viewed the intelligence memorandums as Russian disinformation, and offered no explanation for why the Russians would have moved to cut off Dutch access if the memorandums were in fact a disinformation product.

For Special Counsel Durham’s part, he found no evidence of any attempt by the FBI to vet the intelligence:

As previously noted, Bernardo is also allegedly tied to the Renteria memo, involving an agreement memorialized in an email from Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Bernardo, which outlined an alleged conversation between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and staffer Amanda Renteria where Lynch agreed not to let the investigation into Clinton’s email server progress too far.

Jennifer Palmieri was previously known to be tied to an email released by Wikileaks which notes a February 2016 “swift boat plan”, further buttressing the core elements of the alleged Russian intelligence memorandums:

According to Sleuth News sources, Palmieri is the foreign policy advisor referenced in John Ratcliffe’s declassified memorandum regarding Clinton’s approval of a plan to tie Trump to Russian hackers. (Read more below)

July 27, 2025 - Schweizer: Former CIA Director Gina Haspel should be investigated

Gina Haspel swears in as the first woman to direct the Central Intelligence Agency, on May 21, 2018. (Credit: public domain)

On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” GAI President Peter Schweizer said former CIA Director Gina Haspel should undergo further investigation regarding the alleged Russia collusion intelligence efforts by former President Barack Obama and his top officials.

Schweizer said, “One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel. She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London. So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”

On former staffers denying they saw any of President Joe Biden’s mental decline, Schweizer said, “The notion that White House staffers were insisting that ‘he seems fine to us’ is ridiculous. Just look at the numbers. In 2021, he had 58 known phone calls with foreign leaders. By 2024, that was down to 20. Look at the press conferences. He went from having nine solo press conferences to zero in 2024. There were conscious decisions being made to make sure he was not being exposed to the public.”

(Breitbart, 7/27/2025)  (Archive)

July 27, 2025 - Ratcliffe: Lisa Page confirmed under oath the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to arrest Hillary Clinton

(Timeline editor’s note: Although this story was covered on July 13, 2018, I realized the importance of revisiting Lisa Page’s timeline tag to refresh my memory. Be sure and check her tag below to see the broader picture that Ratcliffe wants us to revisit.

We have been compiling information all these years, for this moment. Please feel free to share far and wide.)

July 28, 2025 - Former FBI Peter Strzok deletes all of his @X posts; Wayback Machine excludes his @X address

July 29, 2025 - ‘The Real Russian Conspiracy’: Turley explains how media and Clinton campaign ‘derailed’ Trump’s first term

GWU law professor Jonathan Turley appeared on Fox News Tuesday to explain the timeline that led to the derailment of President Donald Trump’s first term.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released declassified evidence showing that former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” following Trump’s 2016 victory. During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Turley noted the role of the media in perpetuating the narrative.

“It’s fascinating the response of the media with the Russian collusion narrative that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly. They denied that they funded the Steele dossier. But they took that, didn’t question it. And it turns out that all these other people had heard about Hillary Clinton’s plan, but these reporters that got Pulitzers for this didn’t seem to bother to pursue those types of leads,” Turley said.

Turley said pivotal moments unfolded as early as July 2016, when CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton’s plan to fabricate a Russian collusion narrative.

“Laura, we’re finally seeing parts of the timeline filled in, and it’s creating a very damning picture. Remember, in July 2016, [then-CIA Director] John Brennan went to Obama and briefed him that Hillary Clinton was going to invent this Russian collusion theory to distract from her email scandal,” Turley told host Laura Ingraham. “And so that was back in July. And then we now know, because of recently declassified material, that months later, it was Brennan who intervened, overruled people at CIA, and put the Steele dossier, this infamous debunked report, into the assessment being used by the Obama White House at the very end of Obama’s term.”

Turley laid out how foreign sources were aware of the FBI’s involvement before the investigation was officially launched. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 7/29/2025)  (Archive)

July 29, 2025 - Judicial Watch: ‘China is happy’: Emails reveal Biden DHS and FBI iInvestigations of Tim Walz and communist China

Judicial Watch announced today it received 47 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit about Gov. Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party. DHS and the FBI counter-intelligence investigation into Walz’s CCP connections determined that “China is happy” with Walz being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. Walz’s connections to the CCP were extensive and a concern to the intelligence community, according to the documents produced.

The documents were released in response to a Judicial Watch March 2025 FOIA lawsuit for lawsuit  (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-00625))

(…) An email dated August 6, 2024, the day Walz was officially named the Democrat vice presidential nominee, shows Homeland Security personnel discussing how they were aware communist China had a plan to target politicians likely to end up in DC, specifically Walz and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo.

A Homeland Security official whose name is redacted states:

Walt’s got the Vp. You all have no idea how these feeds into what prc [People’s Republic of China] has been doing here with him and local gov. It’s seriously a line of the intel. Target someone who is perceived they can get to DC

Another official responds: “this speaks too to the rin [raw intelligence] you reviewed for us”.

A participant adds: “the perception narrative that has been pushed with one of the local ngos [non-governmental organizations] had direct ties to the former Gov here in Nevada. FBI has lead on a couple of things the only issue is being in the 9th circuit.”

A participant states: “Good to know and yes there involvement with HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] and fbi on things here”.

Another adds: “If anyone has interest I can give provide context in a classified setting.”

An official noted: “But this has more of strategic impact then obviously the general public knows”.

A BBC article titled “‘Harris’s no 2 taught in China’: Chinese internet reacts to Walz.” is posted to the non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat, on August 7, 2024, by a redacted Homeland Security participant in the group.

The article states that Walz “spent a year in the south-eastern province of Guandong in 1989 – a topic that was trending on Weibo with 12 million views.”

 “The fact that it happened in 1989 – the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre – was not lost on those commenting on Chinese social media,” the article adds.

A participant in the August 7, 2024, group chat with a name states: “China is happy”

Another noted: “you need components”

Someone adds: “and CIFTs [Counterintelligence Task Force] too”

A group chat participant states: “with FBI mission in the CI [counterintelligence] field i believe they need to get included….” 

Another clarifies: “CITF [corrects the previous acronym above]”

A group chat participant adds: “I think this conversation is FOIA-able…”

A participant states: “makes a great point about CITF coordination, I will state though that folks need to be cognizant of who the primary players even with FBI being the executive agency for CITF. ie dealing with SAPs [Special Access Programs] here so CI depends on what the problem set is and who will take point”

On October 29, 2024, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said a Homeland Security whistleblower told the committee that Walz was a “target” of the Chinese Communist Party as “someone they can get to DC.” The whistleblower also disclosed “that officials from DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have been involved in the Department’s investigative and/or intelligence work connected with the CCP, the state of Minnesota, and Governor Walz.”

The documents show a skeptical internal DHS discussion about Wang’s contacts with Walz.

In the nation-state threat Bi-weekly sync conversation dated September 12, 2024, a DHS participant who has a redacted dhs.gov email address states: “I need someones thoughts (please keep internal to DHS)”

Another participant explains: “so this person requested a meeting with Walz due to the house investigation they have walz for his relationship china. Then he drafted this letter for upcoming travel he has to china assuming he will get detained”.

The person who requested the meeting with Walz, Chang Wang, is a U.S. citizen, an attorney, adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, and vice chair of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. Wang writes to Walz that he fears being “forcibly detained” upon an upcoming visit to China. He also includes a copy of his itinerary while in China which includes being a witness in a court case.

One participant responds: “I read this as TNR but what am I missing”.

Another adds: “that’s what it looks like…begs the question, if he anticipates being detained, why go? weird.” 

Someone replies: “I know right”.

Another group chat participant adds: “I am working with hsi (Homeland Security Investigations) on it”.

A question follows: “what is TNR?”

Another participant clarifies: “transnational repression”.

One person elaborates: “i’m not sure it counts as TNR since it seems to assume being snatched while in China, so it isn’t crossing borders. if he claims they have been pressuring or seeking to coerce him while he’s home in, apparently MN, that would count as TNR. I don’t know the background on him. [Redacted] is my TNR lead.” 

Another offers: “can reach [redacted] as well, my China lead.

A group chat participant writes: “mind you, if he’s a known dissident they probably were pressuring him while he was in the U.S. If he went back anyway, Navalny style, and got pinched, it’s just that part that might not be treated as TNR. There’s no TNR statute per se (only proposals) so FBI investigates it as elements of the underlying offenses (like the stalking, extortion, assault, kidnapping, etc.” 

Another group chat participant adds: “Not my area but his itinerary entry for 9/29 is interesting appears he is a witness for the plaintiffs in a court case. Could be related to why he thinks he may be detained. Also is there additional context on why he requested that meeting or the proposed topic?”

“These documents uncovered by Judicial Watch show that the Biden administration covered up intelligence concerns about Tim Walz’s connections to China. This is a major scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Judicial Watch, 7/29/2025)  (Archive)

July 30, 2025 - Clapper crony threatened DNI whistleblower who refused to sign off on fabricated Intel Assessment

A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.

The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.

The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA that outgoing President Barack Obama ordered, which falsely assessed that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election. An earlier release by the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed the senior intelligence official — whom her office identified as an ODNI whistleblower — had been charged with conducting a “scrub,” which is a review, of the intelligence in the non-compartmented ICA. Emails released last week by Gabbard show the top analyst expressing shock over the ICA’s reliance on the Steele dossier because the versions the analyst reviewed included no intel relying on the Hillary Clinton-based fairy tale of opposition research.

According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 — more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist’s source explained, occurred because the analyst’s efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC), and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections.

Those notes capture the analyst claiming in early January that his supervisor told him, “There is reporting you are not allowed to see,” adding that “if you saw it, you would agree” with the ICA. After noting he concurred “with varying confidence with most of the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgements,” the analyst explained that he “would need to review any reporting myself in order to consider it.”

“You need to TRUST ME on this,” Clapper’s crony countered, stating to the analyst he “would need to demonstrate [his] ability to ‘outgrow’” his refusal to sign off on assessments he did not share, in order to be recommended for a promotion. The analyst remained firm, according to the notes, which led his exasperated superior to reply, “I need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!”

The DIA is the Department of Defense’s “Defense Intelligence Agency,” and the notes explain that ODNI sought “to bring DIA on board as an additional IC Agency signing on to the 2017 ICA.” The ODNI whistleblower then relayed that the conversation turned to the “DIA’s supposed trust in me, and the necessity of me proving my ‘corporate IC officer’ bona-fides by doing what it took to bring DIA on board …” The analyst refused to alter his assessment, and the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) in signing off on the final non-compartmented versions of the ICA.

“I remember this conversation very clearly,” the analyst explained, stressing “it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care.” “I was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Officer’s] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft, and ethics,” the notes concluded. (Read more: The Federalist, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE 8/17/2025

July 29, 2025 - Newly declassified Strzok/Page texts detail open “counter intelligence” investigations BEFORE Crossfire Hurricane