Consider this story: An outgoing president and his top officials are told that there is no evidence of Russian collusion or influence in the national election. The White House then moved to suppress the intelligence assessment and reverse the conclusions, while false claims were leaked to the press.
That is not just a major but a Pulitzer-level story, right?
Apparently not. The legacy media has largely ignored the declassified evidence and possible criminal referral on the Obama administration seeding the Russian collusion narrative just before the first Trump Administration.
It supports allegations in the real Russian conspiracy: the conspiracy to create a false Russian collusion scandal to undermine the election and administration of Donald Trump in 2016.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested last week that intelligence was “manufactured and politicized” despite countervailing conclusions from American intelligence that there was no collusion or influence on the election.
Critics have noted that CBS only covered the story to refute it.
The release of this information is historically significant, as it finally allows the public to see how this effort began with the Clinton campaign and was then actively cultivated by Obama officials.
We previously learned that the Clinton campaign spent millions to create the infamous Steele dossier and then hid their role from the public.
Attorney Marc Elias, the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign, pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was indicted but acquitted in a criminal trial.)
During the campaign, reporters asked about the possible connection to the campaign, but Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier. When journalists discovered after the election that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the Steele dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie, they met with nothing but shrugs from the Clinton staff.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Elias denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman declared, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”
Elias was back when John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, was questioned by Congress on the Steele dossier and denied categorically any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS. Sitting beside him was Elias, who reportedly said nothing to correct the misleading information given to Congress.
Not only did Clinton reportedly spent over $10 million on the report, but Obama was briefed that she was going to create a Russian collusion narrative as part of her campaign.
Aware of that Clinton effort, these new documents suggest that Obama and his aides actively sought to affirm the allegations just before Trump’s inauguration. The FBI then ramped up its own efforts despite also being told that the Steele dossier was unreliable and contradicted.
I disagree with the use of the charge of treason being thrown around with this release. Based on this evidence, it would be hard to make a criminal case against Obama, let alone the specific charge of treason. However, there are good-faith allegations raised about prior congressional testimony of key players in the Obama Administration. There may be viable criminal allegations ranging from perjury to obstruction to making false statements to federal investigators.
It is too early to gauge the basis for possible criminal charges. However, the release of this new evidence is both historically and legally significant. There is now a legitimate concern over a conspiracy to create this false narrative to undermine the incoming Administration. It proved successful in derailing the first Trump Administration. By the time the allegations were debunked, much of the first term had been exhausted. That is worthy of investigation and the public has a right to expect transparency on these long withheld documents.
The silence of the legacy media is hardly surprising, given the key role the media played in spreading these false claims. Most media outlets find themselves in an uncomfortable position, having fostered an alleged conspiracy for years. Most reporters are not keen on making a case against themselves in spreading of these false claims.
“JOHN DURHAM NEVER HAD A CHANCE.”
The problem is VENUE CORRUPTION within the judicial branch.
A “FAIR TRIAL” for the prosecution and against the DEEP DEEP STATE “SWAMP” in D.C. and the Northeast is impossible.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
“47% DEMOCRAT – 24% REPUBLICAN”
Donald Trump never had a chance. Donald Trump was tried for 34 felonies in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in the Civic Center neighborhood.
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Manhattan, which is also New York County, is a predominantly Democratic area. Based on a historical report from October 3, 2023, for the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election, 23.90% of voters in the statewide primary election were registered Republicans, compared to 46.82% registered Democrats.
Seriously, they had Sussmann dead to rights, he even charged the campaign for the time he spent doing the crime! But there was no way a DC jury was going to convict him. At the very least Durham put the facts into evidence for any later trials.
Based on this referral and additional already known information, the FBI and the DOJ have enough predicate to begin an intensive criminal investigation. This under a normal Constitutional Republic would demand a Special Counsel and full investigative support from the DOJ. Conspiracy to commit Sedition, Obstruction of Justice, False Statements under Oath, and criminal collusion by many Journalists and their employers. This conspiracy involves hundreds of knowingly culpable elected and unelected officials. The fraud committed on the FISC and the criminal use of the FISA process should be enough to put some of the leaders of this attempted sedition in jeopardy!!!!!!!
We have our instructions.”
As someone who was destroyed by bureaucratic systems. Here is the real deal:
Most government bureaucracies create a “Comedy of Errors” that harms and destroys the wrong people. Most government institutions aren’t competent enough to pull off a premeditated conspiracy. Basically, bureaucracies build false-foundations then go full speed ahead.
When this Comedy of Errors collapses, everybody points fingers at the other guy. This is summary of world history in a nutshell!
Thank you professor for addressing this scandal. There have been so many Democrat scandals, I cannot say which one was the biggest. The “Joe Biden is sharp as a tack!” scandal? The Joe Biden shake down of a Chinese businessman scandal? The USAID grift scandal? The Comey Hillary Clinton email server scandal? The Joe Biden pre-emptive pardons scandal? And now the manufactured intelligence Russia conspiracy scandal. And I have no doubt I am missing a few.
During the debates, Biden directly referred to U.S. IC (intel community) assessment that Hunter’s laptop had all the classic hallmarks of Russian disinformation. .. no one in the IC, the media or the debate moderators questioned that as ‘fact’.
I regret to report I now suspect not even Putin and Lavrov want anything to do with any of these people. .. Biden or Trump.
*I notice both the laptop and Jeffery Epstein’s files were confiscated by the FBI in 2019 .. . never to be seen again.
They would have confiscated your brain but they saw nothing valuable nor viable there.
* FFS stop with the asterisk comments
For someone who just got a get-out-of-jail-free card, sparing him major time in the slammer, Hunter Biden sure is one angry, bitter man. Here he is going off on people like George Clooney, presumably because Hunter is under the delusion that Biden would have won if they hadn’t yanked him and replaced him with a ticket consisting of one word salad and one boy’s tampon. Here’s t he video. Warning: Hunter is extremely foul-mouthed, and I mean extremely. Just so you’re aware:
https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1947326253171630261
Oops, meant to post that on the other article.
OldManFromKS,
I suspect Hunter is mad at Clooney, the DNC et al., thinking he and the rest of the BCF would win the election like they did in 2020 with the campaign from the basement and they would still be in the WH, continuing their shakedowns, the selling access, the grift. Now, with none of that, no money coming in, their lavish lifestyle is in danger. They just might have to live like normal American’s. Perish the thought!
Hunter is broke and his gravy train left the station. He is lashing out and perhaps ready to shake down anyone he knows that was involved in the grift. Extortion? Will be interesting to watch.
E.M.
Yes. It will be interesting to watch. What does he know about who, could be problematic for some.
“someone who just got a get-out-of-jail-free card, sparing him major time in the slammer, Hunter Biden sure is one angry, bitter man.”
Hopefully, his anger leads him into felonious conduct that can result in his richly deserved long-term tenancy in a concrete condo as Bubba’s love muffin.
“ That is not just a major but a Pulitzer-level story, right?
Apparently not. The legacy media has largely ignored the declassified evidence and possible criminal referral on the Obama administration seeding the Russian collusion narrative just before the first Trump Administration.”
Turley is sure trying hard to avoid the real story, the scandal that is the Epstein files. Tulsi Gabbard has no real credibilty. That’s why the media is ignoring this. Plus, nobody cares, and that includes MAGA who is pissed off about the turnabout from Trump who promised to release the Epstein files. They are more upset about finding out Trump lied to them AND called them stupid.
The media won’t bring up this story precisely because nobody really cares about it. It’s that simple.
Trump is more worried about the Epstein files scandal getting more traction and apparently he can’t stop it’s constant presence on the news cycle.
It’s interesing Turley won’t even bring it up despite the fact that it is the bigger story and the one that even MAGA wants resolved…soon. Why is Trump so afraid of the Epstein files? He could very well be implicated since is famously known for barging in on beauty contestants while they are changing. Trump the pervert is the perfect client for Epstein. It just makes sense.
Is anyone going to bother even skimming this one? No? What a worthless life you have, Georgina.
You did. Thanks for reading it anonymous!
Reading the name is not the same as reading the message. You lose again moron, as you still have a zero count.
*. Barry o is the big guy.
Ms. Claire Voyant
AT Teller Tech I hear Ed Teller day, “The Russians are so deceitful, we should eliminate them now.” After Ed’s death, I vested Teller Tech, to find Russians everywhere!
Khrushchev said, “We will overcome from within.” just, prior to the inside job slaughter of JFK.
Monopolies, are the same as USSR cooperative farms. Then, Russian rural people, raised more yield on a 1/2 hector than large cooperative did!
Read, The Square and the Tower, the same misinformation farce artists family, we fought 1776, who reverse God’s Golden Rule, and that George Washington refused to be part off, when he took back his land in defiance, so the Square is not a full square!
With due respect, I see the MSM as a conjugal pair. The first actually reads source information, distorts it, and writes reports. The second, the public MSM, mostly reads talking points delivered each morning by email, with supplements following every morning until the topic dies. They are then replaced by a new topic of talking points. Their legitimacy “newsworthy” is sustained by including other news-bits between the talking point sessions. (Example. Big rain hits Texas killing many, and giving Republicans what they deserve.)
Each MSM guest or regular is required to invent one new variation on the current talking points, without deviations toward truth, which is forbidden.
Thus, philosophically speaking, truth has been toppled from its formal mantel of primacy, to well formed sentences rehearsing endless talking points. Lately, this near perfect formula has been interrupted by their target Trump himself, who has accomplished so much so quickly, that talking points must be continually updated, much to the confusion of the MSM viewers.
There are still many paths open to Obama. Clapper and Comey can get limited immunity for their testimony.
And even if no criminal trail is possible, Congress can hold hearings and strip Obama of his pension.
What’s more, a major motion picture (like All the Kings Men) could bring along the court of Public Opinion.
“There are still many paths open to Obama.”
seditious
Obama allegedly became rich as a result of fraudulent and/or seditious conduct while in office. Does the concept of qualified immunity completely forestall civil litigation to strip him of some or all of those ill-gotten gains? If he could be shown to have failed to meet the citizenship requirements for the Presidency, as some have claimed, would that immunity hold, since the misrepresentation occurred before he was in office?
Silence of the Lambs: Trump Ignores Huge Trove of Florida and Federal Documents, Computer Records and Video Evidence by Falsely Announcing There’s Nothing in the Epstein Files
Lame. Pathetic. You.
Announcing There’s Nothing in the Epstein Files
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So why didn’t Biden DOJ do anything? Just maybe it wasn’t really there.
DustOff,
IMO, I think Epstein had so much dirt on so many people, there are a lot of powerful, rich, well connected people who want this to never see the light. Democrats, Republicans, world leaders, celebrities, royal family.
Besides, the real scandal is Obama’s attempt coup, manufacturing intelligence for the Russia conspiracy hoax.
I wish people would actually read the Constitution and find the real definition of treason, which involves supporting an enemy in time of war – period. This is basically political and politicians have been lying since the dawn of time.
Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 2384 – U.S. Code): If two or more persons… conspire to… oppose by force the Government of the United States — they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
If you accept the “force of law” to qualify as force (as it is in “color of authority” prosecutions) as used in this particular section, then I say of the people who engaged in a conspiracy of lies to oppose (and impeach) the president, “You have the right to remain silent.”
“TREASON BY ANY OTHER WORD”
So China, Russia, et al. may engage in all the war they want as long as it is not “declared,” and traitors may engage in all the treason they want as long as “war” is not declared.
The treason of the American communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) that led to the transfer of American wealth over the past 75+ years has led to China’s economy and military achieving parity with or exceeding those of the United States.
“conspiracy to create this false narrative to undermine the incoming Administration” How is this not a crime?
“NOTE TO SELF, SUSAN RICE”
Oval Office Meeting, Barack Obama, James Comey, Sally Yates
“President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”
– Susan Rice, January 5, 2017
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
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“People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this [Trump] server.”
– Bill Priestap
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“I had a discussion with the case team and we believe there to be predication to include former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a predicated subject.”
– Timothy Thibault to John Crabb, U.S. Attorney’s Office, D.C.
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious crime in American political history. The co-conspirators are:
Kevin Clinesmith, Bill Taylor, Eric Ciaramella, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Andrew Weissmann,
James Comey, Christopher Wray, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Laycock, Kadzic, Sally Yates,
James Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove,
Christopher Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper,
Azra Turk, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Gina Haspel, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power,
Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Holder, Brazile, Sessions (patsy), Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Obama,
Joe Biden, James E. Boasberg, Emmet Sullivan, Gen. Milley, George Soros, John McCain,
Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Fiona Hill, Charles H. Dolan, Jake Sullivan, Strobe Talbot,
Cody Shear, Victoria Nuland, Ray “Red Hat” Epps, Don Berlin, Kathy Ruemmler, Rodney Joffe,
Paul Vixie, L. Jean Camp, Andrew Whitney, Lisa O. Monaco, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg,
Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland, Juan Merchan, Timothy Thibault et al.
Just Barry-O, community activist turned left-wing elected D in over his head as a commander in chief. So … sleep with all the other Trump-haters and collude with them to conceal the truth and manufacture TDS stuff … all at the expense of USA taxpayers in so many ways.
normally Democrats BRAG about their crimes!
Bragging???
Stern: Would you bang a 24 year old?
Trump: Absolutely
Howard: What’s your age limit?
Robin: How high do you go?
Trump: Well, I wouldn’t consider a 12 year old.
You’re back? Didn’t you get beat up enough on the other post?
Isn’t it amazing how these demoncrats said nothing as people got prosecuted for their shenanigans?
“legal fees”
Uh oh, nobody tell Alvin and the Chipmunks Bragg!