CIA Director John Ratcliffe, in a rare appearance, said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures that the recently declassified memo on the Russia collusion hoax is just the beginning, adding that more documents—some of which he described as “treasonous”—are set to be released in the coming days and weeks.
“So part of what came out last week was about how John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they all pushed the the known fake steel dossier into intelligence community assessments and as the basis for crossfire hurricane and all that,” Ratcliffe, who laid the groundwork for Gabbard’s current findings while serving as Trump’s DNI in his first term, told host Maria Bartiromo.
“But what hasn’t come out yet and what’s going to come out is the underlying intelligence that I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification and sent that to the Department of Justice that will come out in the John Durham report classified annex,” he said.
“And what that intelligence shows, Maria, 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 burying the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to,” he continued. (see video below)
Durham’s investigation confirmed that the infamous Steele dossier—a discredited document filled with sensational claims of Russian influence over President Trump—was funded by the Clinton campaign. Despite later denying it in congressional testimony, senior Obama administration intelligence officials, including James Comey and John Brennan, used the dossier as a foundation for launching the baseless investigation into Trump.
Ratcliffe suggested that Brennan’s testimony before Congress in 2020 is now proven to have been false. “He also testified to the House Oversight Committee in 2022. Hillary Clinton testified before John Durham under oath in 2022. James Comey testified before the Senate Committee in September 2020. All of that’s within the last five years,” said the CIA director, likely referencing the statute of limitations for charging someone.
“And much of that testimony is, frankly frankly completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence that is about to be declassified in the Durham annex, what that reflects,” the CIA director said.
“And so, you know, [U.S. Attorney General] Pam Bondi does have a strike force. It is a different Department of Justice, a different FBI, and an opportunity to look at how these people really did conspire to run a hoax, a fraud on the American people and against Donald Trump’s presidency. And so coming forward, we understand that they did this, but now we need to understand how they did this,” Ratcliffe added.
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