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NEW: Ratcliffe Hints At Serious Legal Consequences For Hillary, Comey

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The most serious consequences may still be yet to come for Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and others accused of furthering the baseless Trump-Russia hoax of the 2016 election, CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned on Sunday.

Speaking on Fox News, Ratcliffe surprised host Maria Bartiromo by announcing that he has made additional referrals for criminal prosecution, building on those sent weeks earlier by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, including one about former President Barack Obama.

“What I think I hear you saying is, there is still an opportunity for potential indictments, potential prosecutions, accountability from those people who may have lied under oath,” Bartiromo suggested as she tried to elicit names from Ratcliffe about who he believes is criminally liable.

“That’s why I’ve made the referrals I have, DNI Gabbard has made referrals, and we’re gonna continue to share the intelligence that would support the ability of our Department of Justice to… bring fair and just claims against those who have perpetrated this hoax and the American people and this stain on our country,” he said on Sunday.

Ratcliffe’s referral is at least the third possible probe launched in response to new documents uncovered from the federal government’s years-old “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into claims that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 election. In addition to Gabbard’s referrals last month, a task force of U.S. intelligence community leaders is exploring the potential to charge Clinton, Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Documents obtained from a classified annex discovered last month appear to confirm that Clinton personally approved efforts by her subordinates to tie Trump to Russia by leveraging the authority of intelligence community sources — despite lacking evidence of any firm connection.

According to the annex, special counsel John Durham confirmed that Russian hackers infiltrated the email servers for the Open Society Foundations, a George Soros-linked organization also implicated in the Trump-Russia hoax. An email by Leonard Bernardo, who in 2016 was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, appears to show that Clinton personally approved a conspiracy by the organization to spread the baseless allegations against her opponent.

“HRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections,” Bernardo wrote in the email, which was found within the newly uncovered Durham annex. “That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level,” he added.

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At an earlier press conference, Gabbard laid out in devastating detail how the Trump administration believes Clinton, conspiring with Clapper, Comey, Brennan, and Obama, sought to undermine Trump at the start of his first term through the release of a report accusing him of winning the White House thanks to a clandestine partnership with Russian forces.

Two special counsel investigations concluded that no evidence of collusion existed.