JUST IN: WH Building Sprawling ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ Case Against Obama, Deep State Officials

Top officials in the Trump administration are quietly compiling hundreds of pages laying out the case for criminally prosecuting former U.S. Justice Department leaders from the Obama era, according to individuals close to the investigation.

The case is a personal cause for President Donald Trump, who has felt aggrieved for years as former CIA and FBI directors have become increasingly linked to the Russiagate conspiracy that nearly derailed his 2016 campaign. Officials in Trump’s administration most recently accused former CIA Director John Brennan of pressuring deputies to include the discredited Steele dossier in a summary of its work shortly after the election.

But that effort is just one extension of the probe, say sources who believe it may be possible to justify a full-fledged criminal conspiracy by Brennan, former FBI Directors James Comey and Christopher Wray, as well as others.

A 200-page congressional audit has been compiled after Trump officials met on Sunday to discuss the latest developments in the investigation, which is exploring whether Obama officials attempted to portray Trump as “beholden” to Russian forces during and after the election.

Many of the documents compiled contain long-classified information, buried until now, which purports to show how U.S. intelligence officials became aware of the discredited intelligence gathered for the Steele dossier yet chose to publish it anyway as part of an Intelligence Community Assessment in the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation.

The White House was briefed on the meeting Tuesday, both sources told RCI.

Sunday’s meeting involved intelligence officials and others from the DOJ, who discussed the potential for declassifying notes from “Crossfire Hurricane” as well as deposition transcripts from special counsel John Durham’s investigation. Durham concluded in 2023 that the connection between Trump and Russia was baseless.

Officials are reportedly examining whether Brennan perjured himself during congressional testimony when he denied using the Steele dossier as part of the ICA’s compilation, according to one official who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Although the five-year statute of limitations has passed, officials can potentially charge Brennan with conspiracy to commit perjury.

At the direction of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, investigators are reportedly focusing on a classified appendix at the end of Durham’s report to Congress. Sources within the appendix allegedly prove that Brennan became aware during his investigation that the Clinton campaign in 2016 sought to falsify a connection between Trump and Russia to distract from a congressional probe into Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.

It was through an unsecured access point to Clinton’s email server that “foreign actors” were able to obtain some of the information later used against Trump, officials at Sunday’s meeting explained while pointing to the leak as another instance of Comey letting Clinton off the hook.

In addition to the ODNI and DOJ, other participants in the meeting came from President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were not present, the source said.

ODNI has the authority to declassify most documents in the government’s possession, and Gabbard is said to have directed a team to comb through “sources and methods” that may be redacted before anything else in the investigation is made public.

“They have a team working on that,” said an administration official familiar with the operation.

Another asserted that a conspiracy between the Clinton campaign, the Obama administration, and intelligence officials was undertaken to discredit Trump during the 2016 election’s final months.

“Obama ordered the ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started,” said the senior official, who asked to remain anonymous. “This was an influence operation far more consequential than anything [Russian President Vladimir] Putin cooked up. Obama and Hillary [Clinton] schemed the op, and the CIA and FBI ran it.”

The official claimed that Clinton personally approved a plan for Jake Sullivan, her former advisor who later became Director of National Security for President Joe Biden, to “stir up” the Russia-Trump connection by utilizing a dossier of baseless claims paid for by her campaign.

In December 2016, Brennan made a request for more information about the negative campaigning, though he appeared more concerned by the fact that Russia at some point became aware of Clinton’s effort, sources said. The situation grew so alarming that Brennan wrote to Obama about it, according to notes declassified in 2020.

Some former FBI officials say the investigation by Trump’s intelligence team already has produced enough evidence to charge former Obama and Biden officials with crimes.

“You look back at what was going on in the FBI starting in 2016 [with] these cases [and] the way they approached Gen. [Michael] Flynn; Crossfire Hurricane; the Russian ‘collusion’ case [prosecuted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller]; then moving to the raid on Mar-a-Lago [and] the [DOJ] lawfare that came after President Trump, this is outrageous. And then you had the arrogance of these two individuals – Comey and Brennan – it was unbelievable,” former FBI special-agent-in-charge Jody P. Weis, a 22-year veteran of the bureau, told RCI. “So I’m extremely happy that someone is looking into this.”