A trove of long-suppressed classified documents\u2014allegedly revealing government efforts to frame Donald Trump as colluding with Vladimir Putin during the 2016 election\u2014may soon be released. Two Trump administration officials told RealClearInvestigations that senior aides held an urgent meeting Sunday to review \u201cnew information on Russiagate,\u201d potentially supporting a criminal conspiracy case against Obama and Biden political appointees accused of weaponizing federal agencies against Trump.<\/p>\n
Among the records is a previously hidden 200-page congressional audit outlining how an Obama-ordered intelligence assessment was crafted to depict Trump as loyal to the Kremlin. Sources say emails and documents linking the CIA\u2019s role in drafting the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to the FBI\u2019s now-discredited \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d probe could be declassified in an ODNI report as early as Thursday. The White House was briefed on this Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Sunday meeting also considered declassifying Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s investigative notes and deposition transcripts from his probe into how the CIA and FBI handled the ICA, which partly relied on an anti-Trump dossier funded by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign. The records could strengthen a criminal case against former intelligence chiefs like ex-CIA Director John Brennan, accused of lying to Congress about the dossier\u2019s use.<\/p>\n
Additional documents discussed include a classified appendix to Durham\u2019s final report, purportedly showing Clinton\u2019s campaign plotted to fabricate the Trump\u2013Russia scandal to divert attention from her email investigation\u2014an alleged scheme ignored by the FBI during \u201cCrossfire Hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials also reviewed an annex from the inspector general\u2019s review of the FBI\u2019s handling of Clinton\u2019s unsecured email server, highlighting foreign access to classified information and the FBI\u2019s failure to investigate, contrasting with the aggressive pursuit of Trump investigations. Senior officials from ODNI and DOJ, plus members of the President\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board and the DOJ\u2019s Weaponization Working Group, attended the meeting. Notably absent were DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Attorney General Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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