It looks like some more rain is about to fall on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, proving once again the gargantuan lie he and his boss, Barack Obama, have been telling for years: That their administration was “scandal-free.”
According to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, his office has been working closely with ‘Spygate’ investigator and U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe to declassify more documents linked to that bogus “Russian collusion” investigation.
“The question now is, did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counterintelligence investigation at all, and that’s the issue that John Durham is looking at, and also the issue that I’m continuing to look at,” Ratcliffe said in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports:
Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, is conducting a sprawling investigation into several aspects of the U.S. government’s surveillance activities against Trump associates.
He is investigating the FBI’s decision to open an investigation in July 2016 against Trump campaign associates over their possible ties to Russia, as well as an intelligence community assessment that said the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 election in order to help Donald Trump win.
Ratcliffe said that he is not privy to Durham’s findings, but that he has provided the prosecutor access to intelligence documents needed for the investigation.
“I’m coordinating with him to make sure that he has the intelligence documents that he needs to do his work, and what I don’t want to do is declassify something that might prejudice his work so we’re going to have to coordinate as we go forward,” said Ratcliffe, a former U.S. congressman from Texas.
He added that while he’s avoided declassifying documents that could “prejudice” Durham’s investigation, he noted that he’s “optimistic that I’ll be declassifying additional documents soon.”
You may recall that Durham’s months-long probe has already produced one prosecution which was actually a guilty plea from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to falsifying a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) filing to renew a warrant to spy on former 2016 Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“Ratcliffe and his predecessor, Amb. Richard Grenell, have declassified documents related to the Steele dossier, unmasking requests related to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and the intelligence community assessment of Russia’s election interference,” writes Ross.
“Grenell declassified information in footnotes from the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s Trump investigation, which showed that the bureau had evidence that the Steele dossier may have contained disinformation planted by Russian intelligence officers,” he continued.
In addition, Ratcliffe has also declassified an FBI memo regarding interviews with Igor Danchenko who was the primary source for Christopher Steele’s ‘Russia dossier.’
Danchenko’s statements to the bureau cast suspicion and doubt that the dossier contained valid information, but the FBI used it to obtain the surveillance warrants against Page nonetheless.
There has been some scuttlebutt that Attorney General William Barr and Durham aren’t moving to release the findings of the Russiagate probe before the November elections because they don’t want to appear ‘political.’
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That’s nonsense. If they have the goods on people, then those people should be charged, regardless of the proximity to the election.
And besides, if Democrats were in charge and this probe was about George W. Bush spying on Barack Obama’s campaign, you can bet your last fraudulent mail-in ballot they would specifically time the release of charges to influence the election.
Enough already. Americans have been waiting four years for this information.
