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Government Corruption
Pam Bondi escalates potential criminal charges for Obama officials involved in 'Russia hoax' with bombshell grand jury order
2025-08-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A grand jury will be gathered to hear the latest evidence as part of criminal referrals for inception of the Russia collusion 'hoax.'

Attorney General Pam Bondi signed an order on Monday directing an unnamed prosecutor to convene a grand jury, Fox News first reported.

It comes after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted criminal referrals to the Justice Department last month for former President Barack Obama and his officials including ex-Intel Chief James Clapper and ex-CIA Director John Brennan.

She unveiled evidence claiming that Obama and his team illegally conspired in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election to link Donald Trump to Russia.

Some thought her release of documents last month was a tactic to distract from the botched Jeffrey Epstein files review, which has the DOJ reeling with calls for Bondi to resign.

The directive from Bondi on Monday also follows FBI Director Kash Patel discovering a stash of bags in a secret room at the bureau with damning documents related to the Russia investigation that were meant to be burned.

The documents were published by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and consist of the classified annex to former Special Counsel John Durham's final report on the origins of the FBI investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign.

Bondi's move on Monday is an escalation that takes President Trump's administration a massive step closer to criminally charging Obama and his former administration officials.

A source familiar with the action speculated to the Daily Mail that the criminal referrals Bondi is acting on are likely for John Brennan and James Comey.

While special counsel, Durham examined the FBI's investigation into potential links between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the 2016 election. He concluded the FBI did not have sufficient evidence to launch the investigation at the time.

A person familiar with the discovery speculated to the Daily Mail that it was likely an oversight by previous directors that prevented the documents from being destroyed.

The person added that it's likely the documents would have never seen the light of day if the FBI wasn't diligently looking through everything it comes across at the bureau.

The findings were turned over to Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee.

In a New York Times op/ed last week, senior Obama intelligence officials John Brennan and James Clapper refuted the politicization of the administration's intelligence arms.

'The special counsel John Durham, who was appointed during Mr. Trump's first term to investigate how the Russia probe was conducted, similarly found no evidence of an Obama administration conspiracy against Mr. Trump,' they wrote.

The annex authored by the special counsel shows Clinton's efforts to tie Trump and Russia together and the FBI's failure to investigate Clinton's ties to the Russia collusion allegations.

The Trump administration published last month hundreds of documents related to the Russia collusion scandal.

DNI Gabbard declassified evidence she claims shows the Obama administration 'manufactured and politicized intelligence' to make it appear that Russia and criminal actors impacted the 2016 election.
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Is it possible "the walls are closing in"?
Posted by: Bobby   2025-08-05 14:51  

#7  We'll see.
Posted by: alanc   2025-08-05 14:39  

#6  An entirely plausible theory NoMo. They were obviously in search of something, but failed to find it.

Desperate amateurs, the entire lot.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-08-05 13:43  

#5  CTH is all over the Florida justification. Tow articles today talk about the resoning of the Mar-a-Lago raind-Nunes says it was the HPSCI report:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/05/makes-sense-devin-nunes-the-raid-on-mar-a-lago-was-to-retrieve-declassified-hpsci-report-that-deconstructed-obama-brennan-ica/

and an informed poster in that article explains the reasoning for the Florida Grand Jury: JoeS
August 5, 2025 11:17 am
"Sundance,

I wonder if this changes the answer to your question about the IC. The raid completes the conspiracy. The venue follows the act. This might be getting exciting if the retrieval was the culmination of the conspiracy. And everyone who helped retrieve it, regardless of where they sat, can now be tied to a criminal act executed in Florida. Now, ask the question: What crimes can they be charged with?

IF:

The HPSCI report was the evidence.The DOJ/FBI/IC knew it was declassified yet treated it as if it were not.The purpose of the raid was not to enforce classified document laws, but to retrieve and suppress a document that exposed past criminal conduct, likely manipulation of the 2017 ICA.The act of retrieval (the Mar-a-Lago raid) is what tied all conspirators to a Florida-based overt act, completing the chain and opening up venue for prosecution in Florida."
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2025-08-05 13:34  

#4  IMHO, the key is empaneling the GJ in the Southern District of Florida, NOT in DC.
Posted by: 58ARAMCOBrat   2025-08-05 07:47  

#3  Perhaps they could do some investigating as well. Interviewing some folks and collecting evidence could be a good start to a prosecution.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-08-05 05:42  

#2  

YEP!
Obama, Hillary, Biden, and the DC Swamp elite Coup will all be arrested right after the Epstein Client Indictments are released. ☺

Of course now.
There are those that think the Epstein list is being delayed for release until just before Mid-terms?

But, whatever the case. There sure seems to be a lot of deflective NEWS & distracting drama every time it comes up.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-08-05 05:21  

#1  Let us know when miscreants are handcuffed and locked into jails.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2025-08-05 00:40  

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