Pam Bondi Orders Grand Jury to Review Criminal Referrals Over Russiagate.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has formally authorized the Department of Justice to initiate grand jury proceedings concerning the Trump-Russia collusion operation that was initially established during the Obama administration.
Bondi’s directive will initiate an official investigation with the possibility of criminal proceedings, should a grand jury determine that the evidence indicates potential criminal activity occurred during the Russian collusion inquiry.
Fox News has confirmed the initiation of the criminal investigation and noted that the Department of Justice is treating the matter with utmost seriousness.
“Attorney General Pam Bondi today executed an order instructing an unnamed U.S. federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury regarding an alleged conspiracy to connect then-2016 candidate Donald Trump with the nation of Russia,” the report stated. “FOX News has reviewed the one-page order signed by the Attorney General just hours ago. A source familiar with the investigation has corroborated this information as well.”
“Although a DOJ spokesperson refrained from commenting on this investigation report, FOX has been informed that Attorney General Bondi is taking the referrals from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, quote, very seriously,” the report further elaborated. “The spokesperson indicated that Bondi perceives, quote, clear cause for deep concern, end quote, and recognizes the necessity for subsequent actions. This development follows closely after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted a criminal referral to the Justice Department, asserting that it substantiates a conspiracy aimed at undermining Trump’s candidacy and subsequently his first term in office.”
Information regarding the criminal investigation, including the location of the grand jury proceedings and the identities of individuals who will be summoned to testify, was not disclosed at the time of the report.
The Justice Department’s action follows Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent disclosure of new documents from the Russia investigation, which suggest that the Obama
At the heart of the controversy lies the now-discredited 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which was produced under the directives of President Obama and influenced by Brennan, Comey, and then-DNI James Clapper. This document asserted — with a level of “high confidence” — that Vladimir Putin had a distinct preference for Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
Nevertheless, as newly declassified information verifies, this pivotal assertion was based on a solitary fragment from an unverified source whose access to Putin was uncertain. The authors of the ICA not only neglected to include this context — they also elevated this assertion to the primary judgment in a report that was utilized to brief both President Obama and President-elect Trump.
According to Gabbard, former President Barack Obama and intelligence officials purportedly advanced a “fabricated narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to assist President Trump in winning, presenting it to the American public as if it were factual. It was not.”
Included among the declassified materials was a record of a meeting that disclosed how former President Obama allegedly instructed his deputies to prepare an intelligence assessment in December 2016, after Trump had secured the election, which outlined the “methods Moscow employed and actions it undertook to influence the 2016 election.”
Former CIA Director John Brennan also seems to have committed perjury by asserting that the Steele dossier — financed by the Clinton campaign through a legal intermediary — was not utilized to establish an evidentiary foundation for initiating a surveillance operation against Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. However, evidence from the Steele dossier was intentionally concealed within references in the ICA report.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe has indicated that the Trump intelligence community intends to pursue indictments against those believed to have perpetrated crimes during the Russiagate scandal.
“That’s why I made the referrals. DNI Gabbard has made referrals,” Ratcliffe stated candidly. “We are pursuing indictments.”
Those individuals identified by DNI Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe are being scrutinized for their alleged involvement.