The FBI has quietly opened an investigation into a decade’s worth of Democratic Party and intelligence community actions—from the Russia collusion narrative to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probes—raising the possibility of appointing a special prosecutor to determine whether these events constitute a coordinated criminal conspiracy to influence three U.S. elections in favor of Democrats and against President Donald Trump, Just the News is reporting.
The “grand conspiracy” investigation was launched several weeks ago following the appointment of new FBI Director Kash Patel, and it could gain major momentum if Trump declassifies two classified batches of evidence. According to multiple sources familiar with the probe, those documents reportedly point to a potential origin of the alleged conspiracy dating back to the summer of 2016.
The first key piece of evidence is a classified annex from a years-old inspector general investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server—an annex requested by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. That document is believed to reveal that the FBI deliberately overlooked credible allegations of misconduct, the outlet reported.
The second set of evidence stems from Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on the Russia investigation. Known as the “Clinton plan intelligence,” this material was also placed in a classified annex and withheld from the public and most members of Congress, the report said.
Excerpts from the publicly available, unclassified portions of Special Counsel John Durham’s report confirm that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware that the Clinton campaign had devised a plan to fabricate a Russia collusion narrative to damage Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, prior to the launch of the FBI’s now-discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
That probe, in part, relied on information generated by the Clinton campaign or funneled through its associates. According to officials, both tranches of evidence remain highly classified and sealed from public view due to the sensitive intelligence-gathering methods they expose, said the report.
Earlier this month, CIA Director John Ratcliffe issued a blistering critique of the U.S. intelligence community’s handling of Russian interference in the 2016 election, taking aim at former CIA Director John Brennan. Ratcliffe accused Brennan of prioritizing “narrative consistency over analytical soundness” by aligning the CIA with the FBI’s push to include the discredited anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele in official intelligence assessments.
Ratcliffe later posted on social media about his report, calling the smear campaign against Trump an “atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments of former Dir. Brennan & former FBI Dir. Comey.”
Officials in the Trump administration are reportedly considering appointing a special prosecutor to investigate explosive claims uncovered by Just the News that the FBI received intelligence from a human source—along with some corroborating evidence—alleging that China attempted to interfere in the 2020 election by producing fake mail-in ballots to benefit Joe Biden.
According to the report, the FBI not only failed to investigate the allegation but also recalled the intelligence and instructed other intelligence agencies to destroy the material.
However, the five-year statute of limitations on potential criminal charges is quickly approaching, as the intelligence was received in August 2020, leaving investigators with only weeks to act before the legal window closes, Just the News added.