CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Sunday hinted at plans to release additional documents that allegedly link Hillary Clinton and Obama-era officials to the false narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Ratcliffe specifically pointed to “underlying intelligence” cited in the annex of the Durham report—which examined investigations into the Clinton-Trump race—and said that material is currently being reviewed for declassification.
“So part of what came out last week was about how John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they all pushed the the known fake steel dossier into intelligence community assessments and as the basis for crossfire hurricane and all that,” Ratcliffe, who laid the groundwork for Gabbard’s current findings while serving as Trump’s director of national intelligence during his first term, told host Maria Bartiromo.
“But what hasn’t come out yet and what’s going to come out is the underlying intelligence that I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification and sent that to the Department of Justice that will come out in the John Durham report classified annex,” he said.
“And what that intelligence shows, Maria, is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and burying the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to,” he continued.
Durham’s investigation confirmed that the discredited Steele dossier—packed with sensational and unverified claims of Russian ties to President Trump—was funded by the Clinton campaign. Although they later denied it in congressional testimony, senior Obama-era intelligence officials, including James Comey and John Brennan, relied on the dossier as a key basis for initiating the unfounded investigation into Trump.
The CIA director also suggested that Brennan’s testimony before Congress in 2020 is now proven to have been false.
“He also testified to the House Oversight Committee in 2022. Hillary Clinton testified before John Durham under oath in 2022. James Comey testified before the Senate Committee in September 2020. All of that’s within the last five years,” Ratcliffe told Bartiromo.
“And much of that testimony is, frankly, completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence that is about to be declassified in the Durham annex, what that reflects,” the CIA director said.
“And so, you know, [U.S. Attorney General] Pam Bondi does have a strike force. It is a different Department of Justice, a different FBI, and an opportunity to look at how these people really did conspire to run a hoax, a fraud on the American people and against Donald Trump’s presidency. And so coming forward, we understand that they did this, but now we need to understand how they did this,” Ratcliffe added.
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“All of this evidence that’s been hidden and buried from the American people is finally coming to light,” Ratcliffe said.
Several key figures from the Obama administration have denied that the Steele dossier served as the catalyst for the FBI’s investigation into alleged communications between the Kremlin and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“There is no doubt in my mind that the people that we just talked about conspired. They conspired against President Trump. They conspired against the American people,” Ratcliffe said, going on to remind viewers that current DNI Tulsi Gabbard has made criminal referrals to the Justice Department regarding newly uncovered information.
“I don’t think statute of limitations are going to impact [it] because, on the conspiracy, the statute of limitation doesn’t start to run until the last act in furtherance of that conspiracy,” he said. “The people behind this are still furthering the conspiracy. They’re refusing to admit or acknowledge what they did … was wrong,” he said.