FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino dropped an alarming update on his official “X” account on Saturday that appeared to suggest there is a massive and highly secretive level of corruption throughout the federal government.
In a lengthy post, Bongino said that what he’s seen “has shocked me down to my core,” adding that the way the country is currently being run isn’t sustainable.
“During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening. The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations,” the post begins. “It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned,” Bongino wrote.
He added: “We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not ‘my truth,’ or ‘your truth,’ but THE TRUTH,” he said.
Now, CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced 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 said.
“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,” Ratcliffe said.
“The intelligence shows 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.
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 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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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.