There hasn’t been a lot of talk about the Grand Conspiracy lately — at least not since DNI Tulsi Gabbard stunned the mainstream media into silence just over two weeks ago. It was then that Gabbard released evidence that then-President Barack Obama and his henchmen “conspired to subvert President Trump’s 2016 election victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people … while publicly pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”
While it’s sad, even pathetic, that the legacy media is suddenly dumbstruck about the years-long Russia collusion hoax — which is the most serious political scandal of our lifetimes — it’s not at all unexpected. After all, were The New York Times and The Washington Post to actually sink their teeth into the evidence that Gabbard revealed rather than hoping it’ll just go away, they’d have to give back all those phony Pulitzer Prizes they won. And the Alphabet Media — including ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC — would be forced to plumb new depths of self-discreditation.
It’s a complicated and convoluted story, this Grand Conspiracy, but it helps to focus on a few key facts: Hillary hatched the hoax, the Russians knew about it, senior CIA officers debunked it, Obama and his co-conspirators ignored them and pushed it, and the FBI accelerated it.
Let’s start with what the Clinton campaign knew and when they knew it. Thanks to CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s recent declassification and release of what’s been called the Durham annex or the Clinton Plan intelligence, Clinton’s involvement is beyond dispute. As Just the News reports, it’s now a matter of public record that the Clinton campaign team “engaged in a lengthy and coordinated effort to tie Trump to Russia during the 2016 election.” This included a comprehensive media strategy as well as the secretive commissioning of and the delivery to the FBI of the thoroughly discredited Steele dossier and a series of other lies about Trump’s ties to Russia. The plan was cooked up and proposed by a Clinton foreign-policy adviser named Julianne Smith, and all this was done to draw the public’s attention away from Clinton’s homebrew server scandal and her willfully negligent communication of classified material through unsecure email channels.
And the Russians knew about it from the jump. Indeed, as Fox News reported last week, “U.S. intelligence had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump-Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe,” and the Russians predicted the FBI’s looming involvement “with alarming specificity.”
So much for the hard work of our senior intelligence officers — the career professionals who told CIA Director John Brennan that there was no real connection between Trump and Russia. As Director Ratcliffe put it in his recently released CIA review of the Intelligence Community Assessment: “Brennan and [DNI James] Clapper and [FBI Director James] Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.” Why? Because, in Ratliffe’s words, “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’”
From here, Comey and the FBI picked up the fake story and worked as “an accelerant,” launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, spying on the Trump campaign, creating an ostensible need for the Mueller investigation, and generally plaguing Donald Trump’s first term in office.
Did Russia try to interfere in the 2016 election? Yes. Has Russia always tried to interfere in our elections? Yes. Did the Russians’ 2016 hack of Democratic [sic] National Committee Chairman John Podesta’s email account have any noticeable effect on the 2016 election? No. And remember: It was Donald Trump who ultimately launched a cyberattack on the Russia-based trolls who were responsible for that embarrassing hack on Podesta and his fellow Democrats. You’re welcome.
As Mark Alexander has noted previously, “The 2024 SCOTUS decision in Trump v. United States affirmed presidential immunity from prosecution for official acts, and that would likely preclude any successful prosecution of Barack Obama or Joe Biden. However, the DoJ criminal referral question as it pertains to Obama and Biden is this: Does their role in this fabrication conspiracy fall under ‘official acts’?”
As Alexander adds, “The question then becomes what can be done with the other conspirators — Hillary Clinton, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey. Generally, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey would be protected by statutes of limitation, despite their guilt — the time limits to file charges expired under Biden. How convenient to have a prosecution firewall provided by both Biden and his corrupt attorney general, Merrick Garland, combined with the mainstream media’s cover-up?”
However, as Alexander continues, “The DoJ appears to be investigating this case as a ‘grand conspiracy.’ There is a five-year statute of limitations for most federal conspiracy charges, but any act in furtherance of the conspiracy restarts the clock. That would include perjury, which Clinton, Brennan, Clapper and Comey have allegedly committed. And beyond those four, this investigation could reach many co-conspirators in the deep-state cabal under the direction of Brennan and Comey, opening a floodgate of prosecutions.”
