Speaking during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe explained what was going on with the so-called Russia Hoax and Durham Annex’s declassification, noting that it exposes failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s awful behavior during the election. He characterized that behavior as the worst scandal America has seen.
Director Ratcliffe’s comments came when he spoke to Trey Gowdy on August 3, with the Director referencing the then-recently unclassified annex to the Durham Report, which showed not only the involvement of the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation in the Russia Hoax, but the Clinton Campaign’s direct involvement as well.
Gowdy, broaching the question, asked, “I sat beside you as Comey and Brennan were questioned for hours about Russia collusion. They never once mentioned this was a Clinton campaign plan. They knew it. They were co-conspirators. Would this ever have come out had you not declassified Brennan’s notes and then Durham’s annex and for our viewers, what’s new in the Durham annex?”
Responding, Director Ratcliffe explained that what Hillary and her campaign did alongside the intelligence agencies was utterly unconscionable, saying, “Well, Trey, think about that, that there was Intelligence from foreign Intelligence services, that one U.S. presidential candidate was trying to frame another candidate for treason, claiming that he was an agent of a foreign power, an agent of Russia, and that Intelligence was never shared with you or I, as members of Congressional Oversight Committees on Intelligence.”
Continuing, he sounded off on John Brennan in particular, explaining, “And you know, but for the good fortune of me being able to find John Brennan’s notes and declassify that, that secret may have been hidden forever, but I was able to provide that to John Durham, and you see some of that in his annex that was declassified this week.”
Building on that, he returned to the matter of Clinton and the FBI while commenting on Soros and the OSF as well, telling Gowdy, “And so what you learn in this annex that that many people didn’t know before was details of that Hillary Clinton plan and how it included groups like the Soros Foundation and the role that the FBI played. So before all of this started, Trey, what we did know is this, that on July 31, 2016 the FBI did something as shocking as it was unprecedented.”
Then, connecting John Brennan and Clinton and noting that the FBI was involved in further playing up the issue, saying, “They opened a criminal investigation into a nominee for president, a candidate for president, Donald Trump, something that had never been done before. But what you learned in John Brennan’s annex this week was six days before that, Russian Intelligence predicted that’s exactly what would happen, that there was a Hillary Clinton plan, and that the FBI would pour oil on the fire of a firestorm that would consume the country for the next three years.”
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Shortly afterward, he commented on what we know about the Clinton campaign’s involvement and testimony regarding it, saying, “Well, subsequently, under penalty of perjury, while under oath, Hillary Clinton’s own campaign manager confirmed that there was such a plan, and that Hillary approved it. So that I think, in addition to what you learn about the FBI role that came out this week was that this Intelligence that was so shocking that John Brennan brought together the National Security Council, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Clapper, Comey, Susan Rice and briefed them on this Intelligence about a Hillary Clinton plan to frame Donald Trump, and that the CIA made the required referral of that to the FBI to investigate that as a counterintelligence matter. And as John Durham found, the FBI buried it.”
Concluding, he noted that the FBI did its best to cover up what happened, saying, “They didn’t open a file. They didn’t assign an analyst, they didn’t investigate at all. They just spent the next few years really amplifying the lie of Hillary Clinton’s Steele dossier and bearing the truth of her plan to frame Donald Trump. It is the greatest political scandal that we hopefully will be the last that we’ll see in our lifetime.”
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