{"id":1372,"date":"2025-08-03T00:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:52:35","slug":"ratcliffe-suggests-clinton-obama-officials-may-face-indictments-over-russiagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Ratcliffe Suggests Clinton, Obama Officials May Face Indictments Over \u2018Russiagate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CIA Director John Ratcliffe said there could still be indictments and prosecutions tied to the so-called Russian collusion hoax that targeted President Donald Trump \u2014 and he named names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appearing on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, Ratcliffe accused Hillary Clinton of orchestrating the scheme to falsely link Trump to Russia through what became the now-discredited Steele Dossier. He also said former President Barack Obama and top officials from his administration \u2014 including FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan \u2014 lied under oath about their involvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was a Hillary Clinton campaign scheme,\u201d Ratcliffe said, accusing her of pushing false claims of Russian collusion to damage Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign. Clinton served as Obama\u2019s secretary of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartiromo asked directly: \u201cSo, what I think I hear you saying is, there is still an opportunity for indictments, potential prosecutions, accountability from those people who may have lied under oath like John Brennan, James Comey, and perhaps Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ratcliffe responded: \u201cWell, that\u2019s why I\u2019ve made the referrals that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: CIA Director John Ratcliffe hints that we may see some actual accountability in the case against the Obama Administration brought by DNI Tulsi Gabbard.<br><br>Bartiromo: &quot;So what I think I hear you saying is there is still an opportunity for indictment, potential prosecutions,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f6AtAxr03y\">pic.twitter.com\/f6AtAxr03y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/devorydarkins\/status\/1949480800946397693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued: \u201c[Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard] has made referrals. And why we\u2019re going to continue to share the intelligence that would support the ability of our Department of Justice to make fair and just, bring fair and just claims, against those who have perpetrated this hoax against the American people and this stain on this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just last week, Gabbard publicly accused Obama of being the architect behind the operation, calling it a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy.\u201d She has submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read : <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=1366\">Justice Dept. Arrests Leading Democrat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the release of two key documents about Russia\u2019s role in 2016 election interference grabbed headlines from Gabbard\u2019s document drop last week, buried in the report is an eerie email exchange about the so-called \u201cSteele dossier\u201d and how it got into intelligence assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation arises from Kimberly Hermann\u2019s (the conservative Southeastern Legal Foundation\u2019s) 2019 Freedom of Information Act request, which sought references to the dossier on specific government platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A September 18, 2019, email from a redacted person with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence voiced concerns about the Steele dossier\u2019s involvement in the ODNI\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first portion of the email was primarily about technical issues\u2014the quantity of results that fit the query and how, owing to their location, going through all his emails would be \u201cimpractical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it gets more problematic from there: \u201cSecond, regarding the email below \u2014 I am choosing my words carefully, for your awareness, because the premise of the message is concerning,\u201d the official wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs you know, I was a Deputy on the NIO Cyber team, also the de-facto elections team, from 2015 through this year,\u201d the official wrote. \u201cI have intermittently participated in IC foreign influence and election security efforts from 2014 through this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was asked by NIO Cyber [redacted] to participate in the analytic scrub of the non-compartmented version of what I think is the 2017 ICA referenced below. It included no dossier reference that I recall,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was important, they said, because even though they were \u201cnot in all of the Russia compartments, and so I did not participate in the crafting of the compartmented version,\u201d they had queried about other information that might be involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A response from the original sender, a few hours later, tried to \u201ccut to the chase\u201d about it: \u201cIF the Dossier material WAS used by the NIC, unless it is also compartmented, my NIO intentionally deceived and excluded me from things I was cleared for and had need to know, throughout his entire tenure here. I prefer to think that isn\u2019t true, but if it was, we have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA Director John Ratcliffe said there could still be indictments and prosecutions tied to the so-called Russian collusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}