CIA Director Says Classified Docs Will Blow Lid Off Russiagate
CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed Sunday that long-suppressed intelligence connected to Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax will soon be released — and it will directly implicate Hillary Clinton and top FBI leadership in orchestrating and amplifying a false narrative to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency.
In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Ratcliffe said he has worked for months to declassify a previously unreleased annex of Durham’s 2023 report, which sharply criticized the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into alleged Trump-Russia ties. The annex, he said, contains “underlying intelligence” that exposes how the Clinton campaign, in coordination with allies inside the FBI, manufactured and accelerated the Russia collusion hoax.
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“What hasn’t come out yet — and what’s going to come out — is the underlying intelligence,” Ratcliffe said. “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.”
Ratcliffe previously declassified documents in 2020 that revealed U.S. intelligence agencies were aware that Russian officials believed Clinton had greenlit a smear campaign tying Trump to Russian hacking in order to distract from her private email server scandal. That intelligence was referred to the FBI — but Durham’s report confirmed that Crossfire Hurricane investigators were never briefed on it.
Durham’s investigation laid bare how the Clinton campaign paid for the now-debunked Steele dossier and how that opposition research was used by the FBI to obtain FISA surveillance warrants against Trump adviser Carter Page. The report also highlighted how Clinton allies promoted false stories, such as a non-existent secret backchannel between Trump and Alfa Bank, to create a media frenzy and distract from her scandals.
“Whether or not the Clinton Plan intelligence was reliable, it should have prompted the FBI to act with far greater caution,” Durham wrote in his final report. Instead, the Bureau ignored partisan origins, failed to verify key claims, and pushed a political narrative that eroded public trust.
The classified annex, according to Ratcliffe, will detail facts that Durham’s team could not publicly confirm at the time. He said Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and ex-CIA Director John Brennan gave testimony that “is, frankly, completely inconsistent” with the underlying classified intelligence — a hint that perjury charges or criminal referrals may follow.
Ratcliffe praised Attorney General Pam Bondi and her newly created DOJ “strike force” for reopening the investigation with fresh eyes and a commitment to the rule of law.
“It’s 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,” Ratcliffe said.
Bondi’s task force is reportedly examining the full intelligence chain, from Brennan’s involvement in briefing Obama about the Clinton Plan to Comey’s use of Steele’s discredited dossier. With Republicans demanding accountability and the public now aware that the Russia narrative was manufactured, pressure is mounting for prosecutions.
The coming declassification could mark a turning point in the fight to expose what Trump and his allies have long called the biggest political scandal in American history. As Ratcliffe put it, “The truth is about to come out.”