Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been dropping declassified documents on Washington like an airstrike for weeks now, and over 100 of them point directly at Barack Obama personally directing the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump. The whole hoax — four years of special counsels, impeachments, and “Russian spy” hysteria — was cooked up in the Oval Office by the guy they gave a Nobel Peace Prize.
Whoa! Who could have possibly predicted that? Oh, right — we all did. For years.
Gabbard’s documents name the whole lineup: former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, former DNI James Clapper, and Susan Rice — all working under Obama’s direction to manufacture a Trump-Russia collusion narrative in the final weeks before Obama left office in January 2017.
But Kash Patel’s FBI agents found something even nastier while they were digging through the classified files. Hidden inside a restricted-access SCIF with its own code-word classification, they discovered a secret FBI surveillance program that used “speech delimiters” to automatically flag Americans for government surveillance. If you talked about certain topics or used specific phrases the FBI didn’t approve of, congratulations — you were now a “national security threat” on a secret list.
(Land of the free, right?)
Investigative journalist John Solomon discovered this program exists because he was personally targeted by it in 2022. Gabbard declassified these documents over the direct objections of the CIA, who suddenly got very concerned about “sources and methods.” Funny how “sources and methods” is always the excuse when the source is the government and the method is spying on Americans.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has formed a DOJ “strike force” to investigate. A grand jury is empaneled. Criminal referrals are open on Brennan and Comey.
Now here’s what makes this different from every other political scandal in our lifetime. Think about Watergate for a second. Nixon’s guys broke into the DNC headquarters and tapped some phones. It was criminal. It brought down a presidency. But Nixon used a handful of operatives from outside the government to do his dirty work.
Obama used the actual intelligence agencies of the United States government — the CIA, the FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — to manufacture evidence against a political opponent and then surveil American citizens who talked about it. Nixon hired burglars. Obama weaponized the entire national security state. That’s not the same league. That’s not even the same sport.
And here’s where it gets really interesting for Brennan and Comey. Remember Gold Bar Bob Menendez? We said back then that Pam Bondi should walk down to his jail cell and ask one simple question: “What do you know?” The same math applies here — except the stakes are about a thousand times higher.
Brennan and Comey are both looking at criminal referrals. They both know where the bodies are buried. And they both know that the person who sat above them — the one who gave the orders — is Barack Obama. Do you think John Brennan is going to do 15 years in federal prison to protect a guy who’s been out of office for almost a decade? “Johnny, thanks for taking that bullet for me. Really appreciate it. Here’s an invitation to my birthday party in Martha’s Vineyard — oh wait, you can’t come because you’re in Leavenworth.”
The speech delimiters program is the one to watch. If those documents prove the FBI had an automated surveillance dragnet based on the words Americans used, every single FISA warrant issued during that period becomes potentially challengeable. Defense attorneys across the country are probably reading these declassified docs right now and drooling. That’s not just a political scandal — that’s a legal earthquake that could unravel thousands of federal cases.
Mark my words: before this is over, at least one of Obama’s inner circle — Brennan, Comey, Clapper, or Rice — is going to cut a deal. The pressure from the grand jury will be relentless. And when one of them flips, the others will race to be second in line. That’s how these things always work. The first guy to talk gets the best deal.
The only question left is whether Barack Obama himself is within reach. A former president has never been indicted for actions taken while in office — but then again, we’ve never had declassified proof that a sitting president directed the intelligence community to manufacture evidence against his successor. There’s a first time for everything.
Brennan and Comey should probably start returning Pam Bondi’s phone calls. The grand jury isn’t there for decoration — and the clock is ticking.