Regarding the recently released Russiagate files. Again, emphasizing that process matters, let me explain how and why we are being purposefully misled, even with Trump ‘allies’ in control of various govt agencies (silos).
Using the reference of the James Wolfe storyline, let me outline how process matters and how you can tell when the process is being used to coverup corrupt activity in Washington DC.
Former Senate Intelligence Community Security Chief, James Wolfe, leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins. We know from the DOJ indictment of James Wolfe [SEE HERE], a very specific set of evidence and key dates that was assembled against him.
James Wolfe was nailed for lying to FBI investigators about his leaks to Ali Watkins on December 15, 2017. That is the date of the second interview with Wolfe. During the third interview a few days later, Wolfe was shown the evidence against him, and he admitted his lies. However, his indictment was not unsealed until June 7, 2018.
Key Dates: Busted for guilt December 15, 2017. Indicted June 7, 2018.
♦ The evidence against Wolfe included text messages between Senate Intel Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, and the lawyer for Oleg Deripaska, an attorney named Adam Waldman. The text messages were made public on Feb 8, 2018, [SOURCE] four months before Wolfe was indicted.
♦ The evidence against Wolfe included text messages between Wolfe and journalist Ali Watkins. Ms Watkins was notified of her phone records being seized by FBI investigators on February 13, 2018, [SOURCE] again four months before Wolfe was indicted.
Why was this evidence, all of which would have been useful at trial, purposefully released by the Mueller investigation who was in charge of everything related to Russiagate at the time.
Shortly after James Wolfe was indicted, the Title-1 FISA application he leaked was then released to the public under the auspices of a FOIA request. Wolfe indicted June 7, 2018, the FISA application released publicly July 21, 2018 [SOURCE].
RIGHT QUESTION: Why was the evidence against James Wolfe being released to the public between the time the case was made (Dec ’17) and the time the indictment was unsealed (June ’18)? Why wasn’t the evidence held until criminal trial processes began?
ANSWER: In hindsight we discover the Mueller team were in charge of the timeline because the Russiagate investigation superseded all other Main Justice outcomes and consequences. The Mueller team were protecting the participants (Ali Watkins, Mark Warner, James Wolfe etc.), who all knew they were being investigated as a result of the Wolfe leak.
All of these players, including the media who received the FISA application from the Wolfe leak, knew they were tangentially and directly connected to the Wolfe investigation. After Wolfe made his admission (December ’17), all of the collateral players knew they were at risk.
The FBI was notifying all stakeholders of the Wolfe admission, and Mueller’s team was helping to mitigate the consequences to those stakeholders. How? With controlled public releases of information.
Each of the corrupt actors had weeks, some even months, to hire lawyers, obfuscate the evidence of their involvement and formulate their defenses. That’s why the information was being “released.”
The biggest single example of controlling damage and public opinion through the selective release of information was also the most brutally obvious, the July 21, 2018, release of the Carter Page FISA itself.
This was a Top-Secret Compartmented Intelligence document (TSCI). Directly related to a national security matter, and directly related to an ongoing investigation, and directly a component of the largest leak of top-secret classified information in decades.
The FISA itself was the easiest of all documents for the DOJ, FBI and National Security Apparatus to keep hidden from public view. There was no court in America who would have ordered it to be released. Quite simply, there was no reason for the DOJ to even consider releasing it; yet they did.
The Title-1 FISA application was released by Main Justice under the ridiculous justification of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release. Name me another TSCI document in the history of the Intelligence Community, that has ever been released under a FOIA (either before, or since); there simply isn’t another example. Yet in the rush to review it, no one ever drew attention to this brutally obvious point.
The FISA was released shortly after James Wolfe was indicted, because everyone in the background network of the James Wolfe indictment, mainly the DOJ under Mueller team control, was operating to control information adverse to their interests. The public release watered down the jaw-dropping leak itself.
[SOURCE]
Why visit this example again? Because we are seeing a repeat of this pattern in the recently released Russiagate files.
If DC can frame negative information as politically motivated, DC can then avoid the unlawful and illegal activity underneath the information. That is exactly what is happening, and that is why process is important.
If the bad actors in the silos want to remove the concern about illegal activity, they control release the information framing it as political in nature.
You’re being disingenuous James. All information presented at this site by this site is publicly available and what you see is long term in-depth, extremely focused and perceptive analysis by SD. There is no special access that I have ever perceived over years of reading and participating at this site. A few occurrences of posters themselves seeming to have interesting information that makes one wonder about their sources but not by the host.
Any allusions to what pursuits Sundance may or may not have been involved in at one time or at present is both unwelcome and doesn’t matter. What matters is the material presented and the logical conclusions put forward.
Consider this…..who are you to cast aspersions and to what end?
The knucklehead has been poofed. Not surprised.
I cant imagine anything more COUNTERPRODUCTIVE to the Derp State that the work done here in the Treehouse.
I chose my screen name in 2016 off what I learned here.
IS ‘James Comey is an unconvicted felon” taken?
Strings. Cannot unsee them.
Often wonder if Wolfe got a huge ‘kiss in the mail’? He sent 83 texts to Ali Watkins (i.e., 1 picture of each page of the Carter Page warrant including the first extension). It is plausible that Mark Warner knew Wolfe was going to do it, and let him take the fall when things went south because FBI was looking for a leaker.
IIrc, Wolfe’s lawyers indicated to the prosecutors that they would call to the stand, under oath, every Senator on the SSCI, including Feinstein and Warner. The response was a sweetheart deal, all things considered.
Btw, this wasn’t Wolfe’s first breach of compromising national security and that was not pursued. A 50-ish man bedding a mid-20s girl, horse trading national secrets.
Warner told him to send it.
Do you recall who was the judge in Wolfe’s case? I don’t but I doubt the name will be unfamiliar to us.
“”Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson also fined Wolfe $7,500.””
Just answered my own question…
Wolfe would not have done this without someone in SSCI’s permission.
I thought it was Jessica Lui.
Tom Fitton read the riot act to the leech Steve Bannon on the War Room today. Basically, Fitton called out Kash and Blondi for covering for the DOJ and FBI.
Bannon feigned interest and then peddled the need to get a Special Prosecutor to work out of the White House.
INSTEAD, Bannon should be calling for Blondi and Patel’s firing for their performances.
Bannon says Blondi and Patel can’t do their jobs so let’s just get a whole new group to do the dismantling of the FBI and DOJ. That’s not leadership, that’s cowardice by Bannon.
Bannon and Fitton on the same side. Bannon a leech. I beg to differ. No one on the outside of the Administration is working harder.
I’m willing to give KAsh, Botgino, and Blondi some runway. BUT, I fully expect a SLAM DUNK case to be the result.
As someone else said, If no one goes to jail after all the shit we put up with the past 9-10 years….I give up.
This country is beyond redemption.
A few SWAT team raids in the wee hours would be beneficial.
I want every American taxpayer funded NGO to account for every single dollar and to know whose pockets they were lining.
It looks like the “Golden Age” might be the first 100 days, or until mid terms, or if we are fortunate to the end of the 4 year term.
We’ll gets some accomplishments, some sunlight, but the return to common sense ends soon after that period.
I wonder what sundance makes of that slug Brian Auten being promoted in the FBI DC field office.
Correction: Steven Jensen
Yes, Auten was just given the boot.
may as well have been auten.
Brian Auten was suspended.
Wow, so that is the punishment for election interference on a national scale using the power of the government to undermine a sitting president.
If I was a hacker who like to hack I would hack all the digital billboards along the Washington DC corridor with images of the all the treasonous, seditionist, election interferers with some kind of snarky phrase so that they would have to see it on their way into and out of the Washington, DC area.
This is the epitome of CYA!!
Thank you Sundance for revisiting this and pointing out once again the absolute corruption in DC.
Seems as though Washington DC has become Sovereign unto itself.
WHY was James Wolfe ever indicted to begin with? They have shown that they are willing to let certain criminality go (J6 bomber, cocaine in the White House, etc).
Sundance and everyone here is a good and very thorough thread of what is missing from the crossfire release.
https://x.com/ClimateAudit/status/1911090050546221438?t=IBCqFBHfIgsF1AHgwpnUtg&s=19
Huh? Evidence is evidence, politically motivated or not. Why should this matter?
Are we to believe that CrossFire Hurricane is only 700 pages?
Gawd, people are stupid!
Its the abridged version.
Justice and Justices compromised. https://revolver.news/2025/04/two-biggest-deep-state-players-are-now-gushing-over-acb/
Lawfare at multiple levels.
The Rule of Law rears its ugly head again.
Your Mike Benz ‘Rule of Law Ops’ share is such profoundly good Sunlight – thank you again DonZ!
Attorney Robert Barnes repeatedly, over and over (yes, I repeated myself) warned us that Amy Phony Barrett was for big government and should NOT BE a Supreme Court justice.
ALL the administrators here downplayed, minimized, and ignored Barnes’ warning; while gushing and oooing over Phony Barrett.
Ever so sadly and regretfully, ALL of Barnes’ warnings have come true; repeatedly and over and over, as seen by Phony Barrett’s treacherous alignment with the SCOTUS leftists, her crocodile tears over Floyd’s death, accompanied by her sobbing statement, ‘I have two black children’, which ALONE should’ve had her impeached and removed from SCOTUS, to her latest anti-Trump ruling.
Barrett and Kavanaugh were foisted on Trump by, IIRC, the abominable Federalist Society; whom envision America in the Hamiltonian way; i.e., a strong central govt is necessary for the good of the rubes it rules.
I see subtle signs that Trump et al moving on many fronts to zero in on the bigugliest.
https://x.com/RobGouveiaEsq/status/1910800023291384090
Kelly wants – needs – *desperately* to see the evidence against *his people on that day*;
how many can be tied to himself?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/10/april-10th-2025-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-81/comment-page-3/#comment-11714478 AZ crime boss wants to see evidence
dim-critter-directed … MAYBE…
not every agent provocateur was directly attached to the ‘FBl’ that day ie.;
were Ray Epps & Jacob Chansley, *both from AZ*, Kelly’s tools?
Epps received a suggestion-of-a-slap-on-the-wrist, and Chansley was (possibly never jailed at all either – did you see him in a jail or just propaganda-media-assured?) was “released early” by over a year due to :
“…Watkins said that Chansley’s release is “a function of his plea agreement, the sentencing order, his participation in programs during his term of imprisonment, his model behavior, his unique characteristics and other nuances protocols followed by and in place with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.”…” { https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/qanon-shaman-was-not-freed-early-due-to-footage-proving-jan-6-riot-was-hoax-idUSL1N36929Y/ }
Smells awfully like protective-connected-ness to me.
How many (scores of) J6 agent-provocateur-operatives were dim-handled/directed rather than FBI???
The congressional interrogators *only ever asked about FBI-connected people*…
Was that so the agency reps being questioned wouldn’t/didn’t “have to lie in testimony”???
if you imagine his election was “fair”, your imagination is working overtime.
Where is Jayden X?
Patel, took these measure against Brian Auten, I hope it’s arrest next
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/kash-patels-fbi-suspends-deep-state-operative-brian/
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1911117510176350424
Brian Auten was just suspended, so theres that.
And leadership of a Naval Expeditionary force fired, as well.
The cleaning out of the stables continues, one turd at a time, or a whole shovelfull.
The link below is to a conversation between Steve Bannon and Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) discussing the intrinsic problems of DOJ (and FBI) investigations, when they themselves are complicit in ant matters that are being investigated — regardless of who is “in charge” of these two Executive Branch departments.
[Scroll to 5:30 for beginning of conversation]
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mnGeAvPrVaGX
The subsequent conversations between Bannon and other WarRoom guests (about China, and the Debt) — which augment subjects that Sundance has regularly discussed on CTH — are also well-worth listening to.
The fix is in, but don’t sweat it, pal. The real play’s on us. Stick to the truth, keep your head up, and we’ll turn this ship around.
Yes, this is political, and Patel is participating in the charade.
If anything were going to come of the evidence gathered, why hand it off to politicians in Congress?
Just thoroughly disgusting to see such criminal activity so blatantly ignored after what President Trump and so many others have been put through.
“The Title-1 FISA application was released by Main Justice under the ridiculous justification of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release. Name me another TSCI document in the history of the Intelligence Community, that has ever been released under a FOIA (either before, or since); there simply isn’t another example. Yet in the rush to review it, no one ever drew attention to this brutally obvious point.”
All one has to do to see how ridiculous this is is to cite any court case where nothing was done because the magic words, “national security” were used to make everything go away.
seems general flynn has weighed in with a request for arrests. rudy is angry too. at least the fact that people are watching is known to trump.
More talking heads are coming out with major criticism of Blondi and Patel including the hapless Rudy Giuliani and Tom Fitton.
In the mean time, the supposed MAGA leader and election savior of 2016 and 2024, Steve Bannon, is running cover for his friends.
What a scumbag.
Troll alert.
The Biden family needs a hobby. 😉
All things considered, trolling is better than the other things they’ve chosen.
What did Mouth say when Chunk came to the gate in “Goonies”?
You ought to really look up Tom Fitton. Or maybe I have no idea what you are talking about. Bannon is not running cover. Please watch the interview with Fitton first.
It would seem the fix for this is robustly denying the premise IE, on the talk circuit, “NO this is not political this is a violation of US code A B C and D These are criminal codes not political ones.”
And now we must ask ourselves do we really want information released before cases can be built and guilty parties isolated?
Suddenly the Epstein list doesn’t look as important as possibly building some cases from it.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/declassified-crossfire-hurricane-docs-shine-light-steele-clinton-and
Just the News made all 700 pages from the declassified binder available to the public on Thursday.
Thanks, SD, for the reminder of the time line. Because of the Process Rubio and Warner continue skate on their involvement in the fiasco.
What a pos government.😳
Is this not a two edged ‘sword’?? On the one hand, the public clamors for release of files like this, and if files are not released, it’s considered a coverup protection the criminal actors involved…..yet the release of these files and information is construed as ‘political’ and therefor nullifies any criminal action against any of the actors…????
Apologies in advance if this question is misguided, but isn’t it relevant that the Carter Page FISA was completely fabricated? In other words the factual recitations supporting the warrant were made up, weren’t they? If I’m right about this, the leak of the FISA by Wolfe couldn’t have had real world national security implications, could it have? Because it was all made up? The implications of the leak, I would have thought, would not be disclosure of national security secrets but of embarrassment of the FBI and DoJ for seeking a warrant against Page based on false allegations. I wonder if the FISA had contained true allegations if Warner and Wolfe would have been so cavalier about leaking it? On some level I have to believe Warner and Wolfe would have been unlikely to leak a FISA if it actually contained true allegations which could actually damage national security and compromise sources and methods? Make sense?
That Senator Warner is as crooked as they get, but the Republicans (Rubio) protected him!
It seems to me that maybe some PDJT’s appointments (Bondi? Kash? Probably several others) are intended as temps, to get things going while he bides his time for some roadblocks to be destroyed( in Senate, House, federal judges, SC justices) before replacing them with his long term picks. He knows how to use compromised temps to accomplish specific things that his real intended picks wouldn’t be able to do. Sometimes using the dirty cloth on the first pass makes the most sense.
Like I have said multiple times, nothing is really going to change.