As a sidenote, a few days ago it was reported that AG Pam Bondi was “blindsided” with the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The narrative was essentially that the criminal review or expectation was a hot potato handed to Bondi by Gabbard and Bondi was ‘annoyed.’ Just an fyi as this series of events unfolds.
Today Fox News is reporting exclusively, from their being leaked a copy of a letter from Bondi’s office, that Attorney General Pam Bondi has tasked a DOJ lawyer with presenting the declassified evidence to a grand jury. Details are scant within the article.
FOX NEWS – Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital has learned.
Bondi ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings, and the prosecutor is expected to present department evidence to a grand jury to secure a potential indictment, according to a letter from Bondi reviewed by Fox News Digital and a source familiar with the investigation.
A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on the report of an investigation but said Bondi is taking the referrals from Gabbard “very seriously.” The spokesperson said Bondi believed there is “clear cause for deep concern” and a need for the next steps.
The DOJ confirmed two weeks ago it received a criminal referral from Gabbard. The referral included a memorandum titled “Intelligence Community suppression of intelligence showing ‘Russian and criminal actors did not impact’ the 2016 presidential election via cyber-attacks on infrastructure” and asked that the DOJ open an investigation.
No charges have been brought at this stage against any defendants. A grand jury investigation is needed to secure an indictment against any potential suspects. (read more)
I don’t believe any of this clickbait bs, none of it. Blindsided my ass.
Certainly not blindsided, this is well orchestrated and I believe she has been planning this ever since she was nominated.
Blindsiding a tunnel vision-addled AG when the tunnels are lobbyist sodalities by Pfizer Susie Wiles is akin to shooting fish in a barrel.
If not one thing more, heartiest congratulations to Tulsi for sending her calumnizer Hilly Clinton into history as the drug-addled alcoholic underachiever this harridan truly is. Irrespective of whether Blondi extracts her thumb from her tail about it.
to put it delicately.
Yes, I think we very much both defer to Sundance, but something can be done, she could use the case to spear-head reform of the “intelligence” community, she could mount a legal assault on the corrupt DC Grand Jury system, and as for accountability she could search out and find any and all cases of perjury (as precedented by the democrats when they rail-road good people into jail) and prosecute them.
I agree, there could be knock on effect.
.
Well aren’t you the wordsmithy. Does spouting uninformative fact-free insults on the comment section of a website make you feel better?
.
“harridan” – Well done, that’s a crackerjack word there.
noun
The point was made in the Sullivan conversation a few days ago that the “tick tock” club at Fox really only exists to milk political outrage for as long as possible. Fox reporting “blindsiding” and “annoyed” are just to ignite your passion to get you to tune in to their political shows, really just to watch their advertisements.
.
Not Fox. Bullshit from the UK Independent.
.
Nunes made 14 criminal referrals that went nowhere.
Did we ever get ALL the Strzok-Page texts the FBI promised?
– Fox News Dec 20, 2020
Nunes calls for new criminal referral over Peter Stzrok texts
New messages from Peter Stzrok dealing with the Russia investigation were released earlier this month
“This is clearly lying and obstructing Congress. This is information that we asked for numerous times,” Nunes said.
“We sat in meetings with DOJ and FBI, and they sat there and stone cold said there’s no more information, there’s no more text messages.”
“The newly released messages include communication referencing the Russia investigation before it officially began, as well as a July 2017 message dealing with the nature of the probe itself, in which Strzok said he was worried “about having this as a [counterintelligence] case when we are really doing a criminal investigation.”
“These were the text messages that we really needed to run a proper investigation,” Nunes said. “Instead we had to go around we had to rely on informants, we had to piece all this together in order to get this out to the American people that hey, Trump campaign and Republicans were not only spied on but this was wrong….”
** “I don’t see how John Durham can’t bust several people for lying and misleading Congress,” he said.” **
That was then and this is now.
Obama no longer has control of the CIA, FBI and DOJ like he used to.
I’ll guess that Nunes’s referrals were to the DC grand jury. Maybe the currently ongoing referrals are to a non DC grand jury. There is probably a difference ‘twixt the 2.
The rumor is that it is a Florida grand jury.
You bring up a really good point. Let’s not forget the Mueller team’s deleted phones. Resurfacing those text messages probably have explosive conspiracy laden evidence within.
I will wager a donut that everything in those phones exists somewhere.
That linked report about Blondi is hilarious. We’re going to have to say she was blondsided…lol. What an idiot. Absolute incompetence surrounding the Epstein stuff. Bad messaging, bad optics, and several straight-up lies define Blondi’s handling of the Epstein data.
I think she doth protest too much about Gabbard/Ratcliff referrals. I think they knew quite well those were likely.
There are just a handful of issues that define MAGA supporters
Blondi hasn’t figured out yet that her mouth is her own worst enemy. Blindsided? Really? That’s what we’re going to get?
More likely, she’s pissed about the timing because she screwed up Epstein so badly that she wasn’t ready to pivot to the coup d’etat. There’s no way following Ed Martin’s very public statements last May that DOJ does not have a fairly advanced investigation going on. We just can’t see it.
Trump seems adept at putting his preferred bottlenecks in the AG position. She would be the third, not counting Rosen. Change my mind, please!
blondsided HA ! (by Hillary’s bleachbit)
Exactly, she’s already back peddling from any responsibility.
We’re probably witnessing the beginning of another disgraceful person (lawyer).
.
Bondi has known about and been on-board with everything being done, and has discussed these issues with Donald Trump for years.
.
What happened to the Strike Force?
…stealth and effective…
( no names of people doing their lawful jobs )…
is way, way ok.
p.s.
keep it that way with grand jury process too…
Imho
Perfect venue for Southwest to advertise the ‘Wanna Get Away’ flights
Bondi will “phone it in” and half ass it then use the “grand jury reviewed it and found the evidence lacking” as her excuse. The person she assigned is probably on a performance improvement plan and is being given this chance to tune it around.
Don’t grand juries regularly indict ham samwiches? Both prosecutor and jury will have to be swamp adjacent to avoid indicting somebody.
.
Bondi isn’t doing the work. She is administrator of a 120,000 person agency. And it’s not “a” person.
(Why are there so many negative comments?)
.
Well you got one part right- she isn’t doing work. The record is clear, she is what she is – a stone cold loser.
.
I actually know her. She’s no loser. She’s built a successful career using people skills rather than being a legal brainiac, but she’s not an idiot, she is loyal to Trump, and she is trying her best to do good. And I said “the” work, meaning she’s not personally drafting legal pleadings. Running a large agency (personnel, budget, reporting to Trump, overseeing others’ work, etc.) is not doing “no work”.
.
Did you know her during the Travon debacle?
.
Yes.
.
To be honest, I think it has a lot to do with all her appearances on FOX. Then there was the announcement that she had all the files on Epstein. Yes she’s good looking but being blonde and announcing big news, without checking it thoroughly first, really gave the dumb blonde theory meaning. Even I thought we’d see some big time arrests with that one, but realized shortly thereafter it was either an honest mistake or distraction. It might help if people knew exactly what her job description was/is. Seems every other DOJ, appointed before her was either corrupt and all in on targeting innocent Americans or did nothing. I thought Sessions was going to be great too but his only accomplishment I remember was yanking pain meds off the market and telling us to take an aspirin. Look how that turned out for Americans…Fentanyl crisis big time!
Those of us who have worked in civil service know that “overseeing others’ work” does not always mean that work has been checked out. Sometimes it has – sometimes not. And it certainly does not equate to “work being actually performed.” I would suggest that, in her position, it is actually more important for her to be a “legal brainiac” rather than obtaining “people skills.”
She is President Trumps choice as Attorney General. The record IS clear.
I remember reading somewhere an explanation for a through-line that could tie events from 2017 together with events from 2024, to allege a continuing conspiracy to obstruct Congress by hiding information.
Oh — it was me.
And I’m only beginning to see what others have seen for months???
A good day! A great development for ou Republic! 🇺🇸
https://x.com/team_usa__/status/1952489062989988275?s=61
Thank you for the link, the grand jury is good news. In defense of Bondi, we have been winning many cases at the Supreme Court level.
Where is the grand jury impaneled to hear evidence? Leave it to Bondi to do so in the Imperial City, which means nothing of any consequence will happen to any leftist Fed ever.
According to OhNoYouDoNot’s post above, the evidence seems to point to Florida.
Smart move. A DC grand jury would no doubt be supervised by a Trump-hating judge, and the trial jury unlikely to convict any Democrat.
Maybe Witkoff is going to Russia to bring back all the COMMS Russia has captured/intercepted on the DS since 2016 to present to the Grand Jury?
I like the way you think!!
Wouldn’t that be something Bogey
This is the kind of BS we need less of. No one is coming to save us on a white horse, saddle up.
MAGA.
And there probably was a good reason for Tulsi to keep the info close to the vest…. Lots of opportunity for Bondi to spread leaks..
Well Pam . . we’re waiting.
If she tries to bury this in a DC Grand Jury, she’ll be a laughing stock.
I definitely think Tulsi tossed a bomb at her, good.
It shouldn’t be a crisis for her to do the right thing! It’s only a crisis because of who she is.
She is already a laughing stock to most Conservatives and MAGA folks. He supporters Republicans, RINOS, TRUMP via Susie Wells his COS that makes TRUMP make some of the worse decisions in picking people . She is a deep state plant and TRUMP does not see it. ELON knew it so he had to go?
.
Bondi isn’t “Deep State” anything. This is her first federal job.
I wish people would at least try to discern the difference between a not-that-bright but loyal-to-Trump person who is trying her best, and a subversive.
.
.
She’s Susie’s wingman not PT. MAGA my ass. Oh yes, your right about the stupid part though.
.
No she is not. After her stint at Florida AG, Wiles offered a job. That is all, and that is now done. Bondi reports to Trump. When she was Florida AG, she took orders from Rick Scott. Before that, she had connex with the Jeb/Romney crowd. The political social circles aren’t that big in Florida, so don’t make more of the Wiles connection than it is.
.
She was a hack who lied to jury after jury, put up witnesses she knew to be liars, got caught. Yet Zimmerman still went free despite her Malice.
She did not grow out of that, she was brewed in it.
.
She “lied to jury after jury”? Defamatory know-nothing hyperbole.
Regarding Zimmerman case, there was a political brouhaha about racism (Obama, Crump) and she was told to appoint a special counsel to review the police findings of self-defense, get the issue off of her and Rick Scott.
Ambitious midwit Angela Corey (who had worked for Bondi’s AG campaign) was rewarded with this job and supposed to be the fall guy but apparently went in the other direction to enhance her time in the limelight.
.
In other words, you are stating that Trump doesn’t control the presidency.
Pam is the choice of President Trump and answers only to the president and whoever he designates.
That statement is 100% accurate.
I hesitate to comment but loyalty in a not so bright individual can lead to getting manipulated easily. I think there in lies the problem. There’s all kinds of intelligence people have, being able to discern the good from the bad, can be just as important. Being able to assign the case to the right prosecutor is of utmost importance here. Our DOJ has some real bad people that haven’t been replaced yet, that I’ve heard of anyway. Anyone who prosecuted Jan 6ers or was in on Trump indictments, needs to be banished!
Tick tock Solomon is saying it’s gonna be FLA
I’ll wait this one out
A lot of anti Bondi posts here. Did it ever occur to anyone that it is important to the DS to create lack of support, disarray and anger by the base to discredit anything coming out of the Justice Department. This is a leak.
Lots of leakers and disinformation coming out of Justice. They need a task force to specifically find and prosecute all leakers. The Strike Force will be seriously handicapped if they don’t.
Stay cool and don’t help the opposition. It will be a daunting task as it is to bring about accountability.
Fox needs to learn a little restraint.
We call her “Crickets” in here because we all knew from the get go that nothing dynamic or innovative would be coming out of DOJ under her “leadership,” And now here we are in August and DOJ is the only part of this dynamic Administration that hasn’t done anything. It’s an F-ing graveyard.
Strike Force and now a potential Grand Jury. Both entities should keep the DS busy for a while. Not bad for a beginning.
Maybe AG Bondi was waiting to get the US Attorneys in place for DC and Florida. Both nominations passed the Senate on Friday. They should be sworn in shortly.
AG Bondi knows that we are watching her closely.
.
Do you have a clue how many lawfare cases the DOJ successfully has defended over the last 5 months? Guess not…
.
OC, they don’t care. I sometimes think half the people commenting here are on the other side.
Pam Bondi is the choice of President Trump. Disrespecting her is the same as disrespecting the president.
Wrong.
Yeah, sure. The grand jury paperwork is sitting on her desk at this very moment.
Pam thought that her time as AG was a prelude to a high profile, high paid Faux Newz gig. You don’t think she really expected to work for US, do you?
.
Do YOU have a clue how many lawfare cases the DOJ successfully has defended over the last 5 months? Guess not…
.
Yawn
Didn’t the source (Fox News) of the Grand Jury leak, as well as everyone else who describes it, say the referral from DNI -based on declassified data- triggered the DOJ action?
If yes, then what/where exactly was the information/action contained within the declassified data?
Where did all the identified action take place?
Washington DC, right?
So how exactly does a prosecutor empanel a Grand Jury in a venue other than DC?… When the presented evidence and the questions of criminal action therein are exclusive to DC?
.
I suspect that Fox News doesn’t actually have much information. A lot of guessing by the air fillers.
.
It wouldn’t be exclusive to DC if evidence shows it triggering the raid at Mara Lago.
That may be the case. And for all those anti Pam Bondi commenters, it’s not her fault. My own suspicion is that they will find a way to use the Florida raid on Mar A Lago to empanel a GJ in Florida. There may well be more than one GJ…
Mar a Lago raid, perhaps.
This time it is going to be different. Lol
James Clapper, John Brennan, and James Comey are now all accusing one another of being culpable for inserting the unverified dossier, the font of the effort to destroy Trump, into a presidential intelligence assessment—as if suddenly and mysteriously the prior seeding of the Steele dossier is now seen as a bad thing. And how did the dossier transmogrify from being passed around the Obama Administration as a supposedly top-secret and devastating condemnation of candidate and then president-elect Trump to a rank embarrassment of ridiculous stories and fibs?
Given the narratives of the last three years, and the protestations that the dossier was accurate or at least was not proven to be unproven, why are these former officials arguing at all? Did not implanting the dossier into the presidential briefing give it the necessary imprimatur that allowed the serial leaks to the press at least to be passed on to the public and thereby apprise the people of the existential danger that they faced?
https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/19/he-did-it-not-me/
Comey Clapper Brennan
No wonder those famous few words reportedly uttered from Hillary’s mouth when then candidate Trump was declared the winner were “we will all hang”. She knew exactly what their actions were.
Alderman, ehrlichmann, mitchell and Dean.
Obama ordered Brennan to create the fake intelligence.
Brennan handed it to Clapper, Clapper handed it to Comey so Comey could use it to create lawfare.
All four of them are guilty.
I’m just going to sit back and wait to see what happens.
No speculation, no pontificating (for now), yes, I am interested, but I have no control over what goes on.
My grandad, who taught me so many things, used to have a phrase he never used in earshot of my grandma. Since she can’t hear me, let me just repeat his words … Bondi is worthless as teats on a boar hog.
“…………AG Pam Bondi was “blindsided” with the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The narrative was essentially that the criminal review or expectation was a hot potato handed to Bondi by Gabbard and Bondi was ‘annoyed.’ Just an fyi as this series of events unfolds.”
Annoyed.?? Would anyone here like to volunteer to go give Blondi a swift kick in the job description?
These are the same people who put Tulsi on the terror watch list. We all saw it coming, she hasn’t forgotten.
Bondi was put into place for this, she will sabotage it all. It’s her retirement plan. The deep state will take care of her.
Pompeo ever face justice? Bill Barr or his pervert father? Neither will she.
Let’s hope this is not just another one of Bondi’s hot air balloons. Once we know the identity of the prosecutor, we will know the seriousness of the DOJ’s commitment.
Since when do we believe any news source? Fox is msn but better clothes.
What a bunch of bone tossing prognosticators we have here. Try the stars. At least they’re bright. Nobody knows what’s really going on so
If you’re MAGA then why destroy MAGA. Give it a chance. Take a breath. You can’t do a thing about it but complain and if you’re right you’ll have your “I told you so” and if you’re wrong you’ll hope everyone forgets. So stop gambling and don’t be an Eeyore.
It would be interesting to know which attorney has been assigned, how competent, aggressive, family relations and past social media posts.
Just because Cabinet members in their official capacity don’t speak much, doesn’t mean they’re not working for American citizens!
The media wants two women vying for the spotlight! Please allow them to do their respective jobs. Time will tell.
The Independent @Independent
The source of the “AG Pam Bondi was “blindsided” with the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.” smear has only 4,974 views in 23 hours, 37 minutes of this story:
AG Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama officials over Trump-Russia 2016 collusion investigation
Leaked and unnamed… okay fine and you.. ? Just what we need another Leakey toilet monkey