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RussiaGate: ‘But I Didn’t Know Until This Day That It Was Hillary Clinton All Along’

Posted on | August 2, 2025 | 1 Comment

Of course I’m kidding. We’ve all known from the get-go who was really behind the “Russian collusion” hoax, but I just had to use that line from The Godfather now, because the release of the so-called Durham annex (previously classified evidence obtained by John Durham during his Special Counsel investigation) has finally proven what we’ve suspected. We have reached that “a-ha!” moment, like Don Corleone watching Barzini play puppet-master to Tattaglia in the meeting of the Five Families, where everything is now crystal clear.

Matt Taibbi, who has been covering this story for years, points out that it “has long been one of the most convoluted, hard-to-follow news stories of all time,” but the convolutions are now resolved:

Now, we know. With the help of the declassified Durham material, we can explain the whole affair in three brushstrokes.
One, Hillary Clinton and her team apparently hoped to deflect from her email scandal and other problems via a campaign tying Trump to Putin. Two, American security services learned of these plans. Three — and this is the most important part — instead of outing them, authorities used state resources to massively expand and amplify her scheme. The last stage required the enthusiastic cooperation and canine incuriosity of the entire commercial news business, which cheered as conspirators made an enforcement target of Trump, actually an irrelevant bystander.

It’s the motive that explains everything, you see. Too many people have forgotten — or, if they were getting their news from the mainstream media, never knew about — the scandal of Hillary’s private email server. As Secretary of State during the first term of Obama’s presidency, her official communications were covered by the Federal Records Act, but it was discovered that she had used “a private email server for official public communications rather than using official State Department email accounts maintained on federal servers.” The FBI investigated and found that at least 100 of these emails “contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deemed ‘Secret’ and 22 deemed ‘Top Secret.'”

Hillary Clinton broke the law and, in doing so, jeopardized national security. And then there were the more 30,000 deleted emails, which looks an awful lot like obstruction of justice to me, but I am not a lawyer.

That is the email scandal from which Hillary wanted to “deflect,” as Taibbi says, by ginning up the Trump-Russia hoax. It should not be confused with the DNC email leak (or “hack”), although the two are closely intertwined. What was the content of those emails?

The leaks resulted in allegations of bias against Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, in apparent contradiction with the DNC leadership’s publicly stated neutrality, as several DNC operatives openly derided Sanders’s campaign and discussed ways to advance Clinton’s nomination. Later reveals included controversial DNC–Clinton agreements dated before the primary, regarding financial arrangements and control over policy and hiring decisions. The revelations prompted the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz before the 2016 Democratic National Convention. The DNC issued a formal apology to Bernie Sanders and his supporters “for the inexcusable remarks made over email” that did not reflect the DNC’s “steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process.” After the convention, DNC CEO Amy Dacey, CFO Brad Marshall, and Communications Director Luis Miranda also resigned in the wake of the controversy.

What the DNC emails showed was that the Democratic Party’s nominating process had been rigged in Hillary Clinton’s favor, which Bernie Sanders’ supporters had believed even before the emails were released by Wikileaks in July 2016. It had the effect of de-energizing a substantial fraction of the Democrats’ grassroots “base.” So these were two separate email scandals affecting Hillary’s campaign, both of which lent credibility to Trump’s “crooked Hillary” rhetoric, and the response from the Clinton team — the gambit that has since become known as RussiaGate — was to kill two birds with one stone, as it were. By claiming that the leaked DNC emails were “hacked” by Russian spies (a claim that has been asserted, rather than proven), Hillary used a DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) strategy. Instead of her being the perpetrator of wrongdoing, Hillary presented herself as being the victim of wrongdoing, targeted by the sinister Vladimir Putin, of whom Trump was accused of being an ally. This had the added benefit, as Taibbi says, of distracting from the scandal of Hillary’s illegal use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State.

The revelations from the Durham annex, coming in the wake of other disclosures by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, provide us with a very detailed understanding of how Team Hillary got the Obama administration’s intelligence community (IC) to support the “Russian collusion” narrative, which is how former DNI James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are involved, along with many others (e.g., Susan Rice) who participated in the corrupt conspiracy that is RussiaGate.

An interesting side note — adding another convolution to the saga — is how an operative from the George Soros organization suggested the idea of designating the (imaginary) Russian “election interference” as an attack on “critical infrastructure,” to justify invoking the Patriot Act. This is how the IC got into the business of censoring alleged “misinformation” on social media, to “fortify” elections against “interference.”

We thus arrive at the scene where the Godfather realizes “it was Barzini all along” and you know what that means. Eventually, someone must settle all family business, and Carlo gets handed an airplane ticket.



 

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