Ratcliffe: Details of Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Frame Trump Was Brought to Obama, Biden, Clapper But the FBI Buried It

GOWDY: “Trump won and then he won again, but in truth, we all lost, because real damage was done to the trust Americans place in the people we put in power. CIA Director John Lee Ratcliffe worked on this in Congress and again as DNI, and joins us now. Welcome, director. I sat besides you as Comey and Brennan were questioned for hours about Russia collusion and they never once mentioned this was a Clinton plan. They knew it, they were co-conspirators. Would this ever have come out had you not declassified Brennan’s notes and then Durham’s annex? And for our viewers, what’s new in the Durham annex?”
RATCLIFFE: “Well, Trey, think about that. There was intelligence from foreign intelligence services that one U.S. presidential candidate was trying to frame another candidate for treason claiming that he was an agent of foreign power, an agent of Russia. And that intelligence was never shared with you or I as members of congressional oversight committees on intelligence. You know, but for the good fortune of me being able to find John Brennan’s notes and declassify that, that secret may have been hidden forever. But I was able to provide that to John Durham and you see some of that in his annex that was declassified this week. And so what you learn in this annex that many people didn’t know before was details of that Hillary Clinton plan and how it included groups like the Soros Foundation and the roles that the FBI played. So, before all of this started, Trey, what we did know was this. On July 31st of 2016, the FBI did something as shocking as it was unprecedented: they opened a criminal investigation into a nominee for president, a candidate for president, Donald Trump. Something that had never been done before. But what you learned in John Brennan’s annex this week was, six days before that, Russian intelligence predicted that’s exactly what would happen, that there was a Hillary Clinton plan and that the FBI would pour oil on the fire of the firestorm that would consume the country for the next three years. So think about that, Trey. So either Russians made the greatest prediction or the luckiest guess of all time, or this intelligence was real. Of course, the answer is, this intelligence was real. How do we know that? Well, subsequently, under penalty of perjury, under oath, Hillary Clinton’s own campaign manager confirmed that there was such a plan and that Hillary approved it. So that, I think in addition to what you learn about the FBI’s role that came out this week was that this intelligence that was so shocking that John Brennan brought together the National Security Council, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Clapper, Comey, Susan Rice, and briefed them about this intelligence about a Hillary Clinton plan to frame Donald Trump and that the CIA made the required referral of that to the FBI to investigate that as a counterintelligence matter, and as John Durham found, the FBI buried it. They didn’t open a file. They didn’t assign an analyst. They didn’t investigate at all. They just spent the next few years really amplifying the lie of Hillary Clinton’s Steele Dossier and burying the truth of her plan to frame Donald Trump. It is the greatest political scandal that will hopefully be the last that we’ll see in our lifetime.”