Should Obama and His Intelligence Leaders Be Investigated for Russiagate?

Russiagate is claimed to be much larger than Watergate, and it might be. Watergate was about President Richard Nixon covering up for a botched burglary at the Democrat Party headquarters. Russiagate is allegedly about President Barack Obama and his intelligence community surveilling presidential candidate Donald Trump and then trying to usurp the power of President Donald Trump.

Several weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified material “related to the reputed conspiracy to tie Donald Trump to Russia before and after the 2016 election” and made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ confirmed two weeks ago that it had received the criminal referral. Now we learn that “Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the DOJ to open a grand jury investigation into the matter.” In her article published at The Daily Signal, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell made the following statements. 

In a letter first reported by Fox News Digital, Bondi ordered an unidentified federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings. The prosecutor is expected to present department evidence to a grand jury to secure a potential indictment.

Two weeks ago, the DOJ confirmed it received a criminal referral from Gabbard, which included a memo titled “Intelligence Community suppression of intelligence showing ‘Russian and criminal actors did not impact’ the 2016 presidential election via cyberattacks on infrastructure.”

At a July press briefing, Gabbard asserted that former President Barack Obama was involved in the “manufacturing” of an intelligence assessment relating to reputed Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Gabbard confirmed she is asking the Department of Justice and the FBI to “investigate the criminal implications” of new evidence around “Russiagate,” including referring Obama for investigation.

“The evidence that we have found, and that we have released, directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment,” she said. “There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact.” …

Under President Donald Trump’s direction, Gabbard announced the declassified House Intelligence Committee report “that exposes how the Obama administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.”

The newly released document, dated Sept. 18, 2020, details intelligence findings that Russia had little to no influence over the results of the 2016 presidential election.