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August 10, 2025
How Comey Became Obama’s Gatekeeper in the Russian Collusion Hoax
By M. Walter
In June of 2018, 18 months after Obama exited stage left, and in the high heat and fury of the Trump 45 “Russia-Russia-Russia” hysteria, Ben Rhodes, Obama’s chief speechwriter, published a memoir of his time in the Obama White House, “The World As It Is.” I read it shortly after it came out and recently recalled he’d made some observations about the summer of 2016 and some “off-the-books” Situation Room meetings that took place. In light of what we’ve since learned, it seemed to me that the events surrounding them could be instructive. And damning. And they are.
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The Clinton campaign [early summer 2016] was already fingering the Russians [for the DNC emails that were hacked], but when the White House and NSC press shops would ask what we could say about it publicly, we’d be given little running room by the intelligence community. It took us weeks to be authorized to say even that the FBI was investigating the DNC hack. On the subject of Russian complicity, we could only cite past statements by U.S. officials expressing concern about Russian hacking. [Emphasis added.]
Well, of course they’d been “given little running room by the intelligence community” because the Intelligence Community — James Comey’s FBI, specifically — had never physically examined the DNC’s hard drives. Only Crowdstrike had and the FBI simply took their word for it that the Russians had infiltrated them. So far as we know they remain unexamined by any federal agency to this day.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/how_comey_became_obama_s_gatekeeper_in_the_russian_collusion_hoax.html
