Posted on 06/25/2026 5:13:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Nunes and Patel never stopped working on exposing the Deep State’s efforts to destroy Trump, and we’re finally getting close to indictment territory.
In recent days, Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board Devin Nunes delivered a blunt confirmation on national television that aligns precisely with the investigative reporting I have published at American Thinker since the FBI’s unprecedented raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022.
The raid was never primarily a routine “classified documents” case. It was a desperate Deep State operation to recover and suppress a declassified congressional oversight report that exposed the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) as a politicized, flawed, and weaponized document at the heart of the Russia collusion hoax.
Nunes, who was then the House Intelligence Committee Chairman, led the painstaking investigation into the origins of the Russia narrative and repeatedly connected the dots. The House Intelligence Committee produced a detailed oversight report criticizing the ICA’s dishonest tradecraft: its reliance on uncorroborated sources (including the Steele dossier), its dismissal of dissenting analyst views, and its skewed conclusion that Vladimir Putin actively favored Donald Trump.
President Trump declassified this report before leaving office. According to Nunes, elements within the Intelligence Community feared Trump retained the only physical copy outside their control—making Mar-a-Lago a high-priority target.
This revelation should surprise no one who has followed the pattern of weaponization since 2016. The same officials and institutions that launched Crossfire Hurricane, pushed the Steele dossier, and sustained the Mueller investigation years after its premises collapsed were still operating in 2022—now under a Biden administration desperate to prevent Trump’s return.
In August 2022, I analyzed how the Mar-a-Lago raid had the hallmarks of political retribution rather than legitimate law enforcement. The timing (just before the midterms), the theatrical use of force, the shifting public justifications
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I always thought the FBI raid was to try to find the ICA document. It has been known for a long time that the hard copy of this document had disappeared and the CIA thought someone had taken it from the safe and smuggled it to President Trump.
Memory fails me.
where did a hard copy go, and who had it?
Unfortunately, 95% of the country is to concern with panem et circenses to be bothered with the decline of our country and the corruption of our institutions.
Joe Biden is a demon.
There had to be a snitch someplace...they were looking for something in particular.
No matter what, it should have never happened.
We still don’t know what was in all the burn bags.....but you can bet there is info that will hang some people. It’s all about timing.
So name names already.
There is still a Grand Jury proceeding in session. Any leaks from that would be a crime.
Something is up. John Solomon is off his show for a while because he is doing something with the Trump administration.
Wow, Captain Obvious doesn't miss a thing, does he?
I have come to believe that the alleged burn bag is actually files on a secret hard drive collected and stored by an FBI agent who was totally disgusted with the weaponization of the agency.
The hard drive might actually be in the cloud and unreachable by the tyrants who work for the DNC
Finding a burn bag is legal. Secreting damning files out in the cloud might actually be criminal
Any opinions on having a burn-bag and not burning it?
1. Incompetence. Someone told someone else to burn them, and they forgot or just didn't care to bother.
2. There was at least one honest person working in the FBI, who deliberately did not follow through with burning them, in the hopes that the entire sordid mess would be exposed.
Who really knows?
I don’t know why but I’ve always trusted that the grape-farmer from Tulare would dig-this-up!
Did they think Trump hid them in Melania’s underwear drawer?
Same thoughts here.
No one is going to jail.
If we were doing mass deportations....
If those who created and lied about COVID were arrested and tried...
If we were not starting new wars...
If Trump treated Republicans defecting from the SAFE act like he treated those calling for Epstein file release...
If anyone was thrown in jail for spying on Trump in 2016...
If the Jan 6 pipe bomber was caught...
If Trump followed through on any of his campaign promises...
I would be excited about this and looking forward to justice being carried out for these crimes.
But, I’m not.
Exactly. American Thinker articles early on regarding the raid certainly aided me in shaping my thinking on this.
I was inclined to see it as weaponized government from the very beginning (giving the timing right before the election) and didn’t need any help in seeing that.
But early on, American Thinker articles (like the one from this author) pointed towards efforts by the Deep State to locate hard copies of...something...a report or finding related to...what? And with each passing day, it became clear to me they were attempting to corral a document that was out of the direct control of Deep State entities.
I have given it some thought, because I don’t understand exactly how a digital document is different from a hard copy with respect towards “protecting” it (I have no experience in security controls that a high security entity like the federal government uses, so this is all just conjecture and I could be all wet on this) until I concluded that a digital document residing in a secure system is far more security-controllable than any hard copy of a document, even a hard copy of a document in a guarded, restricted locked facility, in a Eurograde III safe.
Granted, digital security is always and forever suspect, because technology is in a state of constant flux, so I fully understand how it might seem controversial to say that.
Except for one thing: Access to a single physical document is, I believe, harder to control than a single digital document...especially in cases where it isn’t just one single document. The more documents you have to physically protect, the easier it is for “someone” to get access to it because there are many “most secure documents” that need access to from a variety of people, and they often have to be stored in a physical place with guards, gates, safes, etc. So actual security (not just physical security) is harder to maintain because it is not scalable and granular at the same time. IOW, physical security may be very broad in a huge federal facility guarded by men, mantraps, huge vaults, etc. but I don’t believe it can be given granularity of access the way digital can.
With a document that is stored digitally in a well secured and designed system using high levels of encryption and authentication, the granularity and logging of access to that single file is exquisite. So, it can be hidden away in an obscure location in a file system (like the humorous reference to the huge warehouse storing the Ark of The Covenant in the movie “Raiders of The Lost Ark”) where it is effectively hidden, and if anyone does search it out and try to access it, tripwires can alert people, etc.
Just musing on this. As I said, I could be all wrong, but having seen how physical security is often enough limited and flawed in a variety of ways, my view might be plausible.
The bottom line: having any kind of physical document outside the controlled digital domain, especially in the hands of someone like Donald Trump who would be willing to read it, act on it, and share it with the right people has to present such a risk to the Deep State perpetrators of government weaponization, conspiracy, and fraud that they would be wholly willing to fully wade boldly into illegality to obtain control of that physical document.
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