The FBI spent years insisting the only foreign interference in the 2016 Election was from Russia.
Now the prosecutor assigned to investigate that very claim has stumbled onto evidence that blows that story wide open.
What Joseph diGenova's team just pulled from a buried FBI document has James Comey and John Brennan reaching for their lawyers.
Comey and Brennan Under Subpoena as Crossfire Hurricane Probe Expands
Former FBI Director James Comey called Crossfire Hurricane a legitimate counterintelligence operation.
And former CIA Director John Brennan swore the bogus Steele dossier was a credible intelligence product.
Both men are now under subpoena.
Joseph diGenova – Reagan-era U.S. Attorney, now serving as Counselor to the Attorney General – took command of the sprawling Russia Collusion Hoax investigation in April.
What he inherited was a mess. The probe had lurched through more than a year with no direction, no coherent theory, and no realistic path to prosecution. Sources close to the operation told RealClearInvestigations the case was so scattered it was effectively stalled.
DiGenova changed that. Rather than attempting one unmanageable prosecution covering a decade of alleged wrongdoing, he broke the conspiracy into focused, prosecutable components.
Two separate grand juries are now collecting evidence in South Florida – with Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok all under subpoena.
The investigation spans from June 2015, when Donald Trump rode down the escalator at Trump Tower, through the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago – seven years of coordinated action across multiple agencies.
Then diGenova's team found the document.
New FBI Documents Expose Crossfire Hurricane Malfeasance and Ukraine Election Interference
Investigators uncovered a massive internal FBI file spanning several hundred pages that sources say lays bare misconduct at the heart of the bureau's Trump-Russia probe.
DiGenova traveled to Washington to brief FBI Director Kash Patel personally. The document is now shaping the next phase of the investigation.
Investigative journalist Paul Sperry broke the bigger news this week: diGenova's team has obtained startling new evidence of election interference by foreign actors who were not from Russia. Specifically, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. DiGenova has assigned a dedicated federal investigator to focus solely on Ukraine.
The entire premise of the Russia Hoax – the impeachments, the Mueller investigation, the FISA warrants, the surveillance of American citizens, the years of media hysteria – was built on the accusation that Donald Trump colluded with a foreign government.
They went looking for Trump's foreign interference and found the Democrats' instead.
This was not a new suspicion when diGenova's team found it.
As far back as 2017, Senator Chuck Grassley sent formal letters to the Justice Department documenting how DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa – a Ukrainian-American operative paid $71,918 by the Democrat Party during the 2016 cycle – worked directly with Ukrainian Embassy officials to dig up opposition research on Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The Ukrainian Embassy's ambassador later confirmed in writing that Chalupa had solicited interference in the U.S. election. The FBI never acted on any of it.
diGenova Grand Conspiracy Investigation Targets Obama Officials and Mueller Team
The ICA – the Intelligence Community Assessment ordered by Barack Obama in his final weeks in office – was supposed to be the definitive proof that Russia helped Trump win.
It wasn't. Career analysts inside the intelligence community had concluded before the election that Russia was not trying to help Trump – it was trying to sow discord. Comey and Brennan overrode those findings, forcing the Clinton-funded Steele dossier into the assessment despite internal resistance.
The Obama administration then circulated the result through official channels, giving fabricated opposition research the imprimatur of a genuine intelligence product – triggering the media, then Congress, then Robert Mueller.
DiGenova is now examining whether Mueller's team itself engaged in prosecutorial abuses against Trump officials and associates.
DiGenova's operating assumption – rejected by every prior investigator – is that Crossfire Hurricane, the impeachments, the Mueller probe, and the Mar-a-Lago raid were not separate events. They were sequential moves in the same operation.
Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst who served as the anonymous so-called "whistleblower" and triggered Trump's first impeachment while secretly coordinating with Adam Schiff's staff – is now a grand jury subject.
So is former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who processed Ciaramella's complaint and helped move the impeachment forward. Strzok and Page, whose anti-Trump text messages exposed the FBI's internal bias in 2017, face the same Florida grand jury.
A DOJ official close to the investigation told RealClearInvestigations the team will not bring indictments until it can win.
"We're not going to bring indictments just to make ourselves feel good only to lose and give the bad guys a victory," the official said.
That restraint matters. Americans have sat through years of congressional hearings that produced nothing, reports that changed nothing, and promises that went nowhere. DiGenova is building a prosecution, not a press conference.
The people who spent a decade insisting Donald Trump was a Russian agent are now sitting across from a federal grand jury in South Florida explaining what they knew and when they knew it.
Sources:
- Paul Sperry, "Russiagate Prosecutor Calls Audible On 'Grand Conspiracy,'" RealClearInvestigations, June 25, 2026.
- Fox News Digital, "Trump Ally diGenova Tapped to Lead DOJ Probe into Brennan Over Russia Probe Origins," Fox News, April 19, 2026.
- John Solomon, "Ukrainian Embassy Confirms DNC Contractor Solicited Trump Dirt in 2016," The Hill, 2019.
- Senator Chuck Grassley, "DNC Consultant Reportedly Sought Dirt on Trump from Ukrainian Government," Senate Judiciary Committee, July 2017.
