The Deep State used a fabricated Russian collusion hoax to try to destroy Trump's first term.
The culprits have escaped accountability – until now.
And a federal prosecutor just made moves that have Brennan, Comey, and Clapper looking over their shoulders.
Crossfire Hurricane Finally Has a Prosecutor Who Means Business
Joseph diGenova – the Reagan-era U.S. Attorney who put corrupt D.C. officials behind bars before most of today's FBI leadership was out of law school – now runs the single most consequential investigation in Washington.
Two separate grand juries are active in South Florida right now.
One sits in Fort Pierce under Judge Aileen Cannon – the same judge who watched Jack Smith's witch hunt fall apart in her courtroom.
The second grand jury convenes in Miami, where U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones is working in close coordination with diGenova's office.
A fresh wave of grand jury subpoenas is scheduled to go out in early July.
The targets are not minor bureaucrats.
John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey sit at the top of the list.
Below them: Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, former FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten – who rubber-stamped the Steele dossier for FISA warrant applications against Carter Page – former Obama White House aide Celeste Wallander, former CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, and former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, who has already given investigators alarming new information as a cooperating witness.
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"It's dead in D.C.," a senior U.S. official told RealClearInvestigations. "Everything is in South Florida now."
Democrat D.C. grand juries have repeatedly refused to indict targets in politically charged cases this administration has brought.
South Florida's jury pool is different – and Judge Cannon has already watched firsthand how Democrat-aligned prosecutors operate when they believe the permanent bureaucracy will protect them.
DiGenova also brings something Durham never had: the full files.
Everything Durham gathered over four years – including hours of interview notes from Brennan himself covering his role in Crossfire Hurricane and the Intelligence Community Assessment – now sits in diGenova's hands.
Durham sat on those notes.
DiGenova won't.
How the Steele Dossier Became an Instrument of Government Fraud
Starting in 2016, senior CIA and FBI officials took fabricated, Clinton-funded opposition research and ran it through the U.S. intelligence community to make it look legitimate.
That stamp of credibility was the whole point.
It gave the Steele dossier enough cover to fuel media coverage, trigger congressional investigations, and justify the Mueller special counsel appointment – a machine everyone at the top of the CIA and FBI knew was built on fiction.
Comey and Brennan personally pushed for inclusion of the dossier in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment over the objections of career analysts who understood it violated fundamental tradecraft.
DNI John Ratcliffe later confirmed those objections in a declassified tradecraft review, then referred both men for prosecution.
DiGenova's team is also looking hard at whether Mueller's prosecutors piled on additional abuses against Trump officials and associates once the original scheme was in motion.
The entire timeline – from Trump's June 2015 campaign announcement through the 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid – is under the microscope.
Two Grand Juries and a Deadline Democrats Are Praying He Misses
DiGenova turns 81 this year.
He has until January 2029.
After that, a Democrat takes the White House and the cases disappear.
One DOJ official close to the operation told RealClearInvestigations they will not rush – and will not bring indictments without confidence they can win in court.
"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.
Every time prosecutors got close, Democrat-aligned judges found a technicality and threw them a lifeline – so diGenova moved the entire operation to a court where that playbook doesn't exist.
DiGenova's team is building under conspiracy statutes that reach back to conduct from 2016 – because as long as the agreement itself continued, the statute of limitations clock never ran out on the people who made it.
The operation in Fort Pierce is staffing up with deputy prosecutors, investigators, analysts, and researchers.
The next round of subpoenas drops in days.
Brennan, Comey, and Clapper spent nine years believing the system would protect them.
The system just moved to South Florida.
Sources:
- Paul Sperry, "Russiagate Prosecutor Calls Audible on 'Grand Conspiracy,'" RealClearInvestigations, June 25, 2026.
- "Grand Jury Subpoenas Former CIA Chief Brennan and 2 Ex-FBI Officials Linked to Trump-Russia Probe," CBS News, November 7, 2025.
- "Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Threats to Harm President Trump," Department of Justice, April 28, 2026.
- Zach Schonfeld, "Comey Subpoenaed in DOJ's 'Grand Conspiracy' Probe," Axios, March 19, 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "Who Is Joseph diGenova? Reagan-Era Prosecutor Tapped to Lead 'Grand Conspiracy' Investigation," April 20, 2026.
- "Grand Jury Subpoenas Brennan, Strzok, Page in Trump-Russia Probe," Fox News, November 7, 2025.
