Isn't Cotton's wife CIA? He's essentially the Senator from Langley.

Yes. 'Former' supposedly/if you buy that.

Yes, Tom Cotton's wife, Anna Peckham Cotton, previously served as Assistant General Counsel at the CIA, managing litigation including the Bin Laden raid. She is not currently employed there, per her Federalist Society bio and other sources.

— Grok (@grok) July 27, 2025

How odd is it that Tom Cottons wife Anna Cotton, Anna Peckham, was appointed a Board Advisor at Fortress Information Security.

Fortress Information Security was formed in 2015 to provide cybersecurity products and services for corporations, US govt and Foreign governments.

In… pic.twitter.com/MANyC58cfu

— . (@fthebankers) May 12, 2024

Cotton, for his part blames the DoJ/White House for the failure somehow and denies he doesn't want to declassify the Brennan deposition around the ICA:

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Senate rules and practice generally require a full Senate resolution to authorize the transfer of committee materials (especially classified or closed-session transcripts) for use in a criminal proceeding or grand jury. This is not unique to Cotton or this casesimilar positions were taken historically (for example, during the Mueller investigation when the Senate Judiciary Committee was asked for transcripts). Public release by the committee itself can sometimes occur with redactions without a full-Senate vote, but grand-jury use is treated more strictly.

Cotton states he was actively pursuing that resolution and continues to work with the administration, while attributing delays to DOJ and White House legislative affairs handling rather than any desire to shield Brennan or Rubio. He has consistently criticized Brennan's role in the Russia collusion narrative and supported broader declassification and accountability efforts.

In short, the "blocking" claim stems from partisan or source-driven reporting about a procedural holdup. Cotton's position is that the legal requirement for a Senate resolution is the obstacle, that he supports the goal of getting the transcripts to investigators, and that external executive-branch missteps complicated the process. The underlying investigation into Brennan (tied to alleged false statements about the ICA/Steele dossier and related referrals) continues separately.

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I don't really buy that either, but that's his story fwiw.

Need to switch from cotton to alpaca socks

It just keeps getting worse.

Complete deep state using its agencies to go after anyone related to Trump Admin. Pretty disgusting.

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New revelations about the FBI pulling out all the stops to try to destroy the Trump 45 Administration just keep on coming.

Now we learn that in 2017 they started Operation MARCH TOLL targeting former AG Jeff Sessions. Few men are as upstanding as Jeff Sessions but as…

— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) August 10, 2026

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Here is another educated guess: Sessions contemplated telling the FBI to shut down any baseless investigation into him or Trump.

And then, they trotted out the dread phrase “obstruction of justice,” threatening Jeff Sessions with that.

Also, here are the new documents.… https://t.co/WCi7VbMILS

— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) August 10, 2026

Yes. It's all so damn disgusting.

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New revelations about the FBI pulling out all the stops to try to destroy the Trump 45 Administration just keep on coming.

Now we learn that in 2017 they started Operation MARCH TOLL targeting former AG Jeff Sessions. Few men are as upstanding as Jeff Sessions but as part of the Russiagate Hoax, even he could be targeted by his own FBI subordinates.

This is likely why Sessions recused himself from Russiagate, paving the way for Rosenstein to appoint Robert Mueller Special Counsel, a man who would be exposed as senile when he went before Congress. Instead, his smear operation was really run by Andrew Weissmann, a deadly partisan schemer veteran of many lawless actions including destroying Arthur Andersen and thousands of jobs.

So the maneuver worked. Sessions would never have authorized a Special Counsel aimed at Trump for the stupid Russiagate Hoax, so they created MARCH TOLL to put Sessions in jeopardy himself, so they could argue to him that he was self interested and therefore needed to recuse (step aside from the investigation).

They have schemes within schemes.

Imagine the professional thrill of being named Attorney General and then being told almost immediately about a month after being confirmed that you should be investigated by your own Department. And then by May 10, 2017, you are under such an investigation.

Why call it MARCH TOLL? My working theory is that that is a reference to the month when Sessions decided to recuse. March 2017 is also when Senators Leahy and Franken argued Sessions was somehow compromised by Russia.

Why a "Toll"? Could be that the investigation was the penalty for recusing. Or it could have been the penalty Leahy and Franken helped unleash on their former ostensible brother in the Senate. Or both.

Whatever the reason for the name, Sessions didn't do anything wrong, MARCH TOLL was eventually closed, its purpose satisfied: getting an unobstructed ball rolling in the Russiagate area against Trump.

Sidelining an AG was the means to that end.

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Comey had already primed the Media via a leak concerning "MARCH TOLL" by February 15, 2017, a full two weeks before Sessions recused himself.

Fox: The Specialists June 8, 2017 https://t.co/Lx8PFlMrX5 pic.twitter.com/Vj36gLmlu0

— Guy Smith (@GuySmith1713057) August 10, 2026

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It just keeps getting worse.

Complete deep state using its agencies to go after anyone related to Trump Admin. Pretty disgusting.

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It would be nice if the senate cared as much about these abuses of process as they do about a fund to compensate the victims of these abuses.

Dear @JeffClarkUS, it was called "March Toll" because the originating recusal plan was discussed, quietly, by the group. Two citations below for your review.

I'm sure you will note the importance of who was in the March 2nd recusal discussion meeting. https://t.co/VaZtGtyat7 pic.twitter.com/z7pxXLZIBp

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 10, 2026

3) WATCH (prompted):https://t.co/Fhln8aFls6

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 10, 2026

5) The same two FBI lawyers involved in the March 2 recusal meeting, are the same lawyers who show up a few months later when "oxferd comma" began May 16.

The same two people (lawyers) Tasina Guahar and Jim Crowell, were involved in recusal advice for Jeff Sessions and beginning…

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 10, 2026

It always goes back to 'muh, Russia bad, we have to stop Trump.'

The reason for this was because - notwithstanding the Steele dossier memos having melted down into a puddle urine by March 2021, Comey, McCabe, and others in the FBI remained convinced that Trump was knowingly or unknowingly an agent of a foreign power -- Russia -- and that his… https://t.co/VCzZme6mOq

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 10, 2026

That was the underlying premise of the long-running coup d'etat.

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The reason for this was because - notwithstanding the Steele dossier memos having melted down into a puddle urine by March 2021, Comey, McCabe, and others in the FBI remained convinced that Trump was knowingly or unknowingly an agent of a foreign power -- Russia -- and that his campaign had high level contacts with Russian interests, based on what he was told by Brennan and others in the IC.

All they needed was enough time to prove it.

The point I have continued to maintain from the very start is this:

Suppose Comey, Brennan, and all their underlings were right.

So what?

Turmp was elected. If he brought with him an intention to establish a friendlier relationship with Russia and Putin -- well, he got the most votes.

The CIA and FBI did not get to decide who was an "enemy" of the U.S. independent of the foreign policy of the new Administration.

Their job was to follow what the new President wanted to do -- not act independent of him based on their views or the views of their agencies.

If they could not do that, they should have resigned.

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The later 'perfect phone call' (Ciaramella/Vindman) impeachment attempt was just more of the same. As with Jack Smith etc. It's amazing to me we are still shipping munitions/sharing intelligence of any kind with Zelensky's regime to me.

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It always goes back to 'muh, Russia bad, we have to stop Trump.'

The reason for this was because - notwithstanding the Steele dossier memos having melted down into a puddle urine by March 2021, Comey, McCabe, and others in the FBI remained convinced that Trump was knowingly or unknowingly an agent of a foreign power -- Russia -- and that his… https://t.co/VCzZme6mOq

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 10, 2026

That was the underlying premise of the long-running coup d'etat.

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The reason for this was because - notwithstanding the Steele dossier memos having melted down into a puddle urine by March 2021, Comey, McCabe, and others in the FBI remained convinced that Trump was knowingly or unknowingly an agent of a foreign power -- Russia -- and that his campaign had high level contacts with Russian interests, based on what he was told by Brennan and others in the IC.

All they needed was enough time to prove it.

The point I have continued to maintain from the very start is this:

Suppose Comey, Brennan, and all their underlings were right.

So what?

Turmp was elected. If he brought with him an intention to establish a friendlier relationship with Russia and Putin -- well, he got the most votes.

The CIA and FBI did not get to decide who was an "enemy" of the U.S. independent of the foreign policy of the new Administration.

Their job was to follow what the new President wanted to do -- not act independent of him based on their views or the views of their agencies.

If they could not do that, they should have resigned.

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The later 'perfect phone call' (Ciaramella/Vindman) impeachment attempt was just more of the same. As with Jack Smith etc. It's amazing to me we are still shipping munitions/sharing intelligence of any kind with Zelensky's regime to me.

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This is the whole ****ing problem with the UNELECTED BUREAUCRACY...They think THEY are in charge and that the civilian ELECTED LEADERSHIP is just something they have to deal with after each election...




But, the 'perfect phone call' has NOTHING to do with this. Zelensky wasn't even in office then. And the whole blowup was that VINDMAN (who should be in jail) didn't like that Trump wanted to investigate the corrupt guy that HE supported...

It is related, though, as the perfect phone call was just the same folks (in this case, Ciaramella-Vindman on NSC) in the intelligence community later on (pending the Mueller investigation) worried Trump was not sufficiently mean/hateful/deranged with respect to Putin/Russia, and supportive of their boys in wonderful Kiev.

Trump should have been (and was) able to say whatever he wanted to Saint Zelensky just as VP Biden before once did, but no, that led to another impeachment fiasco.

It is so much fun to watch half-wits come back to an event in history and treat it as if everyone involved knew exactly what was going to happen in the 5-10 years after the event in question.

All the posts here that "It was all the IC lined up against Trump" -- "No one… https://t.co/k9VGsjW6Ys

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 11, 2026

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It is so much fun to watch half-wits come back to an event in history and treat it as if everyone involved knew exactly what was going to happen in the 5-10 years after the event in question.

All the posts here that "It was all the IC lined up against Trump" -- "No one believed he had connections to Russia" -- "It's the way the CIA has always acted" -- blah blah blah -- always ignore the one truism of every conspiracy:

Once two people are involved you've lost operational security.

After 8 years of Obama there were true believers everyone in the Federal Government who thought the prospects of a Trump Presidency was beyond the pale.

They seized on whatever was available to rationalize invasive examination of him -- starting with work by allies abroad.

Jim Comey was CONVINCED Trump was a Putin stooge and was unfit for the office.

And Jim Comey was convinced it was his calling by God to make sure that didn't happen.

John Brennan had been an Iran sympathizer for 40+ years and desperately wanted to remain as CIA Director. The only way he could do that was if HRC won. He used what he knew all too well about Comey to turn him into an anti-Trump crusader.

I don't take seriously the views of anyone here who doesn't think the genesis of both Crossfire Hurricane and what came before it was the result of bona fide belief that Trump could not be allowed to win the election because of how he would change foreign policy that the CIA and FBI were already deeply committed to.

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Andy McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, John Brennan, James Comey used a Huffington Post article for goodness sakes as a premise to investigate/limit/control AG Jeff Sessions. All to protect their Russian beliefs about Trump to castrate his presidency. In the words of Peter Strzrok 'We'll stop him.'

The New York Times ran a preposterous propaganda piece today, even by its own nonexistent standards. Its basic complaint is that the investigation of Trump was somehow never allowed to proceed, as if the man’s life had not been turned inside out by investigations, leaks, raids,… pic.twitter.com/75pTksNeH9

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 11, 2026

The NYT is just an enemy of the republic at this point, no longer content to simply be a partisan rag for DSA Democrats.

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So the FBI Investigated the President

The proper response would have been to close the Trump investigation and turn to the Clinton campaign, including the national security implications of a presidential campaign falsely portraying its opponent as colluding with Russia. Instead, the FBI doubled down.

The newly released OXFERD C0MMA memorandum padded its lack of evidence with Trump's business dealings involving Russians, his desire for better relations with Moscow, the Republican platform debate over Ukraine, his anger about the Russia investigation and finally his firing of James Comey.

None of those things was evidence that Trump was a Russian agent. In fact, the circularity was grotesque: The FBI opened an investigation without evidence of a conspiracy. Its own investigation generated exculpatory evidence. Trump became furious about being investigated over something that had not happened. The FBI then treated his opposition to that investigation as grounds to investigate him personally.

The process had become its own predicate.

Lawfare at Its Most Extreme

This is lawfare in its most traditional and dangerous form.

The coercive powers of federal law enforcement were deployed against a political target on the basis of a flimsy factual predicate that, by that point, had already been disproven.

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More at counterlawfare link, which also has a document repository for all the russiagate files they have collected.

I'd also like to see Victoria Nuland targeted in the Brennan grand jury/investigation related to this, relative to the Ukrainian efforts to help HRC with russiagate in 2016, to defeat Trump.

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DEANGELIS: Joining me now is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jim Jordan. Thank you so much, Congressman, for being here. And I want to talk about this FBI investigation March Toll because the timing is not coincidental, and we are just learning about some of these details. So, President Trump is trying to fix things within the FBI because they're going after him on unsubstantiated reports. And so, he fires James Comey. Then the next day, they go after Jeff Sessions because the Democrats couldn't leave the breakdown of the institution right where it was. They had to try to further it even more.

JORDAN: Yeah. And remember, even before that, when this all got started, was the Clinton campaign hiring the law firm Perkins Coie, who hired the public relations firm Fusion GPS, who hired the foreigner, Christopher Steele, who wrote the bogus document called the dossier that Comey takes he knows it's bogus he takes it to the secret court, the FISA court, to get a warrant to go spy on President Trump's campaign. That happened.

And then when people start digging into that and figuring something out, then it's on to this next thing. He fires Comey, and they go after Jeff Sessions. And then, as you point out they they launched this operation a few years later, when we are start when a number of us are starting to dig into Joe Biden, all the crazy things that went on there with Ukraine and Barisma and his son, Hunter Biden, and they run an operation against members of Congress and other people affiliated with the, or associated with, the Trump campaign and the Trump administration. That's how ridiculous it was running ops against the government the FBI was doing this.
DEANGELIS: Yeah. And on the Biden side, of course, it was Russian disinformation. Nobody wanted to pursue that narrative or look into any of the details, but when it came to President Trump, you needed a special counsel investigation where we did get more detail, which was helpful. But when you learn little pieces of the timeline like this, you see just how bad it was.

JORDAN: Yeah. Remember, so the Clinton campaign does that. Comey uses that ridiculous document to go spy on President Trump's campaign. Four years later, they run an operation against members of Congress and members of President Trump's administration to try to help Biden win. So, it was always designed to hurt President Trump and help his opponent win. It was designed to help Clinton win in 16, Biden win in 24. And then, frankly, you could say or in 20 and then in 24 you could say, well, Jack Smith was designed to help Biden or Kamala Harris win, and President Trump lose in 24. So, they ran operations each and every time President Trump was running for office.

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As Jordan noted, several criminal referrals have been made to the Justice Department in response to the FBI's weaponization. That begs the question: When will the prosecutions follow? Or, more importantly: Will they at all?

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Joey Jones, Chafaetz and the gang were discussing this for a bit on Fox this afternoon. Chafaetz made the point that expect no perp walks or charges. It's been too long, its evidently hard to make a case and not sure even if you got to trial that you the effect would be to change behavior or serve as a deterrent to future bad actors.

Essentially the only "justice" to be had is to hope the public pays attention and votes for people who will put and end to this. But with a complicit media and a generation who think podcast bros possess great intellect and insight… there's not much hope in that either.

I am for having a time of vigilante justice / Mossad techniques to address these issues more effectively.

ICYMI, here’s my interview with Gen Flynn. I spent a good deal of time with him, both on and off camera, and found him extraordinarily kind, gracious and generous with his time. What struck me most was his remarkable candor about everything he and his family had been put through. pic.twitter.com/HrpFcs09iC

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 16, 2026

One of the most disturbing parts of my Gen Flynn interview was hearing how aggressively his own Covington lawyers were playing for the other side.

Now add this to the picture: While Covington was representing Flynn, they were also representing Anthony Weiner in the Clinton… https://t.co/poGPB5H8ui

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 17, 2026

Infuriating...

The Deputy Director of the NSA (George Barnes) blocked since 2018 the release of an IC report on foreign meddling in US elections during the period beginning in 2014 because he was afraid it would be interpreted as giving credibility to Trump's allegations of faulty election integrity. The analyst who wrote the report pushed hard for its release. Barnes objected that the report would identify members of Congress. He even suggested releasing only the half of the report that pertained to the campaigns of Republican candidates. Essentially, Barnes was defending the deep state from release of evidence that would make the existence of the deep state and its partisan opposition to Trump publicly irrefutable.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/nsa-analyst-agency-sat-2016-election-interference-intel-avoid-trump-era

The election fraud is widespread and GROWING instead of being addressed.

Breaking from LA that some of the polling there was completely made up. The "polling company" has admitted it and saying they did it as a social experiment to see how polling data could impact election coverage and no one paid them.

So you have the foreign funding, complicit media, FBI covering up, and one half of the electorate gladly voting for this corruption.

Something's gotta give.