The attorney general says federal investigators are treating years of intelligence and law-enforcement actions tied to the Russia probe as part of a continuing scheme that may fall outside standard statute-of-limitations limits.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has instructed federal prosecutors to investigate what she described as a decade-long campaign of political lawfare during the Obama-Biden years, framing it as an ongoing criminal conspiracy that interfered with elections, shielded Democrats from scrutiny, and violated the civil rights of Republicans, including President Donald Trump and his supporters, according the a report by Just the News.
In written responses provided while she was recovering from eye surgery, Bondi told Just the News that she had asked prosecutors to pursue the matter using a conspiracy framework, an approach that could allow charges to reach conduct dating back to the Russia collusion investigation, according to her statements to Just the News.
Bondi’s directive aligns with an earlier memo written by FBI Director Kash Patel, who laid out a basis for investigating the alleged weaponization of intelligence and law-enforcement authorities as a continuing conspiracy rather than isolated acts. Bondi said the evidence now available supports that theory and warrants criminal review.
“At my direction, our U.S. Attorneys and federal agents are actively investigating instances of government weaponization nationwide,” Bondi said. “This is a ten-year stain on the country committed by high-ranking officials against the American people.”
She added, “Under President Trump, we are fixing the damage and delivering justice,” and credited the Justice Department and the FBI with releasing what she called an unprecedented volume of documents to Congress detailing government weaponization, saying that material helped establish the predicate for a conspiracy case.
Bondi did not specify where all aspects of the investigation are being conducted, but officials told Just the News that a significant portion of the probe is centered in Florida, where federal agents executed a 2022 search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Bondi argued that recently disclosed evidence shows federal authorities applied vastly different standards based on political affiliation. “This evidence illustrates that the FBI shielded political figures like Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton while pursuing conservatives for their beliefs,” she said, asserting that investigators relied on legal processes she described as excessive rather than focusing on public safety threats such as border security and violent crime.
Her comments referenced material indicating that some FBI agents questioned whether the Biden-era Justice Department had sufficient probable cause to justify search warrants, including the Aug. 8, 2022, raid on Trump’s Florida home.
“This Department of Justice takes government weaponization seriously,” Bondi said. “That means protecting civil liberties, preventing election interference, and holding bad actors accountable. No one is above the law, even if they think they are.”
Bondi also addressed actions taken by former CIA Director John Brennan, whose testimony has been scrutinized by a grand jury. She criticized efforts by Brennan’s attorneys to seek judicial intervention in the investigation, citing public reporting on a letter sent to Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
“Public reports of a recent letter sent to the chief federal judge in Miami by John Brennan’s defense attorneys, seeking judicial intervention in any legitimate grand jury investigation by the executive branch, shows these bad actors are clearly concerned about their liability and want to preserve a two-tiered justice system: one for them and one for everyone else,” Bondi said. “No more.”
Bondi emphasized that prosecutors are treating the matter as an ongoing conspiracy, a legal theory commonly used in organized crime cases, which can extend criminal liability beyond typical limitation periods when conduct is tied to a continuous scheme.
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