The US Justice Department announced the training of a working group to investigate former President Barack Obama

The US Justice Department formed a working group to investigate the accusations that the Obama administration would have set up a “betrayal conspiracy”. The former US president is accused of using false information to suggest that Russia has intervened in the 2016 presidential elections in favor of Donald Trump.

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Pam Bondi, the US General Prosecutor, announced the formation of the new working group on Wednesday, after publishing a series of declassified documents of the national security team of Barack Obama by the director of secret services, Tulsi Gabbard.

The announcement comes in the context in which the US president is involved in a scandal related to the discredited financier Jeffrey Epstein and tries to distract by orienting the discussions against his political enemies, writes News.

On Thursday, two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn, both members of the Legal Commission, asked Bondi to appoint a special prosecutor for what they called “unprecedented and clear abuse” from the Obama administration. “For the good of the country, we ask the Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the extent to which the former President Obama, his staff and administration officials have manipulated the US national security apparatus to obtain a political result.”the senators said in a statement.

The National Director of Information Services, Tulsi Gabbard, said that Obama and his high -ranking officials have set up a “Stick for several years” against Trump – manifested by an investigation by a special prosecutor, as well as by FBI – investigations “Making” Secret information in the weeks after Trump's victory on Hillary Clinton, who aimed to demonstrate a collusion between his campaign and Russia. Gabbard recommended that criminal accusations be formulated, including Obama himself. Trump supported her argument and said that Gabbard's discoveries reveal “irrefutable evidence”.

For his part, Pam Bondi has prepared the land for an investigation of the justice department after Gabbard presented on Wednesday, in a press conference at the White House, which she claimed is evidence of an offense. “The Department of Justice is proud to collaborate with my friend, director Gabbard, and we are in charge of the American. worrying and we will not leave anything unexpected, to do justice, “Bondi said in a statement.

Fox News has quoted a source close to Bondi's work group that said no serious track is excluded.

A decision of the Supreme Court who favored Trump could help Obama

However, any criminal prosecution steps of Obama will probably be blocked by last year's Supreme Court, which gives the presidents wide immunity against criminal prosecution for the acts committed in the exercise of the presidential function. The decision was generally considered favorable to Trump, which was the subject of criminal investigations for acts committed during his first presidential term, including the retention of classified documents. Ironically, this could now be an obstacle to Trump's declared desire to take his “revenge” against his political opponents.

Obama's office issued a rare statement on Tuesday, qualifying the accusations as “Scandalous“And “Ridiculous”.

Several people mentioned in Gabbard's document could be targeted. These include James Clapper, his predecessor as director of national intelligence services, John Brennan, former CIA director James Comey, who was director of the FBI until he was dismissed by Trump, Deri's former deputy, Andrew McCabe, former national security counselor Susan Rice, John Kerry, former Secretary, Loretta Lynch, former Attorney General.

Brennan has already been the subject of a criminal referral from the current director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe. Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, opened a criminal investigation against Brennan and Comy, according to Fox News, although its scope is not clear.

During his first term, Trump publicly accepted the FBI conclusions that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 elections, although he publicly accepted Putin's denial of the conclusions of the American information community, at the 2018 Helsink summit.

A declassified report

A ratio of 1,000 pages of the Senate Commission for information also found in 2020 that Russia intervened in favor of Trump, mentioning that the head of Trump's campaign had regular contacts with a Russian intelligence officer. However, during his Wednesday's appearance at the White House, Gabbard declassified a 2020 report of the Commission for Information of the Chamber of Representatives, which, according to her, showed that the purpose of Russia's mixture was to undermine confidence in the American electoral process rather than to help Trump.

The report found that Vladimir Putin did not intend to disclose the most compromising materials about Clinton until after elections, Gabbard said. These included disclosures about “possible criminal acts” and emails from a cyber attack on the National Democratic Committee (DNC), who showed that it was suffering from “psycho-emotional problems” and “uncontrolled crises of anger, aggression and joy”. It is assumed that Hillary Clinton was also a daily treatment with “strong tranquilizers”.

Gabbard also argues that an assessment of the information community in relation to Putin's efforts deliberately excluded “significant” information that contradicted the key conclusions of Russia's alleged preference.

Clinton has previously suggested that Gabbard – a former democratic member of Congress – was “prepared” by Russia as a possible candidate for the presidency. Gabbard, who has no previous experience in information, was also criticized because he repeated the Kremlin arguments, including after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022.

Her report seems to have an erroneous aspects of the assessments of Russia's information agencies in the 2016 elections. The evaluation found that Russia did not carry out cyber attacks against the electoral infrastructure to modify the results of the votes, but pirated and disclosed DNC documents to prejudice the campaign of Clinton

While Obama's national security officials have kept silent in this matter, some information services have criticized Gabbard's efforts, writes The Guardian.