Posted originally on CTH on August 22, 2025 | Sundance 

You may remember the year 2017, the first year of President Trump’s first term in office when the entire Main Justice, FBI and Intelligence Community apparatus was leaking manufactured, sometimes classified information, to the media.

Against President Trump’s furious demands, the Dept of Justice, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and Dana Boente announced a widespread ‘whole of govt’ effort to find the leakers in an effort to stop the outflow.

The leakers were later identified, albeit never prosecuted, as top DOJ, FBI and Intelligence Community (DNI, CIA) officials.  However, the insufferable hunt for them was also shown to be mostly nonsense, because the apparatus of DC just didn’t care.

With orange Hitler in the White House, the Washington DC Uniparty didn’t care how he was taken out – they just wanted him gone.  We all remember it well.

In the latest release of information, from FBI Director Kash Patel to John Solomon, part of the leak hunting files has been made public. [SEE HERE].  I would note, the FBI file constructs are intentionally obtuse, because: (a) they come from multiple silos by design; and (b) they don’t outline a useful timeline to tell the story.  This is done on purpose.

Now, before the Q-adherents and alt-media clickbait crowd start to generate false-hope soundbites and column inches from the data, let me be crystal clear:

Absolutely nothing will come of this release, AND that cannot be emphasized enough; because in the final analysis, evidence released to John Solomon – is, by its nature – never going to be used in court proceedings.

If the DOJ and FBI planned to use the evidence in court, they would not be giving it to their clickbait friends in media.

That said, here’s some first review perspectives on the release anyway.

The file release surrounds the investigation known as “Tropic Vortex,” another stupid name given by the stupid FBI to one of their information control operations, under the auspices of an “investigation.”

Tropic Vortex was triggered in January 2019 and made official in February 2019. It was the outcome of the U.S Attorney in Washington DC, Jessie Liu, sending an investigative leak file to the FBI for review and action.

Within the release, we find that Connecticut Attorney John Durham was used in March 2017. That’s new.

That’s a full two years before his name surfaced publicly via Bill Barr.  Thus, the origin of the Durham spray paint operation surfaces sooner than previously understood. Interesting.

Durham was assigned by Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente on 3/22/17, based on a criminal referral from [XXXXX] redacted? [That redaction is likely 28/29 characters] “House Intelligence Committee”? Possible fit.

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March 22, 2017, was two days after James Comey’s first testimony to the HPSCI on March 20, where he admitted publicly for the first time President Donald Trump was the target of an FBI counterintelligence investigation.

[Comey’s 3/20/17 testimony was three days after SSCI Vice Chair Mark Warner and SSCI Security Director James Wolfe leaked the FISA to media. The intent was momentum for a special counsel. After the 3/17/17 FISA leak, it made no sense for Comey to keep denying Trump was a target. Hence the admission on 3/20/17.]

• Sessions recused March 2nd

• Nunes Presser March 16th

• Wolfe/Warner leak March 17th

• Comey Testimony March 20th

Nine months later, USAO John Durham completes his investigation, December 2017, and determines no criminal charge into the leaks is warranted.

However, things get interesting.  We know from the Wolfe indictment, at almost the exact same time as Durham says there’s no ‘there’ there – move along, move along, the FBI is getting a December 2017 admission from SSCI Security Director James Wolfe that he leaked classified information to the media.

Following the December admission, the Mark Warner/James Wolfe leaking issues (evidence), indictment and plea deal take place throughout 2018.  U.S. Attorney for DC Jessie Liu is in charge of the prosecution and plea agreement.

Then suddenly, in January 2019 [check the second paragraph above], Liu sends a memo highlighting what appears to be the Wolfe investigative file that “may contain information relevant to other FBI investigations of public disclosures.”

FBI Investigation “Tropic Vortex” is an outcome. The “unauthorized public disclosures of U.S. govt classified information.”

Jan/Feb 2019 “Tropic Vortex” is now a combination of several prior leak and classified document releases. Official notification of full investigation 02/04/2019.

As you can see, the CURRENT DOJ/FBI doesn’t want us to know the details of why USAO Jessie Liu was sending information to the FBI following the sentencing of James Wolfe.    My message to the current AG/FBI Director is above.

[In the background, Jeff Sessions was fired November 2018. President Trump nominated Bill Barr December 07, 2018. Bill Barr was confirmed Feb 14, 2019.  The Mueller probe is winding down.]

Tropic Vortex starts shortly before Bill Barr is confirmed as Attorney General, and originates as an outcome of USAO Jessie Liu sending something to the FBI which caused them to re-open the 2017 Durham investigation and generate an overlapping larger investigation with a new name.

The information from Liu, almost certainly about leaks to media, “may contain information relevant to other FBI investigations of public disclosures.”  So, the FBI triggers a larger investigation to throw a bigger bag over all of it.

So, what was “Tropic Vortex” about?

Well, it’s a combination of several leak investigations, and would have been what was ultimately briefed to incoming AG Bill Barr and helped formulate his initial perspectives.

This part of the case AG Bill Barr was eventually handed back to John Durham for review in 2019.  A considerable irony given that we now know Durham already looked into these matters beginning in March 2017 and stopped in December 2017.

Tropic Vortex existed as an FBI investigation from February 2019, until January 30, 2020.  That’s when USAO Jessie Liu ended the investigation by deciding she was not going to prosecute any of the leakers.

USAO Jessie Liu resigned the following day, January 31, 2020.

Think about it against the fulsome context of what we know.

♦ James Comey leaked to media, admitted it and was not prosecuted (Durham ’17).  ♦ Andrew McCabe leaked to media, lied about it three times, and yet he too was not prosecuted (Durham ’17).  ♦ James Wolfe leaked to media, lied about it, then admitted he lied, and was given a plea deal that didn’t involve any prosecution for leaking.

How could USAO-DC Jessie Liu prosecute anyone for leaking anything given the context of these examples?

Hey, at least Kash is giving Solomon stuff to show how corrupt it is.

Just like John Durham, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are not going to do anything about it; but hey, we know the details now – so there’s that! August 22, 2025 | Sundance