(Oct. 13, 2025): Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) formally requested that the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) open an investigation into the intentional and fraudulent concealment of key documents about the now-infamous “Steele Dossier” by the offices of James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper.

SLF President Kim Hermann said, “Former FBI Director James Comey is under indictment by a grand jury for lying to Congress. That comes as no surprise to us at SLF. Thanks to a bombshell whistleblower report we now know that for years, Obama and Biden’s FBI, CIA, and ODNI lied to us and federal courts, concealing documents that show manufactured intelligence funded by the Clinton-campaign was used to influence the 2016 election and undermine President Trump’s first term.”

“It is time to know the truth – who was behind the Russia-hoax and who instructed the Intelligence Community to rely on the now-debunked Steele Dossier. Was it intentionally orchestrated to influence an election for Hillary Clinton and later Joe Biden? Using the FBI as a political weapon is not only immoral and un-American, it is illegal. Withholding information responsive to a FOIA is also illegal. We hope the Special Counsel under Donald Trump will begin an immediate investigation into Biden’s suppression efforts. Was this yet another cover up by the Biden White House? Americans deserve to know.”

In a legal letter to the Special Counsel, SLF argues the offices of Comey, Brennan, and Clapper illegally withheld public records responsive to record requests under the Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) in 2019. The documents will be critical to understanding how both Obama and Biden’s White House and federal agencies handled the Steele Dossier, which played a major role in feeding the investigations of now disproven ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Rightfully, this whole attempt by is now known as the “Russian Hoax.”

SLF previously sued the FBI and DOJ after the agencies refused to produce documents from the Foreign Intelligence Security Court (FISC) which would have been necessary to obtain the federal warrant to spy on the Trump campaign in the 2016 election.

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