by Shawn Fleetwood at the Federalist
Monaco reportedly ‘prevented Special Counsel Durham from releasing the 30-pp appendix to his final report b/c it implicated her old boss Obama.’
Agood government group is seeking Justice Department records about a top official in the Obama and Biden administrations who reportedly blocked the release of key information about the Russia collusion hoax, The Federalist has learned.
In its Monday lawsuit, the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) requested the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the DOJ to hand over documents related to Lisa Monaco‘s reported handling of the Durham appendix. As The Federalist previously reported, Monaco — who served as President Obama’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser before later becoming President Biden’s deputy attorney general — was a “a key figure” behind the Biden administration’s lawfare against Donald Trump and its “Jan. 6 prosecutions.”
The “Durham appendix” is in reference to roughly 30 pages of documents that were a part of Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 investigative report into the origins of the debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Declassified earlier this year, the appendix seemingly showed how the Hillary Clinton campaign laid the groundwork for pushing the false narrative that Trump sought to conspire with Moscow to steal the 2016 election — a lie which Obama’s intel agencies were more than willing to further with their Russia collusion investigations into the Republican candidate.
On July 31, 2025, RealClearInvestigations senior reporter Paul Sperry reported claims from sources who purportedly told him that, as Biden’s deputy AG, Monaco “prevented Special Counsel Durham from releasing the 30-pp appendix to his final report b/c it implicated her old boss Obama.” He further reported that during her time as Obama’s White House adviser, Monaco “attended [then-CIA Director John] Brennan’s fusion cell meetings +the Dec 9 2016 pow-wow to flip [the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment].”
As The Federalist previously reported,…
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