Oxferd Comma: The Second Investigation They Never Told You About

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2026-08-09

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Sorry for the silence this week. I needed to go back in time to catch up to today. Here is what I pulled together.

Will there ever be an end to the deception?

Last July I wrote They Lied. They Knew. And They Did It Anyway and They All Knew It Was A Lie, They Ran It Anyway. The two pieces covered the deception from our government in one and the deception in the media in another.

This week, the White House handed me a third chapter.

The Investigation We Already Knew About

For almost a decade, the story was Crossfire Hurricane. That was the investigation everyone, including me, argued about. The one into candidate, then President, Donald Trump over alleged Russian collusion.

It was fueled by the Steele dossier and dominated the headlines for years until it was ultimately dismantled by Durham. I use “dismantled” intentionally here, as it wasn’t Durham who fully exposed it all. And he certainly did nothing that would curb future, similar, actions.

But all along, there was another investigation.

One almost nobody knew it existed. I certainly didn’t, and I’ve been staring at this file for six years.

The Story So Far

Here is a quick and dirty run down if you’re new here. Hoping to catch you up fast, because the last two rounds of declassification already did a lot of the heavy lifting.

Round one, last July:

Tulsi Gabbard released the HPSCI report showing CIA analysts had no hard evidence that Putin was working to help Trump win in 2016.

However, the Obama administration ran with the collusion story anyway, built around what’s now called the Clinton Plan, briefed to Obama directly by Brennan.

Do you remember Adam Schiff standing in front of cameras insisting there was “clear evidence” of collusion? I do. Meanwhile, he was sitting on classified briefings that said the opposite. I wrote about his part, here.

Round two, a week later:

The Durham Annex, declassified by Senator Grassley, showed the Clinton campaign approved an operation on July 26, 2016 to pivot public attention away from her email scandal and onto a fabricated Trump-Russia story.

CrowdStrike, you know the company with a track record of breaking things and causing chaos, and think tanks tied to Soros-aligned groups were named as the machinery that would hand the media its technical cover.

A senior DOJ official’s own words described the goal as a “contain-and-confirm strategy,” meaning they knew they couldn’t prove it, so the plan became stopping the truth from leaking while using leaks to manufacture the appearance of confirmation.

So going into this week, we already knew the origin story was rigged and that the people running it knew it was rigged while they ran it.

What we didn’t know is that the FBI didn’t stop at Crossfire Hurricane.

The One Nobody Told You About

It’s called Oxferd Comma, and according to documents declassified this week by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, it was opened on May 16, 2017. Exactly one week after Trump fired James Comey.

A quick note before I continue. In the classified documents world, searching using keywords is vital to be able to legally fulfill FOIA requests. We discovered that in an effort to avoid detection and later discovery, they often misspelled important words. A perfect example that we found years ago was Comey being spelled as Corney. Notice how it almost looks right?

Ok, let’s continue.

Oxferd Comma was filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act and classified as a Sensitive Investigative Matter. In other words, related to my above point, it was something the bureau wanted handled quietly.

The FBI’s own paperwork says there was an “articulable factual basis” to investigate whether the president had been, knowingly or unknowingly, acting on behalf of the Russian government.

That is worth a second pass.

The FBI treated the firing of its own director as potential evidence that the President of the United States was a Russian asset.

I have read a lot of federal paperwork in my life. This is the first time I’ve seen the bureau essentially open a file on cause and effect.

Forty-Eight Hours

Andrew McCabe briefed Rod Rosenstein the very day the case was opened. The next day, Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel.

Two major federal law enforcement actions. Forty-eight hours apart.

For nine years, the public was told about only one of them.

A Case That Outlived Its Own Excuse

Oxferd Comma didn’t disappear after a few weeks, either. It stayed open until April 9, 2019. That was weeks after Mueller finished his investigation without charging the president. The case survived long after Crossfire Hurricane had run its course, largely hidden inside the special counsel’s office where few people even knew to look.

Here’s what makes that even harder to ignore.

We already know Durham concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to open Crossfire Hurricane as a full investigation in the first place. We also know the inspector general found Comey violated FBI and Justice Department procedures.

And yet…a second investigation kept going. For two more years. Based on an even weaker theory.