"Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them of a “treasonous conspiracy” intended to show that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win was due to Russian interference."
Some of the bad actors were pardoned. While pardons preclude criminal punishment, they do not preclude civil suits. People who spent money defending themselves from prosecutions associated with that fraud certainly have a basis to sue these pardoned criminals. I suppose Trump could sue for wages lost when not serving as President.
In addition, being civil suits, the standard of proof is lower. Injured parties could sue in districts not in D.C., assisting in the process. And as the victims of Russiagate discovered, they need not win a big award: the process is the punishment.
UPDATE: As i was walki5, I just realized the U.S. government has a claim against the conspirators: the money spent by the special prosecutor investigating a scandal with nothing actual to investigate.
Just sent to A-G Bondi:
While pardons issued by President Autopen shield many of the Russiagate conspirators from criminal charges, they provide no shield from civil suits. Along with many private citizens injured by the Russiagate investigation (including, arguably President Trump for lost wages 2021-2025), the U.S. Government also has a civil claim: the $32 million spent by the special prosecutor, for an investigation that had no "there" there. Even if the civil suits yield no return the conspirators can discover how the process is the punishment.
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