relentlessly searched for evidence of a "deep state" conspiracy against the president."It was an investigation long sought by Kash Patel, the FBI director, and it was announced not in court papers, but through a haze of cigar smoke on Joe Rogan's podcast in early June of last year," Barrett explains in the Times. "Mr. Patel's prized criminal inquiry, known as 'the grand conspiracy case,' sought to tie together actions by a group of people that President Trump blamed for various investigations...

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