The documents were part of an annex to former special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report into the FBI’s investigation into alleged Trump campaign–Russia ties.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday released a declassified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report into the FBI’s investigation into allegations of Trump campaign–Russia ties.
According to statements by Grassley, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the report suggests that the Hillary Clinton campaign sought to falsely claim that then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had ties with the Russian government, while the FBI failed to investigate the matter.
“Today, the Department of Justice provided Chairman Grassley with previously classified information relating to Special Counsel Durham’s investigation into possible coordination between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration to interfere with the 2016 presidential election,” Bondi said in a statement.
Her statement was echoed by Ratcliffe.
Information in the Durham annex, Ratcliffe said, shows that there was “a coordinated plan to prevent and destroy Donald Trump’s presidency” during his first term.
In one of the now-declassified memos, it said that the Clinton campaign “approved a plan proposed by one of her foreign policy advisors … to ‘smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services in the pre-election process to benefit the Republican candidate.”
That information was uncovered by Durham during his probe of the FBI and other intelligence activities during that election.
“Based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and investigate intelligence reports showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton’s political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele Dossier and other means,” Grassley said in a statement.
Grassley described it as “one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.”
“The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency,” he said.
