Overview

• Senate Republicans declassified a 29-page annex on July 31 revealing emails that allege Hillary Clinton approved a strategy to link Donald Trump to Russian hackers during the 2016 campaign.
• Special Counsel John Durham’s office and the CIA and FBI assessed the key emails as likely composites fabricated by Russian intelligence, casting serious doubt on their authenticity.
• Clinton and senior campaign advisers told the FBI they had no knowledge of any such plan, dismissing the purported strategy as baseless or impossible.
• Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and other GOP figures seized on the annex to allege an Obama–Clinton conspiracy and demanded investigations and prosecutions.
• Durham acknowledged investigators were unable to verify the origin of the Leonard Benardo emails, underscoring deep partisan divisions over intelligence credibility and election integrity.