Overview

• Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released the 29-page Durham annex last week after years of classification battles over Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report.
• The annex includes emails attributed to a Soros-linked Open Society Foundations executive and a Clinton adviser outlining a July 2016 strategy to link Donald Trump to Russian election hackers.
• U.S. intelligence analysts, including the CIA, assessed that the purported emails were likely composites of messages obtained and altered by Russian intelligence, casting doubt on their authenticity.
• Hillary Clinton and senior campaign officials told FBI investigators they had no knowledge of any such plan, dismissing the material as disinformation and “ridiculous.”
• President Trump and Republican allies have seized on the document to demand prosecutions, and both congressional committees and the Justice Department have opened reviews of the annex’s findings.