Overview

• The declassified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s report includes emails from Leonard Benardo indicating Hillary Clinton signed off on a strategy to tie Donald Trump to Russian hackers.
• Clinton and her senior advisers told the FBI they had no knowledge of any scheme to attribute Trump’s campaign to Russian interference when questioned by investigators.
• Intelligence analysts concluded the Benardo messages were composites of multiple emails stolen by Russian operatives and the CIA formally referred the matter to the FBI.
• Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley accused FBI officials of neglecting to investigate the CIA’s referral and of concealing efforts to undermine Trump’s candidacy.
• Former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-DNI chief James Clapper labeled the annex’s allegations as patently false political misinformation in a New York Times op-ed.