Overview

• Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released the declassified “Clinton annex” on July 21 after years of congressional requests led by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.
• The appendix shows the FBI declined to conduct comprehensive searches of eight thumb drives provided by a confidential source that held data exfiltrated from the State Department.
• An internal draft memorandum recommended analyzing the drives to assess national security risks tied to Hillary Clinton’s private server but the request was never finalized.
• Investigators queried the thumb drives at least three times, including by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, yet no substantive review of their contents was carried out.
• The annex also details unvetted Russian-language intelligence alleging political interference by senior officials and has prompted renewed calls for deeper oversight of Comey-era procedures.