by Lee Smith at Tablet
Last week CIA director John Ratcliffe referred former CIA director John Brennan to the FBI for a criminal investigation. Some reports claim the referral relates to Brennan’s potentially perjuring himself before congress. But on Wednesday President Trump may have pointed to another direction the FBI probe may take. In an interview with reporter John Solomon, Trump said he would declassify an annex to the May 2023 report filed by John Durham, the special prosecutor appointed during Trump’s first term to investigate Russiagate.
The annex, according to Solomon, deals with the “Clinton Plan intelligence”—and, says Solomon, “lawmakers and Durham have suggested it would provide damning evidence to any prosecutor.” Trump told Solomon “I will absolutely declassify it.”
The “Clinton Plan Intelligence” refers to intelligence the CIA received in late July 2016 from a Dutch spy agency. The Dutch had penetrated a Russian intelligence agency that appears to have hacked the emails of Clinton allies and Democratic officials. And it was from these communications that the Russians learned the Clinton campaign had devised a plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent to deflect attention from her use of a private email server.
According Durham’s final report in May 2023,…
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