Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe plans on declassifying more documents soon related to the investigation into the alleged Donald Trump campaign collusion with Russian actors.
Ratcliffe is coordinating with U.S. Attorney John Durham, who recently obtained a guilty plea in his review of the origins of the investigation.
“I will,” Ratcliffe said in an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” when asked whether he’ll declassify more documents.
When he was a Congressman before becoming intelligence chief, Ratcliffe said he didn’t believe the FBI had proper predicate to continue the counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign, a belief bolstered by the guilty plea from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith and documents that Ratcliffe’s office has released.
“The question now is: Did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counter-intelligence investigation at all? And that’s the issue that John Durham is looking at, and that’s the issue that I’m continuing to look at,” Ratcliffe said.
“I pledged to a bipartisan group of senators that I would look at all of the underlying intelligence surrounding the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s interference and this idea of Trump-Russia collusion,” he continued.
“So, I’ve spent the last three months, and I’ve declassified certain documents, and I plan to declassify additional documents. But I’m not going to prejudice John Durham’s work in connection with that, so we’ve had to coordinate with his office about the timing of that. But I’m optimistic that I’ll be declassifying additional documents soon.”…
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