The newly declassified Durham Annex focuses attention on pages 4 and 5, revealing a Russian-language memo alleging that top DNC officials, the Clinton campaign, and outside groups coordinated a plan to link Donald Trump to Russia. It also claims the FBI and CIA had advance knowledge.
“Clinton staff, with support from special services, were preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the ‘Russian Mafia’.”
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-appendix-to-durham-report-sheds-additional-light-on-clinton-campaign-plan-to-falsely-tie-trump-to-russia-and-fbis-failure-to-investigate
The memo reportedly came from Russian cyber interceptions of emails tied to Leonard Benardo of the Open Society Foundations. Durham’s investigators concluded the messages were likely authentic.
“Analysts and officers whom [Durham’s team] interviewed … stated that their best assessment was that the Bernardo emails were likely authentic.”
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-appendix-to-durham-report-sheds-additional-light-on-clinton-campaign-plan-to-falsely-tie-trump-to-russia-and-fbis-failure-to-investigate
Despite knowing this, senior FBI officials chose not to investigate. The FBI briefed Director Comey and others but dismissed the intelligence as not credible.
“Despite this awareness, the FBI appears to have dismissed the [intelligence information] as not credible without any investigative steps having been taken.”
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-appendix-to-durham-report-sheds-additional-light-on-clinton-campaign-plan-to-falsely-tie-trump-to-russia-and-fbis-failure-to-investigate
Actor James Woods commented on X:
“There might finally be real action this time. If Republicans have the spine to do a Watergate level trial of Obama, Clinton, et al, the Congressional hearings alone are going to be spectacular.”
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1808702443388412335
The annex challenges the long-held narrative of Russian interference by exposing an alleged Clinton campaign effort to manufacture the Russia collusion story. It reveals a striking contradiction between the official intelligence response and public statements.