The FBI investigated intelligence reports alleging that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved a plan for her campaign to vilify opponent Donald Trump by tying him to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but it was ultimately unable to verify that such a plot existed, according to a document the Trump administration declassified and released on Thursday.

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It's a nothing burger, for you to consume.

...Multiple independent investigations, include a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report and the probe by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, concluded that Russia engaged in a sweeping campaign to interfere in the 2016 election with the aim of disrupting U.S. democracy and helping its preferred candidate, Trump...

Look at this -

...The origins of the intelligence reports on Clinton and Russia are somewhat obscured in the document, which remains partially redacted. But they appear to be derived in part from Russian spy agencies’ hacking of private U.S. think tanks which were in touch with the Clinton campaign and federal agencies.

The New York Times reported in 2023 that the memos Russia obtained through hacks and the accompanying analysis by Moscow were in turn retrieved by a Dutch spy service which infiltrated Russian computer servers and provided the material to the CIA.

The material obtained by the FBI includes summaries of hacked emails allegedly sent by Leonard Benardo, an official at the Open Society Foundations, an organization founded by George Soros...

So Dutch spies infiltrated Russian computers and provided allegedly hacked emails with Russian analysis. The whole idea that Clinton tried to smear Trump with Russia is of Russian origin? Interesting.