A newly declassified document released by the US Senate Judiciary Committee has intensified the long-running controversy over the origins of the Russiagate scandal, suggesting that George Soros’ Open Society Foundations played a behind-the-scenes role in fueling the false narrative that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. The revelations, contained in a 29-page annex to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report, raise troubling questions about political weaponization, media manipulation, and the integrity of federal investigations under the Obama administration.

The document, declassified and made public on July 31, offers what officials say are “likely authentic” emails from Leonard Benardo, a top official at Soros’ organization. These emails allegedly detail the Clinton campaign’s strategy to link Trump to the Russian government through a series of coordinated actions involving cybersecurity firms, the FBI, and the mainstream media.

One of the most explosive claims from the annex is that due to a lack of direct evidence tying Trump to Russia, the Clinton campaign devised a workaround: disseminating false information through FBI-linked cybersecurity contractors-specifically CrowdStrike and ThreatConnect. According to one email attributed to Benardo, these companies acted as intermediaries for planting the narrative that the Russian government was behind the Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leaks and that Trump was complicit.

“During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated ‘attic-based’........

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