A newly declassified annex to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report has reignited controversy over the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, implicating Hillary Clinton and her 2016 presidential campaign in what some now describe as a coordinated disinformation effort. The annex, released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on July 31, includes intelligence assessments, private campaign communications, and internal agency referrals suggesting Clinton personally approved a plan to link Donald Trump to Russian interference – despite her and her team’s later denials to federal investigators.

The 2023 Durham report broadly criticized the FBI for launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign without proper vetting or credible evidence. However, the newly released annex goes further, suggesting a politically motivated initiative by Clinton’s campaign to “demonize” both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin – allegedly in an effort to distract from her own burgeoning email scandal.

The annex references two Russian intelligence memoranda that reportedly documented conversations within the Clinton campaign. These memos, while initially viewed by some US intelligence analysts as possibly fabricated, were later deemed by multiple experts as “likely authentic,” according to the annex. The information within the memos, if verified, would imply that top Clinton aides – and Clinton herself – orchestrated a media and political campaign to link Trump with the Kremlin.

In one particularly damning July 25, 2016, email attributed to Leonard Benardo, an executive at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the strategy is explicitly discussed. Benardo allegedly wrote that Clinton foreign policy........

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