Commentary On Sept. 29, 2020, just over a year ago, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified a series of documents that instantly caused a furor in the news media. The American public, at last, got to see CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes of a briefing he’d held with then-President of the United States Barack Obama back in 2016. Here are some of the key documents from that declassification: CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes: The CIA’s memorandum to FBI Director James Comey and special agent Peter Strzok on Sept. 7, 2016: DNI Ratcliffe’s letter to Congress, dated Sept. 29, 2020, containing this section: The Brennan notes revealed the CIA had intercepted a Russian intelligence analysis claiming that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to smear the Trump campaign with a fake Russian collusion hoax that would be created by private operatives. Despite all the attention on these new …
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