John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, said in a letter released Tuesday that the intelligence community referred Hillary Clinton to the FBI for investigation in September 2016 over an alleged plan to link Donald Trump to Russia's election-meddling efforts.
U.S. intelligence officials referred Hillary Clinton to the FBI for investigation in September 2016 over an alleged plan to link Donald Trump to Russia's election interference efforts in order to distract from the controversy surrounding her private email server, according to John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence.
According to Ratcliffe, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama in late July 2016 about Clinton's approval of a plan to link Trump to Russia's election-meddling efforts.
Ratcliffe said in the letter that on Sept. 7, 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded a referral for an investigation regarding Clinton to then-FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, the deputy chief of counterintelligence.
Ratcliffe's letter does not describe the information underlying the Clinton referral or the alleged plan to target Trump.
Ratcliffe quotes the referral as dealing with Clinton's "Approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server."
According to Ratcliffe, U.S. intelligence agencies in late July 2016 "Obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis" which alleged that Clinton had approved a campaign to link Trump to Russia's hack of the DNC. "The does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication," Ratcliffe wrote.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/29/hillary-clinton-fbi-investigation-russian-hacking-trump/
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