Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed that U.S. intelligence had learned of claims from Russian intelligence that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved a plan to connect then-candidate Donald Trump to the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
Ratcliffe made the admission in a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday. . . . Ratcliffe went on to say that former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on the claims garnered from Russian intelligence. Those claims were also forwarded to then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.
Graham told CBS News that he would seek to have the notes declassified from the letter. Catherine Herridge of CBS News reported that the notes were discovered by U.S. Attorney John Durham and that they opened up a new line of inquiry in his investigation.
