EXCLUSIVE: Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Fox News has learned.

Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes – which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence the CIA received – and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence transmitted the declassified documents to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Tuesday afternoon.

"Today, at the direction of President Trump, I declassified additional documents relevant to ongoing Congressional oversight and investigative activities," Ratcliffe said in a statement to Fox News Tuesday.

A source familiar with the documents explained that Brennan's handwritten notes were taken after briefing Obama on the matter.

“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED],” Brennan notes read. “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,” Brennan’s notes read.

The notes state “on 28 of July." In the margin, Brennan writes "POTUS," but that section of the notes is redacted.

“Any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign + Russia,” the notes read.

The remainder of the notes are redacted, except in the margins, which reads:  “JC,” “Denis,” and “Susan." "

The notes don't spell out the full names but "JC" could be referring to then-FBI Director James Comey, "Susan" could refer to National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and "Denis" could refer to Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough.

The declassification comes after Ratcliffe, last week, shared newly-declassified information with the Senate Judiciary Committee which revealed that in September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral on Hillary Clinton purportedly approving “a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections” in order to distract the public from her email scandal.

That referral was sent to Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.

“The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate,” the CIA memo to Comey and Strzok stated.

"This memorandum contains sensitive information that could be source revealing. It should be handled with particular attention to compartmentation and need-to-know. To avoid the possible compromise of the source, any investigative action taken in response to the information below should be coordinated in advance with Chief Counterintelligence Mission Center, Legal,” the memo, which was sent to Comey and Strzok, read. “It may not be used in any legal proceeding—including FISA applications—without prior approval..."

“Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date," the memo continued. "“An exchange [REDACTED] discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server."

The memo is heavily redacted.



Film at 11... 🤔

Doesn't sound good for Hillary.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dni-brennan-notes-cia-memo-clinton 

Or Obama... or Biden..
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The libtards will never believe this........Obumma and Hilldog are pure as the driven snow in their delusional eyes


Me personally.........hang em both

"HEAVILY REDACTED"???????????..


SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!

YOU SHOULD SEE MY FILE....

THERE ARE "NO WHITE SPACES OR BLACKED OUT WORDS"....ON MY INVESTIGATION FILE ....
IT WAS SO ILLEGAL EVERYTHING IS BLACKED OUT TOTALLY...BECAUSE NOBODY AT THE FBI-SSG DIVISION WANTED TO GO TO JAIL FOR LIFE...

JUST SOLID BLACKED OUT LINES ON EVERY PAGE...
NO WORDS AT ALL...THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PAGES... $42+++ MILLION.... DOWN THE DRAIN...

Welllllllll......
make that $41 million...they stole my grandfather's inheritance from my hut and kept it to this day...

But you claim you saved Hillary from a bus explosion... 😟

Are you saying Drafter is Highly redacted ?

It's for the best... 😟

They tried to get sh*t to fly, it just crash on them ALL, of them. Collusion in treason take them out and shoot them. Let the fake news pick their Bone's

Ah yeah...remember when we said all this stuff was going to see the light of day and that everything they were blaming Trump of doing...well, THEY were doing?

Yeah, about that. They really set the man up. So, break out the Chap-Stik fellas!

I tried to tell everybody... 😟

Yes, we did.🐴

Meh, once an evil always an evil. Fortunately no longer relevant. Nothing sticks to that much slime. In truth I do not care. Maybe she will get what she deserves this time.

I still think we're better off with trump than her (probably not by much). She was a little too good at the game for my liking.

It was either have someone that's too good, too shady, too sociopathic... or a sh*t bag narcisistic noob that's going to embarrass the country.

All he had to do was keep his mouth shut.

^^ True dat.

Man what a POS you are. Are you a member of the KKK ?

😟

Hanged, drawn and quartered would be better.😎 [whip]

Wow, just wow. Ron and I see many issues differently. He is a stand up guy I am proud to call my friend. Instead of insulting him, I prefer to pray for him. I agree with him about Hillary though I would state it differently, I disagree with him about Obama.

You can't read 'hang em' and just see 'punish them'..?? you have to see racist chit in everything..?? 🤐