{"id":2469342,"date":"2025-07-31T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-russia-hoax-info\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:40:25","slug":"grassley-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-russia-hoax-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-russia-hoax-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley: Docs Show FBI &#8216;Never Followed Up On&#8217; Russia Hoax Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassley-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-russia-hoax-info%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2469342&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Senator Chuck Grassley revealed new information from the Durham annex, showing that the FBI possessed significant intelligence about the Russia collusion narrative a decade ago but failed to follow up on it. Grassley claimed the FBI was involved in efforts to undermine Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election, describing the incident either as a Clinton campaign conspiracy or Russian disinformation aimed at stopping Trump. The annex revealed that FBI officials dismissed certain Russian-language documents as likely not credible while ignoring evidence suggesting the Clinton campaign received advance information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch about FBI plans. Grassley emphasized his goal of maximum openness after years of alleged schemes to derail Trump&#8217;s presidency. Additionally, a declassified 2020 House report released by director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard highlighted how Obama-era officials pushed unsubstantiated claims about Russian interference favoring Trump. Grassley criticized former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s CIA Pick Was President Of Think Tank That Took Millions From Chinese Communist Party-Tied Entities: Report\">intelligence officials<\/a> like John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey for trying to cover up their roles, stating the annex proves the FBI engaged in a cover-up. The piece frames these disclosures as exposing abuses of power within the FBI and executive branch under the Obama management.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=li920y50KVM\">Fox News \/ Youtube <\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/31\/grassley-durham-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-important-info-exposing-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Grassley:%20Durham%20Docs%20Show%20FBI%20%E2%80%98Never%20Followed%20Up%20On%E2%80%99%20Important%20Info%20Exposing%20Russia%20Hoax&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/31\/grassley-durham-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-important-info-exposing-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Grassley:%20Durham%20Docs%20Show%20FBI%20%E2%80%98Never%20Followed%20Up%20On%E2%80%99%20Important%20Info%20Exposing%20Russia%20Hoax&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/31\/grassley-durham-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-important-info-exposing-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/31\/grassley-durham-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-important-info-exposing-russia-hoax\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Grassley:%20Durham%20Docs%20Show%20FBI%20%E2%80%98Never%20Followed%20Up%20On%E2%80%99%20Important%20Info%20Exposing%20Russia%20Hoax&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/31\/grassley-durham-docs-show-fbi-never-followed-up-on-important-info-exposing-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Grassley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=li920y50KVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on Fox News on Thursday that the newly released Durham annex reveals that the FBI had information a decade ago &ldquo;that they never followed up on&rdquo; and that the agency &ldquo;had a hand in&rdquo; attempts to &ldquo;stop Trump&rdquo; via the Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley suggested the Durham annex &ldquo;brings attention to the fact that there was either a Clinton conspiracy to make this happen, or Russian disinformation. But either way, it was an attempt to stop Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-913325999\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The annex shows that FBI officials &ldquo;found two Russian-language memos and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >emails purportedly hacked<\/a> by &lsquo;individuals affiliated with Russian intelligence services&rsquo; to &lsquo;likely not be credible.&rsquo;&rdquo; One of the documents indicated that the Clinton campaign was routinely obtaining information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch&nbsp;about &ldquo;the plans and intentions of the FBI.&rdquo; The FBI had information to implicate the AG but &ldquo;declined to follow through because of how an investigation would look to the public,&rdquo; in contrast to the agency&rsquo;s willingness to lead the Russia collusion hoax against Trump, The Federalist&rsquo;s Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/31\/fbi-said-evidence-wasnt-enough-to-investigate-obama-ag-then-investigated-trump-with-far-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley said the release he&rsquo;s been trying to get for three years is about &ldquo;maximum transparency&rdquo; after 10 years of &ldquo;schemes&rdquo; designed to stop &ldquo;stop Trump from being elected or, after he&rsquo;s elected, to ruin his presidency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/DIG\/DIG-Declassified-HPSCI-Report-Manufactured-Russia-Hoax-July2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released&nbsp;<\/a>a House report last week from 2020 that revealed how Obama&nbsp;intel officials used shoddy evidence over the&nbsp;objections of intel staffers to push the debunked claim that Russia wanted Trump to win the 2016 election. According to a press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/newly-declassified-appendix-to-durham-report-sheds-additional-light-on-clinton-campaign-plan-to-falsely-tie-trump-to-russia-and-fbis-failure-to-investigate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release<\/a> from Grassley&rsquo;s office the newly classified annex &ldquo;expos[es] a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia&rdquo; and the FBI&rsquo;s &ldquo;failure &hellip; to investigate intelligence that the Clinton campaign may have created the Russia collusion hoax.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Grassley said he would defer to the FBI on claims that the &ldquo;Durham annex&rdquo; were found in &ldquo;burn bags,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=li920y50KVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to Fox News, but added, &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s evidence of the great depth that the deep state will go to to cover up weaponization that was going on in the FBI and the executive branch of government, generally, under the Obama administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The public&rsquo;s business ought to be public, and what the FBI does ought to be public as long as their investigations are done,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-brennan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-clapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">participants<\/a> in the Russia collusion hoax, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/30\/opinion\/trump-obama-treason-russia-miller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> an op-ed on Wednesday with The New York Times calling the accusations against the Obama administration and others who engaged in the attempt to torpedo Trump&rsquo;s presidency as &ldquo;patently false.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Grassley said they and former FBI Director James Comey are &ldquo;trying to cover their hind end.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With the annex out,&rdquo; Grassley said, &ldquo;it finally proves that the FBI was covering up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Abigail Nichols is a correspondent for The Federalist. She was previously the opinion editor for the University of South Florida&#8217;s student newspaper, The Oracle. She is now working as the business manager at the University of North Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-downplay-motives-of-alien-charged-with-attacking-jews\/\" title=\"Media Downplay Motives Of Alien Charged With Attacking Jews\">student-run media outlet<\/a>, Spinnaker Media, while obtaining a Master&#8217;s Degree in Social work.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Abigail Nichols<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/abigailnichols\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/chuck-grassley\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Chuck Grassley<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/cia\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/deep-state\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Deep State<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/durham-annex\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Durham annex<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">FBI<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-clapper\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">James Clapper<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-comey\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">James Comey<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-brennan\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">John Brennan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russia\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Russia<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russia-collusion-hoax\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Russia Collusion Hoax<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit Fox News \/ Youtube. 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