FBI Knew of Clinton Plan to Fabricate Russia Scandal, New Evidence Suggests

Newly declassified intelligence appears to deepen the scandal surrounding the origins of the Trump–Russia investigation, raising serious questions about the FBI’s role in advancing a politically motivated operation initiated by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

According to reporting from Just the News, an unreleased set of intelligence documents shows that by the summer of 2016, President Barack Obama’s administration had intelligence indicating that Clinton had signed off on a plan to create a false narrative linking Donald Trump to Russian election interference.

A source directly familiar with the evidence told Just the News that the intelligence “shows that FBI officials knew of a Clinton campaign plan to create a fake narrative that Donald Trump was conspiring with Russia to hijack the election.”

The source further stated that the plan was partially designed to “distract from the classified email scandal,” which polling at the time suggested was hurting Clinton’s campaign.

This was not, according to the source, intelligence kept within U.S. borders.

“In fact, there’s evidence that needs to be fully vetted that foreign enemies believed that the FBI would fully participate in the plan,” the source said.

Those comments align with public statements by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who said that a key document revealed that a foreign adversary had intercepted intelligence from the Clinton campaign itself.

“What that intelligence shows […] is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele Dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and burying the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.

This intelligence, Ratcliffe and others allege, demonstrates that Clinton’s campaign expected the FBI to legitimize the false Russia narrative by investigating the allegations in the Steele Dossier—a document later revealed to have been funded by the Clinton campaign.

Former CIA Director John Brennan was aware of the foreign intelligence, and his own notes confirm that he briefed President Obama and other senior officials about it. Those notes recorded that a foreign intelligence service had intercepted the Clinton campaign’s “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her [campaign] advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”

When this intelligence was shared with then-FBI Director James Comey, internal CIA communications documented that the Clinton plan’s end goal was “distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”

Yet the FBI did not act to investigate Clinton’s actions. Instead, critics argue, the Bureau advanced the Russia-collusion narrative while downplaying the email scandal. In July 2016, Comey publicly announced that Clinton would face no criminal charges over her handling of classified information, a move framed as an effort to “appease” public outrage.

Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report corroborated that “after the Intelligence Community received the Clinton Plan intelligence in late July 2016” and shared it with top Obama officials, the administration’s law enforcement apparatus proceeded to press forward with the Russia-collusion narrative despite its obviously baseless origins.

As Ratcliffe put it, this was not merely a political strategy—it became a government-backed operation to legitimize an unverified and knowingly false narrative against a political rival.

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