Russian intelligence gathered damaging information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health during her 2016 presidential campaign, including evidence that she had “psycho-emotional problems” that were being treated with severe sedatives, but Vladimir Putin chose not to release it before the election because he believed the Democrat would win.
The startling facts were contained in a House Intelligence Committee report on Russia’s impact on the 2016 election, which was declassified and made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday.
The SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, “possessed DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from ‘intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,’” according to the report, which the committee based on 20 interviews with intelligence officers and FBI agents, as well as a review of source material for the 2017 Obama-ordered report on Russian election meddling.
