In an extensive review of the 2016 assessment, conducted as part of its wide-ranging Russia investigation, the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020 found no “significant analytic tradecraft issues” with U.S. spy agencies’ work.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday announced the declassified release of a new report identifying “anomalies” in a 2016 intelligence assessment on alleged Russian interference in the presidential election that brought Donald Trump to power nearly nine years ago.

A declassified CIA report weakened an earlier determination that Russia’s Vladimir Putin had “aspired” to help elect Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, supporting Trump’s longstanding claim that the Kremlin played no role in his victory.