Office of the Assistant Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20530 

 August 21, 2020 

The Honorable Lindsey Graham The Honorable Marco Rubio 

Chairman Acting Chairman 

Committee on the Judiciary Select Committee on Intelligence 

United States Senate United States Senate 

Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20510 

 

The Honorable Dianne Feinstein The Honorable Mark Warner 

Ranking Member Ranking Member 

Committee on the Judiciary Select Committee on Intelligence 

United States Senate United States Senate 

Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20510 

 

Dear Chairmen and Ranking Members: 

We write in further regard to matters pertaining to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 

Act (FISA) and other matters contained in the December 9, 2019 report by Department of Justice 

(Department) Inspector General Michael Horowitz. 

As we described in our letter of February 7, 2020, the Attorney General has determined 

that it is now in the public interest to release to Congress additional documents and information 

related to these matters to the extent consistent with national security interests and with the 

January 7, 2020 order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). We began to 

provide such documents to you on February 7. A fourteenth production is enclosed herein, Bates 

numbered SENATE-FISA2020-001321 to SENATE-FISA2020-001336. The attached 

production is unclassified in its current format. 

Pursuant to longstanding Department policy, the Department has made redactions 

relating to certain personally identifiable information or to ongoing investigations, enforcement 

activities, and certain law enforcement operations, methods, or techniques. 

Today’s submission, along with forthcoming productions of additional documents, is 

based on extraordinary and unique circumstances, and should not be construed as precedent 

setting in any regard. The production of these materials does not waive any applicable 

privilege. 

U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Legislative Affairs 
The Honorable Lindsey Graham 

The Honorable Dianne Feinstein 

The Honorable Marco Rubio 

The Honorable Mark Warner 

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 We hope this information is helpful. Please do not hesitate to contact this office if we 

may provide additional assistance regarding this or any other matter. 

 Sincerely, 

 

 Stephen E. Boyd 

 Assistant Attorney General 

Enclosure 
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

Electronlc Communication 

Title: Defensive Brief to . 

CC: Charles F. McGonigal 

From: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 

Contact: 

Approved By: David W Archey 

Drafted By: 

Case ID #: 

; 

Date: 10/22/2015 

Synopsis: To document defensive briefing to 

and his associate , both of , 

personal attorneys to Hillary Clinton. 

Full Investigation Initiated: 11/25/2014 

Details: 

On Thursday, 15 October, SC David W. Archey and 

, met at FBIHQ, Room 5885, with and 

Declassified by FBI-C58W88B61

on 8/21/2020

T sion only 

Counsel to H. Clinton Counsel to H. Clinton Counsel to H. Clinton Counsel to H. Clinton Lawfirm

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Title: Defensive Brief to . 

Re: , 10/22/2015 

, both partners at , located at 

are personal 

attorneys for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. and 

both hold security clearances. The purpose of the meeting was 

to provide a classified defensive briefing for Mrs. Clinton's 

presidential campaign, as summarized below: 

were advised the FBI has information that the 

is a ttempting to i nfluence H illary C linton through lobbying efforts 

and campaign contributions. The campaign contributions may come in a form 

outside established parameters for such contributions. 

were advised the FBI was providing them 

with this briefing for awareness and so Ms. Clinton could take 

appropriate action to protect herself. They were also told the FBI was 

seeking their assistance to identify other appropriate recipients of 

the brief, if any. 

were asked to advise the FBI, Section Chief 

Archey, if Ms. Clinton is approached by anyone connected to or acting at 

the direction of the .

As examples of issues that were known to be potentially important 

to the , were advised of the following: 

a) 

b) ; 

c) ; 

d) ; 

e) . 

As a take away from the meeting, SC Archey offered that the 

campaign should increase its vigilance of contributions related to any 

of the matters discussed above. 

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Title: Defensive Brief to . 

Re: , 10/22/2015 

were advised the FBI has an ongoing 

investigation and does not have further information at this time. SC 

Archey stated the FBI felt the information was sufficiently reliable 

and serious that the FBI had a duty to warn. 

asked if that was all the information that could be 

shared, and SC Archey responded in the affirmative. advised he 

would reflect on the information and advise if he thought further 

defensive briefings were warranted. He mentioned the possibility, the 

legal counsel for the campaign, as well as the campaign financial 

manager might be appropriate persons to receive the brief. 

did not provide the names of these persons . 

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Counsel to H. Clinton

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DEFENSIVE BRIEFINGS RELATED TO 

POLITICAL INFLUENCE CAMPAIGN

 If defensive briefings are to occur, and request prior to the

defensive briefs. to the defensive brief will help us understand the totality of

the activity and any potential shift in that activity.

 Defensive briefings should not be specific to identify the and subjects.

 The briefings should occur concurrently or as close to concurrently as possible. This strategy

ensures that the FBI remains apolitical throughout this process.

 Specific details of the brief to include individuals in attendance and what, if any, additional

information was provided to the political candidate and/or elected official should be provided to and

 after the fact.

 If the candidate/politician asks whether anyone else has received such a briefing, we can

note that this briefing was provided to this person because of information specific to them. We won’t be

sharing this information with anyone else, so as to protect him/her from unfair scrutiny. As such, we

likewise won’t share any information about other briefing recipients with the candidate/politician.

 If the candidate/politician asks for additional information, we will advise the candidate that

we cannot provide any further information due to the singularity of the sourcing.

WHAT WILL BE BRIEFED 

 We have information that the is attempting to influence you through

lobbying efforts and campaign contributions. These campaign contributions may come in a form

outside established parameters for such donations.

 We are providing you with this briefing so you and your staff are aware of such attempts to

negatively influence our political process and you can take appropriate action.

 If approached by an individual that you believe may be connected to or acting at the

direction of the , we ask that you provide the nature of the contact to the FBI.



 

Foreign Government Field 

Office

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From: ) 

Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 4:24 PM 

To: ) 

(FBI) 

Cc: 

Subject: Clinton Defensive Brief ---

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Classification: 

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Good afternoon/evening, 

I hope all is well up in New York. 

I know I am asking this on Friday afternoon, right before rush hour (something I don’t miss from the Big 

Apple... the Holland Tunnel), but my Unit down here was asked today by DAD Jones to provide a 

defensive brief to Hillary Clinton regarding possible foreign aid money that might be contributed to her 

campaign should/when she announce her run for POTUS. 

The DAD would like for us (the FBI) to provide a brief sooner than later (“a week or so”). We think that 

Clinton maintains her own set of offices at 120 West 45th Street, Suite 2700, in addition to the Clinton 

Foundations offices. We went online to Hillary Clinton’s website at hillaryclintonoffice.com, as well as 

the Clinton Foundation’s website, but neither website has telephone contact information.

The current thought from my front office is that we will provide to New York the briefing material, if 

NYO would be able to send out a couple of appropriate individuals to conduct the brief (as well as set it 

up). Right now, the direction we have been given is that it should be Hillary Clinton or someone within 

her office. An alternate person could be ,l who appears to function as her spokesman. 

Though the information we received is currently specific to wanting to 

give money to Clinton and the, thus far, unknown republican candidate, we would like this to be a 

general defensive brief. However, I’ve attached a baseball card with all the information. 

Please let me know if NYO concurs with the general plan, and what we can do to help. I’ll reach out on 

Monday if one of you has the opportunity to discuss this. 

Thanks, an hope you all have a great weekend! 

FBI Headquarters Field Office Foreign Government Clinton Staffer

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From: 

Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 2:07 PM 

To:

Cc:

Subject: FW: 2016 election announcement ---

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, 

During our SVTC last week, indicated to he was going to relay the info to CD EM. 

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From: 

Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 1:53 PM 

To:

Cc:

Subject: 2016 election announcement ---

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,

WSJ is reporting that Hillary Clinton plans to formally announce her 2016 Presidential candidacy in April 

2015. 

To me, this underscores the need for us to push this FISA. By the time we get it signed and go up, we 

would only be up a few weeks before she announces, at best. On the other hand, if we wait for the 

events to unfold which we discussed on the SVTC, her announcement may occur in advance of us 

Field 

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getting the FISA coverage. That puts us even further behind the curve on the intel necessary for this 

operation. 

I spoke with of OI. Since the application is three months old now there is some updating 

that needs to be done, including some additional information that needs to be added. Chris suggests I 

withdraw the application so we can make the updates and shoot a new FISA 

application back through the process. To me, this is merely an administrative matter and is no big deal. 

We should be able to do the updates rather quickly and painlessly and move it back through the 

process. 

 did mention his concern about making sure that OI/AG and FBIHQ are on the same page. I think

his concern is that, from his end, it looks like FBI didn’t want to pursue this FISA because we didn’t send 

it over to the AAG with the Director’s Certification. He wants to make sure that his office and FBIHQ 

communicate and that his folks know that we really want this FISA. I’m not sure how FBIHQ is going to 

manage that, because if we explain the reason we held it up, that probably won’t sit well. 

 position remains consistent, and we believe additional urgency now exists because the candidate is 

poised to declare fairly shortly. would request that the new FISA package be approved and sent to 

the AAG for approval rather than wait for the events previously discussed on the SVTC. 

Thanks, 

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From: ) 

Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 11:28 AM 

To: ); ); 

Cc: DIGUISEPPI, JANEEN (CID)(FBI) 

Subject: case ---

SentinelCaseId: NON-RECORD 

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Good morning, everyone. 

 and , 

I’m writing about , the case regarding the and their plans to offer funds 

to Mrs. Clinton. 

. News reports are pointing 

towards this announcement happening either this month or in April. 

CD Executive Management is considering providing Mrs. Clinton and/or someone in her office a defensive 

brief. CD EM would like for us to have a meeting about this and discuss pros and cons, the legal aspects, 

criminal aspects, etc. 

Please let me know when you are available this week to conduct this meeting. We in are available 

for this meeting Mon, Tue, or Wed. CD EM needs the information before Friday, 3/13. 

, NSLB needs to be present. I don’t know anyone on the OGC criminal side that handles these 

matters but I’m sure you do. Someone there also needs to be present.

SC Diguiseppi, 

front office wanted to insure you were aware of this. 

Thank you. 

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Foreign Government

Field Office

Sensitive Information

FBI Headquarters

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From: 

Sent: 

To: 

Subject: 

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:58 AM 

Chronology of - --- 

Follow Up Flag: Follow up 

Flag Status: Flagged 

Categories: Red Category 

SentinelCaseId: TRANSITORY RECORD 

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TRANSITORY RECORD 

,

Attached is the Chronology of 

Thanks, 

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From: 

Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:19 AM 

To:

Subject: FW: - --- 

Importance: High 

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TRANSITORY RECORD 

, 

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Please see me on the below. 

Thanks, 

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From: ARCHEY, DAVID W. (CD)(FBI) 

Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:16 AM 

To:

Subject: FW: - --- 

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, 

 Please see below. Please coordinate Section’s response to the below. Most of this is contained in 

White paper that completed last night. Please make a priority for today. Thank you. 

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From: COLEMAN, RANDALL C. (CD) (FBI) 

Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:30 AM 

To: ARCHEY, DAVID W. (CD)(FBI) 

Cc: JONES, ROBERT ALLAN (CD)(FBI) 

Subject: FW: - --- 

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Dave, please prepare a response to SAC email regarding this matter. Also, speak with Dina about 

the briefing and add some information to the response concerning the fact the brief for the Director was 

not going to contain any case specific information (as I understand) 

The response should include: 

1.

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2.

3.

4. makes reference to “not being allowed to use one of the only tools available against a target

 

5.

6. Is there any investigative tool that should/could have right now that they don’t?

7. CD SC has conducted multiple SVTC with and to discuss and implement strategy going

forward

8. cites translation issues? What is the problem? Is there a problem?

 advised that and I have spoken about this case several times???? I have not talked to one 

time about this case. I think is confusing me with Bob Jones. I asked John Giacalone if had 

spoken to him about it and he said no. 

I don’t understand what point is. What investigative action are they not allowed to do against their 

targets? Why are they advising they are unclear about the strategy going forward? 

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From: 

Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 3:31 PM 

To: COLEMAN, RANDALL C. (CD) (FBI) 

Subject: FW: - --- 

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From: COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 1:15 PM 

To:

Cc: (FBI); GIULIANO, MARK F (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: RE: - --- 

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Thanks . Don’t know anything about this but will get smarter. 

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With respect to the most time-sensitive part: Do you know why this is not included in the 

briefing for tomorrow? I finished the read-ahead, which includes a variety of stuff about 

 efforts in the U.S., but didn’t see a mention of this. Why is that? Is

the DI team coming tomorrow aware of the matter? 

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From: 

Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 3:07 PM 

To: COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Cc: GIULIANO, MARK F (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: - ---

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Director Comey - 

 I hope I am not overstepping in this matter, but I learned earlier today that you will be 

receiving a briefing on on Wednesday, 4/15/15, which is what prompted me to contact

you. Based upon what we have been able to ascertain, it does not appear that you will be briefed on 

pending investigation involving the , code named , with a companion

investigation in . This information came to us through

, but it has been corroborated . In short, has 

identified attempts by the to influence the U.S. presidential election, U.S. presidential

candidates, and U.S. politicians through illegal campaign contributions 

 

 

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 Division submitted a FISA 

application 

; on 12/15/14, OI sent the Certification Copy of the FISA application to the 

FBI for final approval. The FISA application has remained in limbo for the last four months, even 

though subsequent investigative activity by provided additional probable cause for the FISA 

application. is still uncertain as to why the application has not been sent to DOJ for final approval, 

although several reasons have been put forth by CD, most recently that the decision to put the 

application on hold originated “on the seventh floor.”

 While has pursued the matter through other avenues, 

and we have received no feedback from CD on the 

proposed neutralization strategy. 

 I discussed this matter with DD Giuliano when this information initially came to our attention, 

and more recently with AD Coleman, but have not received a clear answer as to why we are not being 

allowed to use one of the only tools available against a target — FISA collection — in 

spite of clear legal justification. While superficially connected to political candidates, the 

investigation targets a NONUSPER involved in illegal activity; it does not target the candidate(s), and 

there is no evidence the candidate is even aware of the potential targeting. 

 I would like to either see this investigation move forward, or at least get an understanding of why 

we are not being allowed to move forward. My team has put a lot of time and effort into this matter, 

and they don’t understand why they are not being allowed to vigorously investigate this case. At this 

point, I don’t have any answers for them. I would be happy to discuss further, or provide more 

information if needed. I appreciate your attention to this matter. 

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From: 

Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 12:06 PM 

To: ; 

Cc: ) 

Subject: FW: From the AD... 

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Please come in and see me today in the PM, around 3:30. 

Thanks, 

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From: COE, ROGER (CD)(FBI) 

Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:52 AM 

To: ARCHEY, DAVID W. (CD)(FBI); 

Subject: From the AD... 

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Gents: 

Only item from Randy this morning for you has to do with Hillary Clinton and the money:

- A defensive brief for Clinton’s office should be done (preferably in the next week or so) 

- The brief does not preclude any other ongoing investigative activity against the target; that 

should, continue 

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Probably need to be ready Mon or Tue to tell Bob what the plan is for the defensive brief (i.e., to whom 

within her office it will be and who will do it). 

Thanks, 

RC

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