The Trump administration released three batches of records in July that shed new light on the decade-long controversy over Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The three lots of records concern the creation, at the behest of President Barack Obama, of an intelligence community assessment (ICA) that featured an allegation that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the presidential election in order to help then-candidate Donald Trump.
The public release of the assessment on Jan. 6, 2017, sparked a media wildfire that consumed the early days of the Trump presidency and fed the political controversy that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. The sprawling Russia collusion inquiry hamstrung the Trump administration for years before Mueller ended the probe. Mueller concluded that there was no collusion….