to the declassified material, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, gained access to internal communications during the 2016 election cycle. Those communications reportedly included personal details about Clinton’s health and private worries among campaign staff about whether she could withstand the physical demands of a national race.
Despite possessing this potentially damaging material, Russian leadership made a deliberate choice to keep it out of public view. The sources cited in the documents indicate that President Vladimir Putin assumed Clinton would become president and concluded that further meddling might create unnecessary
