WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence obtained damaging information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health amid 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 that year’s election because he thought the Democrat would win.
The astounding revelations were contained in a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report which reviewed purported Russian influence on the presidential contest and was declassified and made public Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Russia’s intelligence service “possessed DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from ‘intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression. and cheerfulness,’” the report stated.
“Clinton was placed on a daily regimen of ‘heavy tranquilizers’ and while afraid of losing, she remained ‘obsessed with a thirst for power.’”
Moscow’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, also “possessed a campaign email discussing a plan approved by Secretary Clinton to link Putin and Russian hackers to candidate Trump in order to ‘distract the [American] public’ from the Clinton email server scandal.”
The revelations, which were taken from emails hacked from Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee accounts, even found that the Russians concealed details about Clinton shaking down religious organizations for campaign donations by pledging more favorable treatment by a future Democratic State Department.
The Post reached out to the Clinton Foundation for comment.
