recalled conversations with others in the campaign expressing their genuine concerns that the DNC hack was a threat to the electoral system, and that Trump and his advisors appeared to have troubling ties to Russia. 435 Foreign Policy Advisor-I said it was also possible someone proposed an idea of seeking to distract attention from the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server, but she did not specifically remember any such idea.436 Foreign Policy Advisor-I advised that she did not recall the FBI coming up in any campaign conversations she had. 437 Records obtained from Foreign Policy Advisor-I reflect that on July 27, 2016- the day following candidate Clinton's purported authorization of the plan - Foreign Policy Advisor-I circulated a draft public statement to certain of her colleagues. In the email circulating the draft statement, Foreign Policy Advisor- I urged her colleagues to sign the draft statement, which criticized Trump for his comments about the NATO alliance and asserted that Trump's public statements concerning NATO were too friendly towards Russia. In her cover email, Foreign Policy Advisor-I wrote, in part: We are writing to enlist your support for the attached public statement. Both of us are Hillary Clinton supporters and advisors but hope that this statement could be signed by a bipartisan group[.] Donald Trump's repeated denigration of the NA TO Alliance, his refusal to support our Article 5 obligations to our European allies and his kid glove treatment of Russia and Vladimir Putin are among the most reckless statements made by a Presidential candidate in rnemory. 438 During the same week, Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, stated in media interviews that the campaign believed that the Russian government had carried out the DNC hack to assist Trump's electoral chances, and that Trump had made troubling statements concerning Russia. 439 During an interview of former Secretary Clinton, the Office asked if she had reviewed the information declassified by DNI Ratcliffe regarding her alleged plan to stir up a scandal between Trump and the Russians. 44 ° Clinton stated it was "really sad," but "I get it, you have to go down every rabbit hole." She said that it "looked like Russian disinformation to me; they're very good at it, you know." Clinton advised that she had a lot of plans to win the campaign, and anything that came into the public domain was available to her. In addition, the Office interviewed several other former members of the Clinton campaign using declassified materia!s441 regarding the purported "plan" approved by Clinton. 435 Id. 436 Id. 437 Id. 438 XXXX-0014561 (Email from Foreign Policy Advisor-I dated July 27, 2016). 439 Jeremy Herb, Mook Suggests Russians Leaked DNC Emails to Help Trump, Politico (July 24, 2016); Jessie Hellmann, Clinton Campaign Manager Questions Russian Involvement in Email Leak, The Hill (July 24, 2016). 440 OSC Report of Interview of Hillary Clinton on May 11, 2022 at 6. 441 See Ratcliffe Letter. 89