A newly declassified CIA memo, ordered by Director John Ratcliffe, critiques how intelligence agencies concluded that Russia aimed to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. While the memo highlights procedural missteps—like a rushed timeline and reliance on unverified sources such as the Steele dossier—it does not overturn the core finding that President Vladimir Putin orchestrated a covert influence campaign favoring Trump. Ratcliffe’s review homes in on several “anomalies” in the original 2017 assessment: excessive senior-level involvement, compressed schedules, and inclusion of sensational but uncorroborated details in the report’s annex. The memo suggests these factors may have skewed intelligence analysis, but stops short of challenging whether Russia sought to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign or aid Trump’s candidacy . Veteran analysts...