In an extensive review of the 2016 assessment, conducted as part of its wide-ranging Russia investigation, the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020 found no “significant analytic tradecraft issues” with U.S. spy agencies’ work.

What did the review say about the assessment? The "lessons-learned" report, ordered earlier this year by current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, found the original Intelligence Community Assessment was produced under a rushed timeline and with an atypical level of involvement from senior agency officials.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday announced the declassified release of a new report identifying “anomalies” in a 2016 intelligence assessment on alleged Russian interference in the presidential election that brought Donald Trump to power nearly nine years ago.