Report on Russia's 2016 US Election Meddling Disappears from Senate Website

Internet users have noted how a report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that looked into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election went offline from the U.S. Senate website.

As of 3 a.m. ET Tuesday, the intelligence.senate.gov page, whose url contained keywords referring to the bipartisan committee's release of its first volume into the Russia report, said "no results found," although it is available via another government website.

Newsweek has contacted the White House and the select committee leadership outside of office hours via email for comment.

Why It Matters

Unavailable government webpage messages have appeared since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

These have been put down to changes across all forms of government in the transition from Joe Biden's administration to Trump's second term in office.

The U.S. Capitol on March 18, 2025, in Washington D.C. David Ake/Getty Images

What To Know

On Monday, the Reddit page r/craftofintelligence posted that a document from the bipartisan intelligence committee, which investigated claims of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that Trump won, was no longer available on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence website.

A click on the link prompted the message "no results found" above a line that read, "the page you requested could not found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post."

Underneath the Reddit post, one user said that the wayback machine digital archive showed the reports were last available on May 13. Newsweek was unable to find any fresh versions of the page beyond that date on the web archiving service.

Reports that were released between July 25, 2019, and August 18, 2020, documented the findings of the intelligence committee concerning the Russian attack efforts on the election.

The archived link shows a press release from July 25, 2019, that states how the probe had spanned more than 15 open hearings, in excess of 200 witness interviews, and nearly 400,000 documents.

The press release said there was "no evidence that any votes were changed or that any voting machines were manipulated. There also was no allegation of any criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The page provides a link to "Volume I: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure." The committee's findings concluded the Russian government had engaged in an "extensive activity" to sabotage the election in favor of Trump.

It also contains statements from committee former Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who left government in 2023, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, who is still on the committee.

The committee's first volume is also still available under the 116th Congress drop-down on GovInfo which hosts U.S. government information.

In the first days of the current Trump administration, the White House said that a "404 page not found" error page on its website that previously featured biographies of former U.S. presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama was due to administration changes to the website.

A webpage for the Office of Gun Violence Prevention that went offline at the same time was also put down to a tweaking of the website.

What People Are Saying

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence website page for its investigation into the 2016 U.S. Election: "The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post."

Reddit page r/craftofintelligence: "These reports are no longer found [on the] Intelligence Committee Site."

What Happens Next

Reddit users have alleged without evidence that the committee's findings went offline deliberately, however the reports are still available elsewhere via GovInfo.