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1. Lots of questions about Lindsey Graham and FISA. I did a little poking around and have an update to this earlier report. The hearing that I think set Graham on his road to perdition was on June 21, 2017. Two days later, DNI Dan Coats signed
2. Intelligence Community Directive Number 112: "Congressional Notification." @lawfareblog reported about it on July 10 and included links to what appear to be the four relevant documents beginning with the original Gates Procedures memorandum ending with Coats' Directive 112.
3. Here is the Law Fare story: "ODNI Releases Gates Procedures Governing Congressional Identity Information" lawfareblog.com/odni-releases-…
4. Reading this evolving IC procedure leads me to conclude that the reason the HPSCI and SPSCI don't get briefed is because members of the Gang of Eight are compromised. If not them, then certainly other members are.
5. I remain firm in my belief that Russia has been putting money in the GOP via the NRA and other vectors and now has leverage over the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP. The exposure of these compromised members of Congress is of the highest national security importance.
6. Here are the four documents starting with the original Gates Procedures. Then two issued by Clapper and finally Coats' IC Directive No 112.
1992 Gates Procedures:
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3891…
1992 Gates Procedures:
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3891…
8. James Clapper's January 19, 2017 memo. A day before inauguration.
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3891…
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3891…
9. And Coats' Intelligence Community Directive No. 112. Two days after Lindsey Graham's hearing performance. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3891…
10. Trump's recent EO giving Barr unprecedented declassification authority appears meant to overcome these procedures. It makes Coats' response that he will follow current procedures all the more remarkable.
