This "secret" Dan Coats memo is in the footnotes of ICIG Atkinson's letter to DNI Maguire which accompanied the whistleblower complaint.
I first looked into the memo because of the particular timing of Dan Coats' creation of the Election Threats Executive—July 19—the day after Trump placed a hold on aid to Ukraine.
My interviews and research did not surface a connection between the two.
A source at the ODNI told me that the agency briefed the White House and Congress about the Election Threats Executive on July 10.
Both the WH and Congress were tight-lipped. A source at the House Intelligence Committee could only confirm that the Cmte was briefed but not when.
H/T to @walkafyre who first flagged the footnotes and memos.
@walkafyre Shelby Pierson is the Election Threats Executive, leading an interagency election security effort. Some describe the position as an "election security czar."
Pierson is former CIA.
At the CIA, she had a neat title—Senior Intelligence Officer for Denial & Deception.
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The most important piece in today's 114-page ODNI document drop on the DNC hack/leak saga is on page 25, where a September 12, 2016, intelligence community assessment states:
Let's put September 12, 2016 in context.
This was after @CrowdStrike provided it's final report to the DNC. (August 24, 2016)
This was after the @FBI received a redacted copy of the Crowdstrike DNC "hack" report. (August 31, 2016)
Here's why that's important...
@CrowdStrike @FBI Less than a month later, on October 7, 2016, the U.S. government would go on to accuse Russia of hacking the DNC. This happened before the FBI received the server images of the hacked devices.
One of the most important statistics about modern science:
"More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments."
Email exchange between Christopher Scott and Robert Johnston (Crowdstrike), Adrian Hawkins and Jason Lowder (FBI), and Michael Sussmann (Perkins Coie).
On July 27, Johnston says Chris Scott is the CrowdStrike point of contact for the DNC/DCCC hack.
That July 27, 2016, email is a good who's-who of the FBI team working the DNC hack, including some names I never heard before: Adrian Hawkins, Joshua Hubiak, J.K. Mularski, Gerald Cotellessee, Christian Schorle.
"The analysis also revealed that there were more than 600 party members across 19 branches working at the British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered in 2016. Both have drawn criticism for their response to Beijing's crackdown in Hong Kong."
"Firms with defense industry interests including Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce employed hundreds of [Chinese Communist] party members, the analysis showed."
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argues that the court SHOULD decide whether the Constitution permits state courts and state executive officials "to alter the rules by which presidential elections are conducted."
"The People need an answer, too. Until they get one, elections will continue to be plagued by doubts regarding whether the President was chosen in the constitutionally prescribed manner." -- AG Yost
The following 8 paragraphs of legal background in the Texas SCOTUS election case are a fascinating historical context worth sharing in a mini thread:
“The individual citizen has no federal
constitutional right to vote for electors for the
President of the United States unless and until the
state legislature chooses a statewide election as the
means to implement its power to appoint members of
the electoral college.”
State legislatures have plenary power to
set the process for appointing presidential electors:
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.”
U.S. CONST. art. II, §1, cl. 2