CONFIRMED: ODNI told congressional officials that it will still provide written briefings on election security, but that they should not expect verbal in-person briefings on the topic, which give members an opportunity to ask questions & challenge briefers politico.com/news/2020/08/2…
MORE: ODNI decided to scale back the briefings because classified material from recent briefings leaked out. "We are concerned about unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information following recent briefings," per a statement provided first to @politico.
Sensitive information from written products can still be leaked, of course. But this new arrangement would prevent the kind of back and forth between members and national security officials that led to stories like this: politico.com/news/2020/07/3…
ALSO NEW: FBI Director Wray also recently dodged Democrats’ request for in-person briefings. In a letter to Schumer, Pelosi, Warner and Schiff on Aug. 21, he indicated that member briefings were being led capably by Evanina. But now unclear whether those briefings will continue.
Here is the letter Ratcliffe sent to the Senate Intel Committee announcing the change to giving them primarily “written finished intelligence products” rather than oral briefings on election security, foreign malign influence, and election interference (h/t @woodruffbets) 
NEW statement from Pelosi and Schiff: “The ODNI had requested the opportunity to brief the intelligence committees and the full US House of Representatives in mid-September and has now cancelled those briefings and said it would hold no others”
