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On December 15 [[DNI]] Clapper signed off on a directive for new rules of circulating raw [[wiretap]]ping evidence; Attn. Gen. [[Loretta Lynch]] signed off just after News Yesrs. The new rules permited the dissemination of “raw signals intelligence information" - the identity of American citizens "incidentally collected" in surveillance operations - throughout the government.<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349-Raw-12333-surveillance-sharing-guidelines.html PROCEDURES FOR THE AVAILABILITY OR DISSEMINATION OF RAW SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY UNDER SECTION 2.3 OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12333 (RAW SIGINT AVAILABILITY PROCEDURES). OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. UNCLASSIFIED]</ref> "In its final days, the [[Obama administration]] has expanded the power of the [[National Security Agency]] to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections," the ''New York Times'' reports on 12 January.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more-latitude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html ]</ref> This constituted Obama amending Executive Order 12333.<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref> The expansion of the order made it more difficult to narrow in on leaks.  

On December 15 [[DNI]] Clapper signed off on a directive for new rules of circulating raw [[wiretap]]ping evidence; Attn. Gen. [[Loretta Lynch]] signed off just after News Yesrs. The new rules permited the dissemination of “raw signals intelligence information" - the identity of American citizens "incidentally collected" in surveillance operations - throughout the government.<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349-Raw-12333-surveillance-sharing-guidelines.html PROCEDURES FOR THE AVAILABILITY OR DISSEMINATION OF RAW SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY UNDER SECTION 2.3 OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12333 (RAW SIGINT AVAILABILITY PROCEDURES). OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. UNCLASSIFIED]</ref> "In its final days, the [[Obama administration]] has expanded the power of the [[National Security Agency]] to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections," the ''New York Times'' reports on 12 January.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more-latitude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html ]</ref> This constituted Obama amending Executive Order 12333.<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref> The expansion of the order made it more difficult to narrow in on leaks.  

On January 4 Brennan completed the ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA), both classified and public versions. Congressional investigators later found portions of Brennan's ICA "did not employ proper analytic tradecraft" and "deviated from established CIA practice."<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', HPSCI, March 22, 2018, pp. 46-47.</ref> Brennan attached two pages of sexual innuendo from the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' to the assessment.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html?mobile_redirect=true </ref>  

On January 4 Brennan completed the ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA), both classified and public versions. Congressional investigators later found portions of Brennan's ICA "did not employ proper analytic tradecraft" and "deviated from established CIA practice."<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', HPSCI, March 22, 2018, pp. 46-47.</ref> Brennan attached two pages of sexual innuendo from the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' to the assessment.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html?mobile_redirect=true </ref> The assessment itself contained this crucial admission: ‘Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation and precedents.’<ref>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/jackson-lears/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-russian-hacking</ref>

FBI Director [[James Comey]] testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the DNC refused multiple requests to examine their servers after alleged hacking.<ref>http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313555-comey-fbi-did-request-access-to-hacked-dnc-servers</ref> As of 2018, the FBI never examined the servers to determine if it ead hacked or an inside job. The DNC denies the FBI ever made a request.<ref>https://youtu.be/m9mHQJkuSpA</ref> Trump tweeted, "The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia.”<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/817166353266262016?lang=en</ref> And a follow up tweet, "So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?”<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/817168818539757568?lang=en</ref>  

FBI Director [[James Comey]] testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the DNC refused multiple requests to examine their servers after alleged hacking.<ref>http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313555-comey-fbi-did-request-access-to-hacked-dnc-servers</ref> As of 2018, the FBI never examined the servers to determine if it ead hacked or an inside job. The DNC denies the FBI ever made a request.<ref>https://youtu.be/m9mHQJkuSpA</ref> Trump tweeted, "The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia.”<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/817166353266262016?lang=en</ref> And a follow up tweet, "So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?”<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/817168818539757568?lang=en</ref>