Changes

*'''1 January.''' ''Washington Post'' retracts [[fake news]] story about Russian hacking into the power grid; however, slanders, speculation, and innuendo about "hacking the vote" and Trump-Putin relations remain unretracted.<ref>http://nypost.com/2017/01/01/washington-post-retracts-story-about-russian-hack-at-vermont-utility/</ref>

*'''1 January.''' ''Washington Post'' retracts [[fake news]] story about Russian hacking into the power grid; however, slanders, speculation, and innuendo about "hacking the vote" and Trump-Putin relations remain unretracted.<ref>http://nypost.com/2017/01/01/washington-post-retracts-story-about-russian-hack-at-vermont-utility/</ref>

*'''3 January.''' Strzok exchanges early morning texts with Lisa Page regarding conversation with Strzok's boss, [[Bill Priestap]]: {{quotebox|Strzok - "“He [Priestap], like us, is concerned with oversharing [information with other agencies]"<br>Strzok - “Doesn’t want Clapper giving CR cuts to WH (White House). All political just show our hand and potentially makes enemies.”<br><br>Lisa Page - “Yeah, but keep in mind we were going to put that in the doc [Trump's briefing] on Friday, with potentially larger distribution than just the dni [Clapper]"}} Priestap opposes briefing Obama, Biden, and Rice on salacious allegations in the Thursday Oval Office meeting. Priestap is overridden.

*'''3 January.''' '''Tuesday early morning'''. Strzok exchanges texts with Lisa Page regarding conversation with Strzok's boss, [[Bill Priestap]]: {{quotebox|Strzok - "“He [Priestap], like us, is concerned with oversharing [information with other agencies]"<br>Strzok - “Doesn’t want Clapper giving CR cuts to WH (White House). All political just show our hand and potentially makes enemies.”<br><br>Lisa Page - “Yeah, but keep in mind we were going to put that in the doc [Trump's briefing] on Friday, with potentially larger distribution than just the dni [Clapper]"}} Priestap opposes briefing Obama, Biden, and Rice on salacious allegations in the Thursday Oval Office meeting. Priestap is overridden.

*'''E.O. 12333 expanded.'''<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-administration-releases-long-awaited-new-eo-12333-rules-sharing-raw-signals-intelligence</ref> Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch signed off on new rules permitting the [[NSA]] to disseminate “raw signals intelligence information” with identities of American citizens caught up in foreign intelligence surveillance operations.<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> The expansion of the order makes it difficult to narrow in on leaks. This constitutes Obama's amending Executive Order 12333.<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref> DNI James Clapper previously signed off on 15 December 2016.  

*'''E.O. 12333 expanded.'''<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-administration-releases-long-awaited-new-eo-12333-rules-sharing-raw-signals-intelligence</ref> Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch signed off on new rules permitting the [[NSA]] to disseminate “raw signals intelligence information” with identities of American citizens caught up in foreign intelligence surveillance operations.<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> The expansion of the order makes it difficult to narrow in on leaks. This constitutes Obama's amending Executive Order 12333.<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref> DNI James Clapper previously signed off on 15 December 2016.  

*Assange reiterates: “We can say, we have said, repeatedly that over the last two months that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party."

*Assange reiterates: “We can say, we have said, repeatedly that over the last two months that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party."

*'''4 January.''' '''''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA) report completed''', both classified and public versions. Some earlier reports refer to it as the ''Joint Assessment Report'' or JAR. 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.  

*'''4 January.''' Wednesday.''' '''''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA) report completed''', both classified and public versions. Some earlier reports refer to it as the ''Joint Assessment Report'' or JAR. 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.  

*'''5 January.''' '''Thursday Morning.''' FBI Director James Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the DNC refused multiple requests to examine their servers after allegations of hacking.<ref>http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313555-comey-fbi-did-request-access-to-hacked-dnc-servers</ref> As of August 2018, the FBI still never examined the servers to see if any hacking indeed took place. DNC continues to deny FBI ever made any requests.<ref>https://youtu.be/m9mHQJkuSpA</ref> Trump tweets, "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> Trump sends 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> Comey additionally lied to Congress in a classified setting about the true origins of the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://youtu.be/D44gRhEvxr8</ref>

*'''5 January.''' '''Thursday Morning.''' FBI Director James Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the DNC refused multiple requests to examine their servers after allegations of hacking.<ref>http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313555-comey-fbi-did-request-access-to-hacked-dnc-servers</ref> As of August 2018, the FBI still never examined the servers to see if any hacking indeed took place. DNC continues to deny FBI ever made any requests.<ref>https://youtu.be/m9mHQJkuSpA</ref> Trump tweets, "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> Trump sends 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> Comey additionally lied to Congress in a classified setting about the true origins of the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://youtu.be/D44gRhEvxr8</ref>