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.''' '''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.

*'''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]"<br><br>Strzok - “the question is should we particularly to the entirety of the lame duck [[Intelligence community|usic]] with partisan axes to grind.”}} Comey wanted to brief Obama and Trump about the ''Steele dossier''. Priestap opposed briefing Obama, Biden, and Rice on salacious allegations in the Thursday Oval Office meeting. Priestap was 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.