Presidential Memorandum for the Director of National Intelligence

The White House ^ | January 9, 2018 | President Donald J. Trump

[grey_whiskers]

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), as amended, I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Requirement for Procedures. (a) The Director of National Intelligence shall, within 30 days of the date of this memorandum, issue and release publicly a policy requiring that each element of the Intelligence Community (IC) develop and maintain procedures for responding to requests from Federal, State, local, tribal, or territorial government officials for non-public identity information concerning known unconsenting United States persons that was originally omitted from disseminated intelligence reports.

[grey_whiskers]

Can any lawyers here explain this, or go *PING* Legal Insurrection or Instapundit?

[stylin19a]

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/368188-trump-orders-new-guidance-on-unmasking-requests

[BeauBo]

Tightening up on the unmasking abuse of the Obama Administration - that is, using Intelligence capabilities to spy on Americans for political or other illegal or non-security purposes.

[Steven W.]

That whole scene at the White House when Nunes went to the Eisenhower Office Building and presumably got the PDB's that were assembled for Obama (why he'd need to go there) and then Nunes came out and did the impromptu press conference on the White House driveway - that was after Dan Coats was sworn in as DNI ... it's likely that, no surprise, Trump et. al. were aware of what was in their midst, once Coats was in he could approve Nunes' request and, recall, Nunes was visibly shocked and then said that what he'd just reviewed didn't have anything to do with "Russia" ...

[Lopeover]

I agree, the legal language is difficult to comprehend, one must read some of the sentences several times and hope one doesn’t stroke.

I did get understand it somewhat. Appreciate the comments that followed.

[missthethunder]

BTTT for later

[BeauBo]

“Nunes was visibly shocked and then said that what he’d just reviewed didn’t have anything to do with “Russia” ... “

Knowing the Democrats, I am guessing that what it was about, was abusing their office to conduct wholesale spying on the Republican Party’s campaign with the Nation’s National Security capabilities - Watergate on steroids.

[ballplayer]

Why are no persons under indictment?

[BeauBo]

“Why are no persons under indictment?”

We will probably never know for sure what really went on in Intelligence Community circles. It is just my guess.

[citizen]

I have a feeling we will know. Either via public indictments or by ‘good guy’ leaks.