The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 27, 2017, 12:51:44 pm
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By Bill Gertz - - Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Justice Department rules limit supplying politically sensitive information to the White House, a review of attorney general guidelines for domestic FBI intelligence investigations has found.
A prohibition contained in the 2008 guidelines is a central focus of the ongoing House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence probe into Russian election meddling and unauthorized disclosures of sensitive U.S. intelligence communications intercepts.
The prohibitions in guidelines may explain why the FBI so far has refused to cooperate with the House committee’s investigation. Specifically, as of Wednesday, the FBI still has not responded to a request for documents that could explain how the White House was able to “unmask” the names of Americans incidentally spied on during a foreign electronic intelligence operation that ran from November to January — the same months the Trump transition team was working.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/26/susan-rice-political-spy-role-under-house-investig/