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Newer News: January 2019

December 2018

• Senators seek leniency for former aide by Josh Gerstein, Politico, December 11. "Three current or former leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee are urging that one of the panel's former aides escape prison time for lying amid an investigation into leaks related to the ongoing probe of the Trump campaign and possible collusion with Russia."
• ODNI: An IC-wide policy on prepublication review is forthcoming, letter from ODNI, November 20. "An IC wide policy on prepublication review is being formulated and is forthcoming; however, it is not completed as of today's date."
• "In Washington, the Way You Say 'I Told You So,' is to Leak Something": With a Calculated Leak, the War Between Trump and the Intelligence Community Escalates by Abigail Tracy, Vanity Fair, December 4. "Trump backed the C.I.A. into a corner by casting doubt on its assessment of Mohammed bin Salman's responsibility for the Jamal Khashoggi murder. Then someone fought back by sharing information."
• DoD response to Hurrican Maria, report to Congress, December 3. "The Department of Defense (DoD) response to tbe 2017 hunicane season was the largest, most complex, domestic deployment of responders in recent history."

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