The Obama administration, just 17 days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, revised the guidelines of Section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333, "Procedures for the Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence Information by the National Security Agency." Although widely overlooked, the implications were broad and far-reaching.
On Dec. 15, 2016, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, signed off on Section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333.
On July 27, 2017, Rep. Devin Nunes, then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats regarding the ongoing leaks of classified information and the need for new unmasking legislation to address the problem.
"Details about persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting," Mr. Nunes said.
"I have seen intelligence reports that clearly show the President-elect and his team were at least monitored and disseminated out in intelligence, in what appears to be raw-well I shouldn't say raw-but intelligence reporting channels." A key quote from Mr. Nunes' press conference was: "This appears to be all legally collected foreign intelligence under FISA, where there was incidental collection that then ended up in reporting channels and was widely disseminated." Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 2, 2017.
On March 31, 2017 a Fox News report by Adam Housley cited numerous unnamed intelligence sources with direct knowledge of events who all verified what Mr. Nunes had been claiming.
" Mr. Nunes learned of the sharing and dissemination of classified information among intelligence agencies back in January 2017-directly after President Obama's new NSA Data Sharing Order was put into place.
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