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July 2016 Intelligence News

• Statement by the ODNI on the Declassification of Part Four of the SSCI and HPSCI's 2002 Report on the Committees' Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, July 15. " Additionally, the ODNI today is releasing a declassified executive summary of a 2005 joint CIA-FBI memorandum prepared in response to a congressional directive on the same topic."
• House Intelligence Committee Publishes Declassified "28 Pages", July 15. "Declassified Version of Part Four, Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001."
• Table of Attorney General-Approved U.S. Person Procedures Under E.O. 12333, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, July 14. "ODNI compiled a table providing information about the Attorney General-approved guidelines under EO 12333. The table lists the dates on which each element's guidelines were adopted and provides links to the guidelines if not classified."
• Russian foreign intelligence headquarters has doubled in size since 2007 by Joseph Fitsanakis, IntelNews, July 14. "Recent satellite images reveal that the headquarters of the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency has doubled, and possibly tripled, in size in the past nine years."
• Clinton aides could face security hurdles, say lawyers by Chris Bing, FedScoop, July 8. "If any of these aides were my clients, I would simply tell them: 'Don't even waste your money,'" trying to contest a security clearance denial, said one specialist in security law.
• GOP faces tough odds to revoke Clinton's clearance by Cory Bennett and Martin Matishak, Politico, July 7. "Republicans are pressuring the Obama administration to deny Clinton access to traditional campaign intelligence briefings."
• F.B.I. Findings Damage Many of Hillary Clinton's Claims by Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, July 5. "Even as he declined to recommend a criminal case against Hillary Clinton, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, undercut many of the arguments she has used to play down her use of a private email server while secretary of state."
• Criminal charges against Clinton could have set new legal standard by Sarah Wheaton, Politico, July 5. "Legal experts say Clinton's actions may have violated common sense but they didn't clearly merit an indictment."
• Here's why the FBI director is not recommending charges against Clinton by Greg Sargent, Washington Post Plum Line, July 5. "According to experts I spoke with today, the crux of the decision appears to turn on the question of whether there is evidence that the conduct outlined above rises to the level of 'mishandling classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way'."
• FBI's Hillary Clinton Decision Draws Comparisons to Past Prosecutions by Joe Palazzolo, Wall Street Journal, July 5. "The FBI's recommendation against charging Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information immediately summoned comparisons to prosecutions past."
• The Conservative Case for Letting Clinton Skate by Eli Lake, Bloomberg View, July 5. "Conservatives have an interest in diminishing state secrecy, not empowering it."
• U.S.-Iran education exchange plans cool over hardliners' spy charges, Reuters, July 5. "The episode highlights the political struggle between Iranians who want to work with the United States and hardliners who often raise espionage accusations and fear opening up will undermine their rule."
• Summary of Information Regarding U.S. Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, July 1. "The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is releasing today a summary of information provided to the DNI about both the number of strikes taken by the U.S. Government against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities and the assessed number of combatant and non-combatant deaths resulting from those strikes."